Hey hi hello! Welcome to our blog!
We are Dillon & Erin, a Long Island and Pennsylvania native based in NYC. We live and work in Manhattan with our darling Siberian Husky pup Juneau, and we’ve been to 176 restaurants and counting in the city, plus dozens of others during our travels in the U.S. and abroad!
We love hiking and eating in and around America’s National Parks, dining at Michelin restaurants in the city, and discovering the best restaurants everywhere we travel. We rank every place we eat and are on a mission to find the best of the best of absolutely everything, be it pizza, pasta, sushi, seafood, or craft cocktails. When we’re not working or traveling, you can usually find us sharing small plates and sipping margaritas (his with salt, hers with sugar — hence our username), at the movies, or at home binge-watching quality TV. We have been together for seven (almost eight!) years since meeting as undergraduates at Penn State University, and we are getting married NEXT YEAR on October 11! 👰🏼♀️🤵🏻♂️❤️🍾
Erin (it’s me! hi! 👩🏼💻) is a reformed picky eater and Diet Coke truther who only ate plain cheese pizza and chicken fingers for her first twenty years of life before meeting Dillon and has now eaten everything from octopus legs to organ meats and even one (1) whole cricket (yes, intentionally).
Some other fun facts about me (Erin): I am a middle child, nature documentary enthusiast, and introvert (INFP Myers-Briggs type). I tend to fall down at least one rabbit hole per day. I love cozy things, intense dramas, twisty-turny suspense novels / psychological thrillers, books about real-life survival stories, Reddit threads dissecting lyrics and TV episodes, and the occasional bad reality dating show like Love is Blind and Love Island. I also like Taylor Swift, The Sims, chocolate, coupon codes, Beat Bobby Flay, informative podcasts (my favorite is Stuff You Should Know), and cool rocks.
Dillon is a full-time attorney, part-time manager of several fantasy football teams, excellent home chef, Long Island native and lifelong Yankees fan. He is also an only child (🥲), a UNC Chapel Hill law grad, and an amazing writer, thinker, casual iPhone photographer, friend, planner of weekend activities, dog dad, and plant dad. We are both water snobs (Poland Spring / alkaline SmartWater or bust) and pizz’aficionados with a passion for Marvel movies, good wine (red for Dillon, Prosecco for Erin), UFC fights, New York sports, elite cooking competition shows, and, of course, our pride and joy — our Ninja Foodi air fryer.
Why we started this blog
Basically, we just thought this would be a fun project to tackle together. We already spend a lot of our free time going to restaurants and movies, and when we’re not cooking or watching movies and shows at home we often find ourselves either planning our next vacation or making lists and ranking/rating our favorite things — movies, shows, restaurants, frozen pizzas, bottled water brands, cuisines, National Parks, Yankees players, land mammals, bucket list destinations; you name it, we probably have an opinion on it!
Whether you care or not about what we think about the definitive ranking of MCU properties or where our favorite tandoori mushrooms in the city are … thank you for being here! Our vision and goals for this space will probably evolve as we continue to share content and figure out what the heck we’re doing (we are elderly and borderline social media illiterate). @sugarsaltlime will be our main home for travel and food content on IG, but you can also follow Erin at @erinexploringearth for all kinds of granola-y nature and travel content.
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