It’s a stunning contradiction of beauty and violence. There is color, texture and tension, presentation, passion and puncturing, cleansing, bleeding and pain in both the culinary and the body arts. Cooking and tattooing are art forms created in the chaos of the kitchen and the aesthetics of the parlor, and…
N9NE tried it. Now they’re no more. Nove Italiano tried it. Now they’re no more. Now Naga Thai is trying it, opening a restaurant in the overpriced abyss known as Victory Park. Einstein once said that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and…
“Wow. Looks kind of like a casino,” I said to my BFF (best food friend) as we approached the entrance. “Or a strip club.” An upscale one at that. It wasn’t that the place looked sleazy—more grand than gaudy. The good news is, once we stepped inside, it turned out…
