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BOMBAY BAR AND GRILL – Restaurant of the Week

By Larry Sheingold – For anyone doubting a review’s influence on local dining choices – and sometimes the success or failure of a restaurant – I offer you Sacramento’s Bombay Bar and Grill, purveyor of Indian cuisine. My wife and I go there often. We like the food, the sauces, the garlic basil naan. We [...]
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MAD MENU DISEASE – What’s afflicting today’s menu writers?

By Larry Sheingold – Hidden behind the kitchen doors of some upscale restaurant near you, a culinary maestro is composing a masterpiece. What sweet harmonies he coaxes from his ingredients. What exquisite presentations. Too bad our chef’s elegant eatery isn’t equally adept at setting his performances to words. I’m talking about the menus. Scan many [...]
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MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL – SuperDawg in Chicago

(MY MOST MEMORABLE MEAL is an occasional feature at Table Talk atLarrys.com, written by co-hosts of the restaurant web site atLarrys.com) By Larry Sheingold - Most people can remember special meals, those inedible little life moments, as vividly now as the moment they put down the fork and looked up with that is-there-any-more expression on [...]
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TIME TRAVELING IN LOS ANGELES – He took us 150 years in four blocks in San Francisco; Now it’s 90 years in just seconds in L.A.

By Larry Sheingold - There’s a time machine in downtown Los Angeles. It’s called Angels Flight – the world’s shortest railway. This restored relic now travels 90 years in less than a minute. L.A.’s rapid transit between Nouveau and Oldvo. You board in Bunker Hill’s redeveloped world of water features, sushi, Starbucks and Casa, the [...]
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THE ACME OF BAY AREA BREAD MAKING

By Larry Sheingold Imagine his horror if Dr. Robert Atkins, the low carb crusader, saw the loaves on display at Acme Bread Company in the Ferry Building Marketplace on the San Francisco waterfront. Lining the Acme counter is the royal family of high carb society – a full roster of its nationally-acclaimed artisan bread products. That [...]
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UNSEASONED AFFECTIVE DISORDER – Just for Fun

By Larry Sheingold - One thing you’ll notice about atlarrys.com, our sister website that offers restaurant recommendations: if we can’t recommend a place, we don’t write about it. We’re the anti-Fox News of online restaurant analysis. The idea is to let you see if your tastes match ours – based solely on our positive impressions. [...]
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FOUR BLOCKS AND 150 YEARS OF HISTORY

By Larry Sheingold - All it takes is a short walk in San Francisco’s financial district to find undeniable proof that different generations can possess the same soul. No. It’s not Shirley McClain’s version of reincarnation. She could still be wrong about past lives returning in newborn bodies. But this brief walking tour will tell [...]
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BEST USE YET FOR PEPPERMINT CANDIES

By Larry Sheingold - We’d need fewer New Year’s resolutions in January if there were fewer Christmas cookies in December. My solution: work this one into the year-round menu as a stand-alone treat and not just part of the pile on the holiday cookie plate. Then reserve your resolutions for the practical and attainable – [...]
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HOT BROWN & OTHER INVENTIONS
HOT BROWN & OTHER INVENTIONS

By Larry Sheingold – You know where to look for a burger. But how about the joint that invented them? Or the places that originated the Cobb salad? Waldorf salad? French dip? Banana’s Foster? Tell you in a minute. For now, let’s talk about the hot brown. Never heard of it? Then you haven’t spent [...]
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WHY CAN’T I HAVE A MARKET LIKE THIS?

By Larry Sheingold - How can something unique, like Cossetta Italian Market in St. Paul Minnesota be so … unique? Why haven’t restaurateurs across the country, including my town, adopted this winning dining formula? At Cossetta Italian Market everything you need to fill an Italian food craving is there under one roof. Two cafeteria lines [...]
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