Ajisen Ramen Westfield San Francisco Centre 865 Market St San Francisco, CA 94103 I’ve noticed an influx of great restaurants in our…mall. Yes, shopping mall. Our San Francisco Westfield Shopping Center is home to Beard Papa’s, Cupola, and now Ajisen Ramen. I’ve heard about this ramen place, but it took me a while to find [...]

Being a Bay Area resident and having spent time in San Jose, I have eaten a lot of Pho. (For those who don’t know, Pho is a Vietnamese soup dish made with various parts of beef including the shank, the bones and, if you really want to lick your chops—filet mignon.) It has a lot [...]

Bacon and Peas Carbonara (My new favorite pasta carbonara recipe from http://www.food52.com/recipes/214_daddys_carbonara) 1 pound dried spaghetti 1 pound bacon 10 ounces frozen peas (1 package) 4 eggs 1 cup fresh grated parmesan black pepper Start cooking the pasta (I have long subscribed to the less-water method Harold McGee addresses here). Ask the hotline about this [...]

We are never ones to skimp on fat or flavor in a recipe, although we probably should for our waistlines, so when a recipe comes around that is both healthy and tasty, we are all for it. Soba noodles are Japanese thin noodles made of at least 30% buckwheat and the rest regular wheat flour [...]