Chris Onstad

Chris “Flavor Hands” Onstad Honey Lavender / Grape Soda Float: damned sweet Sending more customers to Salt & Straw is like recommending brunch at Screen Door, or touting the many virtues of the sun. However, something has been eating at me lately, and that is the search for a personal “root beer float” combination there. […]

On every restaurant review trip I take personal pictures for my notes, to help jog the flavor memories and ingredient details (and to look like an obnoxious patron incapable of living in the moment). Then, the art director, an unshakably cheery fellow named Scrappers, sends a real photographer along after the fact, to protect my […]

Fantasy Hands The Blazer, highly touted by the front-of-house. My young daugher only eats monochromatic starches, so we went down to the Good Food Here pod at 43rd and Belmont for some $2 sushi rice. I’d been wanting to check out the fried chicken cart next to my friend Mary’s skyrocketing cart The Honey Pot, […]

“Babe, I got a letter in the mail,” I said, standing somewhat confused by the front door. I was reading a piece of correspondence from an outfit called My Mystery Date. “That’s my boy.” She was washing dishes. “Some company wants to send us out to dinner and an event for free. To evaluate their […]