Washington D.C. - Chocolate City - City of Magnificent Intentions. Call it what you like, after Cheap Eats hit this town up, I know how it tastes: international and forward thinking. Long standing in the shadows of NYC, Washington DC has come into a culinary standing of its own, with high end cuisine drawing even New Yorkers down to the beltway. But as far as Cheap Eats goes - heck I was scared. Little know fact is that I worked on a show called $24 in 24 whose similar Cheap Eats premise had me researching the District of Columbia for affordable fare back in 2012. And frankly, I was coming up with goose eggs. Cut to 2017 and lordy DC is having a different convo with me and budget friendly grub. This town kept me plenty occupied with all kinds of Eats, Cheap and more, so let's just dive right in!!
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I'm gonna be so real right now: I was straight STAR STRUCK to call into Ryan Seacrest. The adrenaline was flowing and I just went with it - I think it worked!
If you watch Cheap Eats, read this blog or peep my Instagram you know tacos and burgers are going to be in the mix. Well we also found love for a creamy cake, Italian cold cuts and hey - listening is better than reading so check out my picks for Cheap Eats in Los Angeles via On Air with Ryan Seacresthere!
Ahh, Charlottesville. Or "Cville" if you are a local. Or just loco for the UVA Cavaliers. This quaint East Coast college town might seem timeless thanks to the Jeffersonian architecture of the University of Virginia's campus but the food scene is very much in the 21st century. This episode of Cheap Eats starts off with familiar enough territory at Bodo's Bagels. And let's face it, what college kid didn't survive off the occasional bagel? But Cheap Eats also found familiar comfort food turned sideways like KoreanHot Wings, a BBQSundae and Chicken FriedOctopus. Now before I get in trouble with the italics police for overuse and abuse, let's take a big bite into Cheap Eats Cville . . . oops. I didn't mean that italics police officer. Can you maybe just let me off with a warning? Please?(more…)
And so Season 3 began. Fitting that we start with Annapolis, MD for this little town was where Cheap Eats was "born". In the winter of 2014, days before Christmas, I flew out to Annapolis to shoot what would become the inspiration for Cheap Eats: a 10 minute short of Ali Khan literally eating Annapolis, with crab on the brain, #crabcakedestiny if you will. For a town that just ain't that big, the food is unforgettable and it really does start with the seafood. Crab cakes abound but so does a touch of the South. This is Maryland after all, the Northern most state of the South so finding biscuits and gravy, shrimp and grits and warm smiles is just all part of doing Cheap Eats business around here. Well, onto it right? Let's sink into some Cheap Eats Annapolis!
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Washington D.C. - Chocolate City - City of Magnificent Intentions. Call it what you like, after Cheap Eats hit this town up, I know how it tastes: international and forward thinking. Long standing in the shadows of NYC, Washington DC has come into a culinary standing of its own, with high end cuisine drawing even New Yorkers down to the beltway. But as far as Cheap Eats goes - heck I was scared. Little know fact is that I worked on a show called $24 in 24 whose similar Cheap Eats premise had me researching the District of Columbia for affordable fare back in 2012. And frankly, I was coming up with goose eggs. Cut to 2017 and lordy DC is having a different convo with me and budget friendly grub. This town kept me plenty occupied with all kinds of Eats, Cheap and more, so let's just dive right in!!
(more…)
If you watch Cheap Eats, read this blog or peep my Instagram you know tacos and burgers are going to be in the mix. Well we also found love for a creamy cake, Italian cold cuts and hey - listening is better than reading so check out my picks for Cheap Eats in Los Angeles via On Air with Ryan Seacrest here!
Ahh, Charlottesville. Or "Cville" if you are a local. Or just loco for the UVA Cavaliers. This quaint East Coast college town might seem timeless thanks to the Jeffersonian architecture of the University of Virginia's campus but the food scene is very much in the 21st century. This episode of Cheap Eats starts off with familiar enough territory at Bodo's Bagels. And let's face it, what college kid didn't survive off the occasional bagel? But Cheap Eats also found familiar comfort food turned sideways like Korean Hot Wings, a BBQ Sundae and Chicken Fried Octopus. Now before I get in trouble with the italics police for overuse and abuse, let's take a big bite into Cheap Eats Cville . . . oops. I didn't mean that italics police officer. Can you maybe just let me off with a warning? Please?
(more…)
And so Season 3 began. Fitting that we start with Annapolis, MD for this little town was where Cheap Eats was "born". In the winter of 2014, days before Christmas, I flew out to Annapolis to shoot what would become the inspiration for Cheap Eats: a 10 minute short of Ali Khan literally eating Annapolis, with crab on the brain, #crabcakedestiny if you will. For a town that just ain't that big, the food is unforgettable and it really does start with the seafood. Crab cakes abound but so does a touch of the South. This is Maryland after all, the Northern most state of the South so finding biscuits and gravy, shrimp and grits and warm smiles is just all part of doing Cheap Eats business around here. Well, onto it right? Let's sink into some Cheap Eats Annapolis!
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