Category Archives: Dining

Sometimes, We Get Touted

Posted on June 6, 2022 by thewineraconteur

Periodically, we get touted to try a restaurant, and a most of the time it happens to be a chain and I just don’t get that excited.  I guess it was all the years of being an independent retailer, so … Continue reading →

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Another Gathering of Shamrocks

Posted on May 29, 2022 by thewineraconteur

I was attending a reunion of the Shamrocks, the name of my Bride’s high school’s nickname.  They were trying to get a group together, and since my Bride is not on social media, I had to request a membership to … Continue reading →

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The Royce and a Muscadet

Posted on May 17, 2022 by thewineraconteur

A friend told me about a wine tasting for Mawby and Big Little Wines at wine bar called The Royce, that I have heard about, but we had not been there.  Of course, the friend that told me about the … Continue reading →

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Mother’s Day 2022

Posted on May 13, 2022 by thewineraconteur

It is a holiday that is popular and celebrated around the world.  It is also a day that seems to get more chaotic each year, as we try to make plans.  For restaurants, it is a powerhouse of a holiday, … Continue reading →

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We Went to the Cinema

Posted on May 11, 2022 by thewineraconteur

I don’t know how movie houses were treated elsewhere, they were under lockdown for about a year, and we got kind of used to not seeing any movies.  I mean my Bride started doing “binge” watching almost anything that was … Continue reading →

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What is Going On?

Posted on May 9, 2022 by thewineraconteur

My dinner club has been slowly getting back into a real schedule, for almost two years, a society that has been in existence for getting close to one-hundred-fifty-years was almost scuttled by the harridan that can’t fix the roads that … Continue reading →

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We Had Two Non-Vintage Wines

Posted on May 7, 2022 by thewineraconteur

After the appetizers, we had The Caller and his wife move into the dining room which was also renovated since they had been here last.  It was fun, because he was looking at the room and trying to remember the … Continue reading →

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Showing Off the Renovations

Posted on May 5, 2022 by thewineraconteur

We have been hard at work getting the house fixed up and we are almost there.  And we have started to have dinners here in between the moving of furniture, new hardwood floors, wallpaper removal, painting, plaster repairing, hanging new … Continue reading →

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When You Just Want Something Different

Posted on May 1, 2022 by thewineraconteur

There are times when you are having dinner at home, but nothing really fancy, though with my Bride she does try to make everything special.  We just finished the season of Lent and in this house, it means that we … Continue reading →

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What a Great Memory

Posted on April 29, 2022 by thewineraconteur

My Bride got excited and bought a bunch of filet mignons at the butcher counter and each was almost the price of a gallon of gas.  OK, not at nineteen cents a gallon during the gas wars that occurred during … Continue reading →

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