Yummy food from Chiang Mai
This morning’s Wichita Eagle has not one but TWO restaurant reviews for your reading pleasure.
I wrote the one about Garden Grill Cafe, which is vegan chef Miguel Larcher’s new restaurant in the Occidental Building at 300 N. Main. I’m a steak girl, but I loved this place because I’m also a mushroom and tomato girl. I can’t wait to go back and have more of the restaurant’s fabulous vegan pizza. I felt downright healthy when I left.
The other is a review of Chiang Mai, a fabulous Thai restaurant at 3141 S. Hillside, has been around for years. It’s one of those “hole-in-the-wall” finds that make foodies happy. This review was written by Wichita Eagle Dining Panel star Philip Warren.
Do yourself a favor and eat at both of these restaurants soon. Do yourself a bigger favor and go after a few days have passed. Restaurants are usually busy the day their reviews are published.
Inside the new Garden Grill Cafe.
Since d’Sozo went out of business last spring, I’ve been getting frequent e-mails from vegetarian/vegan diners wanting to know where chef Miguel Larcher was and when he’d be cooking again.
On Thursday, Larcher finally opened his new restaurant he’s been working on for months, Garden Grill Cafe, on the first floor of Occidental Plaza, 300 N. Main. (Longtime Wichitans will remember Two Feathers, El Torero and other restaurants operating in the space.)
The restaurant focuses on vegetarian and vegan food made with Greek, Italian and Mediterranean flavors. Larcher is offering daily specials and a menu full of smoothies, sandwiches, pizzas and pasta dishes. (You can see the menu here.
The Garden Grill Cafe is inside the Occidental Plaza.
Larcher, a native of Martinique, plans Tuesday-night cooking classes and Monday-night lectures by health professionals. He’ll open for Sunday brunch starting on Nov. 4.
Until then, his hours are 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays with dinner hours from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
For more information, call 316-978-9213.
