I have a new camera! After over four years of faithful service, my Powershot SD600 found itself broken screen down in the Knewton e-waste bin. Having never owned a camera with manual control of shutter, aperture and focus, I’ve been coming to terms with my newfound powers at every meal.
Many of those meals have taken [...]
My first and strongest impression of Mill Valley, CA can be found in television reruns. Captain B.J. Hunnicutt of the 4077th proudly hailed from the up-and-coming Marin County township, and for years he was my sole example by which to measure it. Thanks to M*A*S*H, my mental picture of Mill Valley teemed with laid-back, wise-cracking, [...]
Can you name this dining counter?
If so, you’ve had the privilege of tasting one of America’s finest burgers. If not, you’ll get your answer below the fold.
This is the last of the point-and-eat posts from my holiday in California. I’ve saved what are probably my three favorite meals of the two weeks I spent on [...]
On August 10, 2009, I called the best Thai Restaurant in North America to ask if it would be open on December 23, 2009. Then I booked a cross-country flight with a four hour layover in Las Vegas, with full intent of making good on this phone call. On December 23, 2009, I experienced what [...]
Once, when my grandfather was visiting from Chicago, he asked teenage me if there was any good Greek food around. A Los Angeles native, I was rarely accused of a having a multiculturally ignorant palette, but this question confused me. Greek? You mean like Zeus and Socrates? What the hell is modern Greek food? It [...]
I remember walking down Channing Way in Berkeley with a mediocre slice of Blondie’s pizza in hand, stopping, looking down at the three-ingredient special and saying, “This tastes like something… I know it… something I’ve had before.”
This was freshman year, the final week of March and the first week of my triumphant return to omnivorism. [...]
Walking through the ground floor chambers of Le Parker Meridian is an exercise in luxury. Each room, exquisitely marbled from top to bottom, houses armchairs more expensive than my monthly rent and chandeliers that replace “let there by light” with the more fashionable “let there be ambience.” The foyer is a cocktail bar. The Hallway [...]
This story is part of a cross-post between Indefinite Articles and The Eaten Path.
You can read James Boo’s “Preemptive Strike” on Chili’s here.
For all the amazing food we have in the Bay Area, the little holes-in-the-wall and the grandiose temples to flavor, every once in a while there’s something appealing about the strip mall meal. [...]
If you’ve ever met an omnivorous Californian, you know that the surest path to his stomach is laid out on two and a half words: “In-N-Out.” Among the many topics left-coasters will waste no time picking up and taking down in a string of verses winding their way around a dispossessed yet domineering tirade, In-N-Out [...]
If you were asked to define your childhood in terms of a hamburger, what would come to mind? Golden flames leaping through a charcoal grill in your backyard? Golden arches and the imperial awning of a drive-thru window? A sheepish mound of ground beef and onions being scraped off of your mother’s frying pan? Or [...]
