Jay Eats Worldwide

Thanks to a foodie friend who invited me, I tagged along to taste the new summer menu at  Jack in the Box .  I attend various menu tastings from time to time.  A side from the food, the part I like is to hear how the dish (or name) came about.  A lot of the dishes that I create have stories or how the combinations came to be, which also make great social media content. Tonight's Jack in the Box tasting menu Jack's Fruit Coolers - Mango Mayhem Mangoes mixed with lemon-lime sparkling soda. Not too sweet and a nice cooler.  They also have a Twisted Strawberry cooler and just as good as the Mango Mayhem. See What Jay Eats... Leading off tonight's tasting, BBQ Ultimate Cheeseburger  Two beef patties with American and Swiss-style cheeses, BBQ sauce, and grilled onions on a toasted sesame seed bun.  Who doesn't like a double cheeseburger? Add some BBQ sauce and it's even better Carl f...

I had dinner at a restaurant that I really wasn’t too jazzed about going. The reviews were not very good and didn't seem that they had a signature dish that everyone was talking about. I usually take a new restaurant reviews with a grain of salt, but this company has 3 restaurants. I went with a couple of people who really wanted to go, still to this day I don’t know why. We arrived to an empty restaurant, they spent a lot of money on the interior and the menu was really hard to figure out. Not that it was hard to read, it just didn’t make much sense and I didn’t get the feeling that our server felt confident in knowing the menu either. We ordered the sampler platter to try a few of the appetizers, everything was really salty. When the server asked how everything was, I mentioned that the potatoes were really salty. He told me that they’re supposed to be like that. OK, I like salt, but even for me to say this is salty. Our next couple of dishes came and were uneventful. I guess the...