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Omelet House has earned place as hometown favorite

Regular readers know I value restaurants with menus that change — but not too much. Seeing the same menu all the time gets boring, but we all hate to see a favorite dish vanish. Restaurants with staying power usually know how to walk that fine line.

View Dining Pick of the Week: Satay Thai Bistro & Bar

Satay Thai Bistro & Bar started out as a Malaysian restaurant, but the menu grew over time, combining the rich, eclectic flavors of Southeast Asia — Indonesia, China and India. Today, its menu is extensive and includes dishes from all of these places, but the specialty is Thai.

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Offbeat Urban Turban a breath of fresh air

“Are you familiar with Indian food?” asked our server at Urban Turban. Sure, it’s one of our favorite cuisines. But then again, it didn’t really matter, since Urban Turban isn’t your average Indian restaurant.

Dining Pick of the Week: Golden Gate

Golden Gate is under new management, and although the name remains the same and the location hasn’t changed much, inside there is fresh paint and renewed passion for the menu.

Cafe Cortez gets retro (mostly) right

Despite what you may have heard, locals do go to the Strip, and they do go downtown. I know because they email me all the time to tell me about their dining experiences in both places, good and bad (though mostly good). And one of the places I hear about most often is Cafe Cortez at the El Cortez.

Lola’s has reason to celebrate with Summerlin expansion

Over the years, I’ve watched as a lot of local restaurants have met with some success and opened a second, third or even fourth location — and, in a whole lot of cases, ended up scaling back or disappearing altogether. I wondered what would be the case with Lola’s, a downtown spot that specializes in New Orleans cuisine and has more than five years under its sequined belt. And, after visiting the new(ish) Summerlin location, I have high hopes.

View Dining Pick of the Week: PublicUs

The downtown dining resurgence spreads ever farther east with the opening of PublicUs. The self-described canteen-style neighborhood restaurant and coffeebar recently opened in the Fremont East District within walking distance of The Writer’s Block book store and Bunkhouse Saloon.

The Tap House far more than a neighborhood bar

I’ve been to the Tap House quite a few times over the years for newsroom departures: Tradition is that you get a dice clock and a send-off at the Tap House. What’s the attraction? That was never clear to me because there aren’t that many of us Browns fans on staff, so I guess it’s just something that nobody’s been moved to change.

View Dining Pick of the Week: Pizza Forte

Traditional Italian families are generally known for food and tight-knit bonds, and the Ferraro family is no exception.