Tag: dining guide

I ate the snails. When I went to review La Baguette Bakery for its 25th anniversary, I realized I’d been snacking on the same few favorites off the menu for the majority of those 25 years. Like most La Baguette regulars (and as a friend recently told me, “If you’re not a regular you either…

Phantom Canyon Brewing Co. is such a stalwart of the downtown dining and carousing scene that it is hard to imagine a time before it was here. It’s hard to imagine a time when its stately address, the Cheyenne Building, with its heavy oak doors, gorgeous local stone and high, tin ceilings, was slated for…

The squat, shabby buildings that surround Ephraim’s BBQ on Platte Place at first glance seem like an unlikely spot to find some of the most authentic Texas barbecue in town. The light industrial backwater is full of small warehouses and crime statistics that spill over from nearby Platte Avenue. But since the crime rate is…

Five Guys Burgers and Fries is just that. You got burgers. You got fries. No nuggets. No drive-through. No gimmicks. No clowns. The look is all retro red and white tile. The menu is just as old school. How can the Washington, D.C.-based franchise recently landed in the thick of the fast food vortex that…

“What the heck is a banyeah?” a friend muttered across the table at Taste of New Orleans when I mentioned that I didn’t see any beignets (spelled this way, pronounced that way) on the menu. I asked the owner, New Orleans native Beth Mell, whether she served them. “Oh, of course,” she said. “So what’s…

“What the heck is a banyeah?” a friend muttered across the table at Taste of New Orleans when I mentioned that I didn’t see any beignets (spelled this way, pronounced that way) on the menu. I asked the owner, New Orleans native Beth Mell, whether she served them. “Oh, of course,” she said. “So what’s…

The theory behind Garlic Jim’s, a new pizza franchise off Powers Boulevard, is this: Gourmet pizza places rarely deliver, and delivery pizza places are rarely gourmet. In the middle is Garlic Jim’s (Motto: “Gourmet, right away!”). Signs in the tiny takeout restaurant (three stools, no tables) tout the pizza’s epicurean origins. The sauce, the signs…

At first glance, the Sri Lankan dishes at The Curry Leaf, a bright eight-table downtown restaurant, look a lot like Indian cuisine: different curries with rice, pasty lentil dahl and thin, tortillalike bread called roti. Then you order the chicken curry ($5.49. All prices are for lunch; expect to pay $1 more at dinner), mix…