Category - Dining

I get around. And while I'm on the go ... I eat. I try to avoid fast food, so I'm always on the lookout for the sort of sweet, secret eateries that only locals are savvy enough to know. So it occurred to me: why not ask MadeByMark.com readers to...

Not so long ago, this storefront location on Old Canton Road was a video store. Then, it was a bad Italian restaurant where we once waited an hour and fifteen minutes for appetizers to arrive. (We didn't stick around for the main course.) Now, the...

Hungry for Chinese food, Clyde and I stop in at the Sun Koon. Hilarity ensues.

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Lately, the folks at Rucchi Indian Restaurant (I-55 Frontage Road, across from Video Library) are all about atmosphere. They've covered the diamond-shaped windows with navy blue, gold, and dark pink fabric. They've lowered the lights. They've...

Clyde and I have a Sunday morning ritual now. And no, it doesn't involve a pilgrimage to some local house of worship -- unless you include Broad Street Bakery as a sacred site. Six days a week, Clyde assembles tasty breakfasts from our stock of...

What if cooking at home were easier than eating out? With Super Suppers in Ridgeland, MS, it can be. Supper Suppers makes it possible to serve up a fresh, hot, home-cooked meal in thirty minutes or less -- meals like Sunday pot roast with...

Saturday in Vancouver begins in front of La Baguette et L'Echalote, the Granville Island bakery where we're supposed to meet Eric and Cecilia, the culinary masterminds behind Edible British Columbia. Recalling the great time we had in San Francisco...

Jackson has at least two buffets we can't recommend -- especially after having getting mild cases of food poisoning from them. Thanks to its location in the sophisticated old Grady's location on County Line Road, the new Barnhill's Buffet looks like...

UPDATE: El Sombrero, perhaps due to its terrible location and bad signage, has gone the way of all flesh. The Ridgeland location closed in late October of 2006; the Flowood location is still in business. When the hankerin' for chips, salsa, chicken...