More and more restaurants have added happy hours in an effort to draw in customers in a down-down-down economy, but you wouldn’t know it, in most cases. After the initial announcement, there’s usually no effort to remind customers (or would-be customers) of the bargain prices, and sometimes even the help is unaware.
Heidi Knapp Rinella
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Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
No matter how many offbeat (to Americans, anyway) dishes a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern restaurant offers, I always wonder, “Yeah, but how about the hummus and falafel?”
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Well, I may as well start with the elephant in the room, which in this case is more of a whale and not of the gambling variety: The Chart House in the newish Rush Tower at the Golden Nugget is centered by a cylindrical, floor-to-ceiling, 75,000-gallon aquarium in which somewhere around 1,000 tropical creatures dwell.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
I’ve noted before the inherent problem with the one-to-10 or mild-to-hot systems employed by most Thai restaurants, and that is that it’s impossible to set a standard, so one man’s two will inevitably end up another man’s eight, or vice versa.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.