A Dishcrawl through Alameda

April 17, 2013
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Last week, I signed up to go on a Dishcrawl with Mr. K, where a group of 40 food enthusiasts band together to dine en masse at four different restaurants that are within walking distance of each other during the course of a single evening.   We had a great time touring along the Park Street [...]

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Slow Hand BBQ, Pleasant Hill

April 8, 2013
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1941 Oak Park Blvd, Pleasant Hill, CA | 925.942.0149 | website I’m always on the lookout for anything new to add into the lunch rotation near to our office in Coco county.  Slow Hand BBQ, a brick and mortar restaurant was opened last summer by Dan Frengs who has been perfecting his technique of slow [...]

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Gussies Chicken and Waffles

April 1, 2013
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1521 Eddy St., SF, CA 94115 | 415.409.2529 | website My friend DebbieG sent me an SOS that she needed assistance with using a groupon for Gussie’s Chicken and Waffles before it expired, an offer that I found impossible to resist.  This heavenly combination became popular in the 1940′s at a late night Harlem supperclub where jazz [...]

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Izakaya Roku, San Francisco

March 26, 2013
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1819 Market St., SF, CA 94105| 415.861.6500 | website | facebook Hours: Tues to Thurs, Sun: 5:00pm to 10:00pm; Fri and Sat: 5:00pm to 11:00pm; Monday: Closed I met my friends Jaytee and P for a quick dinner at Izakaya Roku, which is located at a point on Market Street where the Castro, the Mission, [...]

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Sunday Brunch at Xiao Long Bao Kitchen

March 19, 2013
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331 Grand Avenue, South SF | 650.589.8188 | facebook Mr. K and I drove to Xiao Long Bao Kitchen in South San Francisco last Sunday for brunch with a gathering of friends. I visited last fall with a smaller group where we focused on the dumplings (you can read about that here), but this time we had [...]

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The allure of the tagine

March 10, 2013
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We received this beautiful tagine in the mail recently, a thoughtful gift from Mr. K’s cousin Suzanne who visited us last month from Pittsburg, PA.  We introduced her to local dungeness crab, had a lovely BBQ at Tomales Bay Oysters, and she treated us to an epic lunch at the Cliff House after perusing the [...]

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Lunch at the Cliff House Bistro

March 4, 2013
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1090 Point Lobos • San Francisco, CA 94121 | 415.386.3330  | website No visit to San Francisco is complete without a stop at the Cliff House which is perched on the westernmost edge of the city.  It originally opened in 1863 and completely restored in 2004.  Click here for a fun gallery of historical photos [...]

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