Dining Reviews
Dining Reviews
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DINING REVIEWS
Dining review: Applause for upgrade at 36th Street Bistro
Opened five years ago, the 36th Street Bistro was a welcome addition to the neighborhood at the edge of the Foothills on Hill Road.
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DINING REVIEWS
Dining review: 10 Barrel Brewing shakes up Downtown Boise
It's been a long time since a brewpub has opened in Downtown Boise. As a matter of fact, it was during the George H.W. Bush administration when such a spectacle last took place - back in 1991, when TableRock Brewpub opened just off Capitol Boulevard.
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DINING REVIEWS
Dining review: New Eagle joint knows how to do barbecue
At Bodacious Pig, a new Texas-themed barbecue spot in Eagle, the entrees emerge from the kitchen on a piece of butcher paper in a wide, silver, quarter-sheet pan, the ubiquitous, industrial restaurant term for any flat rectangle of metal that goes in an oven.
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DINING REVIEWS
Dining review: Muse rises above its corporate neighbors
Muse Bistro & Wine Bar, an independently owned venture that opened in 2011, kind of gets lost in the blur of all those Meridian chain restaurants, but the food at this jewel-box-sized establishment is considerably more nuanced than what gets plated at those other places.
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OTHER CUISINES
Dining Review: Ishtar makes a familiar-tasting sandwich
The sandwich is a great bridge across so many cuisines, I hardly think about it when I come across another one in an unusual place. A piece or two of bread, some crunchy greens, sometimes meat, something saucy - this combination is automatic in almost every culture on Earth, a default lunch anywhere...
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DINING REVIEWS
Dining review: Creativity abounds at Gramercy Park
Gramercy Park Pizza & Grill recently debuted in Meridian's Gramercy District, both of which get their names from the historic Gramercy Park neighborhood in New York City.
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DINING REVIEWS
Discover a deal worth trying at local restaurants all week long
Most restaurants offer a daily feature of some kind, but there also are places with specials so good they have become regular weekly fixtures - the kind of occasion that people plan their week around.
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DINING REVIEWS
Good food, good beer at pleasant TableRock in Boise
For a generation, TableRock has felt quieter and less buzzed-about than other Downtown Boise brewpubs. But sometimes that quiet is what you're looking for, and as baseball's spring training has begun, I am reminded how pleasant a place TableRock is to watch an afternoon game with a microbrew and...
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DINING REVIEWS
Hidden eateries: In praise of the hole in the wall
A great many words are spilled each year about restaurants too few of us can frequent: The white-tableclothed, reservation-bound establishments with amuse-bouches, multi-page wine lists and sophisticated diners who ask for something called the "chef's whim."
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DINING REVIEWS
Alavita in Downtown Boise offers sublime harmony
A restaurant's ambience can set the stage for the meal to follow, but rarely is the decor such a declaration of independence from expectations as it is in Alavita.




