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Restaurant: Guido's Favorite Foods

2008-06-16T01:55:49Z

We went to a Mensa lunch at Guido's Favorite Foods in Durango, yesterday. People in the Four Corners area of New Mexico frequently cross into Colorado to eat. It's an hour drive each way, but hey, they have a much better selection of restaurant...

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Dinner and a Concert

2007-11-18T05:53:41Z

Strix and I are in Telluride for the weekend. It's pretty cold here, being high altitude and all, but apparently not cold enough for the skiiers who are dying for snow. It's a beautiful little town, despite all of the trees being dead. A word ...

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Wine: Coastal Estates Pinot Noir, 2006

2007-09-18T02:52:38Z

So what can you say about a $5 bottle of pinot noir? How about, "Hey, that's actually not bad." This isn't a wine to write home about, with little complexity to it. There are some undertones of black cherry or blackberry, which I expect in a p...

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Restaurant Review: Nana's Italian - Albuquerque

2007-07-22T03:40:26Z

We had lunch at Nana's Italian restaurant in Albuquerque today. I had the manicotti, and Christina had the minestrone soup. Both of us were very happy with our food, and the service was friendly, if not knowledgable. I asked for a glass of the ...

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Restaurant: Tony's Pizza

2007-06-28T00:09:32Z

I was in Albuquerque for training this morning, so I had lunch at Tony's Pizza. This is a very small, but authentic little Italian pizzaria, with pictures of the Rat Pack on the wall and the sounds of old Blue Eyes singing that he did it his way ...

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Restaurant Review: Gilardi's

2006-12-24T03:45:14Z

Tonight, we at at Gilardi's Italian restaurant in Springfield, Missouri. Christina's parents, Dale and Lois, met us here and we treated them to dinner as a 45th wedding anniversary present. That's right - they've been married for 45 years. Whe...

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