Biloxi MS Shrimp Tour

If you’re vacationing, on business, or just passing through the Mississippi/Louisiana/Alabama Gulf Coast, make plans and time to take the 90 minute Biloxi Shrimping Trip, a tourist attraction since 1954. Your affable captain and mate will take you on a highly education yet entertaining cruise through Biloxi Bay, explaining the local shrimp industry, the life… Continue reading Biloxi MS Shrimp Tour

Memorial Day Deals for Vets and Active Duty Personnel

(From Foodandwine.com) Others can be found on https://militarybenefits.info. Firebirds Wood Fired Grill If you dine with a veteran, active duty service member, or Gold Star family on Memorial Day, they’ll get a lunch or dinner entrée for free (equal to or less than the cost of your entrée). Hickory Tavern 25% of proceeds from sales… Continue reading Memorial Day Deals for Vets and Active Duty Personnel

Super 8 Motels Review – Nationwide Chain

After decades of business travel on the company time, in posh hotels where your every single whim is attended to, I’m happy these days to mostly stay in ‘value priced’ motels. Generally franchisees, locally owned, and adequate for as little time as I will be in attendance. Super 8 is in the top 5 of… Continue reading Super 8 Motels Review – Nationwide Chain

Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review – Hebron, IL

Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review Hebron (Illinois, not Palestine) is a dinksquat town of around 1200 in northern Illinois. You may know it as the home of Chris Ferrara, who is in the Bugler Hall of Fame. No? Anyway, it’s right on the border of Wisconsin/Illinois.  Can’t miss it. They have a Dollar General,… Continue reading Dari Ice Cream and Grill Review – Hebron, IL

Champion Frozen Pizza Review

  Champion Frozen Pizza Review Champion Pizza is a frozen pizza line started in 1981 in the microdot town of Hebron (Illinois, not Palestine). Like many frozen pizzas in the Upper Midwest, they got their start supplying to restaurants and bars before landing shelf space in regional grocery stores. They also supply products for charitable… Continue reading Champion Frozen Pizza Review

La Pizza Via Review – Fox River Grove, IL

La Pizza Via Review Where else can you go that offers nearly every regional type of pizza from across the country??? La Pizza Via has NY/New Haven thin crust, Pan pizza with a thicker crust, baked in a square. Of course Chicago’s favorite, cracker thin, cut in squares (many people call it “tavern style).” And… Continue reading La Pizza Via Review – Fox River Grove, IL

Twisted Burger Review – Barrington, IL

Twisted Burger Review Twisted Burger Restaurant Review. With a few locations around the Northwestern suburbs of Chicago, Twisted Burger is a growing chain with designs on serving the quality fast food audience.  Just five years old, they have been getting rave reviews with each new location they open. The menu has a lot of customized… Continue reading Twisted Burger Review – Barrington, IL

Chums Shrimp Shack Review – East Dundee, IL

(This will be the longest intro to a review that you’ve ever encountered!) When I was a sprout growing up on the shores of the Big Kitch-Gumee (Lake Superior), once per year, in late Spring, when the rivers feeding the lakes reached a certain temperature, the waters would be chock-a-block full of a small silvery… Continue reading Chums Shrimp Shack Review – East Dundee, IL

Sams Diner Review – Waterford, WI

Sam’s Diner Review – Waterford, WI There are a few times in my life when I’ve had a plate put in front of me at a restaurant and I’ve sighed and said “this is art.” When/where this has happened, it’s never been dependent on the price or the number of stars, or some fancy name… Continue reading Sams Diner Review – Waterford, WI