Reviews

If you haven’t done Pho by now, you’re eating too much with the Colonel or his friend, MikeyD. Pho is Vietnamese noodle soup served with beef or chicken or seafood.

First, an apology by way of an acknowledgement. I have not eaten at Mother Mary’s Pizza in Clovis, which according to local eaters hews as close as anything to authentic Italian pizza.

At lunch for two days now I’ve been trapped in offices near West and Shaw. The entrapment wasn’t all bad; I was doing something to benefit my clients.

Fresno’s always been a culinary oasis but a restaurant backwater.

We had cheyma,¹ soubarag,² and rice pilaf before anyone dared deny the Armenian Holocaust. 

Today I’m reviewing Estancia’s, a fictional restaurant at the corner of Memory Lane and Shaw Avenue.

Estancia’s is a gem, not the in-the-rough sort but the product of hot ovens and blazing passion.