Despite its snazzy website, festive entrance, and promising Yelp reviews, my dinner at Vyoone’s was, in the final analysis, rather disappointing. The place itself is cute, but the highest grade…
That dinner punctuated the end of a particularly grueling week during which I was struggling to keep up with my regular work while preparing for a presentation I was scheduled…
So, where’s this famous Louisiana cuisine folks talk about all the time? I don’t know, but I didn’t find it at Vyoone’s. Granted, the “Crevettes de Barbeque” that we ordered…
Ughhhhh! We came so close! Charlie and I made it all the way to November. Per our New Year’s resolution, we’ve been trying out a new restaurant together each month…
A friend once asked me, rather out of the blue (this was at another overpriced restaurant in Pasadena, come to think of it), “What are your thoughts on aging?” I…
It was my birthday dinner, we were at a French restaurant, and the cocktails list was short, obscure, and unexciting, so, champagne it was. There were a couple of heart-stoppingly…
If the service is the best thing about Perle, the second best thing about this restaurant is its extensive vegetarian selections. Despite the obvious benefits of adopting a vegetarian lifestyle,…
May is my birthday month! On top of that, the end of May also marks the conclusion of another stressful and exhausting semester at the university where I teach. These…