A long-time favorite, now sold off is a restaurant on Geary Blvd around 21st Avenue (?) called Lucky Fortune. It was opened by the brother-in-law (?) of the manager (owner) of Ocean on Clement but sold a few years back ago. I...

milk, beer, wine, coffee, tea, orange juice, etc. are as widely popular as Coca-Cola? Now consider, how big do you think the advertising budgets for milk, coffee, tea, beer, wine etc. industries are, compared to Coca-Cola’s...

Cacoila (Pronounced Ca-sir-la) is like southern pulled pork but it is mainly slow-stewed beef. The beef is usually marinated overnight in white wine and spices that include bay leaves, cinnamon stick, garlic, paprika and allspice

a dish for the first time, he is using flavour combinations that has worked for him in the past. Yes he is a douche, but he is ahead of everybody talent wise. Eerily similar to the Hung situation in season 3. Radhika was like a...

that most of our friends don’t do this. To them, “making” dinner equals one heating one of those frozen dinners in a bag or making something out of a box like hamburger helper.

of basmati and found a bag of “soon masoori” among them. I am not sure: but I think that this is the name of a variety of medium-grained “Indian” rice. **** Across the street from Katsu (not directly...

of special requests can grate on your nerves but you can’t change her behavior. Instead, change yours. Try focusing on something else, like how nice the atmosphere is, how delicious the food, maybe ANOTHER glass of wine,...

Simply unavailable here in CA. When I go to Iowa or Scon Sin, I know that two cases will fit in each roller bag.

It’s a funny word, but just in case you needed to know, it’s pronounced “PEEN-chos”. “Tx” in Basque is “ch” in English... so Txakoli, the wine that tastes like the bastard child of...

that had never been cut.) One side dish was a take on pimiento-cheese-stuffed celery (double Gloucester, homemade mayo, fire-roasted red cherry peppers). My (now-ex) sister-in-law had nothing to say about the rest of the meal,...

I agree about the shrimp – that’s state and/or federal law. But since I can still remember Bread & Circus, I have something to compare it to, and I just don’t think their products justify the inflated prices....

alcohol, although this difference might not be as pronounced as that between American and British barley wines. (I speak here of ‘regular’ IPAs, not the double and imperial versions. Weyerbacher recently came out with...

I’m pretty sure the sodas are on the menu and also that it does spell out what exactly it is. Is it expensive? Yeah, but I guess them’s the breaks. The beer and wine prices are pretty reasonable though. Opening night...

't on the menu. (Any french kitchen, no matter how fancy, would have been appalled at the suggestion that they couldn’t make a simple omelet.) Lastly, wine. DISCLAIMER: I am in no way suggesting that you provide alchohol to...

menus: IN ENGLISH The so-called 50s Nebraska-Chinese style menu (thick cover of the sort once used for wine lists). This is the most USELESS of them all and the one most likely to be presented to first-timers. It’s good for a...