What makes a great dive - my rule number 2

Written By Robin Wade

Customer's regularly line up, out the door to get a table.  If I'm ever driving thru a small town (and haven't done my homework to get local insights thru Chowhound.com) my best results are usually from looking for restaurants with packed parking lots, or, even better, customers lining up out the door.  Linda and I love Asian food.  We also detest buffets, and the standard southern chinese restaurants with all you can eat enticements.  I can't tell you how thrilled we are with Maggie and Jason Lin's Rice Box Restaurant.  Their food, service, even bathrooms are always exceptional.  Jason is the head chef (rule number 1).  There are usually lines out the door (rule number 2).  --  What the heck am I doing here with rules??  I hate rules!  We LOVE the Rice Box (pictured above).  Oh - it's no DIVE.

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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