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        How do you reconcile a Times Square look with Tribeca taste?...
       
      
        By Brian Ries
      
      
      The first time I took my wife to the New York New York, she was bitter and unimpressed. It&#39;s not the restaurant&#39;s fault. She was just a big fan of The Table &mdash; the restaurant that used to hold NY&#39;s Hillview location &mdash; and felt that nothing short of similar greatness should occupy that hallowed ground. &quot;It&#39;s like the they took a museum and put in a roller rink,&quot; she grumbled, as soon as we sat down at the bar
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        By Brian Ries
      
      
      If there is one place in town that locals should visit to feel like a tourist, it is the unrelentingly resort-focused St. Armands Circle. Be prepared to pay a premium for the experience (even at the more moderate places) but a few hours of faux vacation may be worth it. 15 SOUTH RISTORANTE ENOTECA 15 S. Boulevard of Presidents, St. Armands Circle, Sarasota, 388-1555 or 15southristorante.com Hgh-end Italian cuisine along with some kick-ass pizzas out of a blazing brick oven.
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      Have you gotten stuck in a rut when it comes to your Thai palate? Still ordering the same pad thai and spring rolls every time you head out to the unexciting but familiar Thai restaurant down the street? Here&#39;s your chance to branch out and taste how other places do their basil chicken and pad soo wen. Try one &mdash; or many &mdash; of the bountiful Thai harvest Sara-Mana has to offer. BANGKOK 4791 Swift Road, Sarasota, 922-0703 or bangkoksarasota.com
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        By Taylor Eason
      
      
      The older I get, the more I realize the details of life matter most. Not the car I drive &mdash; although my Mini Cooper is so freakin&#39; cute it&#39;s sinful &mdash; or the life- and time-saving gadgets that organize my scattered brain. What matters is appreciating the gushing sweetness of the season&#39;s first strawberry, the soft touch of my cat&#39;s fur or the first sip of a perfect white wine on a warm spring afternoon. &#39;Tis the season to start
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        By Bethany Sherwin
      
      
      It&#39;s true. I am perpetually harping on the awesomeness of Left Hand Brewing. I&#39;m totally, shamelessly on their jock, and I&#39;m OK with that. When most thought it couldn&#39;t get any worse, Left Hand went and did a limited release collaboration beer with Terrapin Brewing out of Athens, Ga. If that wasn&#39;t enough to send me into rare beer frenzy, this collaborative concoction just happened to be the synthesis of two beer styles that make my pulse race with joy:
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        Front Door Organics celebrates a milestone....
       
      
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      Over the past couple of years, several local businesses have started to promise to bring organic, or local, or healthy foods straight to your home or business, but none of them have the reach of Front Door Organics (frontdoororganics.net). Just about to celebrate its first anniversary, Front Door started as an organic and local produce delivery service, with about 125 items on its online shopping list. Now, there are over 700 products available, ranging from prepared foods to beer and
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    <title>Crafty projects for green drinkers</title>
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        By Taylor Eason
      
      
      I&#39;m a consummate, nay rabid, recycler. Every plastic or paper bag, aluminum and paper scrap gets either reused, recycled or both. It hacks me off to see bottles in the trash, as I envision the massive garbage heap bloated with items rejected by Mother Nature. People have declared with disdain that it costs more to recycle wine bottles than to dispose of them, but generating an avoidable giant trash heap isn&#39;t logical either. So I&#39;ve come up with a third
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Sarasota jumps on a hot new dairy trend....
       
      
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      For once, it seems the Sarasota dining scene isn&#39;t far behind the curve on a national trend. Frozen yogurt has been around since the 1970s, but it didn&#39;t blow up until the &#39;80s health craze made everybody grasp for anything that could be labeled low-fat. Enter TCBY, with its soft-serve machines full of sweet ice cream substitute. I can swirl banana cheesecake and peanut butter flavors, then top them with gummi bears and Butterfinger crumbles, and still call it healthy?
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        Three foodie must-dos....
       
      
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      Did you miss the first &mdash; at Polo Grill &mdash; and second &mdash; at Vernona &mdash; Farm to Fork dinners presented by the Suncoast Food Alliance? Next week you&#39;ll have a chance to remedy those tragic missteps. The third Farm to Fork dinner will be held at Lan Restaurant (1568 Main St., Sarasota, 953-7111 or lanrestaurant.com) at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, and will feature a bevy of locally produced ingredients cooked by the inestimable Lan Bradeen. Suncoast Food
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        A great collection of restaurants, just minutes south of downtown....
       
      
        By Brian Ries
      
      
      Just south of downtown, Southside Village has benefited (and suffered) from the real estate boom more than almost any other commercial district in town. For a while, housing prices in adjacent neighborhoods were scandalous &mdash; which brought folks with money into the area. Now, prices are low enough to bring in the younger, professional families that fit the Southside vibe, and that, hopefully, can fill the seats of the great Southside dining scene. BIG SUGAR 1900 Hillview St., Sarasota, 388-7679
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        Taste-testing the Glenlivet XXV....
       
      
        By Brian Ries
      
      
      In the old days, I frequented The Gator Club. Like today, the downstairs was Sarasot&#39;s biggest meat-market, complete with cover bands and cheap cocktails. Upstairs, however, was a different scene. There was the pool table, aged leather couches, hidden nooks and Randy Adams. During his reign over the bar up there, The Gator Club had the best selection of single-malt Scotch in the state. Now, Randy gets to pimp his favorite beverage full-time as Glenlivet&#39;s Brand Ambassador to the Southeast
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      Quick! It&#39;s almost too late! Check out this list of restaurants known for their great outdoor dining before summer&#39;s fury strikes. Otherwise, you&#39;ll have to wait six months for outdoor dining that&#39;s not like a session at the Bikram studio. 5ONE6 BURNS 516 Burns Lane, Sarasota, 906-1884 or fiveonesixburns.com Like dining in a set-piece dedicated to old Florida, 5One6 Burns&#39; classic outdoor dining area extends from the patio of the 1920s cracker house into a courtyard under a banyan canopy.
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        The wine lists at chain restaurants lack diversity....
       
      
        By Taylor Eason
      
      
      Although many foodies deny it, we all eat at chains, occasionally ... in dark times ... perhaps forced when the in-laws visit. I confess an occasional hankering for the divine Saucy Shrimp at Bonefish Grill or the crack-laced lettuce wraps at PF Chang&#39;s. I need a drink to drown my guilty pleasures, but one thing lacking at most chains is a palatable wine selection. Most bulk-buying chains craft wine lists that neatly match at all locations -- good for consistency
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    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        Two new North Trail eateries aim to please the breakfast/lunch crowd....
       
      
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      A number of places have occupied the spot where Caf&eacute; Du Monde opened last September. Several coffee houses and a Jamaican restaurant tried to make it here, but none had the stamina to survive the long summer doldrums, a problem compounded by a clientele drawn heavily from the nearby colleges. But good news for Du Monde: I have never seen as many people in the location as I did at noon last Wednesday. Caf&eacute; Du Monde was opened by a
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        A look back at <i>CL</i> food tournament victors in years past....
       
      
        By Brian Ries
      
      
      Now that Maria&#39;s Reataurant has been crowned champion of this year&#39;s Tournament of Tacos, I thought it would be worth a look back at the previous two years of our vaunted March Madness food competitions. Below are the Final Four finishers of the 2007 Tournament of Slices and the 2008 Tournament of Burgers. Check out how the winners of years past match up with this year&#39;s victors. IL PANIFICIO 1703 Main St., Sarasota, 366-5570 or panificiousa.com It&#39;s easy to endure
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