I am a huge fan of Gordon Ramsay and his popular TV show Kitchen Nightmares, in which he travels to restaurants on the verge of failure and tries to turn them around in less than a week. Chef Ramsay (sometimes) accomplishes this using his expertise in the industry, very high standards, and tough brutal love. [...]

Happy Halloween! As a way of celebrating (lame excuse), I have decided to review one of my favorite breakfast cereals from my childhood – Franken Berry. I say from my childhood because like many middle-aged people, I have long graduated from colorful, sugary kid cereals to sober, unsweetened mixtures of granola, whole grains, and tree [...]

The last few weeks have been a little rough (subliminal plug?) and since I have been doing all of the house-husband chores like grocery shopping, I decided to treat myself to some comfort food, namely – a Nighthawk Steak ‘n Taters frozen dinner. I hadn’t had one since my original review in 2005. In that [...]

With my house cracking apart, I was even more eager to get away this past weekend for some fresh air and the open road. So, Friday afternoon, I loaded-up the Miata and pointed her towards Rising Star, Texas, where I would meet my friend David Sylvester for some dove hunting. I’m not much of a hunter. [...]

On Saturday night, Mrs. Pribble and I walked into the Old San Francisco Steak House, her for the first time and both of us for the last. The Old San Francisco Steak House (OSF) had been bought and would close its doors forever on Sunday, after 25 years in business. Remarkably, except for some very small details, everything [...]

My wife and I did have dinner with a friend at the Old San Francisco Steak House on Saturday. A full report on that evening is coming soon. It’s almost 2000 words already and we aren’t even all the way through the main course. It was a wonderful evening and I look forward to telling [...]

This begins as a story about a story. As I have contemplated what to blog about over the next couple of weeks, I considered writing a review of the Old Hickory Steakhouse, located in the Gaylord Texan Resort, in Grapevine, Texas. I ate there a couple of weeks ago, while working at my employer’s annual [...]

Recently, my friend Rob Booth brought-up the subject of Night Hawk dinners on his blog. Matt B. weighed-in with his review and the whole subject has sparked some nostalgic interest in me. For those that don’t know, Night Hawk was a steak house chain in Austin, Texas from 1939 through 1994. However, I never ate [...]