Unearthed treasures from my food-obsessed past (2005-2013)
Step into my digital time capsule! These posts are culinary artifacts from my days as a wandering food blogger, capturing meals and moments from across the country when “influencer” wasn’t yet a career path and digital cameras were still revolutionary.
It all started in 2005 when I was criss-crossing America for work and needed a system to document my growing restaurant obsession. I built my own tracking software (tech nerd alert!) before discovering WordPress and migrating my food adventures there.
Many of these restaurants have since closed their doors, but the memories live on. Consider this section my gastronomic scrapbook — where my journey as an Eat Tech Dad truly began.
Browse through these vintage reviews for a taste of mid-2000s food culture and to witness the evolution of both my palate and my writing. The tech has changed, the dad part came later, but the eating? That’s been consistent throughout.
2916 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN 55408 http://www.chinolatino.com/ If you have not heard Minneapolis has some great restaurants! And to add to my expanding list comes Chino Latino. It is hard…
2627 East Franklin Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55406 http://truethairestaurant.com/ “What Anna wants, Anna gets!” is what a co-worker said to me, before telling me about True Thai. The day before Anna…
929 West 80th Street Bloomington, MN 55420 http://www.daafghan.com/ When I found out there was a kebab place only blocks away from my hotel in Bloomington, I had to go and…
4820 Chicago Ave S Minneapolis, MN http://www.pepitosrestaurant.com/ Enchilada time!!! After a little googling a coworker wanted to go to Pepito's for dinner and I had to tag along. We pulled…
3900 American Blvd West Bloomington MN, 55431 (952)830-5200 Located in the Hilton http://www.bloomingtonchophouse.com/ A coworker took me out to dinner to Bloomington Chophouse and boy was my coworker on point…
224 West Market Bloomington, MN 55425 Inside Mall of America 952-876-9410 http://www.tcfoodfinds.com/tigersushi.html Staying out in the suburbs of Minneapolis, there are not many sushi options. Being that I am across…
169 Bleecker St New York, NY 10012 http://www.thunderjackson.com I have to start this post by saying WOW!!! BEST BURGER IN NYC! That's right, forget all the other places I have…
1375 Avenue of Americas, New York 10019 Btwn 55th & 56th St http://pazzanotte.com/site/ This is a story of one of those meals, where you can expect the unexpected. Here is…
156 Cambridge Street Boston, MA 02114 (617) 973-6680 http://www.masobaboston.com Ma Soba claims to be Boston's best sushi. Well I can say this much there is no competition to begin with.…
859 9th Ave New York, NY 10019 (212) 581-4177 http://www.puttanesca.com A friend has had couple of dinners previously at Puttanesca, and for that reason she decided it was the perfect…