Restaurants
An honest take on restaurants and the dining experience
Profile: Jennifer Miner is a professional travel writer with a weekly luxury travel column at Suite101, an e-magazine. Her luxury travel column consistently gets more than 70,000 page views per month. Blogging about restaurants at Uptake has been enjoyable for Jennifer; culinary travel is an important aspect of any vacation, and she is happy to cover this angle as well. She is one of the founders and co-writers of TheVacationGals.com: This is a fun, friendly travel site created in September 2009. Going beyond the ever-popular family travel topic, they cover girlfriend getaways, romantic vacations, and destination/hotel reviews. She also guests on morning radio shows, talking about all things travel.
Posts by: Jennifer Miner
Blue Plate Oysterette – Coastal New England Comes to Santa Monica
Oct 31, 2009; 1 CommentPopular Restaurant in Santa Monica I grew up in the Northeast, and spent many summer beach days munching on the lobster rolls, Blue Point oysters, fried clams, snapper, and other seafood ubiquitous to the East Coast. Moving to Southern California has... Read more »
Authentic Mexican Seafood at La Serenata de Garibaldi in Santa Monica, CA
Oct 26, 2009; No CommentGreat Mexican Seafood in Santa Monica The Mexican restaurants I’ve stumbled into in Southern California generally fall into one of two categories: The brightly lit, child-friendly, crayons-on-the-table type of Cal-Mex restaurant, and the dimly lit,... Read more »
The Mooring Seafood Kitchen & Bar in Newport, RI
Sep 22, 2009; 1 CommentCasual Lunch at The Mooring in Newport Newport, Rhode Island, has a lot of fantastic restaurants – as befits an upscale vacation town. The first restaurant we went to there was recommended to us by the Convention and Visitors Bureau as being low... Read more »
Top 10 Upscale Restaurants in Los Angeles
Aug 07, 2009; 2 CommentsLos Angeles used to be a wasteland in terms of great restaurants. Mile upon mile of junky fast food joints littering the boulevards, malls with their generic food courts, and frustrated foodies weeping into their napkins. Well, there’s still some... Read more »
Geoffrey’s Malibu, Perfect California Casual Cuisine
Jun 30, 2009; 2 CommentsAh, Malibu! It’s one of the most upscale, yet completely mellow and casual beach towns in Southern California. One restaurant that perfectly encapsulates the dual nature of Malibu is Geoffrey’s, right off Pacific Coast Highway. A meal here... Read more »
Airplane Food and Airport Restaurants
Jun 18, 2009; 2 CommentsAirplane Food My kids can’t stand airplane food. They’ve flown on a bunch of different airlines, and have never been happy with what’s been offered (there was even that time that US Airways charged for a cup of water, but that’s... Read more »
Tinderbox Kitchen – Best New Restaurant in Flagstaff
Jun 12, 2009; 3 CommentsFlagstaff Arizona is a great place to make “home base” during a vacation to the Grand Canyon, and its Historic Flagstaff AZ historic downtown (which abuts historic Route 66) is a blend of charming, hip, and fun. Most travelers don’t... Read more »
Casual Greek Dining at Papa Cristo’s, Los Angeles
Jun 05, 2009; 2 CommentsThere are a lot of upscale, swanky restaurants in Los Angeles, as befits a popular travel destination. But Papa Cristo's when families and groups are in the mood for a super-casual atmosphere and a big honkin’ platter of great comfort food (at... Read more »
Barking Frog – A Great New Sedona Restaurant
May 28, 2009; 2 CommentsPeople familiar with Sedona know that the main (and fun, touristy) part of town on Rt 89A has just about every type of store – from cheapo knickknack shops to high end art galleries – a traveler needs. One of my favorite restaurants in Sedona... Read more »
The Fig’s Happy Hour at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica
May 21, 2009; 1 CommentSanta Monica has many great restaurants, as it’s a popular part of the Los Angeles area. Tourists seeking The Fig at Fairmont Miramar high-end vacations like to stay at one of several luxury hotels along Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, as these offer... Read more »
