Well Fed On the Town

When you live in San Francisco, you often wind up milling amongst the clam chowder shacks and tacky t-shirt shops of Fisherman’s Wharf. Not necessarily because you want to, mind you, but because anyone who visits you insists on going there. To me, San Francisco is all about the Castro, the Haight, the houses along […]

Hiro’s Sushi and Grill is a relatively new addition to Oakland, California’s array of restaurants on College Avenue. Don’t let its location fool you. You can almost walk right by the weirdly pink shopping area housing Hiro’s near the bottom of College. But something calls you back. Maybe it’s the rice paper screens, a menu […]

I am so, so sorry. My apologies to all the readers who cannot order Claire’s flapjacks on the web. Sadly, these wonders are too delicate for long distance travel. Those readers outside the San Francisco Bay Area can console yourselves with a pack of Clairesquares–buttery shortbread cookies covered in caramel and chocolate.
Those of you who […]

David’s Deli, a San Francisco Jewish-style deli featuring towering sandwiches and mile-high pastries, is celebrating its 55th year in business with a 55 percent discount on selected menu items.
Throughout March the restaurant, a theater district institution, is discounting some of its famous sandwiches and entrees and all its pastries. For example, David’s is charging just […]

The Kissing Bridge at the University of California
In a quiet little neighbor hood of cottages and small natural markets, LaLime’s is a destination for local cognoscenti. Once a post-war working class area, the California cottages now sell for upwards of $700 a square foot (for example a 2 bedroom 900 square foot house sold […]

Following the opening of a friend’s art show near San Francisco’s Union Square, we popped into nearby Biscuits and Blues for a bite of dinner. Biscuits and Blues is probably known internationally as the place to go for a good blues show in San Francisco. But how’s the food?
Well, it’s Southern, naturally. Biscuits, cornbread, fried […]