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Dmitry Iakovlev at Irinaâs Steak & Seafood | CITYVIEW (opens the original)
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Dmitry Iakovlev owns Irinaâs Steak & Seafood in West Des Moines with his wife, Irina Khartchenko. Since the restaurant is now 20 years old in Des Moines, we asked him to lunch to reminisce and talk about changes in the restaurant business and the coupleâs long, strange trip to Iowa and citizenship. He suggested we meet at Irinaâs, which opens daily at 3 p.m. Twenty years is amazing in one of the toughest of businesses. Less than half of all new restaurants last five years. It must have tak
Portofino and The Empire are oases for bargain seekers | CITYVIEW (opens the original)
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Portofinoâs 711 South Ankeny Blvd., Ankeny, 515-630-0182Tuesday – Thursday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. This appears to be the year of bargain stalking. Itâs the No. 1 thing our readers ask about, and thatâs never happened before in our 38 years on the food beat in Iowa. Young people are foregoing the old rites of youth like going out to restaurants and bars on dates, binge drinking alcohol and showing off. Their discretionary budgets are stressed
Paradise lost â The rich black dirt of Iowa | CITYVIEW (opens the original)
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From the human point of view, dirt is the ultimate outsider. We try to keep it out of sight, out of mind and outdoors. We kick it off our shoes, spit on it and degrade it linguistically with dirty jokes, dirty minds, dirty secrets and dirty truths. In the end, everything comes from it and everything returns to it. It is first on Aristotleâs list of the âBig Fourâ elements of life, ahead of air, fire and water. Yet somehow, no one worries that it is disappearing. When agriculture was the â
Punching above our weight | CITYVIEW (opens the original)
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Des Moines is a triple A city. We are proud of that. The major leagues are close enough in Kansas City, Minneapolis and Chicago. We embrace our size and limited aspirations as a tradeoff for escaping the rat races that accompany major league status. We choose blithe over blight and bright lights. We restrict our bragging to girls basketball, agricultural production and âour state fair.â Then some outsider visits and points out superlative things that we take for granted. That happens every s
The American buffet on steroids | CITYVIEW (opens the original)
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KPOT7105 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines (across the street from Costco).thekpot.comSunday to Thursday, noon to 10 p.m.Friday and Saturday, noon to 10:30 p.m. Each August, old friends call while in town for the Iowa State Fair. They want advice about where to eat when they are not eating at the fair. This year, I was asked about KPOT more often than any other restaurant. I donât visit all-you-can-eat (AYCE) buffets as much as I used to, but it was time to check out KPOT because they are b
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