Category: restaurant reviews

Johnna’s Pick of the Week (Travel Edition): Settepani (NY, NY)
[ 0 ] August 11, 2009 |

Johnna’s Pick of the Week (Travel Edition): Settepani (NY, NY)

Let us preface this review by stating we are not sweets people (*Translation: We do not eat or appreciate sweeter foods the way most people do) and we only order one thing for brunch. This will be short and sweet (*No pun intended…) Over the past 10 years Harlem has welcomed an array of restaurants […]

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Johnna’s Pick of the Week (Travel Edition): Awash (NY)
[ 0 ] July 30, 2009 |

Johnna’s Pick of the Week (Travel Edition): Awash (NY)

Good service. New York. The two together sound like an oxymoron. That was until we came across the uptown eatery, Awash. Right now, JKGF is on a heavy Ethiopian food kick…we can’t get enough of it, seriously. So much so, we traveled all the way to Awash via gypsy cab to get some good Ethiopian […]

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Johnna’s Pick of the Week: The Butcher Shop & Grill (Johannesburg, SA)
[ 0 ] July 9, 2009 |

Johnna’s Pick of the Week: The Butcher Shop & Grill (Johannesburg, SA)

2 flights, 14,000 miles and a man that picked his nose in the airplane seat beside us to give you this review. We love you. This weeks pick comes from none other than South Africa (*You didn’t think we’d travel half way around the world and not come back with a review, did you??). The […]

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Johnna’s Pick of the Week: Good Stuff Eatery
[ 0 ] July 2, 2009 |

Johnna’s Pick of the Week: Good Stuff Eatery

Good Stuff. This is a JKGF favorite phrase when something has the right vibe. After taking a trip to the Southeast side of the District for a burger, our new fetish entails our favorite phrase, Good Stuff Eatery. Spike Mendelsohn, a past contestant on Top Chef, is the mastermind behind this Capitol Hill burger joint. […]

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Food.Fun.Stuff: Be My Guest
[ 0 ] June 30, 2009 |

Food.Fun.Stuff: Be My Guest

This weeks post comes from the creator of Diary of a Mad Blacktress, Naomi, who recently took a visit down under, check out this burger joint all the way from New Zealand: I landed in Queenstown, on the south island of New Zealand on April 7 after 8 hours of driving. Known as the place […]

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