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TUBOB Review: La Chicorée Frisée E/scarole Arrogante

When Belgian witches first established their coven settlement in 1647 near the present site of the Coeur D'Alene City Park, they undoubtedly could not have predicted the rapid growth of fine eateries in this pleasant little town by a very large lake. But there was no doubt these witches had plenty of culinary excitement brewing in their cauldrons - they named the lake "Coeur D'Alene" which is Belgian for "heart of an owl" which one can only speculate was what restaurant chefs call the "zinger" in their recipes. The zinger being that one ingredient that really makes the dish sing. We've often wondered why they don't just call it the "singer" but we are a food critic not a chef. So it was with a heady mixture of nostalgia for the days of large cast iron pots bubbling over white pine cookfires tended by cackling frontier witches and optimism for what present gustatory pleasures we might discover at the brand new Coeur D'Alene restaurant "La Chicorée Frisée E/scarole Arrogante"/TUBOB. Full post here.

Question: Here's your chance. Bob's been tough on some of your reviews. Now, he enters the fray with his own review of a Sherman Avenue biz that might be a figment of his imagination. You have to decide that.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.