Brian Little’s Little Diner is the best breakfast restaurant in Vail, Colorado
Breakfast
Austin’s Uncle Nicky’s Italian Specialties is My Choice for Bombolini
Austin has a beautiful little Italian bakery called Uncle Nicky’s Italian Specialties. I fell in love with this place pretty quickly. It’s run by three guys who know their way around Italian pastries, putting together beautiful homemade pastries, all for a very fair price.
Sweet Things Abound at Austin’s Sour Duck Market
I have a few guys that I get together with a couple times a year to do a food journey. We pick a city and three handfuls of restaurants and try to hit all of them in three days. This fall we picked Austin, and started things off gently with a nice visit to Sour…
The Colonial Pancake & Waffle House in Hot Springs, AR
There’s something special about a good country diner. The jingle jingle of the door as you enter, the comfortable booths and half-hoop backed wooden chairs and tables, the milk glass bric-a-brac and old flags on the walls. The Colonial is one of those special places.
On Oatmeal
I love the chewy and nutty taste of oatmeal. My mom made it a lot when I was a kid, using the stuff in the round container from the grocery store. When I was older and moved to Vermont for school, I discovered “real oatmeal” of two types— the first was steel cut oats, made…