Last weekend, a family friend of mine drove up to visit me in the city. I’d barely moved in but was put in charge of finding a good place to enjoy a Sunday morning brunch. After some quick researching online, the results kept pointing to a particular eatery in the Mission. Called Universal Cafe, this …
The McRib has nothing on this BBQ brisket sandwich. The Rib Whip’s Texas Brisket Sandwich, 13-hour smoked and dripping in tangy BBQ sauce, is what the McRib can only dream about becoming. You’ll find this delicious meal, along with an assortment of other rib/pulled pork sandwiches, at the Off the Grid at Berkeley on Thursdays.
Fun fact of the day: The Melt was started by the founder of the Flip camcorder company. At first glance, tech to grilled cheese seems like a pretty drastic jump, but when you look a little closer, everything starts to make sense. The Bay Area, especially Silicon Valley and San Francisco, is home to thousands …
Gyro. How do you pronounce the word? There doesn’t seem to be a general consensus, but I do remember one of my teachers in high school adamantly exclaiming the “correct” way – yee-row, not gyro like in gyroscope. Regardless of how the word is pronounced, I had the pleasure of stopping by Gyro King for …
Walking the streets of San Francisco brings back a lot of good memories from last summer, when I interned in the city and explored a ton of delicious eateries. Tonight, I had the chance to try a burger joint on Market Street. Full disclosure: SF burgers are in another league when compared to the typical …
Now I’ve had my fair share of pho in the past – there are tons of pho places back at SoCal. Sadly, there hasn’t been too many stand-out pho restaurants around the Berkeley area. Fortunately, I had the chance to switch things up by eating at Turtle Tower in San Francisco. The restaurant is ranked …
Today was the last day of my summer internship at OpenDNS. The marketing director and marketing manager decided to treat me to a really nice restaurant for lunch. COCO500 was their recommendation – how could I say no to good (and expensive) food?
Although San Francisco has some amazingly-good eateries, the drawback is the price these restaurants typically charge. It’s tough finding good food at (fairly) reasonable prices for the student budget.
Another Big Eat restaurant checked off. Grace and I tried out Little Star Pizza, a Chicago-style deep dish pizza place. Now, I’ve only had deep dish pizza on one other occasion, about two years ago at Zachary’s in Berkeley. Even though the pizza was delicious, I’m still a thin-crust guy at heart, and nothing tops …
My manager has been talking about The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen since I started work a couple months ago. Yesterday, we finally stopped by the place for lunch. I was curious how grilled cheese could be so fervently recommended, not only by him, but also by hundreds of Yelp reviewers.