Food Reviews & Stories Calling the Alibi a tiki bar is akin to calling the island of Hawaii a pile of basalt. Indeed the Alibi sports no shortage of tikis, hula murals and light fixtures shaped like glass fishing weights, but there is also half a century’s worth of history and the kind of earnest dedication to detai   More

Food Reviews & Stories The Kenton Club was indeed world famous…in 1972, for its cameo in Raquel Welch roller-derby epic Kansas City Bomber. Today, the amenities at the WFKC would make a winner out of anyone playing Dive Bar Bingo, and we mean this in the best possible way: generous pours, elaborate wood paneling, p   More

Food Reviews & Stories One of the more overtly restaurant-y outposts of the New Old Lompoc brewery empire, the 5th Quadrant—along with next-door neighbor Pix Pâtisserie—was among the first businesses to anchor the now-booming area around North Williams Avenue and Failing Street, currently home to everyth   More

Food Reviews & Stories If someone were to open a rockabilly tattoo shop in Grandma’s South Beach mid-century ranch, the result would look a lot like the Florida Room. (We’re going to assume Grandma’s no longer with us; a painted table at the entrance features a monkey’s behind and the word “F   More

Food Reviews & Stories With its shelves of board games, thoughtfully landscaped patio and a resident cat loafing around a collection of mismatched vintage furniture, Leisure Public House can best be described as part coffee shop, part circa-1976 basement rec room. In fact, on a recent evening, a sandwich from the extensiv   More

Food Reviews & Stories Inspecting Prost’s sturdy picnic tables and enormous, heavy-bottomed mugs, one might recall the infamous words of Vince Offer, of ShamWow infomerical fame: “You know the Germans always make good stuff!” In combining that Teutonic sensibility with the tried-and-true Mississippi Aven   More

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Yes, it's true. I was making dinner about 6:45 last night when something suddenly slammed into the side of my house with such force it shook the windows. (For the record, I live in Kenton.) None of the possible explanation...   More

Food Reviews & Stories The Cajun/Creole specialities at this shack (literally--note the tin roof and "quaint" hand-lettered wooden signage) are served in red-and-white-checkered paper trays that sag under the weight of their contents.  We recommend the spicy jambalaya with chunks of dark-meat chicken and andouille, t   More

Food Reviews & Stories Not to be confused with the People’s Sandwich across Burnside Street, this cheerfully painted yellow truck is pork, all pork and nothing but the pork, so help us God. No vegetarian options, no sandwiches over (or under) $8, no nonsense. The specialty here is porchetta (save yourself the embarr   More