The Other Napa

What’s worth doing in the Napa Valley: a travel guide to the wine country.

/39, in the parking lot of the International Produce Market, around 3843. We ordered a cubano tortas ($5.50) which is a huge Cuban-style sandwich, tacos al pastor ($1.25), tacos de cabeza (beef cheeks though translated into...

, a homemade tamale rolled up in the omelet and smothered in chili con carne. So, for those of you who responded to my query a few weeks ago about working-class breakfast places, Jim’s is exactly what we’re after....

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, maybe more. http://www.barclayspub.com In addition to their own good beers, 21st Amendment has a cask day every Wednesday featuring a guest brew. I still have yet to find better food at a brewpub. http://www.chowhound.com/...

as to what stops on the 10 are a must Thank you for your help and we look forward to your tour.

Chateau Tour de Mirambeau 2005 — a white Bordeaux that I picked up on a whim at the wine store where I work. Surprisingly lovely; I guess I wasn’t expecting much since I knew so little about it. I paired it weirdly,...

. I tried very hard to track down the one San Rafael Taco to with no luck ... trust me ... if ever there was a place that needs mobile vendors it is San Rafael’s Canal District. However, in another part of Marin, a new PF...

I tried Carmine’s on my recent tasting tour. I thought it was lousy, too bready as stated. The two places i mention at the top of the thread are the only ones that come close to the old Seabreeze. For those of us without a...

watch Alton Brown’s last Mississippi bike tour and found it lacking when compared to his first tour. But I’d rank it only second to DDDs. And if GF wants to dress funny and wear tattoos and earrings, I just ignore...

) is also wonderful. On Wednesday, a friend and I breakfasted in Pátzcuaro on incredible corundas con crema y salsa de chile perón and two different kinds of atole. Add to EN’s list: tamarindo (tamarind fruit) canela...

. and one night at the hotel is good! we get bikes there – so if sober enough hope to check out the town. course if we’re not sober enough for bikes... where does one “get a driver?” like cabs in the city?...

Night Tour. We just didn’t have the patience nor energy to seek out anything on the list, so we went to Cafe Pescatore since I had a great lunch there last year with fantastic service. OMG, was it good! I ordered the Polenta...

We really enjoyed it Maria. I went with a Colombian friend from California who is unfamiliar with NY...can you recommend any other places?

Visit California or Texas and everywhere you go you’ll find roadside trucks and various similar shacks and dives offering cheap “Mexican” fast-food. Many of them serve the most outrageously fantastic tacos and...