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 [...]

Any lover of a hot bowl of noodle soup will tell you that ramen is king. Nothing beats chewy Chinese-style wheat noodles swimming in a bowl of pork infused broth, topped with stewed pork belly, bamboo shoots and toasted seaweed—a culmination of a labor of love and artistry. Fresh ramen is incomparable to its instant [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On my recent trip to New York, I made sure to stop by Trattoria Casa di Isacco to have some of their delicious grilled baby squid, sangria and paella. Liza and I stumbled upon this little gem in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan the last time we were in New York, and we fell [...]