This year, as an alternative to French champagne, why not celebrate with a bottle of cava. This bottle of Poema can be found at Cork &...

Last year I set out to do the impossible. My goal: Not to eat in the same restaurant more than once over the entire year. The outcome: Failu...

And now Ladies, Gentlemen, and Dread Pirate, the over-worked, under-paid scribes of Blackened Out Media L.L.C. present to you the Official 2...

After that game yesterday, we all need something sweet to offset the bitter taste of defeat. Instead of another slice of Aunt Gertrude's...

You are going to be up early at some point during the next few days. We are told that children wake up and unwrap presents from some fat guy...

Christmas connotes different traditions for everyone. For the last several years, the season has marked my annual visit to The Pelican Club ...

The Waiter's Key (also called Waiter's Corkscrew) To some people the process of opening a bottle of wine causes anxiety that only Xa...

Yes, it's true. 14-0 is better than 13-1. But don't forget about where we came from and where we're still going. We're still...

You already knew this but sometimes we take the easy way out on Fridays. But you can't spell cliche without Blackened Out. The holidays ...

No one is sad to see the wet blanket leave. So in honor of her departure, the team at Blackened Out has created a special pasta in her honor...

And you know what that means. No? You don't? Wednesday is veal neck raviolo day at Lüke . "Raviolo" is a deceptive name for t...

Tailgating As a friend of the blog noted recently, "Saturday night's Saints game is going to be wild...it is the only game where pe...