Restaurant Reviews
Did I want to spice my curry with bhutlah pepper? According to the menu here at The Curry Club, it rated a zesty 1.5 million on Scoville heat index, and the restaurant made you sign …
Tacos El Franc, one of Tijuana's most esteemed taquerias, officially brought its delectable adobada to the United States last month, opening a bright new shop at the Westfield Plaza Bonita shopping mall in National City. …
“Lao food! Lao food!” calls a woman's voice through the loudspeaker. The voice gives a couple of whoops. “Ahan Lao! I’m making Laab Kung Lao. Homage to the OG! Ahan Lao!”In this case, the OG …
I can count on one finger the number of times I've ordered a wrap in the past ten years. I'm not talking about burritos, obviously, or gyro meat wrapped in a pita. When I say …
It's almost not fair that the taco I'm holding stands among the best tacos I've eaten in Tijuana — or Mexico City for that matter. Because folded into this warm tortilla are fire-grilled hunks of …
I've taken a couple swipes at what I perceived to be overly sweet food over the past couple weeks, so in the interest of proving I’m not a sugar-hating troll, I visited a shop where …
The flute-player is around here somewhere. Has to be. I’m on Río Colorado in the Colonia Marrón part of TJ, at the bougainvillea-and-canvas-shaded end of the calle. And ah. A sign. “In the kitchen, as in …
"Strange creature" is the literal translation of the Japanese word Kaiju, a term most often applied to monsters in movies featuring the likes of Gamera, Mothra, and mightiest of them all, Godzilla. So when you …
It's kind of amazing that, five years later, we're still seeing Covid baking hobbies turn into new food businesses. It's even more amazing when the concept meets a need. Sure, I love sourdough as much as …
At some point, I let it slip that I’d had oatmeal for lunch. My friend Jacqui flicked a look at me that asked, “Are you really in that much trouble?”Fact is, yes: things have been, …