Author: Nathaniel Glen

BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse is a lot like P.F. Chang’s. Not in terms of the food it serves — in fact, Chinese is one of the few categories BJ’s 100-item-strong menu doesn’t dabble in — but in terms of its success in winning over diners. P.F. Chang’s is regularly rated by Gazette readers among the…

Slurping at Pho Viet 1 is not just OK; it’s expected. The family-run Vietnamese restaurant, which took over a vacated Pizza Hut just north of The Citadel mall late last year, is a pho place specializing in big, steaming bowls of beef broth swimming with a tangled Sargasso of rice noodles. With a small, shallow…

Much of Main Street in Security has changed for the worse since the 1980s, when I was a kid riding a BMX around the neighborhood. The hardware store, the stationery store, the bicycle store and the grocery store are all gone now, gobbled up by the Super Wal-Mart across the highway in Fountain. They’ve been…

Much of Main Street in Security has changed for the worse since the 1980s, when I was a kid riding a BMX around the neighborhood. The hardware store, the stationery store, the bicycle store and the grocery store are all gone now, gobbled up by the Super Wal-Mart across the highway in Fountain. They’ve been…

Don’t believe F. Scott Fitzgerald when he wrote that there were no second acts in American lives. He’d never been to the Peruvian restaurant Sabores del Peru.The restaurant, which opened its first act on the west side in 2007 to mixed reviews, raised the curtain on its second act in July, this time on South…

CRITIC’S NOTE: Before I get to Jasmine Cafe, a lovely little Chinese spot in the northeast corner of town, I have some star business to take care of. The star ratings The Gazette gives restaurants each week are way out of whack, suffering from inflation, and at risk of becoming meaningless. It’s my own fault.…

Walking into The Famous, A Steakhouse on a recent Wednesday evening, you would never know we’re in the middle of hard economic times. The polished, dark leather booths hummed with the conversation of well-heeled diners leaning over slender martinis and rotund globes of red wine. Waiters all in black, whisked by bearing trays of steaks…