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This isn’t really a review because it’s not really about an eatery.  It’s more of a public service announcement.  I first became aware of the Boise Urban Market (née Boise Underground Market) some time ago, so long in fact that I don’t remember the specifics.  I’m pretty sure I learned about them through Facebook around the […]

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Breakfast food is pretty popular around our house.  In fact, one of the first things my girlfriend and I discovered we had in common was a love of breakfast food at pretty much any time of day.  I have my grandparents and all the late night truck stop runs they brought me along on to […]

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Thanks to Brian, it’s been confirmed that the Yen Ching Bakery (not the restaurant itself) will be ceasing operations in February, likely toward the end of the month.  That leaves at the very most four weeks (and most importantly only four Sundays, the day they make the fresh steamed buns) to enjoy their stuff.  Though […]

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I’ve talked before about how rarely I make it to downtown Boise for food, but I make it out to Nampa even less despite the fact that one of my favorite Treasure Valley Chinese restaurants and my all-time favorite taco truck are located there.  When I was just a wee lad though, we used to […]

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A Wednesday Night in January, just after 6 PM.  It’s already pitch black out, but a fat, full moon is rising over the mountains.  I’m sitting in the back seat of my mother’s SUV.  Sis is riding shotgun, and to my right a sleeping toddler is strapped into a booster seat.  We’re in Eagle and […]

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Like a lot of Americans, I could stand to lose a little weight.  At least part of this probably has to do with the fact that I consider food to be very sensual, whether I’m cooking it, eating it, or even just watching it prepared on Top Chef (how awesome was last night’s Restaurant Wars?!).  I’m […]

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This is a new one for me, but since I hit both locations of this chain in a relatively short time frame, I’m just going to do one write-up for both.  Towards the end of last year, Smashburger took out a full-page ad on the back of the main section of the Idaho Statesman.  It […]

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It’s been a while, but if memory serves I first heard about Donnie Mac’s Trailer Park Cuisine through an episode of “Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives”.I don’t care much for the show or the host, but I’m amused by the whole theme restaurant thing, and a couple of years down the road when I met my girlfriend […]