Restaurant reviews and profiles from the Boise Weekly, Idaho Statesman and others sources around the region
(I’ve updated this review with the full page ad that Barbacoa’s owners placed in the Sunday Idaho Statesman in rebuttal. The ad follows the review.) When my main course arrives, that hoary Madison Avenue mandate to “sell the sizzle, not the steak” is made utterly, sputteringly physical. As my waitress pours green-peppercorn- studded, creamy...
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If you’re a downtown Mai Thai regular, you’ll feel at home at Baan Thai in Eagle. Bulbous hanging lanterns cast a low, soft glow on sturdy dark wood tables and a long, trickling water feature bisects the upscale restaurant. Though Baan Thai in fact occupies the former Mai Thai Eagle building–Mai Thai silent partner Shannon Robnett...
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After nearly three years away, Mitchell and Andrea Maricich are back on the Boise restaurant scene. Their just opened (as of Monday January 17th) Salt Tears Coffeehouse & Noshery is anything but a reincarnation of their much loved, if long-closed MilkyWay restaurant. Where MilkyWay, especially in it’s first location, was small, intimate, and full...
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As word gets out about Ishtar, I predict it’ll be a place where little gray area exists for diners. With the ghosts of its former occupant still lingering–most notably the carved wood booths that read “Chapala” in halty script–and its overall plain-Jane attitude, Ishtar will immediately be a turn off for some. For others,...
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Sante is the French word for health. Jeremy Hansen, owner and chef of Sante Restaurant and Charcuterie exemplifies a holistic health in the way he runs his pioneering establishment next to Auntie’s Bookstore in Downtown Spokane. Jeremy grew up in Spokane and has been in the restaurant business since he was a young teenager,...
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BOISE: A nondescript strip mall on the Bench–on a road where few accidentally stop to eat, in an odd corner location, behind a new stand-alone structure–is not a prime spot for a restaurant. But when Wicky Wicky Sushi owner Todd Wickstrom moved to his current Overland Road spot, it was after more than a decade...
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Tablerock Brewpub and Grill is tin-can-telephone distance from BW headquarters, and it’s a brewpub–two things that should have solidified its spot on my dining lineup long ago. But somehow Tablerock never quite made it on my gastro short list. Not that they’ve noticed. On a recent weekday evening, most tables in the open, ski-lodgey...
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