Tokyo Go Go has been pouring sake and rolling hand rolls on 16th street in the Mission since 1998. As one would expect from a 14-year old restaurant, (restaurant years are like dog years), it’s not looking as fresh as it once used to. The movies are still being projected on the wall and the [...]

A date night at Dopo in pictures…           Dopo 4293 Piedmont Ave Oakland, CA 94611

Since I’ve started working in the city, my lunch choices have increased dramatically and perhaps the most exciting part of my new-found food options are the food trucks in the vicinity. With all the hype surrounding Bacon Bacon Truck as San Francisco’s first bacon truck, I was excited and also a little skeptical about the [...]

Hawker Fare, another fabulous addition to the super lively restaurant scene in downtown Oakland, is a real treat. In fact I am drooling as I think back to my meal because I haven’t had breakfast yet and a rice bowl accompanied by perfectly flavored, can eat with dentures soft, pieces of meat topped with an [...]

Every foodie in San Francisco has their favorite sushi restaurant, and my friends and I are no different. My friend, Michael, took me to his favorite spot last week, and it was no surprise that it was in Japan town. Ino Sushi, located in the mall near Hotel Kabuki, is a tiny place with a [...]

It being March already, we realized we needed to step it up if we wanted to get to all 11 of our New Year’s resolutions. We had been dying to try Daniel Patterson’s new casual dining spot Plum in Oakland. Coi, his upscale restaurant in San Francisco, is the closest thing to molecular gastronomy we [...]