Provencal bistro fare -- rabbit terrine, buckwheat crepes, roasted duck, braised beef in red wine. Think classic French meets olives and tomatoes.
BiteClubEats: June 2008 Archives
Time to tighten the money belt and suss out lunches with a slimmer economic profile. But hey, let's not get crazy. They've still got to taste, well, reasonably good.
Ready for a Hot Lips Cosmo? The revamped downtown cocktail club, Stir, thinks maybe you are. Located in the former Barcode space (404 Mendocino Ave.,), the new owners have come up with a list of specialty cocktails and a remodeled design for their July 3 opening.
The North Bay's meat-free-set have a new place to rave about in Santa Rosa thanks to the addition of Seed, a month-old vegan restaurant on Sebastopol Avenue.
You'll find most of Wine Country gathered for burgers and wine at this beloved St. Helena outdoor walk-up. Lines can stretch for blocks as folks queue for top-notch burgs, salads, fries and shakes.
BiteClub recently wrote about one of the Northbay's most popular breakfast spots -- Hank's Creekside -- and boy did you have some opinions. Some of you can't be dissuaded from your passion for the diner's pancakes and Benedicts. Others, well, weren't quite so enamored.
Let me first say that Hank's is never going to be included in the annals of haute cuisine. It's diner food. Good diner food for the most part. But diner food. It's fluffy pancakes as big as your head, sausage, eggs and Huevos Rancheros. But what sets Hank's apart from, say, Denny's or IHop is the local cred and homemade touch. Biscuits are made from scratch, eggs are fresh and the cottage fries are, Oh My God good
After weeks of waiting (and trust me, a whole lot of you have been asking), the Cheese Steak Shop is finally open just off Stony Point Road. Some of you are rabid fans who've sampled the goods elsewhere. Others are just jonesing for a taste of Philly. Neither will be disappointed
Mark's already proven himself to locals--from his years of service as winery chef and caterer to his ever-intruiging menus at the old Saint Rose. We get it. But the new spot reflects more of his comfort with, uh, comfort foods. Easy-going preparations of farm-fresh ingredients that feel so very right out here
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