There just aren’t enough words that mean delicious in the English language. We finally made it over to Restaurant Iris for a taste of what Kelly English has brought to the Memphis dining scene. If you haven’t made it yet, go. Go now. Have you gone yet? OK. Go again. Choose anything on the menu. [...]
“Some days are honey; some are onions.”Aimer ShtayaChef/Owner Casablanca Restaurant Chef Shtaya is philosophical about the vagaries of the restaurant business. As with life, business has its uncertainties. Busy days, slow days, rising costs. Regardless, The Squirrel Squad has found some certainties at Casablanca: excellent food and a warm welcome. The coziness starts at the [...]
Mama Squirrel and I had a rare opportunity for a long lunch yesterday, so we tried a place she has been wanting to go to, Bittersweet. Located in a strip mall in Germantown, Bittersweet takes good advantage of the blank slate of a strip mall bay to create a warm space. White tablecloths and good [...]
(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)We are bad bloggers. Not only have we been very quiet lately, but for the past few months, we’ve been keeping a secret. We’ve been saying that we just wouldn’t write about the Tennessean until we had a regular menu dinner [...]
While we were having dinner at Harmoni, we asked the hostess if she or the chef had any suggestions for another Slow Food-friendly restaurant for dinner the next night. The hostess checked with the chef and came back with a simple answer: Primo at the JW Marriott at the Grande Lakes Resort. Talk about a [...]
“They serve grits, but they don’t serve sweet tea.” My coworker, Crabby Squirrel, was slightly bemused by this, but otherwise, he was impressed with our meal at Harmoni Artisan Meal Market. Every time I suggest a new restaurant he ends up liking it. Every time he sounds surprised. He’ll trust me eventually. Although, it was [...]
Oysters Rockefeller and boudin ballsOur recent sojourn to south Louisiana allowed us to enjoy wonderful meals, great people and beautiful scenery. One of the places that gave us all three was Dupuy’s Oyster Shop in Abbeville. Dupuy’s first opened for business in 1869 and has been operating from the same location ever since. The simplicity [...]
(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)After our long drive from Memphis to Lafayette en route to Houston, we went straight to sleep and got off to a late start the next morning. Of course what we started was a search for breakfast. The morning’s destination was [...]
(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)For our recent trip to Houston, we decided to eschew the easy fast food at the interstate exits and follow our stomachs (and John T. Edge’s advice) to good, local food whenever and wherever we got hungry on the trip. The [...]
(If you are reading this on an RSS feed, click through to see the slideshow.)We recently had an extended family outing downtown on a sunny summer Saturday. The downtown farmer’s market has been absolutely wonderful this year, and we couldn’t resist sharing it with our parents since they don’t go downtown often. After a market [...]
