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After about a year of dining around town it came time to revisit the Upper Crust Restaurant in Heyburn. We were not disappointed, having had another wonderful dining experience.

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This week found me choosing Perkins as the restaurant for my review. As a restaurant chain, one of the few in our community, we often overlook it as a place for a nice lunch. This time as with the review of Perkins I did one year ago, reminded me that by excluding it from your dinner out rot…

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I thought I would do something different today so I went to the Golden Heritage Senior Center here in Burley. This wasn’t my first trip to the Senior Center and it won’t be my last.

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This week we picked Charlie’s Café for our lunch experience. We have driven past Charlie’s a thousand times and have just never stopped there to eat. What we found was a little jewel in the community that we had simply overlooked.

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Mexican food was back on the menu this week, taking us to a restaurant one of our employees swears by when she has the craving for authentic Mexican food. Aguila Con El Taco isn’t easy to pronounce but the food they serve more than makes up for the difficulty in repeating the name accurately…

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Cassia students will be out of school January 28-29 while tables are turned and teachers do the learning. Students aren’t typically dismissed from school for two days, outside of unexpected weather or mechanical failures, unless there are some pretty good reasons. Cassia Trustees believe tha…

What can a food critic say about the Taco Bandido experience? Much like the following at Stevo’s, Taco Bandido is spoken of by old timers as if it were the dining room of a deity, not a home-grown mom and pop restaurant. Taco Bandido has a loyal following that is impossibly committed to dini…

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Editors Note: As the weeks go buy it is becoming more difficult to identify restaurants that I haven’t yet visited. If you enjoy reading this food review column please send me ideas of where I might eat next. You can email me at jay@theweeklymailer.com or call the office at 208-678-6643 and …

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For some, eating at a fast food restaurant like Panda Express isn’t the same as having a sit-down meal at a destination Chinese restaurant, but for me, I’m partial to a restaurant where the entire cooking process is done within eyesight, which is the way its done at the Burley Panda Express …