‘kettle’


Dipping With Honey at Honey’s Kettle Fried Chicken

June 24th, 2009 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit
Who would think to put this in honey?

Who would think to put this in honey?

When I first took a gander inside Honey’s Kettle Fried Chicken in Culver City, I was a little taken aback because the crowd didn’t look exactly like people who would be eating fried chicken.  They looked more like people who would rather go somewhere like Rush Street or Ford’s Filling Station.  Nevertheless, I had heard good things, so I went in.

A quick look at the menu revealed a wide range of non-vegetable fried options that I could enjoy, except that they all seemed to come with pickles.  I decided on the three piece breast strip meal, which came with fries, a biscuit and pickles.  I ordered without the pickles and asked the cashier why it was called “Honey’s Kettle,” thinking there was somehow honey involved in the fry batter.  She told me that it was actually because the guy who created the batter realized that it went perfectly with a special kind of honey that they have in the restaurant. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

Continue Reading»