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Tabla does vegan

Sorry for the delay folks, finishing this now I regret not finishing it before my hiatus–some details have escaped me, and the piece suffers.
The guise was that one of Tabla’s cooks, Sean Coryell (exact position unknown) has been whispering about doing a vegan supper thing, and they gave him his shot. I’d never been [...]

Sunday Supper Club #3: I like you guys. We’re gonna be friends

Often, when restaurants are empty, diners get special treatment from the waitstaff, whether out of boredom, desperation for tips, or some other reason. When Big-L and my hungover asses pulled Billy’s Dad out of his post-work funk and into No Fish Go Fish, we got a waitress to ourselves. Nay, we got the [...]

sunday supper club #2: Clay’s Smokehouse

Clay’s smokehouse is on 28th and Division, or thereabouts, just west of the Wild Oats. The Smokehouse resides in an older storefront and is rather unremarkable from the exterior. what is remarkable is that you’ll be smelling the woodsmoke for a block or two in each direction.

Farm Cafe

The Farm Cafe has been open in a little house just south of Burnside on 7th street for at least 3 years now, but likely closer to 4. I have been a regular, if infrequent customer since their early days, and I have recommended them numerous times both in print and in person. [...]

Vindalho

This review has taken me weeks to write. Words have been slow in coming; I have struggled considerably to characterize this place both fairly and honestly. The issue here is that I’m a pretty critical diner–that’s why i fashion myself a ‘food critic’ of sorts in the first place–but it is important for [...]

Baraka

Baraka shares an unfortunate corner with a bad pun–Appethaizing is next door–but the calm, relatively tasteful and relatively tasty operation does well to deliver on its promises. The room is dramatically decorated with maroon drapes, stools, booths against the walls, and dramatic swathes of cloth from ceiling to walls that give the ostentatious moorish [...]