**Now Closed** I did a double take when I stumbled across the website for Barnyard Kitchen and Bar. Fried green tomatoes with house-smoked pork belly? Fried chicken on buttermilk biscuits with house pickles? Fresh local goats milk and sheep’s milk cheeses made in an on-site creamery? Wait ... is this in Idaho? Turns out it most definitely is, near the big box dominated corner of Fairview Avenue and Eagle Road. Housed in the former Muse Bistro & Wine Bar building in Meridian,

I swung by Eagle's newest addition, Grit American Cuisine, yesterday for lunch. The light wood tables in the smallish space are branded with the word "GRIT" and topped with two round red Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum salt and pepper shakers. The restaurant also features a few booths around the perimeter and some high tables near the stocked, steel-top bar. The crimson walls are splashed with the vibrant, whimsical work of artist Lukas Evergreen. The menu has a mash-up of influe