I’m not the biggest person in social media, but I am on Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp. I check into restaurants on Yelp as reminders to go back and review them later and occasionally I push that to Twitter. The other night I was reading Yelp reviews and noticed that the restaurant had been replying to…
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Travel Etiquette: Tipping
I listen to the Freakonomics Podcast because I always like how they look through the existing talking points and expose me to new ones for various topics. Take tipping for example. They discussed tipping in the podcast released this week. It wasn’t just the typical (but extremely valid) “You should tip because they are paid…
Dinner at Encounter
Last night I had a coworker with some time to kill before a redeye at LAX. Since I haven’t found it to be the best place for landside options and since neither of us had been to Encounter, the restaurant in the X I suggested we dine there. As many have said before me, it…
My top 6 brunch places in Charlotte
Since my time in Charlotte is limited, I mainly get out for Sunday brunch. Here are the top 6 places you will find me: Heist Brewery (NoDa)- Their beer is only so-so and I can’t stand mimosas ($10 for bottomless, but legally $9.95 + $0.01/refill) so I mainly stick to water here, but I come…
New weekly installment: The joys of business travel
Every week on Wednesday afternoons I will post an update of my previous travel week so you can see how glamorous business travel can be. Certain details will be omitted to protect the innocent and to make sure that I don’t jeopardize my job as a business traveler, but I want for you all to…
Friend me on Yelp
For any of you who follow me on Twitter you can tell that I am a big Yelper. I finally decided to make my yelping official and became elite for 2013. Since I do not want to duplicate my posts from there on here I have usually not reviewed too many restaurants on here. If…
Restaurant Review: Respite in NYC
I was tasked with picking out a restaurant for dinner with a couple coworkers so I used Yelp to find a good place since I’m not from around here. I read many reviews around our hotel (the Doubletree on Lexington) and chose this one. We were not disappointed. First off, the service was spot on.…