• Fire Sign Cafe

    My friends and I spent the past weekend at Tahoe. We had a blast snowboarding and chilling, but we had just a good a time exploring and discovering new eateries in the area. Fire Sign Cafe is a family-run business (since 1978!) located in Tahoe City, close to Homewood Mountain Ski Resort. It was brunch …

  • Crab Yard

    For all you seafood lovers out there, this one’s for you! I really enjoy living in Berkeley – it’s a vibrant and unique place with tons of great restaurants, attractions, and people. But one thing I find myself missing from time to time is seafood, particularly the restaurants that serve them by the pound in …

  • KC’s Bar-B-Que

    I’d like to share a hidden gem of a restaurant in Berkeley. It’s located a bit further west, on San Pablo Ave, but it’s definitely bus-able and would be well worth your time to try at least once. Good meat is a special treat, after all – especially when served in heaping portions and slathered …

  • Sheng Kee Bakery

    It’s very natural for me to draw parallels between SoCal and NorCal eateries, since the former is my birthplace and the latter my adopted home. This especially rings true with Asian food, which is huge in certain parts of the LA area as well as the Bay Area. Sheng Kee Bakery to me is the …