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'Pulled Pork Hash' at Dirty Oscar's Annex on Sixth Avenue in Tacoma. It includs 'crisp potatoes', a fired egg, bacon, jalapeno ketchup and toast. 'bar breakfasts' January , 2012 Peter Haley / Staff photographer (PETER HALEY/THE NEWS TRIBUNE)

5 best bets for breakfast at the bar

TNT Diner had no trouble finding bars and restaurants widely known for their late-night shenanigans that also produce quality eats from the weekend morning griddle – in copious, delicious quantities. Here are five “bars” with breakfasts worth a try.

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Rise and shine: South Sound bars with breakfasts worth a try

Published February 3rd, 2012 - 11:22AM

Depending upon your dining preferences or the bar you frequent, breakfast at a watering hole can be a cultural odyssey or a gritty journey. I maintain that both can be equally delightful if you have a curiosity for interesting bar food that comes with a funky atmosphere and clientele.

Beefy bites: South Sound's top 5 burger joints

Published January 27th, 2012 - 11:06AM

Following the recent opening of Five Guys Burgers and Fries, TNT Diner's Sue Kidd visited her favorite homegrown burger stands. Read her recommendations and see if you agree.

Tacoma’s Adriatic Grill: Wood-fired eats and superb service – yes, in a mall location

Published December 23rd, 2011 - 10:02AM

Adriatic Grill resides within one of the toughest neighborhoods for upscale dining. I’ve tried convincing friends that a restaurant near the mall – yes, that mall – serves superb Kobe flat-iron steak, turns out pizza from a wood-fired oven, masters garlicky Bolognese with al dente chewy pull, and doses grilled peaches with sweetened balsamic for dessert.

Tacoma's Museum of Glass gets new cafe – Choripan by Asado

Published December 22nd, 2011 - 1:51PM

The Museum of Glass will have a new cafe next month, and the operators are familiar to local restaurant watchers. By mid-January, X Group restaurants will open Choripan by Asado, a café featuring “an approachable take on Argentine street food.” The cafe will be an extension of the concept at the restaurant group’s Sixth Avenue Argentine restaurant, Asado.

Tacoma's Cloverleaf Pizza & Tavern celebrates a half-century of pizza

Published November 18th, 2011 - 12:05AM

If you’ve bitten into the crust of a Cloverleaf pizza, you notice the difference. It doesn’t come with the usual chewy tug of regular pizza dough. It’s a thin, pastry-style crust that is at once tender, pliable and sturdy. It doesn’t shatter like a cracker, but it’s got crunch. There’s no tossing aside these crusts.

Lobster House brings dim sum to Tacoma, finally

Published November 11th, 2011 - 5:58AM

FIRST BITE REVIEW: Until now, finding dim sum in Tacoma was about as easy as finding a creperie or Ethiopian restaurant. Yeah. Good luck with that. Then, a few weeks ago, along came a small sidewalk board in the Lincoln District advertising this: "Lobster House Chinese Restaurant Dim Sum."

Yum on a bun: Five more Tacoma bar burgers to try before you die

Published November 4th, 2011 - 6:11AM

It took months and three bottles of Tums to recover from last December’s bar burger series. Remember that? I wrote about the 20 burgers you have to eat before you die (or die trying). This time, I took a considerably smaller bite out of Tacoma’s bar burger footprint.

First bite: Porter’s Place reopens on South Tacoma Way

Published October 28th, 2011 - 6:05AM

Porter is a name synonymous with barbecue in Western Washington. But if the name doesn’t register, these words just might: “Have you met ‘The Man?’

Go Eat: Off the radar gems found at area strip malls

Published October 21st, 2011 - 5:36AM

Strip malls suck up moments of our mundane lives. But sometimes - just sometimes - strip malls hide culinary treasures that invite you to sit, savor and enjoy hand-crafted food that seems woefully out of place in a suburban setting.

Big, fat, delicious St. Nicholas Greek festival begins

Published October 7th, 2011 - 12:05AM

I go every year and leave reeking of Greek food. The St. Nicholas Greek Festival is one of my favorite festivals. It should be on your list, too. If anyone knows how to throw a big Greek feast, it’s the parish members and volunteers at the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Tacoma. Church volunteers have put on the food festival for 50 years, introducing countless Tacomans to baklava, gyros, melomakarona, koulorakia, dolmades and plenty of other Greek dishes and pastries that many may find unpronounceable, but utterly delicious.

Welcome to Gluttonville: Pants-splitting eats await at Puyallup Fair

Published September 16th, 2011 - 12:05AM

Gut-busters, pants-splitters and food on a stick. The eats I found at this year’s Puyallup Fair sound as if they were created on a whim, or maybe on a dare by Scottish cooks.

Seattle's Ezell's Famous Chicken restaurant trying again in Tacoma

Published September 9th, 2011 - 11:29AM

The sign in the small strip mall on the corner South 19th Street and South K Street promises it's coming soon: Ezell's Famous Chicken.

New restaurants in Tacoma offer meatless menus

Published August 26th, 2011 - 12:05AM

Veg-friendly Tacoma. That’s a questionable notion for plant-based eaters facing a dearth of fine dining restaurants in Tacoma that take the meat out of the menu.

South Sound diners welcome eclectic eateries

Published August 19th, 2011 - 12:05AM

Plucky new restaurants are popping up all over town despite slow economy.

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