Inkwatu reviews Sa Ri One Korean Bulgogi Restaurant.

Wow, MonkeySee has several hundred high-quality cooking videos. Here are three dozen about cooking breakfast.

(Thanks, Matt!)

Dear Tampa restaurants - Will one of you please put one of these on your menu? Thanks, Dave.

The hamburger fatty melt is a burger with two grilled cheese sandwiches as the buns.

It must be close to lunchtime because that’s looking really good.

If you have some spare testicles in the freezer and you’re bored with all your old ball recipes, you might want to pick up a copy of The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls by Ljubomir Erovic. Erovic includes recipes for testicle pizza and battered testicles. The e-book comes with video guides!

“Erovic, 45, is self-taught in the art of testicle cuisine but his 20 years of “cooking with balls” make him a world authority in the field.”

Not for people with allergies to nuts.

Culinary Sherpa, and New Heights Magazine food critic Michelle Baker recently went on a search for the best Chinese take-out in the Urban Corridor. The Urban Corridor is defined by New Heights as Seminole Heights, Downtown, Ybor, West Tampa, Tampa Heights, Riverside Heights, Davis Islands, Hyde Park & Surrounding Areas.

Check it out.

Over the next six months you should start seeing more and more products carrying a country of origin label (COOL). The six-month phase-in began September 30th.

“Covered by the new rules: ground beef, chicken, pork, veal, steak, lamb and goat, along with fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, macadamia nuts, pecans and peanuts.”

So, is this a bad law because of the extra financial burden it adds to supermarkets and food retailers?

Or, is this a good law because it allows people to make more informed choices about how they spend their money?

Should it be even more refined, so that consumers can know which state the product comes from?

Or, is it just another example of big government sticking their nose in where it doesn’t belong?

Here’s some more info at the USDA.

The month is over and voting in Eating Tampa’s Best of Tampa Reader’s Poll has ended. Thanks to everyone who voted. I’ll be compiling the votes and should start rolling out the results this weekend. Since this is a one-man operation, I’ll be rolling out results over the rest of the month.

I occasionally receive press releases. Most I ignore, but with a few I have posted snippets and links to the pertinent sites. I’m posting this whole release from EVOS just because I like them, and I like supporting them. (Now if they’d only take out an ad!)

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EVOS Promotes “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week”

Customers to get healthy dose of antibiotic awareness info and 100% antibiotic- free Steakburgers – for free!

Tampa, Fl. – (September 29, 2008) – EVOS® restaurants are joining in the Center for Disease Control’s “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week” to help educate people on antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use. The initiative is a national campaign that runs from October 6 through October 10.

Antibiotic resistance has been called one of the world’s most pressing health problems. Almost every type of bacteria has become stronger and less responsive to antibiotic treatment when it is really needed. These antibiotic-resistant bacteria can quickly spread to family members, schoolmates, and co-workers - threatening the community with a new strain of infectious disease that is more difficult to cure and more expensive to treat. For this reason, antibiotic resistance is among the CDC’s top concerns.

“Our customers tend to be health-conscious, and we see this as an opportunity to give them some important information that they can use to make some smart choices about the use of antibiotics,” said EVOS co-founder Dino Lambridis.

EVOS customers will find some of the CDC’s facts and prevention tips on their trays and in takeout bags during “Get Smart About Antibiotics Week.”

On Wednesday, October 8th, EVOS customers can enjoy a free EVOS Freerange Steakburger as the company’s way of saying thanks and helping to spread the word about this important initiative. The EVOS Steakburger – just like all beef and chicken at EVOS – is 100% antibiotic free.

“There’s no need to give our cows drugs – they’re not sick,” said Lambridis. “The same principle applies to people. Don’t take antibiotics for colds and flu. That’s why we are helping the CDC spread the word about this important health issue.”

EVOS has four locations in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area: 2774 E. Fowler Ave., 609 S. Howard Ave., 157 Westshore Plaza and 2631 4th St. North.

For more information on antibiotic resistance, see the CDC’s website at www.cdc.gov/getsmart.

About EVOS;

EVOS® is a quick-service restaurant chain serving healthier burgers, fries, and shakes. Dino Lambridis, Alkis Crassas and Michael Jeffers have expanded the business to include four stores in Florida, one in Nevada and one in North Carolina since starting franchise expansion in 2005. Their philosophy is to use healthier ingredients such as naturally-raised hormone/antibiotic-free beef and organic ingredients, as well as alternative cooking techniques. The result is 50-70% less fat without sacrificing flavor. The company also employs sustainable business practices that range from purchasing renewable wind energy to utilizing environmentally-friendly materials in the building of its stores. EVOS has signed area rep and franchise agreements in 15 states for more than 200 stores over 10 years. Additional information is available on the company’s website at www.evos.com.

The end of the month is rapidly approaching, which means that the polls will soon be closed on Eating Tampa’s Best of Tampa Reader’s Poll. Vote! Vote! Vote! (And THANKS to all those who have already voted).

You can vote in the comments, or send me an email at eatingtampa AT gmail.com

I’m pasting the original post below. Note that the 2008 Creative Loafing issue has come and gone, and, as wonderful as it is, it doesn’t come close to touching on all the food topics below.

You don’t have to vote in every category, and you can add categories of your own.

VOTE!

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Welcome to Eating Tampa’s 2008 search for the best food in Tampa. Polls will be open for the month of September and winners will be posted throughout the month of October.

Votes can be cast either in the comments section or you can email them to me at eatingtampa A T gmail.com or dave AT recreatingtampa.com.

You don’t have to vote all at once AND you can make up your own categories if you don’t see them here.

There have been a lot of changes over the last year. Some winners have moved on to that great restaurant in the sky, and Tampa’s been lucky to have a lot of great new places open.

ORIGIN STORY

A year ago I was eagerly anticipating Creative Loafing’s best of issue. As I was browsing the winners of the food categories I was struck by how many were in St. Petersburg. Now, St. Pete can be pretty awesome, but I wanted a best of Tampa, and so this search was born.

While some places outside the city of Tampa won last year, I maintain editorial privilege to disqualify anything outside the city limits. That said, some places get so many votes that I will include them if they fall within the larger metropolitan area of the Tampa bay area.

Doing this list in 2007 was a blast and I look forward to your suggestions.

NOW VOTE!

Best 24-hour Restaurant

Best Bagel

Best Bakery

Best Bar

Best Barbecue

Best Bay-area Food Writer

Best Beach Bar

Best Locally Brewed Beer

Best Beer Garden

Best Breakfast

Best Buffet

Best Burgers (chain)

Best Burgers (non-chain)

Best Chinese

Best Crepes

Best Coffee (non-chain)

Best Colombian

Best Cuban Food

Best Cuban Sandwich

Best Deli

Best Desserts

Best Diner

Best Falafel

Best Fish Market

Best Fish Sandwich

Best Food Blog

Best French Fries

Best Fried Chicken

Best Fried Potato

Best Gelato

Best German Food

Best Greek

Best Grocery Store

Best Gyro

Best Hot Dogs

Best Ice Cream

Best Indian Restaurant

Best Italian

Best Jamaican

Best Mall Food

Best Middle Eastern

Best Nachos

Best Pho

Best Pizza

Best Place that Allows Dogs

Best Place to Take a First Date

Best Place to Take Out-of-towners for Dinner

Best Place to Watch the Sun Set

Best Sandwich (local)

Best Sandwich Shop (chain)

Best Sandwich Shop (non-chain)

Best Southern Cooking

Best Steak

Best Sushi

Best Sweet Tea

Best Tex-Mex/Mexican

Best Thai

Best Vegan

Best Veggie

Best Vietnamese

Best Wine Bar