Four glasses of wine into a perfectly warm Oahu evening, as I finished off my cousin’s barbecued flank steak and extra spicy caesar salad, his girlfriend regaled us with the paragon attributes of Kona peaberry coffee, a speech she learned from one of her employers. That employer is Alan Wong, a man with enough opinions [...]

During my freshman year at college, in the Berkeley student haunt known as “the Asian Ghetto,” Felix, proprietor of a Pan-Asian stir fry joint called The Satay House (R.I.P.), decided on an almost nightly basis to give chopsticks to all of my Asian friends and a fork to me. Every night, I would ask Felix [...]

I knew it! Hawaii is just one big tropical cliche, full of crystaline waters, forested hillsides, volcanoes and rainbows!

Ono Hawaiian Food is not an engineered experience like a funded luau or professional hulu performance, but it is something similar. There is an atmosphere of maintained down-to-earth local life that reminds me of the waiter [...]

There’s a basic stupidity to restaurants and bars, places that glorify the consumerism of everyday skills that even I, to a certain extent, can reproduce at home for a fraction of the cost. Unless your time is literally money, it is economically worth spending in the kitchen.
Sure, there are many exceptions. I’m not going to [...]

This is the finale of a series on Mexican food in San Diego. Zach will complete his correspondence from S.D. on his regular, biweekly schedule before leaving for San Francisco, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path.
The very idea of me coming up with a top ten list of Mexican [...]

This story is thirteenth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path.

Oh San Diego, the land of surfers and tacos. I will miss [...]

This story is twelfth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path.
Bar happy hour menus have taught me two things:
1. Being half-priced doesn’t [...]

This story is eleventh in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path.

You’d think I would have gotten sick of tacos by now.
You’d [...]

This story is tenth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path.

Los Angeles can stake a claim as one of the greatest food [...]

This story is ninth in a series. Zach will be posting a new story on Mexican food in San Diego every Thursday until he leaves Southern California for the San Francisco Bay, where he will continue to write and edit for The Eaten Path.

There are few things I miss more about Moscow than the city’s [...]