A Farewell to Benny’s, Chicago, February 2020
Benny's Chop House has often appeared on "Best Steakhouse" lists in a city full of great steakhouses. Somehow, I never made it there until it was too late. It was…
Norman’s, Orlando, Florida, June, 2018
Every year a few million folks go to Orlando to visit Disneyworld, Universal Studios, and Sea World. I go every year or two for Photoshop World and the food, not…
Booth One, Chicago, April 2018
Way back on October 1, 1938, a restaurant called The Pump Room opened in a hotel that was then called The Ambassador East. Over the next 40 years or so,…
Bar Boulud, New York, November 2017
I spent a few days just before Thanksgiving on a family visit to New York City. Not everyone in my family is a foodie, so 3-hour meals at 3-Michelin Star…
Le Petit Paris, Chicago, April 2017
Le Petit Paris had been on my list of places to try for a while. I love French Bistro food and it's only about a 15 minute walk from my…
A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 6, Part 3, Farewell
Well, faithful reader, welcome to the 16th and final entry in a series of posts chronicling a cruise down the Burgundy canal aboard European Waterways luxury barge hotel, La Belle Epoque.…
A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 6, Part 2, Flavigny-sur-Ozerain and Semur-en-Auxois
The last entry in this series, A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 6, Part 1, Montbard to Venarey-les-Laumes, Courcelles-les-Montbard, and Alesia, was the beginning of the end. That is…
A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 6, Part 1, Montbard to Venarey-les-Laumes, Courcelles-les-Montbard, and Alesia
Our week on La Belle Epoque, a luxury hotel barge that is part of the European Waterways family, was coming to an end. This, our sixth and final full day on…
A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 5, Part 3, Fontenay Abbey
In my last entry in this series, A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 5, Part 2, Ravières to Montbard, I covered many of our activities on the fifth day…
A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 5, Part 2, Ravières to Montbard
As I hope you have already seen in A Barge Cruise on the Burgundy Canal, Day 5, Part 1, A Balloon Ride Over Burgundy, we arose early on our 5th day…
