Scarlett,
That's impossible!!! We know you never go anywhere!!!

So Scarlett, am I to understand that none of those dining experiences cross country with the Yankee & Pup were memorable?

Huh.

Kal, now don't give our Scarlett a bad time, we got enough of that yesterday, LOL.

Kal, the new restaurant in Vacaville, Statalo's. It is fantastic. Beautiful restaurant also.

Both partners are a delight and have spent a fortune on this restaurant. It turns out the partner Robert is the grandson & son of the family that owned the 622 on Green St. in SF which was our "home away from home". BTW, that is where the Irish restaurant/pub OReilley's in NorthBeach is now located.

Not as strange as your FIL's experience in Lucca (that was really interesting) but quite a joy nevertheless. We had a great time sharing stories. Imagine your FIL did also.
So when are you going to stop going to that miserable island you hate in Hawaii and get back to Italy? LOL!

Cafe du Monde coffee and chickory for a poison -- I found a new source so I don't have to hoard.
Best food is hard to tell, but we had one of our more interesting food experiences in Bangor, North Wales, a few years ago.
The menu offered both pheasant and partridge so my faithful traveling companion and I decided to try them. We each took bites, chewed a little, then raised our napkins and fingers to our lips. Click, click, as we dropped birdshot to our side plates. We enjoyed the rest of our game dinners, very carefully.
One other note; we both tried haggis in Edinburgh years ago -- and loved it.

I so love my Bacardi and cola but my true love is a nice Chianti.

Bean excluded.

Lonesome

Only 369 mo' days until Italy and 469 until we return to the #ell Hole of the Pacific!!!!!!!

Kal????

??????

Scaredy gyppie scared///////

469?????

The horror!!!!

M

Kal, snicker...you tell him, LoveItaly!! you have to be blueKal to have anything to say to us , you know.

Tiff,
Did I ever mention the french fries in the diner in Nebraska? Wait, there was an excellent Mexican place in Tennessee!!
LOL I am more than making up for the lack of good food on that Drive, here in Portland..

No poison tonight...just water. We are headed out in a little bit to the football game. Small town so it is THE place to go on a Friday night, lol! Too bad there isn't a beer garden there.

Finest food...hmmm...I still remember an amazing asparagus soup from a trip to the Canadian Rockies years ago. And I remember a very nice meal in Scotland, but couldn't tell you what it was, lol! We tried Haggis there too and it was ok. We just had to keep telling ourselves it was something else.

What came immediately to my mind was a dinner at a restaurant in Punte Del Este, Uruguay. It was a dish of the tiniest mussels, -- the shells were about the size of a nickel -- cooked in a wine, garlic, herb sauce. Those mussels were so tender and tasty.

You go Scarlett! I am glad you are making up for lost time in transit, you certinaly deserve it after that trek!

kal, I can remember when my days to ole Italia were over 200, so hang in there, now it's a mere, let's see........131 Days.

(Those damn 31 day months, they just ruin everything, don't they?)

Tiff, where's your Idaho trip report? I have been waiting for it.

I'm not enjoying any poison right now, but DH is having a glass of Beringer Founders Reserve Chard. I may have a sip of limoncello later. As far as great meals in our travels????
Spain: homemade paella at my counsin's home. Escargot for starters and lamb chops at a small winery near Lleida.

Italy: Dinner at the Seliano estate in Paestum: mozzarella di buffala, homemade pasta, I can't remember the rest of the meal because I drank too much wine.
Too many to remember.

MY

I know my cmcfong, you know we got back and a few hours later Katrina hit and I just wasn't in a trip report girl kind of mood, do you know what I mean?

I will post a lil something though, because we found a place that had just opened called The Wine Cellar, and let me tell you. Homemade ravioli, homemade gnocci, I was IN HEAVEN and they have live jazz music every night to boot. It was so wonderful, our best night there. Great shopping too, we loved Coeur d'Alene.

Hey also, I thought of you this week because some friends of ours are going up to the North Shore this weekend and I told them they HAD to go to The Angry Trout. Yum. Yum. Yum. I should have added that to my list when RSSH asked above!

Cin, Cin ~ Tiff

Sure, I understand, Tiff. Felt much the same way myself. I do look forward to the trip report.
By the way, tell your friends to stop at the Scenic Cafe on their left on the way out of Duluth. It really is excellent...plus a great view of Lake Superior. A friend of mine met four of her best buds from high school up there last weekend and has not stopped raving about how much she loved the area. It is addictive isn't it?

Tonight's poison was a mixture of reds. It was the annual Downtown Hoolaulea in Honolulu, so I ran into all kinds of people.

My best foodie experience--too many to mention. I do recall a meal at Criterion in London, though. Every time I think about it I can taste the meal as if reliving it. It was just so good.

My most recent one was the fresh moon cakes (gone this weekend) from hong kong harbor view restaurant in Aloha tower marketplace. mm mmm mm.

Home from a late shift (and very busy one) at the hospital so poison is La Crema Chardonnay.

The absolutely best..hard to say ..but think it could be a toss up between a lunch in Sambuc,France at La Chassagnette..it went on for hours and we just ate what they brought to the table..and a lobster dinner fresh from the waters off the Isle au Haut in Maine. We had taken what we thought was a short bike ride that day and ended up being our personal version of "Survivor..dirt roads on an old schwinn". We finally arrived back at our Inn, took luke warm "environmental Showers" and headed into the dining room. Lobster never tasted so good.

No poison last night (or this morning for that matter). But I was traveling for work in Brussels. Stayed at Le Meridien. At the restaurant there I had some kind of seafood soup type dish. Didn't expect much. Oh my god. The aroma was incredible, I can still remember it. The broth was like liquid heaven, with oysters, mussels, fish. This was no "little party in my mouth", it was closer to an orgasm. I kept quietly moaning as I ate it. I went back again but it was a one night thing and was never on the menu again.
In Brussels, I love the pedestrian streets around the Grand Place where you can stroll and see the seafood on display, eat outside with heaters in winter, and have the best white wines and fresh seafood.

Hi Mr. Statia! Poison last night was a Manhattan. Favorite foods, oh, so many!
Kal, I remember having the best dish of carrots inside the walls of Lucca at a little cafe! Yummmm still would like to know how they made them.
Also, Macadamia nut pancakes with coconut sryup in Hawaii.
Lobster from a Pound in Maine.
Minestroni soup at a small mom and pop in Venice.
Oysters and mussels in Alaska.
Oh, my goodness, now I'm hungary and it's only 9:15 in the morning!!
Tell Statia it is good meeting you!