Sunday, September 28, 2008
“Wanna go on a date?”
“Sure, depends on what we’re eating.”
“Let’s go to Dopo.”
“Yay, it’s a date then.”
- Dialogue that may or may not have taken place on a particularly humdrum night
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
This week’s mashup is engorged (though not nearly as much as we were) because Hippo is preparing to leave the country, we didn’t have time to blog about one of our go-to places, Chef Yu Yu, so we’re including it in our mashup. I’ll take this time now to note that Hippo will be carousing [...]
Sunday, September 21, 2008
After the non-success of Digs, I suggested to Hippo that we go down-home, and she suggested that we go to Ao Sen, a Vietnamese pho joint back in my old ‘hood, when I was still living and eating alone.
Reflecting on our visit brings a flood of memories – of days alone gorging on Church’s chicken, [...]
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Blue Elephant and I decided to take the plunge – finally – for a Monday prix fixe dinner at Digs Bistro, a small restaurant on Dwight and Sacramento in Berkeley.
We’ve heard much about this place as it was formerly known to be one of the hippest underground dining experiences in Oakland, run by chefs who [...]
Monday, September 15, 2008
Here are some of the yummies we’ve had this week. On a lazy Sunday we tried the new Amanda’s – a healthy alternative to McDonald’s – complete with yummy burgers (patties made of mushroom and walnuts, quite unique and not nutty) and sweet potato fries. Then we went to Tara’s, a strategically-located ice [...]
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
So your girlfriend tells you you have to go to some tiny Thai restaurant in East Oakland – you know…over there…in real Oakland (well, minus the whole Mills college thing) – and you’ll have to – get this – call them to be let in…”for security reasons.” A real hole in the wall, right?
Monday, September 8, 2008
It is perhaps not by mere coincidence that our restaurant pick for our second week of blogging is…Korean…again. We live in an area endowed with a high density of Korean restaurants — mostly mid-level in service, specialty and food quality, but satisfactory nonetheless, from quickly-tossed noodles to slow-cooked black goat stews. If you are looking [...]
Saturday, September 6, 2008
While Hippo scrambles to make some of super secret special chicken wings in time for her friend’s birthday bash, we thought we’d throw up our blog’s first weekly mashup. Ok, ok, so it was supposed to be the Friday mashup, but I’m sick and she’s busy, ok?
Every week (maybe often on Fridays!), we’ll bring you [...]
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
After a hard long week of couple trouble, we finally sat down for a well-deserved meal of…