Everything’s Nice at Cincinnati’s Sugar N’ Spice @EatSugarNSpice
Cincinnati’s Sugar N Spice Restaurant is not a place you can easily ignore as you drive past. Brilliant, tropical colors and unusual statues and decorations …
Restaurants
A Warm Comforting Environment at M Wood Fired Oven in Cincinnati
I am invariably attracted to restaurant that mention wood-fired grills or ovens in their name, even more so when they are pizza restaurants, because in …
Dinner in Cincinnati’s Mount Adams Neighborhood
It had been some years since I had been to Cincinnati, so I decided to head to my favorite neighborhood of the city for dinner, …
Grabbing a Post-Blues-Festival Dinner at Ribeyes in Yazoo City
After I left Bentonia, I headed north into Yazoo City to find a good sit-down place for dinner, and I settled upon Ribeyes, a place …
Young Memphis Musicians at @DowntownBleu at the Westin Hotel
The Bleu Restaurant in the Westin Hotel in downtown Memphis is really the only place in the city that regularly features live jazz. Jazz groups …
Great Gourmet Pizza at Corinth’s @PizzaGrocery
My jazz trio got hired to play for a ribbon-cutting at a nursing home in Corinth, Mississippi last Thursday, and when it was over, we …
Great Italian Food at @NonnaMiaNOLA
On the lake end of Esplanade Avenue near City Park and the Fairgrounds sits Nonna Mia Cafe & Pizzeria, a charming Italian cafe in a …
Sunday Morning in the Bywater
On Sunday morning, I headed into the Bywater for a breakfast at Jim’s and a latte at the Orange Couch before the Money Wasters’ second-line …
A Cortado in the Vieux Carre at @SpitfireCoffee
On my walk from the sadly silent corner of Canal and Bourbon (where the city has silenced the brass bands) to Faubourg Marigny, I stopped …
Starting the Day at Surrey’s Uptown
I’ve discussed the great breakfasts at Surrey’s Uptown Juice Bar in New Orleans before, but what caught my attention on this particular day was a …