• The closing of Coda may point to the fact that jazz-only venues have to mix up their schedules more, like Yoshi's does, to survive. [NYT] • Salmon sport fishing in the Sacramento River delta appears to be a thing...
The jazz venue has not had enough business this year, and closes after sixteen months.
In honor of Cinco de Mayo, the Latin cocktail-eadors at Cantina will be opening up at 2 p.m. in order to start squeezing limes for a night's worth of five-spice margaritas. Should you be off work tomorrow afternoon, you may...
• Pinch-hitting for Michael Bauer today, Carol Ness files a two-star "meh" on Oakland's Spice Monkey. "My advice is to stick with the snacks, salads and sandwiches, which arrive in generous portions, usually pretty basic but satisfying." [SF Gate]...
Participating restaurants will donate revenue to charity.
• Guest writer Carey Sweet files a two-star review of Sabastopol's BBQ Smokehouse, the parking-lot stand from Stanford Court vet Larry Vito. "At his Sebastopol venture, the workhorse is an enormous industrial smoker parked outside a tiny kitchen" cranking out...
