Archive for the 'restaurants' Category
Summer Traditions: The Red Rooster
August 23rd, 2009by Caroline Thirty-seven years ago my family moved back from Japan to the States, to a town eighty miles away from my maternal grandparents, and a tradition was born. Because halfway between my grandparents’ house and the one in which I grew up, in Brewster, New York, stands The Red Rooster, a hamburger and ice [...]
Road Trip
August 4th, 2009by Lisa We decided to drive to San Diego so my husband could attend ComicCon, and once we figured out that it was too late to reserve a camping spot halfway down, we decided to stop in Solvang. For us, if it’s a toss up between a tent and a great deal on a hotel [...]
Dessert
November 15th, 2008by Caroline I’m surprised to find I haven’t written about dessert yet in this forum, since I have a lot to say about the subject. And despite how healthy I try to keep my family, we certainly don’t avoid dessert. We’re just as likely to make an afternoon project of making cookies as making paintings, [...]
A Tale of Three Restaurants
August 15th, 2008posted by Caroline In Paris, we rented an apartment, went to the market and fixed nearly all our own meals. But we wanted to take the kids out for a meal, just once, pretty much just to say we did. We carried several guidebooks that included sections on kid-friendly restaurants, but too often kid-friendly meant [...]
What (not) to do in restaurants
August 10th, 2008posted by Lisa We love Plantation Gardens, where we stayed last year for a week. The condo was extremely pleasant, but the real revelation were the grounds and the restaurant, which is one of the best places we’ve found to eat out on the south shore of Kauai. The Moir gardens, which border the restaurant [...]