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Porto’s Bakery

in Breakfast and Pastry, American, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Dessert, Drink, Cuban, French, United States, Los Angeles, CA, Mexican 8 comments

Los Angeles, CA (The Joy of Food) — Porto’s is a Cuban-French-Mexican-American bakery in and around the L.A. region popular for a mishmash of breakfast and lunch offerings at low prices. The catch? That would be the interminable line every minute of the day. In a world of designer drinks […]

Juan in a Million

in Breakfast and Pastry, Austin, TX, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Greasy Stuff, The Milky Way, Mexican 2 comments

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 […]

Waffle House

in American, Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Comfort, Greasy Stuff, United States, Louisville, KY 4 comments

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, […]

Buona Forchetta - regina margherita pizza

Garage Buona Forchetta

in Carbapalooza, United States, Italian, San Diego, CA 2 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — If you’ve arrived in Coronado to dine at Buona Forchetta, you’ll need to look for the hot pink ‘Garage’ sign lit up on one side, formerly El Cordova Garage and now one of San Diego’s most decent places to find pizza. I […]

Bagelsaurus

in American, Breakfast and Pastry, Carbapalooza, Cambridge, MA, United States, The Milky Way 1 comment

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 […]

La Banquise

in Breakfast and Pastry, Montreal, Carbapalooza, Canada, Comfort, Greasy Stuff, The Milky Way, Quebecois 5 comments

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, […]

Roma Sparita

in Carbapalooza, Comfort, Rome, Italy, Italian 2 comments

Rome, Italy (The Joy of Food) — Visitors to Italy seeking traditional Roman dishes will enjoy Roma Sparita, but it comes with a serving of dislike toward Americans. And not just a small serving, but a huge, heaping, palpable side of burning hatred, over-sized like everything else in Rome. This […]

Cesarina

in Carbapalooza, United States, Italian, San Diego, CA 0 comments

San Diego, CA (The Joy of Food) — For the record people, it’s CHES-arina. Not SEZ-arina or, even worse, KES-arina. A “c” in Italian almost always comes out as a soft “ch” sound when it’s followed by an “e” or an “i.” This is the rule 99% of the time. […]

El Rey De Las Fritas

in Carbapalooza, Comfort, Cuban, Greasy Stuff, United States, Miami, FL 0 comments

Miami, FL (The Joy of Food) — In this no-name strip mall in Miami, you can drop off your dry cleaning, hawk your jewelry, get your checks cashed, or bathe in a lather of fried foods all within a few feet. El Rey De Las Fritas is the fried food […]