Solo Dining

Dining Around San Antonio

April 24, 2013
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San Antonio, Texas is a great city for sampling margaritas and mojitos and local brews, but it’s also fun to sample regional food specialties—and not just the obvious ones. Sure, you’ll want to try Mexican food and BBQ here, but don’t forget about the famous Gulf seafood and German food (thanks to the region’s German [...]

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Mi Tierra: An Unforgettable Restaurant in San Antonio

March 6, 2013
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As you walk through the entrance of Mi Tierra, you pass by the bakery, which smells so divine it nearly brings you to your knees. Mexican music playing in the background sets the mood for what you are about to experience. But more than anything, you should brace yourself for the visual feast you’ll find [...]

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Dining Around Minneapolis

August 29, 2012
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As I mentioned in my overview of Minneapolis, I didn’t have a lot of time to be a tourist in Minneapolis, but I did have the opportunity to sample some of Minneapolis’s fine restaurants during my time there. What would I recommend and what wouldn’t I? Skywater at the Hilton This restaurant and lounge is [...]

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Dining Around Honolulu

April 11, 2012
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Before you go to Honolulu, Hawaii, you are likely to hear other visitors complain about how expensive the restaurants here are. I don’t know where those people are traveling from, but I didn’t find it to be excessively expensive at all; but then I’m used to spending money on food in Las Vegas, New York, [...]

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Introducing: Invite for a Bite

March 27, 2012
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For many solo travelers, one of the biggest hurdles to becoming comfortable with solo travel is dining alone. Somehow, we can navigate foreign lands on our own, get ourselves from Point A to Point B, struggle through conversations in other languages, and get by just fine. . .until mealtime. What is it about eating alone [...]

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Sloppy Joey’s: Not Sloppy At All

December 9, 2011
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If there’s one thing I really love when I travel, it’s being pleasantly surprised. (Better than the other way around, don’t you think?) I had a morning like that in San Diego. I knew I wanted to spend the morning touring around the Gaslamp Quarter, and I wanted to try breakfast somewhere outside my hotel. [...]

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The Foods of Spain

September 5, 2011
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One of the joys of traveling is trying new foods, the local specialties. Some people, of course, are more adventurous than others. You won’t catch me eating bugs or fried rats just because that’s the local specialty. But I do like to experiment a bit with the local cuisine. Which of Spain’s specialties did I [...]

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My Favorite Meal in Barcelona: Princesa 23

July 8, 2011
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After spending a couple of hours one morning in Barcelona walking around trying to find the Picasso Museum and another hour actually visiting it, I was famished. Anyone who knows me knows that I can go from being not hungry at all to being ravenous in about zero to sixty seconds. Once I’m ravenous, I [...]

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Using Restaurant Week to Practice Dining Solo

April 29, 2011
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Vermont Restaurant Week starts today. From today until May 5, foodies around Vermont can take advantage of prix-fixe menus at special prices in restaurants around the region. This is only Vermont’s second year doing this, but it’s a phenomenon that’s been hosted in a number of cities around the US for years now. Restaurant Week [...]

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