Category: Restaurant Reviews

  • Restaurant Review: Poeta

    Restaurant Review: Poeta

    The “wafflegatto” served with maple gelato and warm espresso butter (Photo by Jessica Attie Photography) When you walk through the doors of Poeta, the all-day Italian cafe that also serves as the entrance to the tiny Frances Modern Inn on East 11th Street, you might get the sense you’re walking into an old-timey saloon, or…

  • French Restaurant Review: Restaurant Espadon,Paris

    French Restaurant Review: Restaurant Espadon,Paris

    The Ritz hotel in Paris reopened its signature restaurant with, for the first time in its history, a female chef at the helm of the cuisines, Eugénie Béziat who embraces her heritage from Gabon in her cooking. Since César Ritz, the Swiss hotelier who in 1898 founded the sumptuous lodgings on the Place Vendôme in…

  • Utah Restaurants: Are Online Reviews A Bunch of Lies?

    Utah Restaurants: Are Online Reviews A Bunch of Lies?

    Not What I Experience at Local Restaurant  I went to dinner at a place in Hurricane that I really wanted to like. It had over 600 reviews and the ones I read exclaimed how good the service was and the authentic food was wonderful. My experience wasn’t what they described.  I ate at the Peruvian Flavors.…

  • Augusta Eats: Your favorite pizza place just might have moved; we’ll tell you where

    Augusta Eats: Your favorite pizza place just might have moved; we’ll tell you where

    Columbia County’s 2 Boys Pizza and Grill restaurant opened in Evans in March, but despite the wishes of many customers, 3851 Evans to Locks Rd. isn’t a second location.  Homemade pizzas and gyros top the establishment’s menu of favorite Greek and Italian dishes, and the family that runs the place are quick to help their customers feel…

  • Downtown dynasty: Zeng Chinese opens to rave reviews

    Jason Zeng has known only the restaurant business.  When he was a kid in China, Zeng said, his sister had a restaurant. In his years after school, he opened or partnered in eateries from New York to Chicago to Russellville, Ark. “My first job was a restaurant job,” Zeng, 38, said. Fang Chang, makes dumplings…

  • Downtown dynasty: Zeng Chinese Restaurant opens to rave reviews

    Jason Zeng has known only the restaurant business.  When he was a kid in China, Zeng said, his sister had a restaurant. In his years after school, he opened or partnered in eateries from New York to Chicago to Russellville, Ark. “My first job was a restaurant job,” Zeng, 38, said. Fang Chang, makes dumplings…

  • Country music mystery plays out at Strip property

    Country music mystery plays out at Strip property

    A country music mystery is strumming on the Las Vegas Strip. Clark County records indicate a building permit application for a “Vegas Country Music Restaurant” at 3716 Las Vegas Blvd. South, the address of 63 Las Vegas. Records also indicate a related permit application for an “ellipse rooftop balcony” to connect to the restaurant. The…

  • Chain Restaurant Crab Legs Ranked From Worst To Best, According To Reviews

    Chain Restaurant Crab Legs Ranked From Worst To Best, According To Reviews

    If you’re a fan of Cajun-style seafood, Crab Du Jour is another spot that specializes in seafood boils with your choice of shellfish, sauce, and extras. Crab lovers can opt for snow crab legs, king crab legs, blue crab, or Dungeness crab. Pair your crustaceans with sausage, corn, or potatoes, and slather it all in…

  • A Reasonably-Priced Mediterranean Restaurant Expands to the South Bay

    A Reasonably-Priced Mediterranean Restaurant Expands to the South Bay

    On April 15, Glendora Public Market’s Limone opened a second location in Torrance. Co-founder and chef Luis Gonzalez, who spent years mostly navigating through hotel restaurants like the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Sunset Marquis, opened his restaurant in mid-2022, quickly securing enough of a loyal base to start plotting an expansion to the South…

  • Review: Does hot new Filipino restaurant Askal bring the sizzle?

    Review: Does hot new Filipino restaurant Askal bring the sizzle?

    14.5/20How we score Filipino$$$ In a vastly diverse city like Melbourne, the edible progression of any given cuisine generally goes like this: a group of people arrives in enough numbers to form a community. They begin cooking for that community. The foods they’re cooking gain wider appeal and understanding and become part of the broader…