Food Search 2023 Wrap Up
by Terrance McArthur
2023 was quite a year for The Great Food Search, reviewing 34 different eateries. Here’s a top five.
Jan
2024
27
The Great Food Search
Dec
2023
23
Great Food Search: Leftovers 2023!
by Terrance McArthur
You know how sometimes you have really good food, but you don’t finish it, so you have a refrigerator full of leftovers? Food reviewers can have a version of that. Maybe you come across a great restaurant, but it doesn’t fit the theme you had planned for that month, so the pictures sit in your phone until you can’t quite remember what you ate or where it was. That happened to me this year, so I present—LEFTOVERS 2023!
Aug
2023
26
The Great Food Search: My Salad Days
by Terrance McArthur
Sometimes, I hanker for a rare steak. Other days, I long for salmon. In the summer, a salad sounds like a really good idea. Yes, summers are My Salad Days.
Jul
2023
29
The Great Food Search: That’s the Way the Banana Splits
by Terrance McArthur
It happened in 1904: Latrobe, Pennsylvania. “Doc” Strickler, an optometrist, cut a banana lengthwise, added three different scoops of ice cream, topped it with strawberries, raspberries, crushed pineapple, marshmallow syrup, chopped nuts, and pitted black cherries. That was the first Banana Split. It was a hit, and Strickler eventually bought the pharmacy/soda fountain downstairs from his office.
Jun
2023
24
Great Food Search … And the Food Trucks Go Rollin’ Along
by Terrance McArthur
The Great Food Search will go just about anywhere in search of food providers to share with a salivating public. Once more, we scoured the Valley for food trucks with good eats, looking for food trucks parked at Gazebo Gardens, the Tower District Farmers Market, Simonian Farms, Reedley College Farmers Market, and Sanger High School.
May
2023
27
Great Food Search: Food Chains
by Terrance McArthur
Usually, The Great Food Search seeks out unique dishes and eating establishments in the San Joaquin Valley, but this installment is a little different. I focused on chain restaurants. I dragged my wife (All right, sometimes she dragged me) to places in Clovis, Fresno, and Kingsburg. We discovered Spring menus and new offerings at well-known restaurants ... and they were good! Follow us on another Great Food Search to see what’s new in some of the Old Reliables.
Apr
2023
29
Great Food Search: Return of the Return of Fresno Street Eats
by Terrance McArthur
In September 2022, The Great Food Search brought you Fresno Street Eats. In January 2023, The Great Food Search brought you Return of Fresno Street Eats. NOW—The Great Food Search brings you Return of the Return of Fresno Street Eats.
Mar
2023
25
Great Food Search: Rogue Eats 2023
by Terrance McArthur
The 2023 Fresno Rogue Performance Festival has come and gone, but the memories remain. For The Great Food Search, some of the best memories are of food. As I went from venue to venue, reviewing strange and amazing shows, one thing became obvious: even reviewers need to eat! Since the venues for the Rogue were in the Tower District, restaurants in that area were the obvious choice for the hungry reviewer. Therefore, here is a selection of where I went and what I got for Rogue ’23.
Feb
2023
25
Great Food Search: What Was and What Is
by Terrance McArthur
You know how it is in the restaurant business—things change. One restaurant closes, and another opens in the same place. Somebody takes over a place, and it changes. The Great Food Search visited a couple of places that once were, and are now different.
Jan
2023
28
Great Food Search: Return of Fresno Street Eats
by Terrance McArthur
Fresno Street Eats is an organized group of food trucks that gather at different locations in the Fresno County area (or thereabouts) in various numbers (1-6 or more) at various times (lunch, dinner, etc.). The Great Food Search sampled several trucks and locations in September, but there are many more trucks and gathering points out there, from north of Herndon to south of Jensen, so Here We Go Again with Round Two.
