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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Try the Nickel Diner for biscuits and gravy, or Panns for chicken and waffles or their biscuits and gravy. El Tepeyac for a Hollenbeck burrito or a Manuel’s special. Try an Oki DOgi fully loaded. LA has lots of...
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Dinner after Patinkin and Lupone!
. But this is just good cooking artfully done. Two of the service staff we spotted were from Joe's and we even met one of the owners, Jasmine, who is also involved with Joe. You know I was worried about arriving late (for that...
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Healthy Fast Food (remembering Delites Chain)
I was such a fan of the DeLites concept that, while there were none near where I was living, I bought a few shares of stock. Lost every nickel. Maybe they were just ahead or their time and/or shouldn’t have started in...
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What are your favorite BYOB restaurants?
??? How much would it cost to write down names on a piece of paper? I’d gladly pay the extra nickel.
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More on "To go" and other charges.
about a nickel on each dollar of sales. So, using that formula, let’s say you order a $7.00 meal to go, the restaurant stands to make .35 cents profit from that sale. Now you toss in a “to go” box that costs a...
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Manwich
i’ve never eaten “manwich”, but i’ll bet you a nickel it now has high fructose corn syrup in it.
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Catalina Island recs?
dive bar in the world is the Marlin Club..Luau Larry’s is a lot of fun. Buffalo nickel by the heliport for a good happy hour and grub too. Rent a golf cart and check out the island...when are you going? Seasonal place and...
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Speranza on Hyperion?
Has anyone been to Speranza, the new-ish place on Hyperion near Gelson’s and Trader Joes? It used to be Caffe Capri, which I loved the two times I went there. Wondering how the new place compares.
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Catalina - Avalon...whats the best place for dinner
Buffalo Nickel is a local favorite. It’s out around the point, South of Avalon. I think they have a van service that will pick you up downtown or you can walk. It’s about a mile out but a nice stroll, either to or...
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Dining in Avalon
cookie was a little stale. Coyote Joe‘s - really more of a bar with dining tables, it is possible that some fun-lovin’ people really like the food or the margaritas here, but as a digestion-lovin' person, I would...
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Where is the good dim sum in Oakland chinatown?
doesn’t equal the price. Ok, it’s nickels and dimes maybe, but at least the service is better at Legendary times that I’ve been. Shrimp is tastier at Legendary, not overly salty and they have a cruch/spring when...
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Beverages and More: What's good?
Mo card, and also to get their email newsletters. That way you know what’s on sale. A few months back they had a sale here on pinots where you could buy one full price and buy the second for a nickel. Post below about those...
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buffalo wings
as a member of the great diaspora of expat Buffalonians ( who endorses Aiello’s wings in NYC), my recollection of the best wings in the Nickel City is tempered by Nostalgia and all too infrequent trips back. Nevertheless,...
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Why is TJ's so cheap?
Back home, we had a couple of “cheaper” supermarket – Safeway, QFC, etc. - and yet their cheese prices were a good 2-3 times that of Trader Joe's. TJ’s always fascinates me. It looks like an expensive,...
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Fruit Beers in Toronto
kriek is cherry based, goes very well with chocolate. if you’re interested in more fruit beers there’s a selection at smokeless joes that i haven’t quite seen anywhere else. but beware that some of them are...
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