Jack London Square Nibbles and Sips

I recently did a write up of the Oakland Urban Wine Trail for Bayarea.com . To be honest, I didn’t expect too much going into my initial ...

Bay Area Year One: SF Niblets Scrapbook

Every year, I renew a resolution to “take pictures of people, not just food.” Every year I fall short. This year I will try again. It rea...

Bay Area Year One: Memorable Meals from the East Bay Scrapbook

A new year has begun, which always begs a little reflection over the year that just past. I’m feeling it all the more since we also recen...

San Diego Taco Crawl Round 2: Barrio Logan

I mentioned in the my last post that over our last couple of trips to SD, we’ve been surveying taco joints. We made our second San Die...

San Diego Taco Crawl Round 1: North Park

Borrego taco at City Taco: Pulled lamb with wild mushrooms, cotija cheese, tomato, cilantro and fried leeks in a chipotle cream sauce on...

Quick Stop in Santa Barbara

We recently took a little road-trip down to San Diego to join in the celebrations for a friend’s birthday. On our way down we made a quick...

Golden Gate Bridge Walk

Last week I put up a Throwback Thursday post about our Brooklyn Bridge walk last year. Whereas that walk began our farewell tour of  NY...

California Bottom to Top: A Short Photo Essay

Temescal Canyon Circumstances converged in such a way that Greg and I traversed California from south to north over the course of Jan...

SF Niblets

  Pork belly slider After all that wine tasting, (see here and here ) you want a bite to eat, so here's a quick reel of the del...

Black Friday Wine Tasting 2: Pinot in the Russian River Valley & Healdsburg

Last year we got in 2 quick trips to the Bay Area, with 2 rounds of wine tasting, two rounds of tasty eating, and a lot of fun. I’m goin...

Thanksgiving in California Wine Country

Wine is a big deal at our family’s Thanksgivings. We spend Thanksgivings with Greg’s family (my fam gets X-mas) and every other ...

Quick Stop in San Diego

The wedding we went to in California in the spring was actually in La Jolla – a beautiful sunset ceremony near the ocean.  I just decid...