Kaiyo a surprising delight for buffet
Let me be clear: Kaiyo has the best sushi I have ever tasted. And speaking as a Chicago native, with access to extremely fresh fish, that is saying something.
The buffet is $17.95 which comes to just under $21.00 with a beverage. The sushi was amazingly fresh tasting. The owner says that it's because the seafood is flown into Chicago then delivered to Champaign twice a week. The sushi is also prepared no more the thirty minutes before opening to ensure the freshest taste. They are working on getting their liquor license so they can offer a selection of wine, beer and sake.
And the restaurant is not done yet. The change I am most excited about though is the addition of hot and grilled items to the buffet. The pricing is more then fair considering the quality and variety. For the price of the buffet you can try many different rolls without worrying that you are going to waste money on a roll you don't like.
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Windows lined with assorted wine bottles and a variety of pleasant earth tones greet you upon entering this incredibly quaint space named The Bread Company. It is a unique spot for a light, yet filling lunch on a still slightly chilly Saturday afternoon. The smell of freshly baked breads and the delightful chatter provide a sense of welcome immediately upon arrival. The Bread Company is located on Goodwin in a spot that always seems to be bustling with activity; regardless of this incessant activity, once inside, time seems to slow and only a genuine calm remains.
In recent years, an incredibly successful marketing plan on the part of Gruppo Campari, the large liquor conglomerate based in Milan, has led to the appearance of a bottle of Campari in what seems like every bar in America, despite Americans general dislike of the liqueur. Campari has a distinctly un-American taste. It is at once intensely bitter and sweet, with a taste primarily of grapefruit and a color that is natural only on creatures native to tropical reefs. …
My friends, who grew up with Southern-style, white, sugarless cornbread, like to make fun of Midwest cornbread. "Why don't you just have cake?" they ask deridingly. And it's true, with just a little more sugar than most people put in cornbread up here, you can make a really good cornmeal cake. This particular cake is a great way to use up any softer, end of season apples that are hanging out in your fruit drawer or fresh rhubarb which …
Campus has KAM's and Chipotle, Urbana has the homely downtown with Crane Alley and the Courier, Champaign touches on the gourmet urban with Bacaro and Jim Gould's, and Savoy has... Dairy Queen and the abandoned Spaghetti Shop. Pretty much the only reasons to come out to Savoy are for the movie theater and Friar Tuck's. Food, generally, is left to be desired elsewhere. Even then, I have a M.O. when it comes to eating in Champaign-Urbana: I drive up …
Since this won't be nearly as clever without doing so, let me be gender-normative for just a moment. Sometimes, you need to have a cocktail in your repertoire that, as they say in deodorant commercials, is strong enough for a man but gentle enough for a woman. Whether you actually subscribe to annoyingly ubiquitous stereotypes or you just like a bit of gender-bending, The Sidecar, suave, sophisticated, and a little complicated, is for you. Whenever I have friends that …
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One of the blessings (and curses, depending on how you look at it) of working on campus is there is no shortage of delicious noms to choose from on the lunch hour. Working smack dab in the middle of Green Street, I don't have to venture far at all to indulge in Indian, Mexican, Chinese, Sushi... But most days I am good, and I pack my lunch, especially in this cold weather when even a five minute jaunt for …
Food, fireworks, presents for every guest-Chinese New Year beats Valentine's Day hands down. In college, I worked for two florists at the same time, which was not a problem until Valentine's Day. I went to work at 7:30 a.m. on February 13 where I cleaned and dethorned hundreds of roses. At 5 p.m. I left to go clean and arrange hundreds more at the second florist. Because it was above 32 degrees, we didn't have to bag the arrangements. …
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Chris - amaro is actually and Italian word meaning bitter, and amaretto is a diminutive form of the same word. Nice linguistic impulses! As you know, amaretto isn’t at all bitter. The name comes from the almond it’s traditionall made from - the so-called “bitter almond” (not…
First of all, God bless you and protect you for this series. Second, is amaretto then related to the Amari?
I haven’t eaten at the bread company in a while, but I do remember them having a few pasta dishes that were easy to veganize with the omission of cheese on the dinner menu. Their hummus is top notch, though!
I’ve never eaten at the Bread Company for dinner because it seems less vegan friendly, aka fondue and cheese-heavy dishes. I’d be curious to see if it’s possible to have a good vegan dinner there. I do love their hummus, though.
You are correct 1:1:1 while traditional yields a rather unbalanced drink. Flaming the orange is a nice touch. Even so, I have found there is no fence sitting with this cocktail. People either love them or hate them.
What is this Savoy place you speak of and how do you get there. It seems like a swell place.
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