Over the summer, I spent quite some time looking for a good cheap lunch I could get while at work at the Marin JCC. The Santa Venetia market sells several different types for about $2 each, and they’re not at all bad. Not...

Tabla Cafe – Larkspur - Marin 1167 Magnolia Avenue, Larkspur, (415) 461-6787 There is no waitress service. You queue at a counter to make you order from the either the daily changing specials on the blackboard or the...

. Does anyone know the day / hours of that one? And, I understand there’s one in Novato. What’s the story on that one? The main farmers markets at the Civic Center have mushroomed into such mob scenes that they have...

[same report with photos linked at bottom] Giorgio’s 300 Drakes Landing Rd – Greenbrae – CA 94904 - (415) 925-0808 It wasn’t until I had been working for three and a half years in Marin, that someone...

Not really in Southern Marin, but Insalatas in San Anselmo is also pretty good.

Someone was asking about farm eggs recently on this board. I decided to try out one of the suggestions: Marin Sun Farm Eggs. Here is my report: Marin Sun Farm Eggs come from Rhode Island Red and White Leghorn Crossbred chickens...

warm water), and minced garlic. you could add shallots, or replace the honey with mirin. add water to cover the tofu and let marinate for at least an hour. You can eat it straight out of the fridge or stir fry it with mushrooms...

I have been a happy patron of Marin Farmers Market (all year on Sundays and Thursday mornings at Marin Civic Center, seasonally other places in Marin—including my local Fairfax FM, now open Wednesday afternoons) for 17...

to individually add a topping to the corn after cooking it, I’d much prefer to marinate or infuse the corn (I was thinking Old Bay, but am very open to suggestions) ahead of time, but don’t have much experience doing...

not. The Marine Room version is very, very good. It’s a velvety cream soup with enoki mushrooms, crispy/chewy pancetta and came with a petite tartlet filled with yuzu cream floating in it. Satisfying but not overly rich....

, but that is a trip. I have never been dissapointed with Las Camilias' Pollo Hongito, a cornish game hen marinated in Tequila, pan fried and smothered in mushroom-onion-pepper sauce; or Arroz Mexicano, a rice dish with shrimp,...

Fatty, chewy decadence at Izayoi.

How can I make mushrooms for an antipasto platter? Are they always marinated, or is there a way to make them sauteed without tons of butter so that they don’t solidify on a cold platter?

Does anyone know if there is any sort of guided mushroom hunting in, say, Marin. I heard there are good black chanterelles there right now, near the coast, but my last forage was 20 years ago and I am lacking in confidence to go...

matsutakes usually start a little later in the fall, the middle to end of september. you can usually find them at marukai or at mitsuwa. david, the mushroom guy at the santa monica wednesday market, often has them, too.