Jane Hobson Snyder

Greeting me at the door is Lily, as lovely as her name, pixie-like, with a quick smile and lively eyes. I imagine we’d have a good conversation if either of us spoke the other’s language. She shows me to the covered entryway where two elaborately carved wood and marble chairs overlook a modest paint-chipped fountain. […]

George’s Garage turns 13 this year, which in restaurant years makes it eligible for an AARP card. There’s a biological reason this Ninth Street landmark has made it to its 13th birthday when so many others haven’t: adaptation and diversity. George’s Garage 737 Ninth St., Durham 286-4131 ghgrestaurants.com

“What do you want to know?” he asks. Tell me your story.

The truck shows up at Disco Rodeo each Friday and Saturday night sometime after 7. “But, 7:30 guaranteed,” says co-owner Manuel Garcia Jr. “You know, the Hispanic community, they don’t punch out at 5; they work till the sun goes down. So I have [customers] that just come when it gets dark, when the job […]

J. Betski’s 10 W. Franklin St. Seaboard Station, Raleigh 833-7999, www.jbetskis.com I’m sure there’s a German word for it that would have six or seven guttural syllables, but I took French in my Louisiana school, so when I walk into J. Betski’s for the first time, the phrase that comes to mind is trompe l’oeil, […]

Where does Michael Schiffer, founder of Maximillians in Cary, champion of all things from the Orient bold and spicy, subject of last month’s Food Chain, go when he wants to be wowed? His answer is quick and decisive: Lantern, to immerse himself in the menu of chef Andrea Reusing. To describe Reusing’s food, Schiffer uses […]