There’s probably no single entrée at Dal Rae more emblematic of the restaurant’s mid-century tastes than the pepper steak. The restaurant cuts the steak from either a New York strip or a filet mignon, but either piece of meat is a good one. What makes the dish, however, is the pepper sauce, which completely caps [...]

Celebrating Dal Rae’s golden anniversary

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It’s nearly nine o’clock and brothers Lorin and Kevin Smith are still roaming Dal Rae’s dining room. The two take turns weaving through the restaurant’s tables and tapping on chairs as they walk by and leaning into the steakhouse’s scalloped booths to kid with customers. “Make sure you [...]

Paradise travels past the typical bar boundaries by offering the kind of casual American dining that allows for inspiration from every corner of the world—there’s everything from Moroccan-braised chicken to balsamic-marinated Portobello mushrooms. And the entrees keep that up, with pasta plates (pasta primavera, linguini with steamed clams) and a number of fish dishes, the [...]

Paradise bridges Rainbow Row’s bar gap

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Even if you’ve never eaten at Paradise, chances are you can probably describe the place—a brick box that stands out in mid-’90s Miami style, with checkered tiles and metal planters and neon lights pulling your eyes away from the road. The restaurant/bar needs to stand out, though, [...]

Beachwood—”Where the Fork Meets the Pork”—serves fish (salmon and albacore), ribs, brisket, beef short ribs, pulled pork, smoked chicken . . . a farm full of meat. And it’s all dry-rubbed and slow-smoked with applewood, pecan and oak. (For vegetarians, there’s a formidable fried green tomato sandwich with smoked fresh mozzarella, basil, mixed greens, balsamic [...]

Although Volcano Burger does just about everything right, the place is still renowned primarily for one dish: its chili cheese fries. Regardless of whether you order them in or for take-out, the chili cheese fries are served in something resembling a pie tin—a metal dish easily capped with a plastic lid for leftovers. The fries [...]

Compared to the rest of Vint’s offerings, the restaurant’s sole burger seems adventurous, topped with a handful of greens, a fried egg and Harissa, a North African chili paste. The burger’s divergence from the usual ingredients pays off because it’s actually one of the best around—the egg squeezes out just the right amount of yolk, [...]

Since M&M’s standbys are the standouts, the most obvious choice on the menu is the fried chicken. Better than most, M&M’s chicken is crispy, peppered, and only the slightest bit dry—a problem easily solved by ordering a thigh and a leg instead of a breast. Along with their thick, heavy entrees, M&M also serves up [...]

At its core, Tracht’s is a steakhouse—and it shows. The restaurant offers seven different cuts of beef and five different sauces—you can concoct all sorts of pairings and have a great dish. Not surprisingly, another of Tracht’s signature dishes is the pot roast, a sizable hunk of beef slow-cooked until it nearly falls apart under [...]

The entrees, whether you visit at breakfast (look for the tofu scramble, chicken apple sausage scramble, and broiled French toast stuffed with Mascarpone and créme fraiche); lunch (try the ruby red smoked wild salmon sandwich or hand-carved turkey sandwich served with mouth-coating herbed cream cheese and cranberry sauce); or dinner (the moist, fall-off-the-bone coq au [...]