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By DAVID KISH | June 12, 2009

Omelet Grommet
Having trouble tethering your omelet?
Hoopleville Pop Art
Revolving sandwich
Adventure cooking
Cooking Indian food by myself for the first time felt like skydiving; it went against all my instincts.
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Omelet Grommet
Having trouble tethering your omelet?
Hoopleville Pop Art
Revolving sandwich
Adventure cooking
Cooking Indian food by myself for the first time felt like skydiving; it went against all my instincts.
King Do Baguette and Pastry
One measure of how far Americans have come in their globetrotting culinary breadth is the number of ordinary folks I know who've tried a bánh mì, the great Vietnamese street-food sandwich.
Korean Garden Restaurant
Despite being open only six months, Korean Garden already has 22 Internet reviews.
Great Taste Bakery and Restaurant
After a series of unimpressive Chinese restaurants (and one Korean place) had vacated the premises, this odd double-storefront reopened with a silly name — and actually delivers on it. All the food we had did taste great!
Halal Indian Cuisine
I imagine many diners who like Indian cuisine and can tolerate some chili heat have had this frustrating discussion with their server: "Curry: spicy, please." "Would you like that mild, medium, or hot?" "Hot, please." "Ooh, hot here is very hot." "Hot, please."
Exotic Sushi and Tapas
Exotic Sushi and Tapas doesn't have the most exotic sushi, but the combination of Japanese bar snacks with their European small-plate counterparts is an unusual angle on fusion that can be worked into a square meal.
The Place
Sometimes a burger or a heap of nachos is just what the appetite (and budget) ordered. Sometimes nothing less than white linen elegance will do. A Newport place ambitiously named the Place bills itself as "the wine bar and grille at Yesterdays." The latter restaurant describes itself as "an alehouse;" it has 36 microbrews on tap and a menu that skews playful and Caribbean. Oy — a pint, mon.
Spice Thai
If I tried, I think I could work up a tear recalling the '70s, when there were no Thai restaurants in Rhode Island — a dark age largely devoid of the culinary spice of life. Thank goodness there was Szechuan.
Dawat Fine Indian Cuisine
Dawat does what all other Indian restaurants do — sometimes better — with newish things besides.
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