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Bar Bites: Fried Pickles with Spicy Remoulade

Crunchy and briny with a nice, salty kick, fried pickles are a straight-up addictive snack. The thing is, they're not even that hard to make at home. Not all pickles are created equally—you need really crisp ones so the breading will adhere.

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2 Comments | Posted by Jennifer Olvera, February 10, 2012 at 3:15 PM
Tagged: Bar Bites, bar food, fried food, pickles

Boston: Honey Hot Wings at Buff's Pub

Other than the crowd of little league soccer players and their parents after Saturday morning practice, Buff's biggest claim to fame are their wings ($4.95 per half order; 8.95 per whole). You can get them on or off the bone, and doused with one of 10 different hot sauces. It's not actually the variety that impresses me; call me a curmudgeon, but Buffalo wings are Buffalo wings, and I start to wonder about a place that offers as many different flavor varieties as Baskin-Robbins.

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7 Comments | Posted by Liz Bomze, March 17, 2011 at 1:30 PM
Tagged: bar food, Boston, Buffalo wings, dive bars, Massachusetts, Newton, West Newton, wings

How to Drink Wine When Flying Solo on Business Travel

On Fridays, Deb Harkness of Good Wine Under $20 drops by with Serious Grape. This week, she discusses the scenario of drinking wine alone while traveling for business—minus the hotel room's plastic tumblers. The McCormick & Shmick's bar at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Photograph from Paul Keleher on Flickr If you are a business traveler like me, dining alone on the road can be more than a bit depressing. This is especially true if, like me, you drink a glass of wine with dinner each night. Room service might be able to produce competent hamburgers and fries, but I can't face an industrial-strength "wine glass" full of warm red wine with a piece of plastic wrap on top and...

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12 Comments | Posted by Deb Harkness, October 10, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Tagged: bar food, travel, wine

Rio's 10 Best Butecos

"Cariocan food comes in three vastly different varieties. First there's the churrascaria, a pricey all-you-can-eat meat engorgement program. Then there's the option of 'fine dining' but this consists in the main of incredibly pricey and uniformly disappointing stabs at haute cuisine. Then there are buteco. Dingy, tucked into a tiny storefront, a simple counter with stools atop of which fat Brazilian men are perched, butecos frequently serve the best and cheapest food you'll find. Invariably fried and seafood heavy, you won't lose too many pounds eating at these places but what you lose in life expectancy, you more than make up with cultural authenticity." Gridskipper put together a guide to Rio's ten best butecos, each one with their own speciality....

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1 Comment | Posted by Lia Bulaong, March 23, 2007 at 9:25 AM
Tagged: bar food, best-of, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, top ten lists