Clay pots star at H’s Pho & Restaurant
For whatever reasons, geography has swayed the way restaurants cluster in the metro. Local independents thrive in the inner city, and big chains in the far-flung suburbs. It’s been so [...]
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Posted October 29, 2014in Food Dude
Posted October 22, 2014in Food Dude
Woody’s — The Ultimate Place for Barbecue
Each of the last five years, Cityview has asked readers’ what they consider to be the ultimate place to go for a certain type of food. Four years ago, you [...]
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Posted October 15, 2014in Food Dude
Lucky choices at Meskwaki
The Meskwaki Casino is imbued with delicious irony. The Lincoln Highway’s course was only altered in one place — between Marshalltown and Tama. In 1955 the powers there moved it [...]
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Posted October 08, 2014in Food Dude
Taste of New York
It’s becoming a common story that Iowans find endearing. New Yorkers visit here, discover that public schools actually work, that the quality of life is less stressful and that they [...]
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Posted October 01, 2014in Food Dude
Ryan’s does it southern style
The chain restaurant industry is reinventing itself. McDonald’s applied for a trademark on the term McBrunch, leading to considerable speculation about what that sagging giant has in mind. They also [...]
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Posted September 24, 2014in Food Dude
Irish gastropub comes to Ingersoll
If Ingersoll were human, she would be my favorite, eccentric aunt. No other street in town represents such democracy of commerce — tattoo shops and massage parlors next to doctors’ [...]
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Posted September 17, 2014in Food Dude
Bustle and quiet, can you have both?
Des Moines has generated some media noise this year. The latest was made by “Women’s Health” magazine and Yelp. Anyone who has felt the savagery of bad Yelp reviews probably [...]
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Posted September 10, 2014in Food Dude
Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffet
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, the Chinese buffet is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. People either love them or hate them. Their history in America has been [...]
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Posted September 03, 2014in Food Dude
PerKup raises breakfast culture
With fusion cooks spanning the globe to create such things as taco pizza, barbecue egg rolls and chocolate fried chicken (a significant prize winner at this year’s Iowa State Fair), [...]
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Posted August 27, 2014in Food Dude
B & B Grocery Meat & Deli
Sevastopol (“venerable city” in Russian) is not just the Crimean jewel of Vladimir Putin’s ambition; it’s also an old, local neighborhood where an independent town had existed into the 20th [...]
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