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I was on an errand in Emeryville so decided to go to Hyphy Burger (which just had their grand opening last week) to meet Mira, an ex-coworker, for…
I had been hearing about the corn pasta dish at Cotogna, but we had never had it, so I made a reservation for us to finally try it.…
We were just looking for something low key for dinner. I’ve seen them advertise this double caviar fish sandwich on the sandwich board on the sidewalk when we’ve…
We were on a walk in our neighborhood. We’ve been meaning to go into this German goods store since it was resurrected after it went out of business…
After lunch at Valley, we went to Obsidian partially based on the recommendation from Corner 103 and based on our memory of having had this wine before. The…
We were looking for someplace for lunch. This place was listed as a Bib Gourmand in the Michelin guide, so why not. We took seating the patio area…
We had a little bit of time in Sonoma and decided to just do tasting in the plaza. Andrea asked ChatGPT where to taste and this place came…
We were looking forward to dining here and spending a little bit of time in Sonoma which we don’t do often enough. We just walked from our AirBnB…
Andrea hadn’t been interested in revisiting Angler so when Steven invited me for dinner, we decided to go since neither of us had been for awhile. The cocktails…
We had the cleaners scheduled at the house so we decided to take a late brunch here at Elena’s. We didn’t have a reservation, but based on our…