Tag: California
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Cotogna
This is our fourth time dining here. It’s an easy choice for casual dinner with delicious comfort food. We had to start with some cocktails. Andrea went with the Braccialetto which was made with mezcal, citrus, and amaro. This had decent mezcal flavor to it with a bit more body from the amaro and a…
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Prelude
Our dinner was at Prelude which just opened up in the Jay Hotel this past August and was recently added to Michelin Guide this March, so i had to give it a try. Chef Celtin Hendrickson-Jones’ cuisine is Southern with updated technique and local ingredients. We went with the tasting menu (which I think is…
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La Ciccia
We were both recovering from Covid so were only up for something low key. I picked La Ciccia in our neighborhood for logistic simplicity, plus we had been meaning to revist this restaurant since it had been many years since we had eaten here. La Ciccia has long been recognized for it’s unique Sardinian cuisine.…
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Merchant Roots
I had come across this restaurant a couple times online and my curiosity was piqued with their seasonally themed tasting menu. We had really planned anything for dinner today and since Andrea was downtown, it’s always a good excuse to find a restaurant, so I booked a first seating reservation for us for their Humpty…
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Ernest
TL;DR version – food was pretty interesting and tasty, but service was pretty poor. we were seated at the bar and somehow they seemed to forget about us a couple times(?!) We first ate here almost 3 years ago now and enjoyed ourselves. So we had been talking about revisiting (always so many restaurants to…
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True Laurel
We’ve driven by here a billion times (ok, that’s a little bit of an exaggeration, maybe only a million times) and I’ve been meaning to go here all that time. This cocktail bar is created by the folks behind Lazy Bear and is currently listed #30 on the World’s 50 Best Bars along with numerous…
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Cyrus
I’d heard a lot of good things about this restaurant and the progressive dinner experience. It had been a 2-star Michelin restaurant until it closed in 2012. It reopened in September of 2022, 10 years later. I finally booked us a reservation when we made a last minute decision to go up to wine country…
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Valette
The last two times we ate at SingleThread, we would see this restaurant packed and people outside waiting to get in, so we finally decided to give it a go. Since I booked very late, I wasn’t able to get indoor seating so we were eating outside in the tented area which was pretty nice…
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Wolf House Brewing Company
We left the city later than we had planned so arrived later in Cloverdale than we had planned. Based on TripAdvisor reviews, this place looked like our best bet for food in the town and coincidentally happened to be the closest location to our AirBnb, a mere 1 block away. When we drove into town…
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Ettan
Dinner courtesy of a vendor. This was my first time dining here. It’s one of Chef Srijith Gopinathan’s restaurants who also has Copra (which we love) and formerly from Campton Place which had 2 Michelin stars. I started with a Kokam and Smoke cocktail because it had mecval and citrus. It was a bit too…