Austin, TX (The Joy of Food) — Austin loves the food puns. Coat & Thai, Thai, How Are You?, Bananarchy, Pho King, and of course, Juan in a Million. This is dining by Mother Goose. Juan in a Million is a hole-in-the-wall purveyor of traditional Tex-Mex cuisine, easily rating as […]
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Waffle House
Louisville, KY (The Joy of Food) — When God closes a window, he will lovingly remind you that Waffle House’s doors are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The prices are low, the service is friendly, and the menu is straightforward and simple, […]
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Orange County, CA (The Joy of Food) — Sarkis Pastry is the house that baklava built, a Near Eastern bakery specializing in every type of baklava found under the sun. There’s one walnut-filled baklava called “kul-wushkur” which translated from Arabic means “taste and give thanks to heaven,” a phrase that […]
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Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — Entire religions have been founded on miracles less profound than the Italian bombolone, a type of doughnut that’s deep-fried and then filled with custards, creams, or hazelnut (the mighty Nutella, of course). To find this type of fried carbo perfection in Miami Beach, […]
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Boston, MA (The Joy of Food) — With a name like Bagelsaurus, I was really worried this was going to suck. No good, I thought, could come from a place whose logo sports a bagel-clad dinosaur. But the joke was on me. Everybody searches for that perfect bagel, and in […]
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Montreal, Canada (The Joy of Food) — There’s no where better to journey into a plate of grease for dinner than La Banquise, also known as Montreal’s poutine mecca. Open 24/7, this place is popular with daytime and nighttime crowds, a beacon of hope and refuge for the drunk, stoned, […]
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Vienna, Austria (The Joy of Food) — In Austria, one cannot live on strudel alone. To mix it up a little, there’s Sachertorte. Sachertorte is a chocolatey little sponge cake, or torte, with thin layers of apricot jam. Those who love fruity flavors mixed with chocolate will love this classic […]
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Paris, France (The Joy of Food) — Of all the grand food emporiums and legendary patisseries of Paris, none is more grand or legendary than Fauchon. Fauchon is glam gourmet at its Parisian hot-pink finest. It might not look it today, but this all began in the 1800’s as a […]
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Mondsee, Austria (The Joy of Food) — Cafe Braun produces delicious strudel off the beaten path in the suburbs of Salzburg. You will probably get to Mondsee the same way everyone gets there — by way of a Sound of Music tour. Via this method, a pack of Lonely Goatherd-yodeling […]
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