Hickory Ridge Restaurant

Break fast

We've watched this spot up Route 11 North turn from a pit beef joint to a 24 hour diner to this incarnation, Hickory Ridge Restaurant, one of the classier diners in the area. 

Richmond, VA part 2

River City redux

Packed the kids off to an amusement park and spent the rest of our vacation exploring the city. In Shockoe Bottom (awesome name like a scandalous derriere) one of the city's oldest neighborhoods we found Main Street Station a 1901 Beaux Arts gem, arguably the most beautiful building in the city.
  

Richmond, VA (part 1)

River City

So why Richmond? Don't really know only I've visited Gettysburg and Manassas and Harper's Ferry among others, thought I'd go and take a look this time at the heart of the Confederacy. 

India Cafe

Bombay binge

Alas, Bombay Diner opened, closed, opened and closed again before I could write about it. Luckily India Cafe opened in its place (851 Wayne Avenue, near Giant supermarket, (717) 263-2660) only a few months ago and is a perfectly fine replacement--

--especially on Mother's Day, where the owners had set up a buffet dedicated to everyone's favorite parent (Stuff your mother on her special day! Add four, five pounds to your weight in a single sitting!). 

Shrimp with pasta

Shrimp pasta

It's not all eating out; sometimes I manage to put together a dish or two at home. Been doing this one for years--about time I put it on record, or at least online, or at least on this blog.

So, preparation: a pound of 16/20 shrimp, peeled and deveined, save the peel, brine the shrimp in salty water (no proportions, just added salt to a bowl of water till it tasted briny). 

Dinner Date

"Where are we going?"

"O out."

"We've been driving for almost an hour. Is it in another state?"

"Maybe."

"There you go again. Sometimes I want to smack you."

"Ow! Not when I'm driving."

"Frederick, Maryland?"

"You said you wanted somewhere different."

"Cute clock."

"Shut up and pose."

"You've been carrying this for thirteen years--when do you deliver?"

"We're eating here?"

"I got reservations."

"Did you rob a bank?"

Rendezvous Caribbean Restaurant

The No-Plate Special

Said it before gonna say it again: this blog's all about find dining--the kind of eats where you're driving down a street, you pause before a sign, you park and walk right in (or likewise you're walking down said street, pause before a sign). Last week we discovered Grill Kebab on Route 30 East this way; this week we found Rendezvous Caribbean Restaurant a tiny place tucked away in the corner of West Washington and Black Street, on the south end of Chambersburg's downtown. This place had at various points been a Mexican bakery and a pizza joint; if anyone were to ask "What would you put up here instead?" an eatery serving Caribbean food wouldn't have been the first idea to come to mind--but why not? It's different; and we're (along with discovery and good food) all about la difference.