Category: Journalism

  • Eat Standing Up: Mexico City

    Eat Standing Up: Mexico City

    (Originally appeared in Heavy Table’s The Tap Newsletter, subscribe here.) Sit down restaurants are nice. I have nothing against sit down restaurants. But when checking out a new city, you don’t always want a time-consuming dining “experience” at every meal. Street food is freedom. Get served on the sidewalk. Eat…

  • Hot Five: The Palm Springs Edition

    Hot Five: The Palm Springs Edition

    (Originally appeared in Heavy Table’s The Tap Newsletter, subscribe here.) Black Manhattan from Paul Bar/Food $16 You find yourself huddled with 30 or so strangers under the awning of an aging strip mall between a massage parlor and a vape shop staring at a locked door beneath a generic sign…

  • Swede Hollow Cafe in St. Paul, MN

    Swede Hollow Cafe in St. Paul, MN

    A large brass bell hangs from a leather strap at the top of the front door. Tacked behind it with clear packing tape is a pocket pack of tissue. It’s a ridiculously simple contraption. When you open the door the bell swings and smacks the tissue, ringing out a muffled ding and…