From the monthly archives: April 2018
Maybe about five years ago tapas were all the rage. I blame them for ushering in the whole small plates trend.
Now, only a few restaurants dare to focus on the bar bites of Barcelona, Spain. One of them is the popular Barcino, from the people behind Absinthe restaurant in Hayes Valley. Barcino opened almost […]
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I’m not a big expert on craft beer, so I’m always happy to learn more and discover new flavor profiles.
That definitely happened today at the inaugural Juicy Brews Westfest, a boutique beer festival that popped up at Classic Cars West beer garden in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. Juicy Brews, produced by New […]
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It all started with purple cauliflower I saw at the farmers’ market.
I’ve cooked with them before, but I knew from experience that heat causes the cauliflower to lose their brilliant purple color. So I decided to pickle them. It was my first time making pickled purple cauliflower (say that 10 times fast), but they […]
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VANCOUVER, B.C.
Because of the Asian influences and close proximity to the water, one would think Vancouver has some of the best sushi in North America. But when I once mentioned that to a Japanese chef who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from Vancouver, he made a look like that wasn’t always […]
VANCOUVER, B.C.
I’m not going to profess to be a coffee expert. My tastes in coffee goes as far as the one or two soy lattes per week that I indulge in, typically on the weekends.
But when I’m on vacation mode, it’s a latte every day as I explore what a city has […]
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VANCOUVER, B.C.
In researching for my trip to Vancouver, I was intrigued by a review of AnnaLena, a three-year-old restaurant in a neighborhood called Kitsilano. It was the Lego sculpture decor that caught my attention (it’s even represented on the restaurant’s website).
But looking back at my photos from my dinner […]
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VANCOUVER, B.C.
I just returned from four days, five nights of vacationing in Vancouver, B.C. This stunning, modern, cosmopolitan Canadian city fed me well.
Vancouver is a popular destination for outdoor lovers (nature everywhere) and shoppers. Since I’m neither, I spent my time going from one restaurant to another. Some of you know I […]
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I love pastrami. I love corned beef. If there were just some way to combine the two.
Well, if you believe the people of Montreal, they’ve done just that with smoke (or smoked) meat. It’s a delicacy that takes the curing of pastrami with the tenderness of corned beef for a delicious meat bite.
I […]
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