This was a white-tablecloth buffet with Western-style and Japanese cuisine stations serving everything from shrimp and smoked salmon to omelets, French pastries, Japanese porridge, rice and seaweed.
Gas station cuisine is partly being driven by popular food truck operators — Corned Beef King started as a truck in 2011 — seeking permanent locations for the evolution of their brands and to meet strict regulatory requirements to have a licensed base of operations.
If this is gas-station cuisine, Alice Waters has won.
The experience features changing stations of cuisine that may include seafood stews, giant lamb shanks, raclette softened in front of the fire, and chocolate-dipped strawberries.
The cafeteria, in the USDA's south building, on Independence Avenue SW, looks like many other food courts and one-stop lunch shops in Washington, with deli stations and sushi counters surrounding a by-the-pound salad bar and hot-dish serving station, where different cuisines rotate onto the menu every day.
On special occasions, they dine at the Iron Horse Grill, a white-cloth restaurant next to the train station that serves Continental cuisine.
Its tall, blaring sign, probably visible from the international space station, promises "Authentic Chinese Cuisine" -- usually a guarantee that the cooking is anything but authentic.
Our first stop was in Ímuris, a small town about 35 miles south of Nogales, where the cafe in the bus station is noted for its cuisine.
Some fifteen thousand Hispanics had lived in New Orleans before Katrina, but they'd never had a high profile — no Spanish radio station, identifiable Hispanic neighborhood, or fashionable cuisine.
Some fifteen thousand Hispanics had lived in New Orleans before Katrina, but they'd never had a high profile no Spanish radio station, identifiable Hispanic neighborhood, or fashionable cuisine.
