West LA Vegetarian Restaurants Quick Reviews: Veggie Grill, Real Food Daily, A Votre Sante, Interim Cafe, Rahel
Lisa and I took a 48 hour veggie-tourist getaway to Los Angeles last weekend. Our principal agenda was to visit some old vegetarian favorites and explore some new ones. A quick recap of the tour: Veggie Grill, El Segundo. Website….
The Loving Hut, Palo Alto–Forgettable Vegan Fast Food
The Loving Hut, 165 University Ave., Palo Alto, CA 95035. The BAVeg review page. The Yelp page. The Loving Hut is the oddly-named new vegetarian chain of restaurants with locations in Milpitas, San Francisco and Palo Alto. (The name practically…
Best of Mountain View 2008
The local paper (the Mountain View Voice) published its Best of Mountain View edition. The best businesses. The best restaurants. As usual, these are generally competent lists of where we go as locals: * House of Bagels (just down the…
Santa Clara County “Staycations”
After literally traveling to the end of the earth on my last vacation (Kaktovik, Alaska), my next few vacations probably will be closer to home. On that topic, the Mercury News ran a special feature this weekend on Santa Clara…
Bay Area Blawgers 3.0 Recap
Last week, we had the third gathering of Bay Area Blawgers at UC Berkeley Law School. Over 2 dozen bloggers and friends convened to discuss topics of interest to legal bloggers [see list of attendees below]. Some photos from the…
Coyote Ridge and Wildflowers
I think of Santa Clara County as mostly urban/suburban. After all, it’s home to one of the 10 largest cities in the country (San Jose) and one of the world’s largest and most vibrant economies (the Silicon Valley). However, it’s…
Pizza Plaza, Oakland–a Vegan Pizza Joint
I’ve mentioned before that I’ve found vegetarian restaurants in some pretty obscure locations, such as the five-star restaurant in Murphys and the raw restaurant in a Las Vegas mini-mall miles from the Strip. This weekend, using my typical technique of…
Global Warming and California
I don’t think anyone knows exactly what’s going to happen due to global warming, so the AP article on global warming’s impact on California is more speculation than science. On the plus side, we can anticipate that global warming will…
Mendocino Anniversary Trip: MacCallum House, Cafe Beaujolais, Mendocino Cafe, Living Light Cafe and More
Lisa and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary in Mendocino, my favorite tourist destination of all time. Great scenery, great food, lots to do. This time, we stayed at the MacCallum House right in town, which turned out to be…
“Working-Class Millionaires”
Gary Rivlin in the NYT has a terrific article entitled “In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich.” The article discusses how a few million dollars of net worth doesn’t go as far as they used to, especially in the…