Billy Bob’s gives diners burger, barbecue alternative
February 23, 2010
What you’ll find at Billy Bob’s Burgers & BBQ is a great lunch hour or afternoon escape from the workday grind or a place on the weekend for sports action in the bar. Read more
Dig into the duck and dumplings at Macky’s Dim Sum
February 2, 2010
Put down the chopsticks, or maybe a fork, and ignore the stares from other diners, because the menu at Macky’s Dim Sum presents a hand-eye coordination challenge. Order the roasted duck — lacquered skin and moist meat presented in oh-so-neat rows — and utensils will be rendered useless. Read more
Thai Ginger does justice to top-billed ingredient
January 12, 2010
When a restaurant includes a signature ingredient in the name above the door, the act amounts to a challenge to diners, almost as if the owners laid down a gauntlet. Try the namesake dish, the menu demands. We dare you.
Thai Ginger, where the potent root receives top billing, deploys the main ingredient in the Thai Ginger House Special — assorted vegetables and protein studded with matchsticks of the spicy-sweet tuber. Consider the dish a litmus test. Include too much ginger, and the flavor bludgeons other players into submission. Skimp on ginger, and fail to do justice to the title dish.
Cucina! Cucina! is delicious-ina!
January 5, 2010
No matter where you are in this country, there is sure to be an Italian restaurant nearby. In Issaquah, Cucina! Cucina! Italian Café should be on your radar.
The restaurant — near Issaquah’s Regal Cinemas in Pickering Place — has been serving up tasty Italian food for years.
When you first walk through the door, you’re greeted with bright, high-energy colors and decorations. This gives diners a fun environment in which to eat their meals.
Most tables are near coat hangers as well, which come in tremendously handy on cold and often wet winter days.
Bring your appetite for teriyaki to Chopsticks
December 15, 2009
It might seem a bit of a drive for Issaquah residents to get to Chopsticks Teriyaki Wok in Preston. But the food was worth it on a recent Sunday, sandwiched in between shopping in Issaquah and Fall City. Read more
Margaritas, merriment abound at Agave Cocina & Tequilas
November 17, 2009
The times, tough. The cupboard, bare. In all of the ways the Great Recession has taken a toll — on budgets and belt-tightening — the crimp on posh noshing stings the most. Read more
Find authentic flavors at Similan Thai Cuisine
October 6, 2009
Thai cuisine seeks to balance spicy, sour, sweet and salty, using whiffs of lemongrass and kaffir lime to pack the flavor of Southeast Asia into each bite. Similan Thai Cuisine, a new arrival at the just-opened Overlake Center, is skillful with the pillars of Thai cooking. Read more
Stan’s smokes the competition with authentic Kansas City barbecue
September 22, 2009
If there’s one spot in town you’re guaranteed to get messy with your meal, it’s Stan’s Bar-B-Q. Read more
Find a little piece of Italy at Issaquah’s Tutta Bella
August 18, 2009
Though Issaquah is more than 5,000 miles from Italy, you don’t have to travel that far to find your own slice of Italian heaven. Read more
Don’t just fill the spot, satisfy it at Chan’s Place
August 11, 2009
When I go out to eat lunch, unless I’m in a hurry, I like to enjoy the meal. I want my order to hit the spot, not just fill it.
Consider it mission accomplished at Chan’s Place, in the Klahanie Village. The lunch menu has ample choices to not only satisfy my appetite but whet it, too. Read more
