Restaurant Scene: My quest for Spam musubi has led me to Kai Bistro
Remember earlier this summer when I crowned the chopped wiener as Chattanooga's most iconic dish?
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Restaurant Scene: Got fancy pants brunch fatigue? Visit Champy’s in Cleveland
I used to love brunch. Before there was a D.J. cuing a Rihanna song. Before gold flakes glittered in flutes of passion fruit mimosas. Before they started swapp…
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Four Chattanooga-region restaurants serve some of Yelp’s best-reviewed pizzas in Tennessee, Georgia
A monthslong project by The Washington Post to find the best pizza restaurants in each state, based on 7.5 million customer reviews submitted to the website Ye…
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Recipe for white bean soup is simplicity at its finest
It never pays to get carried away and overthink things in the kitchen. Take, for instance, bean soup.
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Things to do this weekend in the Chattanooga area include pride week, Dread Hollow, whiskey festival
Here's this weekend's chronology.
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Things to do in Chattanooga area this week include new symphony season, fall festivals, haunted houses
Here's what the Chattanooga area has to offer this week.
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Review: Good women don’t always behave well in Halle Hill’s debut story collection
Though short stories are often an entry point for an emerging writer, a story collection is comparatively rare when considered next to the bounty of novels and…
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Restaurant Scene: Potato salad in gumbo? Main Street Meats in Chattanooga says yes!
How would Kenyatta Ashford act if he happened to catch me in Main Street Meats slurping a bowl of gumbo that had a scoop of potato salad plopped in the middle?
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Restaurant Scene: Flying Squirrel to close and reopen as Ernest Chinese
After a decade of dazzling diners with its eclectic mishmash of "French and East-Asian influences," the Flying Squirrel is landing. Permanently.
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Former ‘Top Chef’ contestant Wesley True goes all in on Italian food at Inman Social in Cleveland, Tennessee
With the opening of Inman Social this month, Wesley True, 46, brings a new taste of Italy to Cleveland.
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Savory baked dip contains three kinds of cheese
One of the biggest challenges of writing my regular newspaper column is party food. That's mainly, I confess, because I'm a bit of a broken record when it come…
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Chicken with artichokes, protein and veggie salads, peach cobbler for dessert
It's good to see you there, across the circle for this conversation this September morn.
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Sausage breakfast biscuits with fruit jam brings together two summer fruits in the best possible way
My husband and I often lock horns when it comes to choosing seasonal fruit for me to make jam with; he's a 100% peach or cherry person while I will always go f…
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The secret ingredient your salads are missing
My mother loved leftover salad. No matter what a long night in the fridge had inflicted upon the lettuce and the cress, she'd pile those saturated greens onto …
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Best and worst restaurant inspection reports in the Chattanooga area for the week ending Sept. 19, 2023
The Hamilton County, Catoosa County and Walker County health departments inspect restaurants twice a year and grade businesses on a 100-point scale. Scores bel…
