The Chinese Lunar New Year celebration starts on Friday, Feb. 12th and runs for a week. It is the 'Year of the Ox' this time around. If you are an intrepid cook, it's a fine time to get your old wo...
Adhering to strict stay-at-home and no visitors protocol!!.....resulting in no visiting family members to help devour the usual holiday Turkey, Prime Ribs or Seafood medley feast. Instead, decided...
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The 10th annual 'Savor the Bronx' Restaurant Week runs thru January 17th. Participating eateries from all over the borough are offering discounts. While indoor dining is not allowed in NYC, emphasi...
Suddenly finding myself craving for some piping hot ' Baked BBQ Pork Buns '. Decided to placed an order with 'O'Mei, Richmond Hill ' whilst filling up gas from across the road! So darn goooood!!...
Was running errands in Arlington and saw Ghin Na Ree was open so I popped by. Called my order in and got the Green Curry Lunch Special and the Gang Jued Woon Sen soup instead of the regular special...
This morning's stack of emails included an announcement that Pasta Pomodoro was being reintroduced to the Bay Area for delivery via Caviar or Doordash. Some may remember this local chain, founded b...
In this time of Covid-19 and stay at home orders statewide, restaurants are limited to take-out and delivery services. Many have closed. Others have soldiered on converting their operations to offe...
Three weeks ago I ordered take-out from Miss Ollie's for when I would be passing through Oakland. Easy enough online via the Clover system that even included the day's special, jerk chicken: 1...
In September I stopped at Arzu Uyghur Cuisine in Newark CA to order take-out. I went inside to order in person instead of online since I had some questions. The two staffers I interacted with were ...
Prior to the Plague and its scything of Seattle neighborhood restaurants, and before Mayor Durkan's general ruination of downtown, Wahine kept a list of dependable lunch places in SODO/Georgetown w...
In September I finally had a chance to drop by Minako Organic-ish Japanese Cuisine in San Mateo, where it had reopened a couple years ago after a long run in San Francisco. My last taste of Minako'...
Last month I had a chance to try Tamales Maná at its main location on Petaluma Hill Road. While it has its own street cart vending on the sidewalk in front, I went inside. The kitchen is open to vi...
" . . . We need to start paying attention to the people who raise our food—the farmers, the fishermen, the ranchers, the dairy people. We need to understand how important they are. It’s really a ma...
Shalala Deli opened yesterday as a grab-and-go prepared food counter in Fugetsu Market in San Jose in the shopping center with Mitsuwa. Initial menu includes Onigiri, Fried Chicken, Tempura, small ...
The Southeast board has been pretty dead which I've chalked up to our collective inability to dine, explore, or try new things but maybe also partially out of fear (or respect) for publicly comment...
Next on my exploration of black-owned restaurants was Roderick's in East Oakland that I tried in July. Pulling up a few minutes before the doors opened at noon, a socially distanced line of more th...
Pacific Grove has a genuine Korean fried chicken (KFC) place! My first visit to Ttobongee was July 3. It opened in March just as the pandemic restaurant restrictions started. Chicken is fried to...
I am all about the barchan, so when I says "best Korean takeout" I really mean a generous assortment of barchan. San Francisco preferred but will travel south if need be.