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The Cats Restaurant & Tavern

Posted on March 2, 2012 by bayareafoodie

Drum roll…..The Cats is back! To the dismay of many the Cats, a BBQ roadhouse in the hills of Los Gatos, closed without much warning about 4 years ago. The building has been around since the 20′s and has housed many different businesses but the most famous was the restaurant/tavern which opened in 1967. Whenever [...]

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NOPA San Francisco

Posted on January 25, 2012 by bayareafoodie

NOPA is located north of the panhandle in San Francisco and serves up rustic wood-fired cuisine. We stopped in for brunch on a Sunday morning and it was standing room only. Luckily I made a reservation. We were immediately seated at a table upstairs overlooking all the action. We had a view of  the open kitchen, bustling bar [...]

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The Melt

Posted on January 17, 2012 by bayareafoodie

The man behind the Flip video camera has opened up a high-tech chain of grilled cheese fast food restaurants called The Melt all over the Bay area. Since we were at the Stanford Mall in Palo Alto to pick up the new S’more cupcake at Sprinkles we stopped in for lunch. The menu was fairly simple [...]

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Chez Panisse

Posted on December 24, 2011 by bayareafoodie

Who knew that it was harder to get a reservation at Chez Panisse than the French Laundry? I had no idea that it was still so popular. We attempted to reserve a table for my birthday about 3 weeks prior but they were fully booked. The reservationist said I had to call exactly at 9am [...]

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Umami Burger

Posted on December 5, 2011 by bayareafoodie

When humans eat, they use all of their senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste) to form general judgments about their food, but it is taste that is the most influential in determining how delicious a food is. Conventionally, it has been thought that our sense of taste is comprised of four basic, or ‘primary’, [...]

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