Café Lurcat :: A Fine Dining Experience, Served With a Side of Noise, Minneapolis
The first thing that strikes you when you enter Café Lurcat in Minneapolis is a wall of noise. When my dining partner and I arrived for our 8 p.m. reservation,…
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Celebrate, celebrate, dance to the music… New Frontiers Of Taste Celebration :: San Francisco
Your taste buds will really get down and party at this special event, the New Frontiers of Taste,celebrating the 100th year anniversary of Dr. Kikunae Ikeda’s discovery of *Umami, the…
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New casually elegant JoLe Restaurant Sounds Tres Jolie :: Calistoga, Ca.
I’m loving everything I hear about this new restaurant: 1. It’s located in the old space of Jan Birmbaum’s acclaimed Catahoula Restaurant which was a great cozy spot for hanging-out….
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“SummerTini” Fundraiser, Friday, June 13 :: A San Francisco Favorite!
I just got back to town in time to order my Summertini Tickets and they are selling like…hmmm…free infused martinis? This is one of the Bay Area’s best events. Sooper…
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Sweeeet Mediterranean Inspiration :: A Chocolate Cruise to Greece & Turkey
Via Veronica Chambers’ The Nest. There are cruises. And then there are six-star chocolate cruises with a world-class chocolatier like Katrina Markoff, owner of Vosges Haut-Chocolat. You can cruise with…
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So Many Restaurants, So Little Time :: Sonoma, CA
CNN Travel just featured this story about Sonoma restaurants from Sunset Magazine… It describes one of my favorites, The Girl & The Fig, which shocked this wine country town’s vintners…
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NOWFE :: The Ultimate Taste Experience
After a quiet night at the Hotel Monteleone we woke up the next morning a trifle hung-over from the Royal Street festivities, but after three cafe au laits (no beignets…
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A Feast For All Your Senses:: Slow Food Nation, Aug. 29 – Sept. 1, San Francisco
This just in from fellow blogger Vanessa DellaPasqua: This Labor Day weekend — August 29 to September 1 — Slow Food Nation will transform San Francisco’s Civic Center and Fort…
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San Francisco’s Treats :: 7th Annual Dine About Town, June 1-15, 2008
It is really seven years since this great idea was launched? Has it really been seven years of palate-pleasing dinners at some of the Bay Area’s favorite restaurants? Starting today,…
