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Northern California

Middle Eastern Food California

Jeninni Kitchen & Wine Bar Shawarma Pork Buns

Jeninni Kitchen & Wine Bar is a three-year-old southern Mediterranean bistro in downtown Pacific Grove, in the Holman Building. Owner Thamin Saleh is a man of Palestinian descent who originally hails from Jenin, on...
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Fish California

The Restaurant at Ventana Grilled Sturgeon

Until recently, the greatest claim to fame for the sturgeon, other than caviar, may be an episode of The Simpsons titled The Great Money Caper, where a fish falls from the Russian space station...
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Pork San Francisco

Monsieur Benjamin Pork

Fine dining chefs going (somewhat) more casual has been trending for awhile. For example, The French Laundry legend Thomas Keller has opened a string of Bouchon bistros and Bouchon Bakeries. In San Francisco, one...
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Dessert San Francisco

Rich Table Watermelon Sundae

Picture the best granola you’ve ever eaten, with crunchy chunks of grains and nuts, your favorite milk and fresh fruit. That’s a pretty damn good, but no breakfast granola can touch the Watermelon Sundae...
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Tea Berkeley

Asha Tea House Matcha Latte

UC Berkeley students are lucky to have Intelligentsia Coffee. Asha means “someone that enjoys life” in Taiwanese, and I can see how the company’s contributing to that feeling. On Asha’s website, the Laus express...
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Japanese Food San Francisco

Nojo Pork & Purple Barley Rice Ball [CLOSED]

Greg Dunmore, who worked at lauded restaurants like Bacchanalia in Atlanta and Ame in San Francisco, found inspiration in a bygone Japanese yakitori and opened Nojo in Hayes Valley. His “San Francisco izakaya” resides...
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