What follows is the introduction to the thing I’ve been working on for a while in between life stuff and cigar writing. It’s the primary reason I haven’t been, and won’t be, publishing blog posts until the whole thing is complete. I’m not sure what I’ll do with it when it’s done, but it will […]
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My First IPCPR…Vegas 2016
As I talked about in my last post, I got pretty lucky this year and managed to score a spot at the International Premium Cigar and Pipe Retailers Association (IPCPR) convention and trade show in Vegas a few weeks ago. My initial report was primarily about the fantastic food and how Vegas as a town […]
Las Vegas- July 2016
I don’t drink and I don’t gamble, strip clubs are just sad places for sad men if you’re older than about 25, and I would rather take a bullet to the back of the head than sit through a fucking performance of one of the 54 varieties of Cirque du Soleil currently being performed in […]
KC Restaurant Week Menu Awards 2016
The only thing that rivals the time and energy that goes into planning and executing Kansas City Restaurant Week every year is the time and energy that goes into nobody shutting up about it for the entire goddamn month of January. I generally avoid it completely and write a check directly to one of the […]
Smoking Cigars and Drinking Coffee
A PERSONAL HISTORY My love for cigars predates my KC restaurant insanity by a few years…in the mid to late 90’s my dining rotation was Metropolis for date nights and Garrozzo’s for everything else…my cigar rotation was much more developed. It took me a couple of years of experimentation and getting to know people in […]
My Friend Judy
This is one of those things I never put a lot of thought into because it was always a given that my friend Judy Jones would bounce back any time, or at the very least we’d be back out to St. Louis to see her and Nick and share a couple more meals. I had […]
The Rieger Menus
Howard- So what all are we doing? Jerry- Just reading the menus, no real plan. And you know I know what’s on and off the record. H- Awesome! Jerry- The point is kind of I did no prep and came up with some basic shit like questions or themes to mix it up. Not going […]
White Trash Picnic
As God is my witness, if I ever found out that someone I invited to my birthday party was one of those assholes who constantly goes to food blogs/pages/sites to leave comments like “you forgot the address……you got the address wrong…….oh nice spelling…..uh, BIG difference between pan frying and deep frying, how about learning about […]
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