Cup o' Joe
Food, travel, and news on the Chesapeake Bay
Three Road Trips for Summer
Thought I’d dip into the Chesapeake Life travel features vault this week and withdrawal a few favorite road trips for summer. Next week, I’ll be back with three more recommendations. For now, enjoy the ride!
1. Southern Maryland BBQ Tour: Grab the Tums. We visit seven barbecue restaurants in 24 hours. Surprisingly, no one gets sick, but we’re still trying to get the sauce out from under our fingernails. Highlights: At Bear Creek Open Pit Bar-B-Q in Callaway, the slightly uncomfortable feeling of eating barbecue ribs in a roomful of mounted animal heads.
2. Cruising Route 13 on Virginia’s Eastern Shore: Twenty worthwhile stops south of the Maryland line to just north of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Highlights: The best fried chicken you’ll ever eat and a gas station that serves up crab imperial with its petrol. No kiddin’.
3. Antiques Shopping on the Way to the Beach: Our antiques-loving writer eventually reaches Rehoboth Beach, but not after spending hours poking into the shops along Route 404. (Please note: Denton’s White Swan Antiques has since closed.) Highlights: Wonder if that green Fire King stove in near mint condition (a bargain at $275) is still available from Georgetown Antiques Market ...
Comments (0)
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/29/09 at 10:21 AM
Stopped by the Real Seafood Company Restaurant and Sushi Bar at the Annapolis Towne Center for lunch the other day. The sushi and raw bars looked impressive, but I was particularly enamored with the way-cool Personal Wine Tasting Station. The thing looks like a large wooden TV console, but instead of the television, both open sides hold eight climate-controlled wine bottles and a dispenser tap for each one.
Here’s the deal: You purchase a special wine card and swipe it through. Push the appropriate button and you can sample either a taste, a half glass, or a full glass. So if you’re curious about that bottle of 2007 Rodney Strong Pinot Noir, but don’t want to blow $12 on a glass, you can taste it for two bucks.
Twin computer monitors on either side of the unit provide the skinny on each wine, including recommended food pairings and production techniques.
But here’s the best part: Go during happy hour, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., and if you buy a $10 card, you automatically get $15 worth of wine. And—get this—you can use it anytime, not just during happy hour, and you can buy as much as you want. So if you drop $100, you get $150 worth of vino. A very tasty deal, if you ask me.
Comments (0)
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 07/03/09 at 10:26 AM
Masthead Photo by