TAQUERIA CAN-CUN – Restaurant of the Week
By Tony Fazio – Every once in a while you just want something quick that doesn’t take much effort to order and eat. San Francisco is full of Taqueria style restaurants. Not much seating and not many frills just really good food cheap. At Taqueria Can-Cun I am... Read MoreCHUNG KING – Restaurant of the Week
By Gail Block and Elias Davis – Chung King, a Sichuan restaurant in Monterey Park, was included in a 2006 New York Times piece by Mark Bittman about the best Chinese restaurants in Southern California – years after Jonathan Gold of the L.A. Weekly and a host of... Read MoreTACOS Y TORTAS GUADALAJARA – Restaurant of the Week
By Kathleen Poirier – Driving a little further than my comfort zone in the San Fernando Valley is never a problem if the destination is a great restaurant. Before being introduced to Tacos Y Tortas Guadalahara by my friend Nicole, I had searched far and wide for... Read MoreLa HUASTECA – Restaurant of the Week
By Larry Dietz – I don’t want to oversell La Huasteca, although my first inclination is to write: “go there this minute.” The food is memorable, prepared by Chef Rocio Camacho, who made her mark in East L.A. at Moles La Tia. Now she’s performing on a larger... Read More900 GRAYSON – Restaurant of the Week
By Larry Sheingold – We asked Gene Agress of Berkeley Mills for a lunch recommendation. He pointed toward the long block of parking lots and storefronts across from his furniture showroom and started telling us about two brothers with San Francisco French... Read MoreBROPHY BROS. – Restaurant of the Week
By Lenn Grabiner – I never, repeat never, visit Santa Barbara without having a meal at Brophy Bros., a fantastic little upstairs restaurant/bar on the marina in Santa Barbara. Don’t get the marina confused with the pier or you’ll be searching until the gulls... Read MoreCAFE VERDE – Restaurant of the Week
By Victor Griego – Located on the “Off Colorado Blvd” corridor of Green Street in Pasadena, Café Verde is small and intimate – nine tables that can seat no more than 20 people. Everything about this restaurant qualifies as eclectic. The name is Spanish but the... Read MoreANGELINI OSTERIA – Restaurant of the Week
By Larry Levine – Angelini Osteria is two different restaurants – a bustling, noisy place with great food at dinner and a more sedate, relaxed place with great food for lunch. I can’t explain why Jennifer and I hadn’t visited Angelini years ago. It was among the... Read MoreMULVANEY’S BUILDING & LOAN – Restaurant of the Week
By Michelle Reynolds – Mulvaney’s Building & Loan serves deliciously inventive, upscale California cuisine and cocktails in midtown Sacramento. They specialize in stylish sustainable local and organic food in season presented with warmth and sophistication.... Read More
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