A birthday dinner at Martel, hot honey pizza at Seppe, All’Antico Vinaio’s September special, and a pecan-crusted salmon at The Chelsea. Then a Tampa-to-Connecticut road trip with tacos in Fort Mill, a Harry Potter festival in Staunton, and spaghetti and meatballs back home.
What I Ate This Week: Beach Days, Tampa Bound & a Daughter’s Next Chapter (Jul 6–12)
A rainy Newark run, a beach day at Penfield, Firehouse Deli and Chicken Francese in Fairfield, and a long drive to Tampa to move a daughter into her next chapter — food as fuel, family as the point.