Me and my wife went to San Fransisco for our anniversary and I have to highly recommend Bix restaurant. It is a real classy 1930’s style jazz restaurant with excellent food. One recommendation, though, is find out when they...

penny – amazing food, impeccable service, and a great atmosphere unlike any other I’ve had when eating at a nice restaurant highlights for me The Quail Egg wrapped with smelt The Maine Lobster Ravioli The Risotto (lived...

they will not like them, but I also know that when I don’t have someone around like my partner to give me street cred usually all I have to do is ask about 'em and then I get told what’s available. You’ve...

seafood wings beyond salmon, which actually is quite fatty. Also, you are on the right track when you talk about “spicy” because spices and spice blends that do not contain salt are great ways to pick up the flavor of...

reconaissance work first. My mission: to find out whether Masa’s former sous-chef, Hiro Urasawa, could maintain the highest standards for sushi and other Japanese dishes. With that goal in mind, I telephoned Urasawa...

-fancy-pants burger I think I’ve ever had. (note: the shack sauce seems really garlicky this year – I prefered it when it was more like normal “special sauce” - anyone else find this?) Brendan

I would pay attention to some of the suggestions in this thread and skip the Grove — I have been there many times trying to like it, but the food is just not good. Skip Wolfgang Puck — nothing special. Also, Canvas...

You are killing me! I’m going to need to get a chicharron fix this weekend. I think the main thing you must remember when judging chicharron is that it must be crunchy. That’s the mark of good chicharron. I know some...

If you’re a student, I’m guessing your cooking facilities and time are limited. You’d be amazed at how well, and relatively healthy, you can eat on supermarket food. Stuck in the 'burbs, when I want something...

That’s hard, because time runs together, and often something I think of as “recent” was in fact well over a year ago. Also, now that I look back, it seems I haven’t eaten out much this year, and when I...

slow. It didn’t bother me though, because everyone was so nice and genuinely seemed like they wanted to help and be attentive. I think they got in a little over their heads though. This place is going to blow up soon- do...

) and their neighborhood was an anachronism, slowly dying. Anyway, I bought cattle and helped herd them to trucks and did not work in the slaughterhouses (I sort of like sausage making, but find slaughtering a little intense). I...

I second the motion for chess or buttermilk pie. Great for a table of picky ones. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like chess pie. Even the persons who have never heard of chess pie, succumb when they taste it.

So Suzanne, are you by any chance the review’s author, or is the name just a coincidence? It’s a nice review. I was surprised to read that the Gobi Manchurian wasn’t spicy. When I’ve had it at Tangra...

or so, recently I have been exploring Sripraphai that everyone has been going on about which is in Woodside. I found their soups to be excellent blends of herbal, citrus and spicy flavors. Take care about heat here. When they say...