Category Archives: Lifestyle

April 5 Mixer at Scratch!

Posted on March 6, 2011 by deb

Meet your neighbors and enjoy a taste of Scratch. Downtown’s elegant new regional-American restaurant has already generated press and online acclaim. Scratch will welcome the neighborhood Tuesday, April 5, from 6:30-8:30PM at 401 Castro. The remarkable half-price “happy hour” deal (described in the restaurant profile below) will be extended to us for this special event. Continue reading →

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Restaurant Profile: Scratch

Posted on March 6, 2011 by deb

After several meals I’m impressed. I found real class (both obvious and subtle) in Scratch’s kitchen work. A strong guiding vision also shows. … ishes enjoyed so far include most of the dinner-menu “appetizers” like crab cakes, goat-cheese soufflé, an outstanding grilled-prawn “shrimp cocktail,” and especially the Ahi tuna Niçoise salad (about five times).
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How to Walk Around (Here)

Posted on December 8, 2010 by deb

by Jack Perkins This is a great walk-around-neighborhood.  Partly old fashioned and partly bleeding edge, partly relaxed and homey and partly stressed-to-the-max. Living here plagues me with a question I can’t answer:  when I am out walking is it better … Continue reading →

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The Pleasures of the Winter Farmer’s Market

Posted on December 8, 2010 by deb

by Anthony Chang I love shopping at the farmers’ market in the fall and winter.  It’s not quite as sexy as the kaleidoscope of colors and deliciously sweet flavors that you get with all the heirloom tomatoes, stone fruit and … Continue reading →

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Pizza in Mountain View

Posted on November 4, 2010 by OMNVA

by Max Hauser Some folks might be surprised to learn for what food silicon valley was briefly known in the 1990s.  Not Vietnamese, Chinese, Indian, or Japanese cooking, all locally prominent.  Not Pacific seafood, a Bay Area staple since prehistory.  … Continue reading →

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