Originally, I didn’t have Lil Porgy’s on my list of places I wanted to visit while here in Champaign (in my defense, I made the list very quickly and didn’t mention a lot of great spots in Champaign). Last night I remembered the barbecue joint because I was driving by my high school and realized […]
So, I’ve been in Champaign for all of 14 hours and I’ve already been to THREE restaurants (two of them were on my list and one was just for a quick breakfast). I started off my Champaign pizza adventure with Jupiter’s Pizza, a downtown bar (with pool tables and food). My brother, David, introduced me […]
In my previous post, I mentioned how we went fishing and caught a bunch of flounder. We didn’t stay in a hotel with a grill (although that would’ve been pretty cool if we found more people to come with us) so we weren’t sure what to do with our fish, especially since we didn’t have […]
Over Labor Day weekend, Chris and I headed to Montauk to have a relaxing and fun vacation (the last of the summer!) We left Manhattan after work and drove to our hotel in Montauk without much traffic. We got in around 10PM and immediately got ready for bed because we had to wake up at […]
A while back, I watched an episode of “Throwdown with Bobby Flay” where Bobby challenges the owners of A Salt and Battery to a “fish and chips Throwdown”. The concept behind Throwdown is that Bobby Flay travels the country to challenge experts in a certain dish, but they don’t know they’re being challenged until halfway […]
