Category: Bib Gourmand
The Bib Gourmand is our award for great value, and highlights simple yet skilful cooking at an affordable price. (But we should also say that we are looking for a high standard of cooking just for a restaurant to be recommended in the MICHELIN Guide.)
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Valley
We visited here during our previous visit to Sonoma last August and we were both not impressed. Apparently I’m a glutton for punishment (or maybe I’m just a glutton, lol) so I decided to give it another try. Couldn’t get a reservation so I just tried a walk-in. I was given a table in the
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Trestle
Had dinner with Jacob and Robert again with the addition of Joe this time. Jacob picked Trestle. I hadn’t eaten here before, so this sounded good since I’m always interested in something new. It was not too far from the Transamerica Pyramid which also turned out to be good because my wife’s office was very
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Izakaya Rintaro
This was our third time dining here, but it had been more than about 2.5 years since we had last eaten here. We sat at the counter again in the exact same spot. Out of simplicity/laziness, we just did the set menu again. First dish delivered was the San Ten Mori sashimi course which included
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Bao
This was a recommendation from my coworker (I think she went to the Soho location though which is the one listed in the Michelin Guide). We waited for them to open which was good because it did end up filling up fairly quickly (was packed by the time we left). They had a special called
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Valley
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 in the back under a large canopy to provide share to all of the tables. A large percent of the tables had young children/babies including a baby
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Yank Sing
This Saturday, I wanted to go on a longer run. I started off in Golden Gate Park and decided to take the Coastal Trail starting in Land’s End and head towards the bridge, then along Crissy Field, along the Embarcadero, and ultimately the Ferry Building – almost 16 miles in total (I took a small
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Dumpling Home
When we went to Nightbird a few weeks ago, we passed by Dumpling Home on our way. This was also on our list of places to try, but we hadn’t prioritized it since since you can’t make reservations (line up and put your name on the yelp list once open). Andrea had been thinking about
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Sushi Ran
Andrea had her hair appointment in Corte Madera so it was a good opportunity to run in Marin. I’m not really much in shape these days (took a nearly 4-month hiatus from running due to various illness with associated lung congestion), but getting back into it. It was a beautiful day to run and thanks
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A16
Dinner with our new friends from Germany who we’re hosting for a few days. We had an excess of food as usual at A16 which is someplace I’ve been meaning to try for a long time.Solid, traditional Italian cuisine. We were seated in the small back patio area. Some Italians dining back there and our
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