Phipps Feeding Fiasco

When Good Restaurants Make Bad Decisions -That’s You, Compari’s.

grace — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:59:44 +0000

I’m talking about Compari’s in Plano. Here is the link to last year’s post: Compari’s Exactly one year ago today, we ate Compari’s. It was Mina’s first day of Kindergarten and we let her pick the restaurant. She picked Compari’s because they have coloring on the tables and she loves their food. We loved their food, too. [...]

Just Liking Logan’s Roadhouse

lyndsey — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:19:49 +0000

The Experience Logan’s Roadhouse opened a new location in Rockwall earlier this month. We had been to the location in Sherman with my inlaws and had a nice time, so we were eager to try the Rockwall location. We first went for lunch on Sunday, but the busy church crowd made us shy away. So, we [...]

Now What?!

grace — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:41:38 +0000

A lot of people have asked us what our plans are now that the 365 days are over… Well, first off, we’ve enjoyed eating at home the last few nights. But I’ll be honest, we celebrated the night after by…going out to eat! Mina wanted to eat at First Chinese BBQ!! Since then, we’ve eaten dinner at [...]

#365: A Great Night at Stephan Pyles

grace — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:05:48 +0000

The experience Can you believe it??! Tonight is our last night of the Phipps Feeding Fiasco! Our 365th restaurant in 365 days. We’ve been looking forward to this date for quite some time. We decided a few weeks ago that we would have this dinner at Stephan Pyles. We know they have excellent food, excellent service [...]

Another Reader’s Pick: Simon’s Sushi

grace — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:34:15 +0000

The experience Today is Mina’s afternoon to spend with her grandparents and it’s always a conundrum as to eating with or without her. At 5 o’clock, Benji started foraging for food in the kitchen requesting bagels, so i alerted Papa and said we’d better get going. Luckily, Benji, my little food connoisseur was ready to go when [...]

Chinese Across Town at Howard Wang’s China Grill

grace — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:51:17 +0000

The experience We’re getting down to the nitty gritty, just a few short days and we’ll have eaten at 365 different restaurants over the last 365 days. There are a couple of places that we’ve had recommended to us that we want to squeeze in, one of them being a Chinese Joint in Dallas. We’ve never [...]

Hunting For Hula and Dinner at El Pedregal

ogre — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:39:05 +0000

The experience Dr. Mom would be working this evening so it would be up to me to take Mina to Hula class in Garland with Benji in tow. I got off a to a start at my regular time only to find lines of cars on my usual route. I took a few ill-advised shortcuts and [...]

Lunch at The Original

grace — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:51:57 +0000

The experience I had the afternoon off today and we’ve been wanting to take the kids to Fort Worth. One of our favorite places to go is the Japanese Gardens at the Fort Worth Arboretum. We were actually up and going early enough to head out there. Of course, a trip to Fort Worth typically means [...]

Taco Delite…Not so Deliteful

grace — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:26:44 +0000

The experience Today is extremely busy for us. Started early with hula class followed by a birthday part y for Mina’s friend and then we needed to get home to nap before the circus tonight! So this meant we needed to eat somewhere quick, close and easy! Ogre’s suggestion: Taco Delite. He has been trying to [...]

Dinner at Sal’s

grace — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 03:40:33 +0000

The experience Friday night. I like to get pizza on Friday nights. Don’t ask me why. Even when we weren’t doing this everyday, I like to go out for pizza once a week. Before we had Benji, we’d go to what was then Double Dave’s (now Chez Joey’s…but was Doughy Joey’s when Ogre reviewed it here! [...]

Happy Birthday Oma at The Shire

grace — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:00:51 +0000

The experience Today we are celebrating Oma’s birthday since she will be out of town on her real birthday. We had explicit instructions to be at The Shire at 6pm with birthday candle in hand. Well, Team Phipps arrived about 15-20 minutes late as usual. Not to mention that on the way to the restaurant, Benji [...]

Trying Out Carolina’s

grace — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:20:24 +0000

The experience Ogre wanted to try Carolina’s, the restaurant that has taken the place of Mario’s Chiquita on 75 over by Chuy’s. Sounded like a great plan to me. We all loaded up and headed over. The kids were excited about it as we drove up to the restaurant until they realized we were NOT going [...]

It Really IS open…Gregory’s Bistro

grace — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:22:12 +0000

The experience Today Mina had a piano recital to which we all went to, including Grandpoo, Oma, Lolo and Lala. She played beautifully and I thought we’d go out to dinner after. Well, that plan fell apart pretty quickly as Lala and Lolo were leaving for Alaska the next morning, and our celebrant, Mina, decided she’d [...]

Phipps Hooligans at Houlihan’s

grace — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:19:32 +0000

The experience The first day back from vacation is always so hectic! Ogre and I had a meeting downtown mid afternoon, I had a patient to admit at the hospital, the kids needed to be picked up and Mina had Hula lessons -not to mention the unpacking, laundry and “pre cleaning” for the maid that still [...]

Long Lunch at the Chart House

grace — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:27:46 +0000

The experience It was our last day of vacation and we decided that we head to the Kemah Boardwalk as it is on the way home. We tried to eat lunch in Galveston, but the restaurant we chose was closed so we headed on to Kemah. When we arrived and parked, we ate at the first [...]

Nate’s West End Seafood and Steaks

grace — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 18:13:55 +0000

The experience After a crazy night spent at the local urgent care center for Ogre’s awful migraine, which left me driving back and forth across the island with kids in tow and put me in bed at 5am, I awoke wondering if I’d be going to the spa as planned with Adrienne. She decided that her [...]

The 12 Hour Dinner Excursion at Stingaree

grace — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:27:09 +0000

The experience We went to the Galveston aquarium today, which by the way, was awesome. Against Ogre’s better judgement, we decided to head straight from there to dinner. It was 5 o’clock and we thought it would be fun to take the ferry to Crystal Beach where there was a seafood restaurant that caught Adrienne and [...]

Roadtrip Stop: Woody’s Smokehouse

grace — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:51:23 +0000

The experience We did not leave Dallas til about 4:30PM and the kids (Benji) had not napped all day. We had not even left Plano when Benji was out and Mina was soon to follow. I did not want to risk waking either of them up with any sort of stop, so we drove until they [...]

Going on vacation!

grace — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:26:15 +0000

We’re headed out to Galveston today, will be back Sunday night. I don’t think we’ll have internet access while we’re gone, so I’ll have to catch up on posts next week! Hopefully we’ll find some tasty treats in Galveston!

For You European Cafe & Delicatessen

grace — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:25:11 +0000

Coming soon I promise…tomorrow (5th)