Tag: dining reviews

Just as celebrities bestow unusual names on their children – my favorite is Kal-El Cage, son of Nicholas – restaurant owners can often gravitate names that are quirky or amusing. Some restaurants choose obvious and straight-forward titles, like La Creperie or PB and Jellies. But there are always those that make you laugh, like Schnitzel…

Few things are more ubiquitous on upscale restaurant menus than a seared ahi tuna appetizer, prepared pink and rich and usually quite delicious. It’s familiar, if not exactly exciting. That is, until that tuna gets savaged — meaning prepared by Cliff House Executive Chef Scott Savage, who recently rolled out an amazing new menu headlined…

Parenthood is a very personal experience and the meaning and implications are as varied as humanity itself. And of course, sacrifices are generally required. However, such sacrifices need not include eating a subsistence diet of what’s currently marketed as kids’ food: neon orange noodles, corn-encrusted meat products on sticks and soggy nuggets shaped like extinct…

Just north of Colorado Springs, Black Forest is known for its tall trees, views, horse property and lovely real estate. Its more than 13,000 residents, however, can’t survive on scenery alone, and so to meet their edible needs, a small culinary culture has popped up in the town’s historic downtown. It’s now a culture tasty…

High-test, hand-crafted beer. Pretzels served in paint cans. Whimsical paintings on mirrors. Great Storm Brewing may have established itself as a “marriage of the traditional and the rebellious” at its grand opening Saturday, but take a taste. You’ll see that owners Jeff and Lynn Jacobs take beer very seriously. Start with the interior, which has…