This past weekend, a colleague and friend of mine talked me into going to a place in Durham, NC that is famous for a somewhat unusual pairing of two foods: fried chicken and waffles. Saturday evening after the wine tasting, we headed to Durham to eat at Dame’s Chicken and Waffles. If you haven’t had …
August 2012 archive
Aug 26 2012
Monuts Donuts, Durham, NC review
Ever since moving out to The Triangle area in North Carolina, I’ve been searching for good doughnut shops. The only places that I could find were the huge corporate chains like Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme, which are bearable and downright awful, respectively. I also found some regional chains, but they weren’t much better. The …
Aug 25 2012
Wine tasting review – 25 August 2012
Today, the tasting at Hope Valley Bottle Shop focused on some juicy French wines (two whites, one sparkling rosé, and two reds). As I am moving away from the Triangle this Friday (31 August 2012), this was my last tasting at HV Bottle Shop. That is sad, as the owner of the shop–Drew–was always incredibly …
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