Some places aren't just restaurants; they're institutions. Chez Panisse certainly falls in that category. Its founder, Alice Waters...

In Situ , the new restaurant in the recently refurbished and reopened San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , is a bundle of contradictions. T...

I finally got caught up on " best thing i ate last week " and then immediately got sidetracked once again. But rebounding will ...

There's a passage in Daniel Patterson's book " Coi: Stories and Recipes " that I found almost painfully evocative. The ch...

A vacation has taken me off the regular posting cycle, but after two weeks tooling around the Bay Area (including moving Frod Jr. into U.C....

There are few meals I've looked forward to with as much anticipation. Between the reports from trusted friends both virtual and flesh an...

If Bistro Laurent is the kind of restaurant that every wine region seems to have , then Artisan in Paso Robles is the kind of restaurant e...

Photo via Bistro Laurent The last leg of our California trip brought us to Paso Robles. When I had made inquiry through friends of friends f...

We did Manresa all wrong. I now know that Los Gatos is a good hour and a half away from Carmel, which was our home base the evening of our ...

At first, I didn't have very high hopes for our first dinner in Carmel. Given that the meal was going to be sandwiched in between visits...

They smelled good. They were topped with bacon. When I asked if he wanted to know what he was trying before he took a bite, he declined. And...

I wanted to love Zuni Cafe . I really did. The Zuni Cafe Cookbook is one of my all-time favorites, not merely a compendium of recipes but ...

For a place that's been able to maintain a high reputation for several years, Fifth Floor sure has had a revolving door in the kitchen....