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Curry and Cupcakes Make For An Excellent Lunch at Mosa
January 30, 2012
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Mosa Asian Bistro Curry and Cupcakes Make For An Excellent Lunch at Mosa January 30, 2012
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Bluff City Coffee, the coffee and snack shop in Downtown’s South Main Historic Arts District, has recently unveiled some aggressive expansion plans.
The local eatery has leased a 3,000-square-foot kitchen in the Pembroke Building, 119 S. Main St., in the space behind the Center for Southern Folklore. Ed Woods with Belz Enterprises Inc. represented the landlord and was the only agent involved in the deal. Bluff City opened at 505 S. Main St. in 2006. David Adams purchased the 1,300-square-foot business about two years ago. Adams said the new space will allow Bluff City to expand its product offerings to include additional pastry choices, multiple soups daily, more fresh-baked breads and doughnuts, an upgraded lunch menu, the return of cream cheese sugar cookies and more. That “more” includes the desire to add retail locations late this year. “We’re looking at doing something in both Downtown and Midtown kind of like what Bluff City is now,” Adams said. “We wanted something near where we were because we didn’t have the facilities to do what we wanted to do, and this will allow us to really expand our offerings and bring more bakery items to the Downtown/Midtown market.” Adams is looking for retail space in Midtown with reasonable build-out costs and one that doesn’t compete with nearby eateries. “In Midtown, there’s just not a lot of spaces,” Adams said. “Most shopping centers already have somebody doing sandwiches, so they won’t approve a new restaurant-style facility. They’ve blocked us out of a lot of them. It’s a tough market.” Source: Memphis Daily News by Sarah Baker I’ve reluctantly come to accept that when I eat Asian food, I’m not getting dessert because I don’t like green tea ice cream, fortune cookies or sliced fruit. But Charlene Pao at Mosa Asian Bistro is changing my mind with her assortment of homemade cupcakes for $1.50 each that tempt even a dessert snob like me.
I simply can’t explain how thrilled I was to see our server Michael Maxey waltz out a bin of cupcakes in three delicious flavors. Okay, he didn’t actually dance, but he seemed very pleased to suggest his favorite: red velvet. I went with his recommendation and couldn’t have been happier. The cupcake wasn’t too big or too small, the swirl of vanilla almond cream cream cheese icing was ample but not overpowering, and a sprinkle of rock sugar made each bite linger. _We also tried the chocolate with strawberry icing (made with fresh berries!) and discovered chocolate chips hiding inside the cupcake. There were chocolate cupcakes with pineapple icing, as well, but they had to wait for another day. It’s easy to miss the second location of Mosa Asian Bistro, tucked beside and behind Bed, Bath and Beyond on White Station between Park and Popular. The original location is on Kirby, and my friend Leonard who eats there regularly gives that location high marks. Both Mosa's feature a fusion menu (Korean, Thai and Japanese). Our lunch before the cupcakes was tasty and affordable. I had a Jiao Zhe Bowl ($7.50), a signature entrée for Mosa that served up seven chicken potstickers (fat and steamed); homemade chicken broth; carrots; sliced Napa cabbage and a hot dipping sauce. Anna liked her General Pao’s chicken and the mound of rice alongside ($7.75). We shared an order of steamed and salted edamame ($3). Another nice feature of Mosa is that the menu changes periodically. New items on the current menu include a toasted crepe served with a black bean, edamame and corn relish (Yo Bing) and Korean BBQ Beef prepared mild, medium or spicy. Mosa Asian Bistro, 850 White Station, 683-8889 and 1825 Kirby Parkway, 755-6755 (mosaasianbistro.com) |
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