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TAPPHORIA TAP HOUSE AT TEN YEARS

July 16, 2024 by

There’s good news and bad news: The good news: Tapphoria Tap House is a mile away from my house. The bad news: A mile away and I’ve walked it. They couldn’t be any closer. The best news? Ten years in, baby.

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PIATTINO (small plate) PORTLAND

May 10, 2018 by

  The Piattino menu says, * you don’t ever age while seated for a meal *   I’ll take it another step: ‘you become as ageless as Roman gods while seated for a meal inside Piattino.’   Is invoking Roman gods in an Italian restaurant sacrilege? Not a bit when it comes to a bite […]

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GREEN CORNER OF MIDDLE EASTERN MESA

January 19, 2018 by

    “Green Corner is off Southern and Alma School. I’ve been there,” I said, flooring the rental car through the round-about on Bass Pro Drive.   “So you know the way? I should stop looking at the GPS?” she said. “Fast corner.”   I’d been there five months ago with DD. Alma School was […]

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CROSSING THE BOOMER LINE

June 22, 2016 by

You won’t see the boomer line until it’s too late. One day runs to another, week to week, year to year, until you look around and wonder, “What happened?” You made plans, you read books, you knew what you were doing, but it still fell apart and you’re left to pick up the pieces. Alone. […]

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YELP REVIEWS OR YELP WHINES

June 26, 2014 by

Is There A Difference? What drives people to write yelp reviews? Great service and food brings out the positive. Anything less? Forget about it. If you’re not spending money on being pampered, do you need to  complain you’re not being pampered? Find a hair in your food while you’re out and jump on yelp with, […]

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