Food

T-Bone Tom’s
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March 23, 2012

I heard about this place from Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, the TV show with a searchable map on their website. I visited the restaurant a year ago but put it in my travel log’s “Don’t bother” category.

Familiar Places
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March 21, 2012

Two blackened with a cold bottle and I’m out $6.83 plus the cash I leave on the table. It’s dirt cheap, extremely fresh, spicey and steaming hot.

Euthanasium
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March 17, 2012

In the apocalyptic movie “Soylent Green,” Edward G. Robinson’s character goes to a public facility to be euthanized.

Blue Parrot
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October 31, 2011

It’s not trendy, but they do pasta.

And I do mean, “they do pasta.”

Outriggers is in southeast Houston, just over the bridge from the touristy Kemah. Located beneath that same bridge at the water’s edge with power lines crossing nearby, the bar does a huge business on Tuesday evenings with wait times as much as an hour. The reason? The two dollar tacos, fish or shrimp, grilled or blackened.

Poor Sod!
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April 17, 2010

What follows is an email to an associate about to travel to Cedar Rapids Iowa from which I just returned. He’s a martini man, by the way; Loves his martinis.

8 of 11
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April 24, 2009

Today is a travel day, driving from Huntsville to Nashville and then flying home on Southwest.

Cajun Cafe
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April 17, 2009

After work, I drove south from Huntsville Alabama a handful of miles to where highway 231 crosses the Tennessee River.

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