, stay at a beautiful place overlooking a Shangri-La of a valley and on another couple of days at a hotel built over hot springs at the foot of one of the glacial parks. With more time we would visit the historical city of...

. Taqueria Arandas No. 5 (South 1st): Further down from Mexicana bakery, also great. I had an early lunch there another Sunday, before it filled up. Excellent barbacoa and egg-potato tacos, along with a fine bowl of menudo...

participants ALSO try a new taqueria on the way home today and report back? Track a missing sushi master, seek a better slice of pie? Find an off-menu thing to order at Spago? Run through the various consulates in town to find...

Macaroni Grill is pretty solid. La Madeline is also good.

places in that neighborhood, some wonderful food at Thai Thai Restaurant and authentic Mexican at Taqueria Guyamas ... and there’s the very good Salvadorean Bakery on Roxbury that’s quite good, but I don’t ever...

It’s not about ego boosting, it’s about journalistic courtesy. The LA Times and NY Times frequently credit Chowhound as a media source for info they glean from us. Other publications have been slower to recognize that...

Alice, other lunch options might include the crispy pata at Tribu Grill in San Bruno or DeeDee’s Indian Buffet in MV...too casual? What should the Zuke (of Ken and Zuke’s) not miss in the Bay Area? -Wednesday is...

Stealing a thread idea from the LA board, I’d like to request Baltimore/DC hounds to list restaurants that get rave reviews (on chowhound or elsewhere) that you simply can’t understand. You know, the places that...

A short BART ride away to the 24th St. station will bring you into the heart of the Mission (Mexican/Latino) La Taqueria is one of my favorites for soft tacos and agua fresca (fruit drinks). Very tasty and inexpensive. La Palma...

that I’ve been recently (Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Nashville, Memphis, Miami, and others).

) and jfood can not stomach many things that other posters say they use. C’est la vie. Some items just bring back bad memories for jfood (string bean/cream of mushroom soup/fried onions in a can casserole for example) and...

locations don’t always have the long drives/commutes that we in California do. From Southern California, we think (almost) nothing of a 3-4 hour road trip to Vegas; or the couple hours to/from San Diego, to/from LA and...

on College in Oakland is open for lunch and dinner and it looks great, gets great reports, I just have not tried it yet. For Mexican, since La Taqueria will be closed for vacation, I think, try El Farollito — there’s...

at Slanted Door. Yank Sing has good food, but I think I’ve just learned that dim sum just isn’t my thing. I like it but it just doesn’t do much for me. I prefer the more meat, vegetable, and sauce Chinese dishes. We...

, I also tip in places where I notice that most people don’t. Airport rental car shuttle bus drivers, for example. I tip the women who make my huevos rancheros pretty much every weekday morning at the taqueria across the...