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Published: September 17, 2009
Updated: 09/16/2009 05:45 pm
Meridian
411 N. Marshall St.
Phone: 722-8889. $$$$. NS. ABC.
A constantly changing, seasonal menu makes Meridian's hefty prices a little easier to swallow. This restaurant has also jumped on the local-food bandwagon, stocking its kitchen with goat cheese and other products from North Carolina.
Old Salem Tavern
736 S. Main St. (in Old Salem).
Phone: 748-8585. $$$. ABC. S/NS.
(out of five) Reviewed July 23, 2009.
The Moravians of the early 1800s ate more than sugar cake and the world's thinnest cookies … take pumpkin and sunflower seed crusted salmon, for example, served by wait staff in period costume. Don't miss the homemade lemon ice cream.
Full Moon Oyster Bar and Seafood Kitchen
1473 River Ridge Drive, Clemmons.
Phone: 712-8200. $$$. BW. NS.
Oysters on the half shell, steamed shrimp, Alaskan king crab, snow crab, scallops and clams, by the dozen, peck and pound.
Meta's Restaurant
102 W. Third St.
Phone: 750-0811. $. NS.
Southern-comfort self-serve cafeteria (but not a chain). Grab your tray, get in line and choose from beef ribs, fried chicken, baked salmon, meatloaf, mac and cheese, cobbler, and collard, turnip and mustard greens.
El Paisano
2742 Waughtown St.
Phone: 650-0400. $. NS.
Tacos, tacos, tacos, drizzled with lots of fresh salsas. And at this taqueria, you can see women behind the counter making the corn tortillas that are shortly destined for your mouth.
Ombu
615 St. George Square (off of Hanes Mall Boulevard).
Phone: 293-4346. $$$. NS. ABC.
Reviewed Oct. 30, 2008.
"Wood Fired Fusion" is Ombu's tagline, but that seems to invite rambling all over the globe. And indeed, the menu is ambitious, as is everything in this stunning restaurant.
Thai Sawatdee
2281 Cloverdale Ave. (inside Harris Teeter).
Phone: 725-1332. $-$$. NS.
Reviewed Oct. 16, 2008.
Pick up some panang curry and ground-chicken lettuce wraps with your groceries. This tiny Thai restaurant is short on atmosphere, but long on taste. Very good tom kha. Avoid the pad Thai, though.
Noma
321 W. Fourth St.
Phone: 703-5112. $$-$$$. ABC. NS.
Reviewed Feb. 19, 2009.
Tasty entrees, but the bar food lets me down a little -- and this is a bar, albeit a sleek, coiffed one. Winners are the flank steak with red-wine Vidalia-onion jus, chicken with a Dijon and Texas Pete sauce, and pork tenderloin.
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