
I can’t say exactly how the Kingsman Restaurant ended up on my list, as there is a descriptive paragraph (with no source) and no reference to who told me. As we were driving through Columbia, I saw a highway sign for the suburb of Cayce. And my brain said, “There’s something in Cayce on your […]

For our anniversary, we were looking for some place new to try when I remembered hearing about Girl Diver, which opened in the Madison Yards development in late 2020. Originally announced as a Vietnamese / Cajun seafood place, it feels more general-Asian-meets-seafood-by-the-pound. But I had heard they had a killer lobster roll, and I happen […]

In these pandemic times, for all of us, the world has changed. We still eat three meals a day, but for the last eighteen months very few of them have been “out”, particularly at a new restaurant. On this fall Saturday, we made an outing to IKEA. Since we were already hazarding the universe at […]

Just down the road from the office, there is a residential / commercial complex that started contruction pre-pandemic. Over the last several months, only a few of the promised restaurants have opened . But of the one that have, I decided to try – Ceviche Co. Express – today and see what they had to […]

As we made our way home from Indiana Dunes State Park, I was consulting my list, looking for options. Headed south, I realized we were going to be driving right by West Lafayette, Indiana. And there was an entry there from Hamburger America – Triple XXX Family Restaurant. That made our lunch choice easy. Located […]

One of the issues we confronted on this VDC (vacation during Covid-19) was finding places that were open. We had already changed our destination state for this trip, due to the cancellation of a festival, and on this Thursday as we journeyed from southern Wisconsin to northern Indiana, we were driving through Chicago. Pulling a […]