Welcome to Check Please!, a new audio segment of your favorite newsletter where I chat about food, life and whatever I want with my (prospective) co-host Josh, who is more or less, just some guy. If you’re a loyal Early Girl subscriber, you may remember him from the dinner party I wrote about here:
How to Host a Dinner Party & Stand in the Rain
Where to begin Hosting a formal dinner party is a bit of a lost art form for a host of reasons. I could speculate on a number of them, but to get to the meat of things: groceries aren’t cheap and leisure time is limited. When I’m planning on hosting a dinner, I always consider how many courses and pars of each dish I can afford to make before cooking sto…
In this episode, we chat about everything we love and hate about restaurants (from the perspective of patrons — working in the industry is a whole different episode), mourn the loss of Sweet Tomatoes, discover the last-standing Lone Star Steakhouse in the world, and review the Joe’s Crab Shack happy hour menu.
This is a new format I’m trying out, so please let me know how you like it, and if there are any culinary or food-adjacent topics you’d like to hear us discuss in the future. And yes…there is the sound of the leaf blower at the end. Forgive us. We’re still working out the kinks.
As always,
Bella
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