My first underground farmers market, both as a vendor and attendee was great fun. We sold pickled grapes and green garlic, and sold out of baked mochi and two kegs of ginger beer (the nonalcoholic variety.) It was crowded, but everyone seemed to be in high spirits. The door was well regulated, leading to [...]
After weeks of planning, hours of tasting, and an unknowable number of phone calls to brewers confirming their beer would be there, the “Mostly Barrel Aged Beer Dinner” went off without a hitch. As usual, Scala’s Bistro and The Sir Francis Drake pulled of this huge feat without breaking a sweat.
“Enough preamble, get to the [...]
More pictures from Toronado Russian River Night…
I’ve always found that food is one of the best ways to get to know a new culture. So, in order as part of an immersion into the culture of Mexico (my first trip to Mexico!) Eli and I headed to the Mexico City’s San Juan Mercado – one of the largest food markets in [...]
Great times as usual at The Bistro’s Barrel Aged Festival for 2009. Favorite from the day were Lagunitas’ Crusin’ with Ruben & the Bretts on Cherries, Scotch Ale aged in a scotch barrel from Sierra Nevada, and Fifty Fifty’s Imperial Eclipse Stout 2008 on Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Barrel.
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I feel like I’ve been saying I wanted to go to Aziza forever. Between a busy travel and work schedule, it always seemed like trekking out into the Richmond was too far just for dinner. Eventually, I finally made it, raising the question: what took me so long? Aziza is stellar.
