jet’s pizza

In addition to crust thicker than thieves, Jet’s serves thin, hand-tossed, and NY-style pizza and offers cauliflower and gluten-free options.

conan’s pizza

Stepping into Conan’s is stepping back into the 1970s. Nothing has changed. Wood everywhere, hanging ivies, voluptuous spindles, fantasy art, arcade games, music. Even the youngsters working the counter seemingly step right out of Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” to take your order.

Allandale Quick Bites: Neon Bellyaching, Jetts jetting, and brekkies brekking!

Closings, openings, and a re-tread: Eat all about it!

tumbleweed lounge at tularosa distillery

Call it Tuliestyle: a little earthy, a little weatherworn, and a lot friendly.

lebowski’s grill

Christians have Jesus, the Chinese have Confucius, and Indians have Gandhi, but Generation X has The Dude. If you are not philosophically enlightened, The Dude is Jeffery Lebowski, a character from the 1998 Coen Brothers' movie "The Big Lebowski." The movie is filmed, in part, in a bowling alley, where The Dude famously utters "The … Continue reading lebowski’s grill →

citizens all day

a quick perusal of the menu did not reveal Aussie specialties featuring witchetty grubs, roasted wombat, meat pies, shark biscuits, or crocodile Dunn Deelightfully well.

chooing (and chewing) our way across Canada

For vacation this year, we decided to embark to Canada, specifically to see Lake Louise and Lake Moraine. We ate too.

what we ate way back in may of 2025

sopes and skeletons and camerones, oh my!

pollo regio

got half a grilled chicken (photo above), a side of rice, a side of charro beans, five corn tortillas, two salsas, and a fountain drink for $14.99. The sides and salsas were munificent in size (dare I say, downright regio?). No wonder the place was full of construction workers (always a good sign) when I stopped in for lunch.

Allandale Quick Bites: Change at Thom’s, Korean karaoke, and brekkies on the way!

Change at Thom's, Korean karaoke, and brekkies on the way!