I normally take I-5 when driving between Los Angeles and San Francisco, but since there are no viable eating options along that route, and I wasn’t in a hurry, I took Highway 99. The...
Allison and I had just completed a 13-plate family-style Basque meal at Noriega Hotel, but we’d never been to Bakersfield before, and we didn’t know when we’d return, so we weren’t leaving town before...
We had a reservation for the 7 PM seating at Noriega Hotel, Bakersfield’s most famous Basque restaurant, and were warned not to arrive late, since they wouldn’t seat us. We left Los Angeles at...