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 #### eet by Maneet Chauhan - Orlando, Florida
 I love Indian food, and of course I would want to visit the only Indian restaurant in Disney Springs. This one is also run by a celebrity chef who appears on various Food Network shows. I am pretty well-versed in Indian food, as I cook it almost every night. I am also quite familiar with "generic" Indian restaurants and the horrors that modern chefs concoct in order to make some kind of meaningless social statement that no one but critics understand; that this restaurant would be one of the two was my main fear walking in. Instead, I got enough food for leftovers at a reasonable price for the area. We both chose the "BYOB" (build your own bowl) option, which comes with cabbage and masala-flavored chickpeas. Then, you pick the base, kebab, and sauce; we both chose rice and tandoori chicken for the first two. My wife picked tikka, while I picked bhunna for the sauce. It's hard to mess up tikka, but it was excellent regardless. The bhunna was quite spicy and flavorful. The chickpeas were great: instead of cooking it as a dal (the traditional approach) these were served puffed and crunchy, infused with a nice masala flavor. The cabbage detracted from the dish in my opinion and it would have been better if it were left out. The tandoori chicken didn't have a ton of tandoori flavor, but was serviceable regardless as something to have with the excellent curries. Seating was easy to find, as I guess Indian food isn't popular enough in America to have a line out the door. I will definitely be revisiting this restaurant when I'm in the area again both because the food is excellent at a reasonable price and I missed out on getting the "tandoori chicken poutine" which is an interesting proposition for sure. Unfortunately, I missed meeting Chauhan by a day as she was visiting the restaurant the day after I ate there, I would have loved to have met her. 8/10.
 
+#### The Black Lantern Tea Room & Bakery - Asheboro, North Carolina
+After visiting the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, we headed to the downtown to find something to eat. While a "Tea room and bakery" held a promise of overpriced baked goods and an expectation of large tip, we ventured in anyways because of the striking interior. Indeed, the interior was modeled after the Dark Academia aesthetic, looking more like the study of an old European intellectual than a bakery. It's a place where I could let the afternoon pass me by with a cup of hot tea and good conversation with friends. We got a couple of baked goods and two teas, both of which were excellent and reasonably priced. They also sell sandwiches which are reasonably priced. We ended leaving a generous tip due to the excellent experience we had there. 10/10 for the theming and the reasonable prices.
 
+#### Oceanside Bar and Grill - Flagler Beach, Florida
+It was a dark and stormy day that led us up the famed Florida A-1-A. After fighting the stormy seas at Ormond Beach, we drove up the road looking for food as swimming has an uncanny ability to sap your satience. After driving north for a bit, we came upon a beach joint right off the road with outdoor seating. The restaurant has two floors, with the top floor being outdoor seating and a bar. We opted for the top floor which was a small mistake as the wind kept blowing our food away, but this weather was the exception and not the rule for Florida so we couldn't hold it against the restaurant. As an appetizer, we got mozzarella sticks. I got the special of that day, which was a sort of citrusy shrimp scampi. My wife had the smash burger melt. Both foods were excellent, and reasonably priced for being a very obvious tourist trap at around $40. They took quite a long time to get us our food which gave us a chance to admire the choppy ocean; the view truly was beautiful. 8/10
 
+#### Renewal Brewing - Martinsville, Virginia
+In a slowly gentrifying furniture/NASCAR town right on the border of Virginia and North Carolina lies a distinct local brewery themed after a speakeasy. Indeed, as you walk in you're greeted with an office space and stairs down to a jazzy joint. Featuring comfortable furniture, a view of the vats, and a fully functional upright piano, this is the type of bar I absolutely love. In classic fashion, I ordered the highest ABV beer that they had on tap. I forgot the name of it, and since the place is basically brand new they don't have any of their beers on the internet, I just remember that it started with a "V" named after some act instituted in Virginia, it was an imperial stout, and it was 10% ABV. It was one of the smoothest stouts that ever went down my gullet, and delicious as well. My wife got a strawberry daiquiri and it was the first alcoholic drink she's been able to get down in 7 months as she hates the taste of alcohol. The total was around $25. The bartenders were very friendly and open to conversation, and honestly it was the most welcome a microbrewery has ever made me feel. We will definitely be back, probably with friends. It could be improved with the addition of food, even bar snacks. The only food they had was a pretzel which was not good in our opinion, and they were out of cheese sauce so we could only have it with mustard which was definitely store-bought. 9/10
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+#### Old Farmhouse Buffet - Martinsville, Virginia
+Good southern cookin', reasonably priced for a buffet ($16/person for dinner), NASCAR themed. 9/10
 
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