Category Archives: cheap

We chow down at Chairman Baos @ the Eat Real Festival, Oakland

August 28, 2010 – 12:07 pm

Everyone is talking about the Eat Real Festival which is going on this weekend in Oakland. Eat Real’s mission is to make real food as accessible and as affordable as fast food.  It’s a gathering of the Bay Area’s best street food vendors cooking up a wide range of delectables: tacos presented in a variety [...]

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Naengmyeon at Koryo Wooden Charcoal Restaurant in Oakland

August 2, 2010 – 8:59 am

4390 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609  | 510.652.6007 | menu I hooked up with some of my favorite dining companions at Koryo Wooden Charcoal Restaurant, an old-school Korean dining institution in Oakland. The restaurant has been around for at least 20 years where you cook a variety of meats over a flaming hot charcoal grill at [...]

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Jucy Lucys at Matt’s Bar in Minneapolis

July 16, 2010 – 7:07 am

3500 Cedar Avenue S., Minneapolis, MN  55407 | 612.722.7072 | website Do you know what a Jucy Lucy is?  It is a Minnesotan delicacy, a cheeseburger constructed from two thin ground beef patties that are sealed together with the cheese on the inside.  The Jucy Lucy along with hotdish casseroles, fried things on a stick [...]

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an elusive foodhoe sighting…

July 12, 2010 – 11:17 am

Ahhh, remember the Lobster Jook at Hing Lung Restaurant in San Francisco? A few months back I wrote about introducing a tv crew to the joys of eating jook for an upcoming PBS show called Breakfast Special. Read all about it here, or better yet, you can watch it this Wednesday, July 14th at 8 [...]

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A grilled feast at El Rancho Restaurant, Concord

July 1, 2010 – 8:42 am

1450 Monument Blvd, Concord, CA  94520 | 925.685.5582 | website Exploring the stripmall wilderness out in Contra Costa can be a bit daunting because there are so many obscure restaurants that appear undistinguishable from the rest.  This restaurant in particular we almost missed because I drove into the parking lot and went the wrong way [...]

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