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At the beginning of this month my employer moved our offices to Nampa, a place I haven’t spent any serious time in since I was a kid and Karcher Mall was the epitome of local shopping.  In preparation for the move, I started researching eateries within a small radius of the new office.  I already […]

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I’ve long had a soft spot for food trucks.  Hell, my first post on this blog three years ago was about a  food truck.  Since then trucks have come and gone, standards have risen, and diversity is the name of the game now.  Cacicia’s Old World Sicilian Foods isn’t the first Italian food truck we’ve […]

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On more than one occasion, I’ve been accused of being too harsh toward a restaurant that had just opened.  I won’t bother to mention any names, but the fact is that you can still usually tell if there’s something worthwhile about a place even if they’re having a bad night.  Such is the case with […]

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Okay, I think I’ve let my last review have enough time in the spotlight.  I’ve had several other mediocre to bad experiences lately, but just at the moment I feel like focusing on the positive.  Positive for yours truly includes (but isn’t limited to) such things as multi-ethnic cuisine, home-style cooking, and odd locations that many people might […]

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Although I’ve been referred to as a food or restaurant critic by friends and acquaintances (usually with a smirk), I shy away from the term and would never use it to describe myself.  After all, someone with the word “critic” in their description usually gets paid for their output.  I consider myself a food enthusiast, […]

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Friends and readers, I feel I need to come clean about something here, something that I’ve never really kept hidden, but which may not have been stated clearly enough: I am a meat lover.  Voracious, unrepentant and insatiable.  This is not to say that I don’t love fruit and veggies, but if the world was […]

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After more than a year of discussions, negotiations and arguments on the matter, my roommate had finally pulled it off.  After offering to buy the tickets, finding a performance we both wanted to see on a night that worked for both of us and ensuring we had a sitter for that night, she had finally accomplished something that many […]

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Okie dokie kids, I’m going to do one more quick write-up before taking off to spend the weekend in Portland.  I haven’t hopped on the smart phone bandwagon yet so I’m going to be largely incommunicado, except perhaps for random, stream of consciousness text posts to my Facebook page.  Before I go foraging for exotic foodstuffs […]

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I have mentioned in previous entries that the torta is my favorite Mexican food item.  I’ve said that the best tortas I know of come from a taco truck in Nampa.  However, those of you who have read my Wheelers review may remember that I have also said I almost never make it out to Nampa […]