Bauer Praises the Improvement at Americano; Patti U. Calls Delica ‘Impeccable’
Bauer gives Americano two and a half stars; Patti U. loves the new menu at Delica at the Ferry Building.
Bauer gives Americano two and a half stars; Patti U. loves the new menu at Delica at the Ferry Building.
Bistro Aix reopens to a rave from Unterman; Bauer says Barndiva is much improved.
Michael Bauer shows the North Bay a little love this weekend, and he seems to like the "sophisticated all-American"-ness of Jackson's Bar and Oven in Santa Rosa. He praises the wings, and the Caesar salad, and gives it an encouraging...
Bauer likes everything, but especially the pasta and pizza, at Ristobar; Patti U. basically just likes the cheesesteak at Public House.
Never leaving a new Asian restaurant stone unturned, Patricia Unterman filed her review this week of Inner Richmond Vietnamese establishment Quan Bac (4112 Geary Blvd), waxing poetic about the chicken salad, "The tawny top, like a mountain covered in snow,...
Michael Bauer files his review of Baumé, Bruno Chemel's 25-seater in Palo Alto which offers no menu, but only five-, ten-, and fifteen-course tasting menus. Never a big fan of molecular gastronomy or high-concept cooking, Bauer was "a bit fearful...
Michael Bauer takes a jaunt to Larkspur's Left Bank for this week's Thursday Datebook review, and he says the sixteen-year-old brasserie is "offering better food and surprisingly lower prices" than it has in recent years, thanks to the work of...
Michael Bauer isn't a frequent hater of restaurants, and his penchant for finding the good qualities in many an eatery earned him the moniker "Mikey Two Stars" over at Eater. So it always seems like one should sit up and...
Kaufmann *loves* Hakka; Reidinger kinda like Art/S; Patti. U. enjoys her chicken feet at Koi Palace.
Taishan's second location in the Outer Richmond shuttered to make way for Hakka a month or so ago.
• Ms. Unterman adores the cardoon custard, the wine selection, and the "unusual, yet perfectly balanced" pasta dishes from Ristobar chef Angelo Auriana. Overall, she writes, "Everything works together and the place is so happening that everything stays fresh." [SF...
• Right on schedule, and in keeping with his enduring, passionate love for pizza, Michael Bauer files his review of Oakland's Boot and Shoe Service, the spinoff of Charlie Hallowell's successful Pizzaiolo. He says the food, to which he gives...
Bauer adores Baker & Banker from start to finish; Unterman raves about the Southern-inflected grub at Bruno's.
• Patricia Unterman went to San Mateo this week and made eyes at the "sexy grillers" at Japanese chicken eatery Kokko. She has now become "addicted" to the deep-fried chicken cartilage known as nankotu karaage, and she was "practically clucking...
Ms. Unterman revisits long-established Yerba Buena fave Lulu, and raves anew; Mr. Bauer treks up north to Solbar, and also raves.
Michael Bauer gives two and half stars to Traci Des Jardins' latest; Unterman can't get enough of King Won Ton.
Unterman adores Grain; Bauer can't get enough of Rosso's pizza; Reidinger digs the homey vibe of Olivia's.
Bauer gives two stars to La Costanera; Battilana kind of dislikes Gracias Madre; Unterman raves about Frances.
Bauer is thoroughly unimpressed with Hubert Keller's latest Burger Bar outpost at Macy's in Union Square.