📍 Address: 2741 W 4th Avenue, Vancouver

⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4)

This is our favourite place in Kitsilano. Stellar menu, food quality, and service. Terrific cocktail menu and wine list. Heavy focus on local ingredients across the board. All at a totally reasonable price point. The Warm Kale Salad and the Humboldt Squid are favourites. It's busy, as it should be, so best to make a reservation. Love this place. Hope it's around for a long time!

📍 Address: 801 Red River St, Austin

⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.5)

This was some of the best BBQ I've ever had. The brisket was so good I might take a flight back to Austin just to get it.

📍 Address: 8557 Research Blvd, Ste 126, Austin

⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4)

As my ramen expert friends who have been to Japan put it,"This is one of the best ramen places we've had!" I would have to agree. If a ramen place can make me get up on a Saturday morning just to line up outside their doors...it's a keeper. I have to say their Ol' Skool ramen (only offered during lunch) is by far my favorite item on the menu. I love the chicken based broth: the lightness, the taste, the soul and depth in flavor. For real though, as much as I like the normal thick, rich pork broth, the chicken broth is so much better. Although the ramen only comes with one piece of Chashu meat, you will cherish that piece of meat with small tiny nibbles to try and make it last.So why not 5 stars? For the price of $9, I just don't feel completely satisfied after finishing a bowl. Don't get me wrong it's really good ramen, but I don't think the portion size is equivalent to what you pay for. Of course this is just me being picky, so feel free to shout at your computer screen and boo at me for saying this. Nonetheless I love Ramen Tatsu-Ya. #RamenTalk

📍 Address: 8000 Burnet Rd, Austin

⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4.5)

Exceptional! The pizza was great, but the calzone was to die for. Every ingredient on both was fresh and VERY flavorful. Nice spinach salad and several great choices of beers and cannolis. We'll definitely be back!

📍 Address: 88 Beach St, Boston

⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐⭐ (3.5)

We have dim sum on Saturday lunch time. We come at 11am so we was seated right away. The dim sum is very good just like my previous visits. As a Chinese, I rate it the best dim sum in Chinatown. Every items are good, the most important, it's very fresh.

📍 Address: 888 S High St, Columbus

⭐ Stars:⭐⭐⭐ (3)

Don't let the German name of this S. High St. bar and grill fool you- the food and drink here is as American as it gets. Between the patio and the pizza specials on Tuesdays, you've got yourself one hell of a quality joint to relax with a pitcher and group of friends at any time of day. It's comforting to know that a place that's yet to be gutted and reconfigured my yuppies still exists in an otherwise overly gentrified part of town such as German Village. The interior has a rustic and woody feel to it that without a doubt has been in tact since Plank's opened for business before the turn of the century, and it's safe to assume that little about the business has changed since then. The pizza isn't the greatest as far as texture goes, but there's plenty of toppings and surface area to make everyone happy enough to look beyond its relatively modest shortcomings. Besides the mysteriously rank smell that sometimes makes its way to the front of the restaurant, there's not much else I can say about Plank's that would be classified as negative. Definitely the place to go in German Village if you're tired of dealing with its uppity locals.