Awkward, unsure but exciting, just like a first date
Your first dining in experience is going to be like a great big first date. It’s been three long months; you are excited, and we are…
Barfly Podcast: Season 2: Episode 12 with Shah Bahreyni
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No shirt, no shoes, no face mask: no dice. Read it. Learn it. Live it.
I was leaving on my daily SIP biking trip. It is nice when you live immediately adjacent to a very nice hiking trail. It’s not so…
Thinking outside the box with a cannabis aperitif
In order to survive this pandemic, emotionally, physically, and fiscally, many people are going to have to start thinking outside the box. Doing just what you’ve…
A memory of a long-ago Memorial Day
It was the Sunday before Memorial Day, very much like this one; bright, sunny, and clear. It was also nearly 30 years ago, and summer looks…
Barfly Podcast Season 2: Episode 11: Opening post Covid 19 with Sean Saylor
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In a pandemic can “the customer is always right” survive?
“Mrrmmhmm?” said the butcher standing six feet away from me, wearing a surgical mask and surgical gloves. I only knew that it was a question because…
Cautious optimism as restaurants look towards reopening for sit down dining
It is now not a matter of if, but rather when, restaurants and bars will reopen for sit down dining. Covid 19 has changed all the…
Typhoid Mary story provokes response from readers
Here is a hypothetical question. Say “Paul” is professional of some kind: medical, culinary, whatever. But his is a job in which he comes into close…
Mary, Mary, quite contrary…
By all accounts she was a nice woman, tall, charming, and a great cook. Peaches and cream are a classic delight, but in her hands fresh…