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Dining Detectives: Urban Tavern, San Francisco – Let’s do Brunch!!
Happy Fourth Birthday to Urban Tavern in San Francisco!! We’ve been there many times to dine and for cocktails and were pleased to hear that they had just added...
Labor Day Cocktails
Labor Day Weekend usually marks the official end of summer. While we are not ready for the heavy wool coats and scarf’s, the new season will come with some wonderful...
California Bordeaux Part 1: the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Santa Clara Valley
The vintners of California have embraced the grape varieties of Bordeaux planting acres and acres of vineyards. Given their popularity amongst the wine drinking...
Talbot County: Chesapeake Heritage Fuels Culinary Creativity
One striking feature of traveling down Route 301 about an hour after crossing the Delaware border into Maryland is that all vestiges of suburbia like strip development...
SIGNATURE SIPS AT BALEEN KITCHEN
If you are traveling to enjoy the 17th Annual Redondo Beach Surf & Turf Lobster Festival, to be held at the Seaside Lagoon on September 21 through 23, don’t...
Dining Detectives: Machka Restaurant- San Francisco
We’ve always enjoyed Turkish cuisine and when we heard that Machka had just opened in San Francisco’s Financial District we knew we had to try it. Located directly...
Wines of the Week: A Fine Quartet from Greece
With legendary regions like Roja, Bordeaux, and Chianti claiming such prominent places in the world of wine, it can be easy to overlook a country like Greece. For...
Vichy: Diners dine in Style while Swimmers Practiced
If you’re going to Vichy, in the center of France, you can take your time and relax. Vichy is a thermal / spa city in France (where are the Vichy Water springs)...
George’s Rants and Raves: 1876 Vodka
Have you ever experienced an epiphany? No, that’s not some kind of Polish sausage; it’s a sudden and striking realization of deep religious, philosophical or...
Greenhook-Ginsmiths Beach Plum Gin Cocktails
The first ever to be commercially produced, Greenhook Ginsmiths Beach Plum Gin is a one-of-a-kind delicious product designed to be sipped by itself and/or added...
