Ippuku 2130 Center St. Berkeley, CA 94704 The thing with New Year’s resolutions is that none of us really want to keep them. There is so much in life that we don’t want to do, but have to that we have little control over, that despite our best intentions trying to self impose something we [...]

Manolo Blahniks, Christian Louboutins, Chanel…all for a quarter of the retail price? Yes, yes and yes! I felt like a little kid in a candy store when I stumbled upon this high end consignment store in Elmwood Berkeley Saturday afternoon, eyes widening with desire as I walked deeper and deeper into the store. The new [...]

San Francisco is a pretty cool place to live. We have forget to breathe views, forget your diet restaurants and pretty much forget your budget everything else. This is home to a lot of creative, passionate people and that means there are always new things for us to do. Studio Gourmet is one of them. [...]

There are New Year’s resolutions and then there are New Year’s resolutions, and while many people resolve to loose weight (it is the most common January 1st resolution around the world), Vicky and I have a much more important and satisfying goal—to try all 11 “Top New Bay Area Restaurants” of 2010, according to SF [...]