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    Little Next Door

    — they’re called Eurotrash because of their sometimes louche lifestyles involving nightclubs, a certain amount of drugs, employment that tends to run to actors/hairdressers/makeup artists, etc. — you get the...

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    Magnolia Bakery - overrated?

    Agree too. Over-iced (and -priced) hunks of cake, a waste of calories (the ultimate insult). Very annoying: the cramped & interminal wait for service with louche bedheads on both sides of the counter. That said, I have enjoyed...

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    Nice restaurants (European 1st-timer)

    What on earth are you talking about? Dinner at Galatoire’s is a frat party? I eat there regularly on my visits to the city, and as a single female, I have to say that I have never encountered louche behavior.

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    Absinthe

    hits the absinthe, the absinthe will louche (change from a clear liquid to a cloudy liquid). Now just sit back and enjoy the wide range of botanicals as it dances on your tounge.

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    Restaurant Mandich, La Cuisine, Hymel's, Harbor Seafood (too long).

    louche souls that we became we drank our Sunday lunch in my wife’s first couple of Pimm’s Cups, I’ll put aside for non-business visits.

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    Favorite Dive Bar in SF..

    an abbreviated version of the prague flaming sugar cube, which is arguably gauche for a swiss/german absinthe, then took a small bottle of water he had among the ice and did a passably slow louche. He was measuring ingredients...

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    La Folie--Way off the Mark

    not in the photogenic front room, but in the second dining room, with all the louche splendor of a Romanoff toilet. Our table was directly adjacent to the swinging door to the kitchen and we shared a wall with the deep fryer,...

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    Real Absinthe...."King of Spirits"

    . (See http://www.chowhound.com/topics/367463) Cami’s Tolouse Lautrec ( a Czech blanche) is a top class absinthe. La Fee also make a great Bohemian absinth – Trul Absinthium 1792 is noted for it’s louche etcera....

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    review of Boule: mixed (let the flaming begin) (long)

    and the associated "louche," or shading that comes with the introduction of water. Marie Brizard, founded on the quality of their Anis beverages, made the change to Star Anis in the 1950s, when bottles began to be marked with a...

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    prague restaurant report (long)

    Yes, a splendid report! I spent time in Prague in the late 70’s. Dining out was surely an “adventure” - something of a boring adventure! Ethnic cuising consisted of somewhat louche white – tableclothed...

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    Ivy

    There used to be a rather useful joint called Jules Bar in Jermyn St - it had the sort of worn & louche character which I sorely miss in these days of All Bar Ones and formulaic design. As for you, you insolent mongrel, you are...

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    December 2007 - Grocery Outlet

    Last Tuesday at Berkeley Grocery Outlet: — Sevre & Belle Moule a la Louche chevre d’or pasteurized goat cheese, 6 small rounds of about 5 1/3 oz. each in a wooden box, $5.99 for the box. This comes to about $3/lb. for...

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    Honeymoon is SF from DC suggestions?

    more louche surroundings until you find yourself at closing time on Geary and Polk in a drunken screaming match with a transvestite hooker. oh wait this is your honeymoon. scratch that. Pane – Bar Crudo, is that where...

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    NY Hound considering move West, need help and convincing

    the Nijiya Japanese grocery under the the Nihon-Machi is great to just walk through and appreciate the packaging and presentation even if you’re not buying anything. caffeine chewing gum... on the louche side there used to...

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