Eat at Joe's!

_Food & Wine_ Poll

Numerous sources have told me Food & Wine Magazine has a poll on the front page of their wiki, asking "Tell us the names of the smaller cities and towns where you most love to eat—the destinations that deserve a place of honor on our food map!"  Durham is currently in the running, although I imagine you can nominate wherever you like.  I don't have to tell you what to do, right?  :)  To vote, you don't have to sign up, but if you do, you can add stuff to their Durham, N.C. entry, which needs some work—right now it has as many entries for barbecue restaurants as it does for fine dining destinations.  C'mon, I don't have to do everything, do I?  ;)

(Web.geeks.note: If you already have a LiveJournal account, or otherwise use OpenID, you can use it to sign up for the above service.) 

Maybe They Should Offer Dry Cleaning, Too

Ya wanna know something even odder than Honey's having Wi-Fi?  McDonald's having it too. 

This Week's Favorite Search String

Today's check of my referrer logs yielded a hit on Eat at Joe's! via this search: how to kill someone with a bacon sandwich. 

Poll Page

Hey, now I have someplace to, um, put my polls.  :)

Sunday Brunch, or Stirring Up Trouble Again

Several months ago when Fowler's closed, it seemed like we really took a hit on Downtown area brunch.  But with Piedmont, Rue Cler, and Alivia's all serving brunch now, things have improved.  Lots of places are doing Saturday brunch too (Verde does only Saturday brunch, which seems a little odd).  Federal has been doing brunch for a while.  And there are a number of old favorites still around outside the downtown area, like Vin Rouge and Elmo's. 

So I think it's time for another Vizu poll, which you should be seeing in the sidebar at left.  I'm asking that you exclude places that only have buffet.  If they have buffet and to-order food, great.  I've thrown in a few outliers like IHOP and Hong Kong.  I don't care if they serve breakfasty items all the time (like Eno River Eatery), but I generally do want them to serve them -- on Sunday morning.   Saturday is a plus, but not when they're not open Sunday.  I know I've left out places like Brigs, the Washington Duke Inn, Bojangles', etc., but I can only have 10 choices, so if your favorite isn't on here, please pick "other."  I've excepted buffets because, well, the food is not generally as good as to-order food (I understand -- sometimes going to an all-you-can-eat place and eating five pounds of bacon is good.  Still...). You can also pick up to three.  Please express any lacunae in the comments. 

Go knock yourselves out. 

BTW, the barbecue poll is still available.  Since TypePad now lets me do independent pages, maybe I'll make a poll page and archive all my polls there.  But one thing at the time.  :)

Edit: couldn't get this poll to show up under MSIE.  Ugh.  If it doesn't work for you, try another browser -- it works fine under Firefox.   

Ooh La La!

Not sure what to name your next creation?  Our French correspondent, code-named "Jásôn," sent us this helpful cheat: The Froo Froo Menu Generator.  So the next time you can't figure out what to call your basil-scented haddock with its tarragon-chanterelle coulis, you'll know where to go. 

Dead Chefs on MySpace

James Beard and Julia Child on MySpace (psst -- I don't really think it's them: James Beard would never be plugging vegan recipes, and Julia would know how to spell "Santa Barbara").