I don't eat at McDonald's often, but it does hold that promise of convenience when I'm driving from A to B and need something in my stomach fast. Usually these days I order via the McDonald's mobile app, which can be handy when their system works. Sometimes, though,...
Madison, Wisconsin — Three-year-old Zoey tackles a slice of cheese pizza at a table in Ian's Pizza by the Slice restaurant, 115 State St.
Franklin, Wisconsin — Our friend Mary Jean enjoys the Friday fish fry at Wegner's St. Martins Inn restaurant (11318 West St. Martins Rd,), where dinner includes beer-battered fried fish (haddock), coleslaw, and Miller's...
Since we were near Sauk City, Wisconsin the Saturday before last, I thought it might be fun to look for the original Culver's Frozen Custard & ButterBurgers Restaurant opened by George Culver and his family in 1984.It wasn't difficult to find the site (it's at 716...
Sauk City, Wisconsin — Monument marking the location of the first Culver's restaurant at 716 Phillips Blvd. It reads: The George Culver family opened the original Culver's Frozen Custard Restaurant on this siteJuly 18, 1984...
The weather was finally nice the day before yesterday, so, with no plans except to simply get outdoors, we ended up taking Wisconsin Highway 32 north from Racine to Bay View, an interesting little Milwaukee neighborhood that we have passed through a number of times....
Milwaukee, Wisconsin — The Hi-Fi Cafe at 2640 S Kinnickinnic Ave. in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood. This perky neighborhood joint's MySpace motto is "Great Coffee — Great Food — Great Jukebox," and both the eclectic...
Milwaukee, Wisconsin — Magic Dann's jazz-and-blues-themed restaurant at 2691 S Kinnickinnic Ave. in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood.
Racine, Wisconsin — Restaurant interior: Out of the Pan Cafe & Catering at 550 State St.
Update: Deli Station is closed Deli Station closed in late January, 2010. See the Journal Times story and the LTHForum.com discussion for more information. You can now get a delicious Peppered Beef sandwich in Racine, Wisconsin. The Corned Beef is just as good,...
I just saw this video, one of two posted yesterday by Steve Johnson at ChicagoTribune.com. Apparently, there is no end to the man's coolness. Not only is he appearing on Check, Please!, one of my favorite TV shows (seven years ago, before anyone knew how cool it was),...
Even on public television's extensive menu of food and cooking shows, Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie is a standout offering. It's a globe-hopping, half-hour magazine of on-location footage and interviews featuring all sorts of fascinating topics from the primitive to the...
View Larger Map Taqueria Azteca 119 E Oklahoma Ave Milwaukee, WI 53207 (414) 486-9447 Finding ourselves on Milwaukee's South Side, we decided, based on a Yelp review I had seen, to try Taqueria Azteca at about 4:30 this afternoon — a rainy, windy Sunday. I was looking...
View Mark Czerniec's Racine & beyond in a larger map Main Moon 2 4915 Washington Ave Suite I Racine, WI 53406 (262) 638-9888 (262) 638-9988 (262) 638-1388 (fax) With two Racine locations, Main Moon serves this city's most popular...
Honada Sushi & Hibachi 8501 75th St Suite G Kenosha, WI 53142 (262) 697-5228 Wonderful sushi in Kenosha? Kenosha, Wisconsin, the city of tattoos, taverns and pizza parlors? It doesn't seem possible, and yet here it is at Honada. [includeme...
View Larger Map Charlie Beinlich's Food & Tap 290 Skokie Blvd Northbrook, IL 60062 (847) 564-9328 Great hamburgers in a great room since 1950. Charlie Beinlich's (charliebeinlichs.com) is a family-run place with knotty pine paneling and mounted trout on the wall....
Barney's Memphis Style Ribs 2920 Taylor Ave Racine, WI 53405 (262) 636-0051 Update: Barney's Memphis Style Ribs closed in November 2006 and was replaced in March 2007 by Teddy & Vic's Pig n' Out Barbecue. The Pig n' Out menu looks similar (right down to "The...
We spent the weekend visiting family up north. You can see an antonishing mess of stars in the sky up there. You can also find a hell of a lot of ticks crawling on you after a short walk. It is not the wilderness. America's franchise/sprawl culture is sprouting its...
Marinette, Wisconsin — Mickey-Lu Bar-B-Q restaurant features a charcoal grill and serves charcoal-broiled sandwiches, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and bratwurst, as well as malts and shakes made with real ice cream.[includeme...
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii — Amy, about to enjoy an early dinner at Aloha Mixed Plate restaurant, 1285 Front Street on Lahaina's oceanfront.
Mount Airy, North Carolina — Restaurant sign for Snappy Lunch (and Coca-Cola) at 125 N. Main St., where Andy Griffith occasionally ate as a boy growing up in Mount Airy. The restaurant is famous for its pork chop sandwich,...
Savannah, Georgia — Paula Deen's restaurant The Lady & Sons, at 311 W. Congress St. We had an outstanding lunch of crab cakes here. The Lady & Sons has since moved to 102 W. Congress St., and this building currently...
Lady's Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina — The Steamer Oyster & Steakhouse restaurant on Sea Island Parkway, about 5 miles west of Frogmore, South Carolina. The Steamer is said to be the first restaurant to serve...
Lady's Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina — Amy enjoying Frogmore Stew at The Steamer Oyster & Steakhouse restaurant on Sea Island Parkway, about 5 miles west of Frogmore, South Carolina. The Steamer is said to be...
Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii — Toyo Shimabukuro with Amy in his Ono Hawaiian Foods restaurant at 726 Kapahulu Ave. The son of Ono Hawaiian Foods founder Sueko Miyagi Oh Young, Mr. Shimabukuro was a charming and informative host....
Honolulu, Hawaii — Yanagi Sushi, at 762 Kapiolani Blvd., is the best sushi bar. At this hour, we pretty much had the restaurant and both sushi chefs all to ourselves. Beautiful, delicious sushi — and the chefs were very...
Idstein, Germany — A timber-frame or "half-timbered" building, seen at night in Idstein's Altstadt ("Old Town"). Situated on Idstein's Marktplatz at Am Hexenturm, it now houses the Rialto Zum Tal, an Italian restaurant, an...
Wilton, Wisconsin — Ghost sign advertising Gold Medal Flour on the side of Gina's Pies Are Square, a bakery and sandwich café at 400 Main St. featuring homemade pies. Many of the customers at Gina's are cyclists riding...
Wilton, Wisconsin — Customers order and eat lunch at Gina’s Pies Are Square, a cafe at 400 Main Street, not far from the Elroy-Sparta Trail, a 32-mile, three-tunnel bike trail that passes just north of the restaurant on the...
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Back view of the Boat House Pub & Eatery at 4917 7th Avenue, one of several Kenosha restaurants located on the city's Lake Michigan harbor — in this case the Simmons Island Marina small boat harbor....
Chicago, Illinois — The Berghoff Restaurant at 17 West Adams, with diners lined up outside a week before Christmas.
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Staff and owners of Little Europe at Timber Ridge Restaurant. "Vítáme vás" is Czech for "We welcome you."
Kenosha, Wisconsin — Little Europe at Timber Ridge Schnitzel House restaurant, on the frontage road facing I-94, just north of Highway 50.
Kenosha, Wisconsin — The vintage neon sign of Yee's Oriental Inn (5034 6th Avenue), an Americanized Chinese restaurant that has been here since about 1955 serving chop suey, chow mein, sub gum, egg foo young, and other...
Memphis, Tennessee — Jim Neely's world-famous Interstate Bar-B-Q Restaurant. Delicious barbecue, pork ribs, beef ribs, chicken dinners, sandwiches, and more. [includeme...
Memphis, Tennessee — The restaurant Buns on the Run at 2150 Elzey Avenue, closed for the Independence Day holiday.
Memphis, Tennessee — Tables in the dining room at the Memphis Marriott East's Blue Shoe Bar & Grill, which specializes in Southern cuisine.
Exterior of the Blue Plate Cafe, a restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee.
During the 1950s, dinnerware manufactured by the Royal China Company of Sebring, Ohio, and decorated with transfer printed scenes taken from prints by Currier & Ives was offered as promotional premiums by A&P grocery...
Memphis, Tennessee — We wanted to escape our Kenosha apartment for the Fourth of July holiday and decided to drive to "Memphis in the meantime." Breakfast on the 4th was here at the cheerful Blue Plate Cafe, where we enjoyed...
Kenosha County, Wisconsin — Signage depicting a waiter and waitress in traditional dress at the Little Europe Schnitzel House Bohemian restaurant along I-94's East Frontage Road. [includeme...
Kenosha, Wisconsin -- Big Star Drive-In, at 1500 Washington Road, is a favorite fast food restaurant among locals for its retro car-hops, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, onion rings, milkshakes, etc. Big Star is only open...
Kenosha, Wisconsin — The lights of the Boat House Pub & Eatery, a harborside restaurant, seen from the 50th Street bridge, with the boats and boat slips of the Simmons Island Marina on Lake Michigan below.[includeme...