How many ways can you reinvent pasta? At Rock’N’oodles, the menu’s flavor notes are as varied as the musical ones that inspired them.
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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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.