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Restaurant Reviews

Sitting in a dimly lit bar, I order a glass of wine. My husband hands me the glass, and at first, all seems fine. I sip the wine and enjoy the flavor. While we are waiting for our table, I look around taking it all in, and run my hand down the glass. Something isn’t [...]

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When you walk into a restaurant, sit down to order, and realize you can’t understand the menu, you are in for an adventure. That was the case when I walked into Amis Trattoria, located at 412 S. 13th Street & Waverly in Philadelphia, a great Italian restaurant that’s received raving reviews from the Philadelphia Inquirer [...]

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2 words – boxed wine. Tonight hubby and I went to a local restaurant called Casa D’Amico’s, located at 69 Warwick Road in Stratford, NJ. It’s an Italian BYO with a good variety of dishes from pasta to salads to steaks. I’ve driven by this place for the last three years only to venture in [...]

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NYC: A Foodie’s Dream

August 4, 2010

Arrived in NYC unharmed. Good. Checked in to hotel. Even better. Ate at “At Vermillion.” Spicy! Just after one meal, I’ve already decided NYC is a foodie’s dream. At Vermillion is a Latin/Indian restaurant. It challenged my spice tolerance, but it was good. I ordered the shrimp seafood paella. According to the menu, it’s “an [...]

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Mandarin Cuisine 6 Somerdale Road Blackwood, NJ 08012 Restaurants serving mixed cuisines are great; this particular restaurant serves Chinese, Japanese and Thai food. It’s a great place to go with a group of people who may have different food preferences. Tonight, hubby and I went for sushi. We started out the dinner with Miso Soup. [...]

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Hubby’s birthday was Friday, so he and I headed out to Atlantic City. While it’s only about an hour from our house, it felt like a mini-vacation. We ate, drank and lounged at our leisure. We stayed at the Tropicana and enjoyed a fine array of restaurants. Red Square was one of our stops. Red [...]

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