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> Next weekend we're heading to Armida in Healdsburg to pick up our futures -- a case of 2004 Keefer Ranch Chardonnay,…
> In the last week or so, summer seems to have officially given up the ghost. In the Bay Area summer is…
> This last weekend, I spent some time down in LA hanging out w/ a friend I hadn't seen in ages. The theme for the weekend ended up being sweet potato fries. No actually, the themes were eating and shopping, but we did have sweet potato fries both days. Flew down Friday afternoon…
>Granita has been an LA, specifically a Malibu institution, for 15 years. I'm not sure if it preceded Spago, but it certainly has had nearly the same cache, despite being located in a strip mall in Malibu off of PCH. I wasn't sure what to make of this trek out to Malibu -- Granita wouldn't…
>Because we went to see the 40-year old Virgin after dinner at Granita, we didn't get home til well past my bedtime. As a result, Sunday got off to a slow start -- we didn't even get around to our first meal of the day until around 11:30 a.m. The good and the bad news…
> Over 4th of July weekend on NPR there was a show/segment about All American foods, featuring an interview with the owner of The Counter in Santa Monica - a build-your-own burger joint on Ocean Park. It must have opened just a month or so after we moved to the Bay Area, so 4th of…
>This week and next, Pellegrino is sponsoring USA DineOut in a few cities across the country, including here in San Francisco -- featuring three course prix fixe lunches for $20 and dinners for $35 and benefitting Share Our Strength. And, at the same time, my team at work has instituted a Tuesday Lunch Club since…