We are still a nation of meat-and-potatoes men and fish-and-salad women... I can't even tell you how many women have told me that the one thing they'd like to change about their man's eating habits is to get him to put down the hamburger just once and take her to a seafood joint. So guys, there it is: a really easy way to get on her good side. You' ( Read more... )

Pio Loco first opened in 1986 in a former pizzeria on Lake Boulevard as a non-traditional Mexican restaurant; when the old gymnasium at the Pine Street School became available in the mid-1990’s, Chef Jeff Cerasaro upped sticks and moved to the considerably more roomy downtown location. Within the past few months Pio Loco has undergone some ( Read more... )

Most folks eat ice cream frequently, and most of it is okay, but it's seldom that ice cream (and similar frozen desserts) are really stupendous enough to stand out in memory. Mlle. de Joie can pretty much tick them off on one hand, the ice creams that she would order again and again if she could:

• The date-cognac ice cream served one night at the ( Read more... )

There are those who do not care for Trader Joe's for one crackpot reason or another. If you are one of them, stop reading right now. Mlle. de Joie, however, is unabashedly in love with TJ's and shops there at least once, if not three times, a week. She has been known to sing out loud with the oldies and dance in the frozen food section. It is just ( Read more... )