BiteClubEats: January 2009 Archives

Restaurant at Bardessono

Superbowl Sports Bars to get your eat on

La Strada becomes Casa Del Mar

Chinese New Year

Giovanni's Pizzeria in Cotati: Good Friday night grub.

Fancy Food Show 2009: Weird, wacky, wonderful

openings

For his first official meal as President, it's being reported that Barack Obama will be dining on some of the favorite foods of Abraham Lincoln. Served in Congress' Statuary Hall, the First Family, along with the Vice President, congressional leaders,...

Inaugural dinners

Spatzle

Barley and Hops is one of the few watering holes within a 20-mile radius between Sebastopol and Bodega Bay, making it about 85 percent locals on any given night - friends and neighbors catching up over a beer and wings at a quintessentially neighborhood bar. What makes it destination-worthy for the rest of us, however, is pretty much everything.

It happened before we were ready, which is often the way with death. Walking toward the barn, a 22-caliber rifle popped once. Then again. The sound, unmistakable. Despite being barely 8 a.m. in the morning, Chef John Stewart and I rush toward a small pig sty in the freezing hills north of Santa Rosa. "Damn. We missed it," I said, having spent the previous 24-hours emotionally girding myself to watch a 300-pound animal die at my feet. The pigs had been shot. The slaughter doesn't wait.

Zix Treats: Sebastopol CPA turned semi-pro baker bakes up micro-batches of complex, herb-infused treats in a borrowed commercial kitchen. Getting a box is strictly a word-of-mouth affair.

Welcome to a whole new year in eating. What's on the horizon? BiteClub dusts off the crystal ball and gazes forward.