Here are some of this week's most noteworthy restaurant reviews from across the country:

Broward-Palm Beach

Anatolia Mediterranean Cuisine / Al Bawadi

Initial impressions play a big part in setting the tone for a meal, as I found out while visiting two Mediterranean restaurants recently. The first experience happened at Anatolia Mediterranean Cuisine, an attractive, year-old Turkish restaurant near Mizner Park in Boca Raton. More >>

Dallas

India West

There are two possible reasons why India West's dining room was so sparsely populated the evening of my final visit. More >>

Sara Kerens

"Although India West is a new restaurant, its owner and kitchen staff have served curry for more than 20 years."

Denver

Melita's Greek Cafe & Market

When you're ready to start a different part of your life, you have to leave old things behind. That wasn't the lifestyle I wanted to lead anymore," says Adriana Aguilar, sitting at a table inside Melita's Greek Cafe & Market, the restaurant that she and her mother, Maria Gibson, took over eighteen months ago. More >>

Houston

Chacho's Tacos

The "Trump Taco" at Chacho's Tacos on Westheimer in the Galleria was overloaded with grilled sirloin, mushrooms and cheese. The spinach-and-mushroom quesadilla was so full of cheese, it was almost an inch thick. My dining companion couldn't finish half of it. More >>

Kansas City

Succotash

Before Beth Barden opened a restaurant, she taught sex education, so she's a straight-talking woman. She knows that some people had issues with her first Succotash, the sassy little bruncheonette operating in the City Market for eight years. She admits that she had problems with the small, awkwardly designed space and its ridiculously tiny kitchen. More >>

Los Angeles

If you are a man who enjoys a little Black Sabbath with his dinner, the new Lazy Ox Canteen may be just the place for you: a new downtown restaurant where dinner starts with "Paranoid'' and ends with "Iron Man,'' and includes a solid quorum of '70s stoner classics in between -- the soundtrack of a certain breed of male-oriented kitchen but one that rarely leaks out into the dining room...More >>

Anne Fishbein

"Chef Josef Centeno, dreaming of the endless tasting menu."

Miami

The Cape Cod Room

The Bath Club first appeared on Miami Beach's Millionaires Row near 59th Street in 1926. For decades, it was a private, membership-only bastion of barons, bankers, beneficiaries, and assorted other brandy-snifting bandits and bores. More >>

Minneapolis

Subo

It was, what, 10 degrees outside? And there we were: sipping the sweet juice of a young coconut straight from its shell, which looked something like a volleyball that had been hacked open with a machete. I could almost smell the salt in the air, hear the waves beating against the beach, and feel the ocean spray spattering on my cheeks. And we hadn't even started on the pork candy yet. More >>