#hit&run: sascee’s southern style eatery (waco tx)

Sascee's is not a fine dining establishment, but the actual dining is quite fine.

mignonette (miami fl)

The Michelin Guide describes Mignonette as a “high-grade, low-key spot for seafood,” and they are spot on.

tacology (miami, fl)

I choose the Slushy Catrina since I used to be in a goth band called Memento Mori and the Slushy came in a skull.

ling wu

If you need to compromise your developmental morals, I couldn't think of a better place to do it than Ling Wu.

#top50tacos: don artemio (fort worth tx)

The cactus is impossibly thin and then flash fried, arriving like a stack of Bette Midler's hair.

what we ate way back in January of 2025

nopalitos, cherry salsa, and fancy BBQ, oh my!

ode to chicken fried steak

Why not pound it with a cubed cleaver? and batter it like a bug-fed yard fowl? and sear it to the warm hue of rusty Ogallala sands?

rebecca’s at the lodge (cloudcroft nm)

Rebecca's is named after the ghost of a chambermaid brutally axe-murdered by a lumberman after catching her with another man (I'm hopelessly disappointed that the bar's Bloody Marys are not named Bloody Rebeccas...).

kesos tacos

The Rise N Shine (scrambled eggs, chorizo, bacon, slow roasted pork carnitas, jalapeños, refried beans, and queso on a corn tortilla; $5) was heartier than the Tin Man at the end of The Wizard of Oz, a truly impressive taco.

black gold

Black Gold is all about the pits. The dark steel of his two approachable Cen-Tex smokers named after Stevie Ray and Jimmie provides the meats and the moody gestalt of the architecture, decor, and tablescapes.