A Bowl of Soup @ Thai Palace

Thai Palace has been serving excellent Thai food for years and in the same location in the Glenwood shopping center on South Road/Raleigh Road. The place has the same lovely, graceful look it’s always had (I’ve included pictures) and the same friendly service.

On a wet, cool Monday I dropped in for something fast and warming for a dreary February afternoon. What I got was satisfying and wonderfully simple — a cool refreshing small salad with the house’s amazing ginger dressing and an enormous bowl of soup with perfectly cooked noodles in a rich, savory broth with steak and meatball and crunchy vegetables.

“A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.” Willa Cather

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The Peking Duck at Brewery Bhavana — Friday, Thursday February 13, 2020

Whole barbecued duck for lunch @ Brewery Bhavana is served with perfect steamed Bao buns, cucumbers, scallions and hoisin sauce.

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The flavors at Zweli’s Kitchen — Friday, February 21, 2020

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Lunch @ Zweli’s Kitchen, Friday, February 21, 2020

Magwinyas, fried dough available as savory or sweet, a lovely variation on beignets.

Thin, crispy and spicy plantain chips

Flame grilled piri piri wings with Jollof rice and chakalaka (a flavorful vegetable and bean relish/stew) as sides

Flame grilled piri piri (a hot pepper produced in Mozambique) chicken leg and thigh with exquisitely flame grilled skewered vegetables.

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A Saturday night out with the Haysletts at Hawthorne and Wood

Top right — three piece chicken confit in Texas Pete gastrique with celery and buttermilk sauce

Below right — pan seared divers scallops, butternut squash sticky cakes, sour cherry jus, daikon radish, sesame, sugar snap peas.

Dessert to the left is house made Oreo ice cream sandwich.



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Lunch @ the Mebane Table, Friday, January 31, 2020.

Nola roast beef Po Boy with Roast Beef Debris,Au jus gravy, lettuce, and a pickle on house made French bread

Dirty rice

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Nana’s, Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Upper left butternut soup with fried oysters

Upper right risotto with slow cooked veal, roasted peppers, sweet peas finished with roasted garlic butter and Grana Padana

Entree — Cast iron roasted natural chicken over Nana’s puréed potatoes, broccoli rabe and root vegetables