Change and tradition at two Italian legends
Analyzing the menus at Sam & Gabe’s and Tumea & Sons When is a comma worth $10 million? When a government dictates “manual of style” etiquette to lawmakers. In Maine, [...]
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Posted May 03, 2017in Food Dude
Posted April 05, 2017in Food Dude
Chicago muscles in
Two new eateries — Windy City Style In Carl Sandburg’s America, Chicago was the “stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.” Recently, its larger-than-life persona begat two local restaurants [...]
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Posted March 01, 2017in Food Dude
30 years ago…
Trostel’s Greenbriar celebrates an anniversary in style When Paul Trostel moved his brand from Ingersoll (Colorado Feed & Grain, Rosie’s Cantina) to Johnston in 1987, there wasn’t much variety in [...]
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Posted February 01, 2017in Food Dude
New, newer and newest of the year
Remember supersizing? It served the fast food industry a couple decades ago. For a nominal fee, customers could have much larger servings of drinks and fries. The fast food police [...]
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Posted January 04, 2017in Food Dude
Sweet salsa and grand opera at El Sol Azteca
The year 2016 was disruptive to the status quo. Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature, the Chicago Cubs won its first World Series in 108 years, and Donald [...]
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Posted November 30, 2016in Food Dude
Butler Café defies history
Don’t get into the grocery store business. Margins are so small that only the supersized can survive. That has been good advice for 50 years now. It also helps explain [...]
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Posted November 02, 2016in Food Dude
Food Dude: The Café at the Meadows has the Ultimate Burger
Each fall, Cityview holds a contest to let readers select the ultimate local version of a popular food. Sandwich lovers picked B&B Grocery Meat & Deli’s pork tenderloin as the [...]
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Posted October 05, 2016in Food Dude
Magnolia and Marlene know what ladies like
Before dinner after a high school homecoming in the mid 1960s, my date advised me on subjects I knew nothing about. First she told me that it was unseemly for [...]
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Posted August 31, 2016in Food Dude
The new old thing at Vivian’s and Bubba
Sometimes the big new thing isn’t new at all. This year, savvy veterans of the food scene have turned their attention to diner food with a third millennium twist. Earlier, [...]
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Posted August 10, 2016in Food Dude
Garden fresh at Chef’s Kitchen
After 29 years of weekly columns in Cityview (and its sister publications), this is my first monthly column. I chose Chef’s Kitchen because it represents what is best about both [...]
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