The wine list is thoroughly unconventional, while the menu is full of unusual combinations and thoughtful counterpoints.
Superstreets, called restricted crossing u-turns by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), are part of a menu of unconventional arterial intersection designs that may provide a promising solution.
This series exists far beyond simply being another food-truck show; whether it is delving deeper into the authentic cuisines of the trucks, or uncovering where their unconventional ingredient choices and menu items originate, this tour of the taste buds is as much about culture and adventure as it is about food.
The Italian memorabilia on the walls — vintage ice-cream and soda ads, a map of Umbria and Le Marche, receipts from the café that the grandmother of the owner, Albano Ballerini, operated in Italy — speak of tradition, but the menu includes such unconventional offerings as the Giallorossa, with dried cherries, nutmeg, and crème fraîche.
The presentation was in keeping with his award-winning, Bangkok-based restaurant Gaggan, where he first masterminded the emoji-only menu to display unconventional options like eggplant cookies and lobster dosa.
Even the ever-changing menu at Thirty Acres is unconventional.
Turkey may be an unconventional choice for a seven-course $79 tasting menu in a restaurant that the Houston Chronicle critic Alison Cook gave four stars after it opened last year.
Here are six unconventional foods that will spice up your wedding menu and please the palates of all your guests.
(A recent feature on eater.com spoofed trendy restaurant menu items: "truffle oil-tainted mashed potatoes," "an unconventional riff on brussels sprouts," "tarted-up pork belly").
The menu takes dim sum and dumplings in an unconventional direction, with options such as cream cheese won tons with lox, har gow in sweet pea broth and Reuben egg rolls with pastrami, Swiss cheese and a Thousand Island dip.
Then we took a taxi to the grim old port city of Piraeus, had an unconventional breakfast -- as I recall, "milk bowels" was on the menu -- and took a boat to the island of Poros, 40 miles south.
