Restaurant Reviews
Restaurant Reviews
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RESTAURANT REVIEWS
New Caribbean restaurant spices up the landscape by serving the real deal
Tucked away on Fortune Drive is Mi'irie Mon — translation: "I feel good, man" — which brings an authentic taste of the West Indies, coupled with a bit of soul food and a touch of Caribbean neighbor Cuba for good measure, to Lexington.
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Tastes like Homemade — and is
FRANKFORT — Sage Garden Café has one of the most inviting interiors I have seen in years. It is rustic yet contemporary, with sunlight, stained pine, cement bricks, tiny amber track lights and freestanding water walls. The paint is a soft sage green. The design and feel could have ...
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Baan Isaan brings a welcome taste of Thailand's Isaan region
Baan Isaan is Lexington's first Thai restaurant with a niche. Its small and focused menu specializes in food from the Isaan region on Thailand's border with Laos, where the flavors are simple, light and clean, and the spices can be searing.
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Panda Cuisine stands alone among Lexington's Chinese restaurants
Panda Cuisine has given this town more than a decade of unique and delicious food, evidence of the fact that quality sometimes indeed triumphs over mere quantity.
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Tolly-Ho gives you just what you expect: good, basic food, any time
This review, if you can call it that, focuses not on white tablecloths or the sultry temptations of ethnic dining, but rather on Formica — or its latter-day equivalent — and video games, Kentucky blue logos and artificial ferns, griddles and a touch of the greasy spoon.
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Modern Mercantile bistro's twists can turn heads
Its name conceals Modern Mercantile's most enjoyable dimension: the bistro experience. The kitchen turns out its own versions of familiar standards with fun twists. With mercantile, Stonewall Shopping Center has turned into a food destination.
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D'Italia is a fine new restaurant on Lexington's New Circle Road
When D'Italia opened a few months ago, the excitement included slight shock. Italian on New Circle? Really? The name, loosely translated, means "of Italy," and the evolving menu focuses accordingly.
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Offerings at Great Bagel live up to café's name
The ideal bagel had eluded Lexington until the opening of Great Bagel, a locally owned café in the University Plaza shopping center. Our restaurant critic challenges anyone in town to come up with a finer rendition than Great Bagel, which come fresh and smothered in a variety of condiments ...
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At Bombay Bar & Grill, nearly everything is swathed in riches
At Bombay Bar and Grill, a favorite corner spot downtown formerly known as Bombay Brazier, everything from tikka to tandoori could arrive napped in something, and curries sometimes pack the wallop of a rich triple cream.
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El Rancho Tapatio is genuine Mexican with reasonable prices
El Rancho Tapatio is a jewel in the crown of Lexington Mexican dining - delicious, reasonably priced and muy auténtico.








