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San Rafael: "Fancy" sit down restaurant
"Best birthday present ever." It was really nice and the seats weren't bad (row 17, up a foot from the handicapped section, close to the center). Such a joy to watch professional dancers. Of course the last ballet I saw was two performances of the Nutcracker over two days (my daughter was in it).
San Rafael: "Fancy" sit down restaurant
So we went to Rumi last night. It's in a large strip mall in a little corner with a patio and dry fountain. The inside of the restaurant is gorgeous. Lovely inventive art, mostly based on bird themes, and intricate metal wall lamps.
When it came to the food though, my fantasy is better than reality. Imagine it is the height of summer. The chefs take fresh local fish and shrimp and local pastured meats and charbroil them on a grill. Their juices are so intense just a small amount flavors the mild basmati rice, yet you can taste a hint of saffron. An charbroiled heirloom tomato adds to the sauce but is amazing just on its own. The salad of local greens, more heirloom tomatoes, and fresh cucumber in a vinaigrette complements the Persian details of pickled vegetables, fresh herbs, and walnut pomegranate pate.
Reality: Summer vegetables in the middle of February. I don't understand the point of a charbroiled tomato when the tomato comes from hundreds or thousands of miles away and is a lovely red but otherwise bears no resembalance at all to a real tomato. Even warm and sunny Iran has seasonal foods. Surely they could have found something local to grill. An onion, cauliflower, chard, anything but a tomato.
The salad was commodity romaine lettuce (good crunch, no flavor) and more tasteless tomatoes paired with tasteless cucumbers. What law is there in restaurant world that salads are only for summer so you eat them year round with summer vegetables?
My husband said his lamb was well cooked with good flavor, but he agreed with me my trout was completely tasteless. Our daughter had shrimp and they were okay (she was happy). All three proteins were very well prepared, but the quality of the raw seafood was lacking.
Except for a lemon (and a sprig of parsley in my daughter's rice), that was it for the plates. The rice had yellow stuff all over it that we were told was saffron, but it had no flavor at all (and the color didn't bleed even a little). It's possible we missed out on sauces because we told them no dairy, no butter.
I wanted to order the walnut and pomegranate olive plate but the waiter said it was a spread for bread, so not to bother. So I asked for the pickled vegetables to be brought with the meal. He brought them about 20 minutes before the meal came. I didn't know at first if this was a pre-meal nibbler or our purchased appetizer. The pickled vegetables were cooked eggplant (another summer vegetable done an injustice) with some carrot and so much red wine vinegar that it almost hurt to swallow it, though it tasted good. I wanted to use it on my food but the flavors clashed. It came with a side of sliced raw radish, a quarter of a raw red onion, and a big pile of herbs (mint, basil, tarragon, and several others). I don't know if it was supposed to come with that or if it came with bread and this was a substitute. He also brought a hunk of what looked like feta cheese and asked if anyone would eat it. We said we didn't want it but he left it anyway (though my husband ate it). The herbs at least made my salad worth eating.
We asked if they had any vegan desserts and were told no. A few minutes later the waiter returned to suggest baklava, which we reminded him was filled with wheat and butter.
I couldn't bring myself to look at the bill, so I let my husband do it. Normally they charge an extra $2 to change the rice side dish to half rice and half salad and both my husband and I had all salad instead. Given that we missed out on the bread and spread that the other tables got (I'm guessing as part of the meal, not an add-on, but I am not sure), I would hope they wouldn't charge us $8 for the salads.
The bottom line though was that we all ate decent food (not anything junky) and our daughter was happy. She pronounced it "fancy enough" and enjoyed her food. The other people in the restaurant weren't dressed up (and nearly everyone wore jackets because it was too cold inside, even long after I informed the staff) but the tables and room were beautiful and we all got cloth napkins and real tableware (pet peeve of mine is when adults get real glasses and children get disposable cups with straws; they didn't do that here).
Maybe it would be worth going back in the summertime, if they don't just order the same distant produce from the same supplier. Or maybe I ordered the wrong dishes. It's a restaurant with such potential. The cooks are clearly skilled and the cuisine could be so good.
P.S. The bathrooms at Rumi were unusable (too much air freshener) but the Marin Center ones are unscented. And most important to the evening, the ballet was lovely. Our daughter pronounced it "the best birthday present ever." Even better than the year we took her to Disneyland :-)
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Rumi By Famous Kabob
227 3rd St, San Rafael, CA 94901
San Rafael: "Fancy" sit down restaurant
Thank you PamF, Chilihead, Gumbolox, and Sarah for your suggestions. All very helpful. I poked through them and thought Rumi was the best option. My daughter agreed! Hooray! What she really wants is a place where everyone "has" to dress up, but those are going to be insanely expensive (and even rich people go out to dinner in sweats). But she liked the look of the interior and was drooling over the menu.
About 6 months ago I won two tickets (on the Marin Center Facebook page) to any of a selection of upcoming performances. My daughter adores ballet (we're talking a child who checks out books with famous ballet stories from the library and begs us to read them to her over and over) and has never seen any in person except for the Nutcracker. So we got two tickets to the Russian National Ballet doing Swan Lake (and they let us buy a child's ticket with an adjoining seat). It's just a coincidence that this performance is 2 weeks before her birthday.
She doesn't know yet where we're going, just that it's tickets to something we have to dress up for and that all 3 of us will like it (she figured out that meant it wasn't a Hannah Montana concert ). I'll let you all know how it went with the restaurant.
San Rafael: "Fancy" sit down restaurant
We live in Petaluma so don't get to eat in San Rafael very often but our daughter's early birthday present is tickets at the Marin Center tomorrow night. She is turning 7. We're going to have dinner before hand and she gets to pick the place (within reason).
She wants it to be "fancy" (a place where everyone dresses up is a big plus to her) but any nice table service place that's not too noisy should do. It also needs to be a place that has some flexibility with the menu. She is very allergic to all traces of egg and can cheat some with gluten and dairy but should stay away from them. None of us eat pork and I don't eat meat or dairy or gluten. We do not have to worry about cross-contamination issues except for egg.
At first she wanted rice, beans, tortillas; to her that means Mexican, but I know she'd be open to other cuisines. I found the reviews here of Sol Food and thought that would be perfect. Lots of vegan and GF options, plenty of the foods she loves, and more. They even have two vegan gluten-free desserts! (trust me, that NEVER happens). But now she's saying it's not "fancy" enough. Sigh.
I looked at Insalta, which is further out than we want and also more expensive. I'd like to stay closer to $15 for an entree that includes sides. It also seems to be the sort of place where they prepare wonderful food and expect you to eat it as is. Maybe I'm wrong but it's not the same vibe I get from Sol Food's website where they mark what's vegan, etc, and tell you flat out what subs you can make. I wish we all could just trust the chef and eat what is put in front of us...but you can't do that with allergies. My daughter is not a picky eater but we have to be careful.
Just in case there is something else that fits the bill, I thought I'd ask. Also feel free to supply me with talking points to get her to try Sol Food, if you think that will be the right place.
Oh, we'd be open to Novato too.
Thanks!
Cyndi
El Molino Central, Sonoma
Having another post come in reminds me I wanted to update on something. When I asked them a while back, they told me all the tamales were made with lard. Yet they advertise vegetarian tamales. When I was there a couple of months ago, I asked for clarification. Turns out that all the meat tamales have lard but the vegetarian ones do not. Unfortunately, there is no vegetarian one without cheese (for those of us who can't eat dairy), but if you eat cheese and not pork, you have some available to you.
Where can I buy affordable fresh local fish?
Thanks for the tip. I haven't had any trouble but I use a very small amount. I can leave it out for sure and just add salt when cooking.
Where can I buy affordable fresh local fish?
They had a ton of it at the Rohnert Park branch yesterday. I always freeze salmon. I cut into individual portions then marinate in EVOO, vinegar and/or lemon juice, salt and some herbs. Then freeze on a cookie sheet and transfer to bags. Is there something about this variety that makes it not come out well frozen?
Consumer Reports Investigates Exploding Pyrex
According to:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/08/pyrex.html
Anything bought before 1998 was made using the old processes and is safe (from exploding after heat changes, not from being dropped :)).
I don't see anything bad about using it for cold. 95% of my Pyrex use is in the fridge and freezer. I used to heat leftovers in the toaster oven (good size tabletop convection oven) but I'll probably stop doing that. Should still be good for storage but oy.
Thankgiving Buffet in North Bay (Marin, Sonoma)
We went to Kome. Boy am I glad I pushed for us to get there just as they were opening for dinner, at 4:30. There was no wait for tables and the hot food line was about a minute's wait. No wait for anything else.
About an hour later, the hot food line was 15 minutes just to start getting food and the other stations were crowded with 1-3 mins wait. The lobby was full and they were using their take-a-number system.
The food was all fine and very similar to Todai. My husband thought it was slightly better, I'm not sure there was much of a difference. Maybe it's the crowds but Todai was always very nice about allergies and the staff would go get someone who knew the food to tell me what had eggs or other things we needed to avoid. They even made me some special dishes. With Kome, they were outright rude when I asked. I think there were some language barriers so I don't want to blame it all on personality. I couldn't get any information about hot foods and only minimal about the sushi. I perservered with dessert because my daughter really wanted something and it took about 10 mins before we could get a manager to tell us, yes, every dessert except the fruit had eggs, including the ice cream which was the only one we were asking about (we already knew all the cakes would have eggs).
I felt bad too because I spent about 15 minutes trying to get plain sushi rice and plain sushi shrimp for my daughter and the first two tries weren't okay. They started making me a roll even though I didn't ask for one and grabbed a handful of shrimp salad (I'd already said no eggs which means no mayo). Second try was plain shrimp which they contaminated with a roll made by the guy who touched the shrimp salad, so I didn't trust it at all even though they said it had no egg (there was visible wasabi paste stuck to the shrimp so I know it wasn't "plain" like he promised and who puts wasabi in a 5 year old's sushi anyway unless specifically requested?) 3rd time worked. I hated seeing them put that food in the trash but I couldn't risk it.
The crowds really reduced the upkeep too. The counters for our plates as we got food from the line were all filthy. Not all stations had tongs/serving utensils. And a lot of food labels were missing. They did a decent job keeping the food refreshed and making sure there were plenty of clean plates and etc.
If there was a Kome within half an hour of me I'd probably go several times a year. But it was a lot of hassle plus 2 hours of driving round trip (more if we're not careful about traffic or get unlucky).
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Todai Restaurant
10123 N Wolfe Rd Ste 2001, Cupertino, CA 95014
Thankgiving Buffet in North Bay (Marin, Sonoma)
Thanks, I appreciate the information. It may be too far for us but we'll keep it in mind. Depends how cranky the 5 year old is :)
I just phoned Kome and confirmed that they will be open tomorrow. Holiday hours which are 10:30-3:30 for lunch and 4:30-9:30 for dinner.
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Kome Sushi Buffet
1901 Junipero Serra Blvd, Daly City, CA 94014
Thankgiving Buffet in North Bay (Marin, Sonoma)
Forgot to mention...one year we went to Todai to find it had disappeared and become a Brazilian restaurant whose name I forget. Same price (though no more free birthday meal) and I think the same staff. Similar offerings with the addition of the classic Brazilian meats. So a lot less of the other stuff, especially sushi and seafood. Since I don't eat meat, this didn't really appeal to me, though it seemed fine for people who do. We didn't go back but now I assume this is a third restaurant. I am not sure because one user review mentioned Brazilian as part of Kome and I'm not sure if they were confused or what.
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Todai Restaurant
2200 Eastridge Loop Ste 2074, San Jose, CA 95122
Thankgiving Buffet in North Bay (Marin, Sonoma)
Yeah, I saw that when I was searching. It's got some bad reviews and some good, but pretty much everyone who compared it to Todai says it's better. I've had plenty of so-so food at Todai and some good food. It's not gourmet but at least they made the sushi in front of you and cooked the food, not just heated it. And they were pretty good with food allergies. So if this is better, it may be worth going down. We'll be part of the way since we have to go to Novato.
I never had trouble getting a table at Todai and the waits for food were at most 3 minutes. The reviews I'm reading say it can be an hour or more to get inside then a long wait at each station. Is this true? I'm guessing TG will be packed. Any thoughts about timing? We can do a late lunch or an early dinner.
I also want to hear about other options in case my other half decides Daly City is too far. Or if we just don't feel like making the drive.
Thanks!
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Todai Restaurant
10123 N Wolfe Rd Ste 2001, Cupertino, CA 95014
Thankgiving Buffet in North Bay (Marin, Sonoma)
Looking for a buffet open on Thanksgiving. Good fresh food, local and organic a plus. Prefer a buffet because it's much easier with various food restrictions/allergies (I haven't yet found any fixed menu my daughter or I could eat). My husband and daughter would like turkey but other poultry is okay. I don't eat meat but would like seafood. But we wouldn't rule out a good vegetarian buffet and it doesn't have to be Thanksgiving themed.
Open to any cuisine. Traditionally we do sushi on holidays but anything's good. We normally go out on Christmas and birthdays but this year the Thanksgiving celebration we do with friends has been moved to Saturday.
We live in Petaluma and will be spending time with a sick friend in Novato. So anything in Marin or Southern Sonoma county is ideal but we're open to driving a bit further in any direction.
Really hoping to keep it under $30/adult (and not too much for the 5 year old). That's before taxes, tip, alcohol.
We used to go to Todai in Daly City (an hour+ away and quite a shlep) but they closed and the other locations are too far. We've been going to Gourmet Garden in Petaluma which used to be okay but recently seems to have gone downhill and they now refuse to make special order sushi, which is the only way my daughter gets to eat sushi since she's allergic to eggs and they insist on putting mayonnaise in them all (I know, ick...used to be a tiny bit with wasabi but now there's so much it makes you ill to eat more than a handful of pieces).
Thanks for your suggestions.
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Todai Restaurant
10123 N Wolfe Rd Ste 2001, Cupertino, CA 95014
Gourmet Garden
200 S McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, CA 94954
Moya-new Ethiopian place offering 100% teff injera!
Thanks for the report. I would love to find *real* injera in restaurants. Cafe Eritrea in Oakland swears up and down that their medium colored fluffy wonderful injera is just teff (not all teff is dark) and a friend of mine with celiac doesn't get sick when eating there (she will get ill from tiny traces too; she's not local so it's been a few years). But most other restaurants offer only the kind with wheat and/or barley.
My daughter and I are gluten intolerant (not celiac) but we do not react to traces and we can cheat once a month or so. But I much prefer the 100% teff. I like the sourness of the fermentation and don't just want plain bread.
An internet friend of mine is coming to the Bay Area next month and she has celiac to the degree that makes my other friend look like it's nothing. I would love to send her to a safe Ethiopian/Eritrian place (cooking on the same griddle or even having wheat flour poured in the same kitchen would be a problem). Am I wrong about Cafe Eritrea? Or do they use white teff and have a better technique? Are there other places? Thanks!
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Cafe Eritrea
4069 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94609
El Molino Central, Sonoma
So exciting, they're open at last! You can buy the masa from them too. $1.50/lb. I would call them first to make sure they'll have some at the restaurant for you. And they have machine pressed tortillas. I don't know how much they are, or if you have to special order them, but I'm looking forward to getting a bunch and freezing them. I make my own tortillas out of Primavera masa or homemade masa, but I can't get them machine thin, and they're a bit of work. I'd rather buy the tortillas and save the masa for pupusas or braided challah (note: tortillas freeze well but masa does not and it only lasts in the fridge for about a week, really 1-2 days before the texture is a bit off)..
I know of NO other brand available at any price that are organic and have no additives and aren't total crud (like WF brand). Heck, even finding non-organic ones with no preservatives is next to impossible. I think only Trader Joe's has them. Even the local tortillas in stores have preservatives (and some have wheat!).
Gluten-Free Ethiopian
I phoned Rahel's and asked them about gluten-free injera. They will make it upon request! They need to be asked the day before and they charge an extra $1 per piece.
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/9024/rahel
Gluten-Free Ethiopian
Merkato
http://www.chow.com/restaurants/29874/merkato
http://www.ethiopianmerkato.com/
I phoned them and they said their injera is 90% teff and 10% wheat and they don't have any without wheat.
Gluten-Free Ethiopian
My mistake, I meant to say "several days" in advance, not "24 hours."
Gluten-Free Ethiopian
I agree with DU. I've taken a celiac friend to my fav place in Oakland (Cafe Eritrea) which has 100% teff injera and all the dishes are safe (not counting the one or two Americanized things they sell that I've ignored) and things like beer. Since I don't react to trace amounts of gluten, I wouldn't notice if there was some, but my friend does and I've had Ethiopian food with her many times safely. When the injera isn't safe for her, she gets her meal in a separate serving container on rice (for some reason, the places we've been seem to have rice available).
Gluten-Free Ethiopian
Bummer. I just tried their phone number and it's out of service. But the website lives on!
Someone told me that Rahel's will make all-teff injera if you give them 24 hours notice. Anyone know if this is so?
Gluten-Free Ethiopian
Fabulous, thank you. Have you or anyone else been there? What's it like?
Gluten-Free Ethiopian
We'll be visiting LA in March and are looking forward to having good Ethiopian food (we're an hour from Oakland but don't get down there much). Last year we went to Rahel's which we loved and our now 5 year old daughter proclaims it her favorite restaurant ever.
But, the majority of Ethiopian restaurants, including Rahel's, do the version of injera, with barley and/or wheat, instead of the traditional fermented 100% teff. My daughter and I both get symptoms from gluten but can have it once a month or so (not celiac). I figure, why waste that one meal on injera and, besides, I love the thick sour injera that only comes with the all teff version.
So does anyone know of an Ethiopian (or Eritrean) restaurant in the Los Angeles area that has a gluten-free injera? (We're staying in Echo Park but are open to a variety of locations.) Cross contamination isn't an issue for us so it's okay if the place serves both kinds (though please mention if it does because I will share the results with friends who can't handle gluten traces). The restaurant doesn't need to be vegan but should be vegan-friendly (haven't found one yet that isn't...prefer no butter but small amounts are doable).
Thanks!
Petaluma: Real Doner (Gyro) is destination worthy ... amazing great
My daughter and I can't have gluten (including wheat), dairy, or eggs, and I don't eat meat. But we still had a fabulous meal there. The husband (I think it's a husband and wife team) does seem a bit baffled by "special orders" but makes things as the wife asks him to. She was great and came up with a wonderful spread for us. She has some personal experience with food intolerances in her family so was very sympathetic.
Note to anyone with egg reactions (or soy/other oils), they put a bit of mayo in the hummus and baba ganoosh. The eggplant salad is amazing and purely vegan. Also safe for us: green salad (I didn't order it, it was the owner's idea and it worked), tahini dressing, pickled cabbage, falafel.
Ya know, you can always ask for some lettuce after you see your plate and realize it would be better with some. I do.
Friday night dinner Union Square, SF
Hi all. I don't know SF very well but my husband and I will be there Friday night (2/27/09) to go to a friend's show at the Phoenix Theatre (Mason & Geary) at 8pm. Since we're getting a babysitter, we're making a night of it and having dinner before the show as well.
We've been to Han Il Kwan before and loved it and will go there again as our fallback. The disadvantage is that it's 3 1/2 miles from the theater so we either have to try to find parking twice or take the bus (the 31 goes direct). Something a close walk to the theater would be better, so we don't have to worry about transportation issues.
Any ethnicity/style is pretty much okay. We want to keep costs low (total bill under $40 without alcohol?) I eat vegetarian & seafood (can't do raw fish right now) and DH eats that plus poultry and occasional non-pork red meat. We need someplace good about accommodating allergies. I need to strictly avoid eggs (and orange/grapefruit and chocolate) and not have meals with more than a trace of dairy or gluten (soy sauce is okay, and I'm not going to worry about a bit of butter, but pizza is out). Han Il Kwan is perfect that way and you certainly aren't left with a plain boring meal.
Our daughter's birthday party was on Valentine's Day, so we're seeing this as a late VDay outing for us. A romantic place would be lovely, but a hole in the wall is fine too. I can't be around any amount of incense or in a room with smokers outside the door.
Thanks for any suggestions!
India Bistro, downtown Vancouver
When I was visiting the Vancouver area last month (from the San Francisco Bay Area), I did a search for a downtown restaurant that wasn't too pricey and had food that would be safe for a variety of people with allergies. I worked off the gluten-free downtown listings from Food Vancouver . I then cross-referenced with Chowhound.
We ended up at India Bistro and, since it hasn't even been mentioned on this board, I thought I'd post. From a food allergy standpoint, it was amazing. Tons of gluten-free, no eggs, no peanuts, minimal nuts, dairy in many dishes but known to the servers, etc.
From a basic "tastes good, doesn't cost much," it was a winner too. Forget the allergy part, this was a very good Indian restaurant period. Dinner for 5 adults and 1 child, with 2 beers and plenty of leftovers, came to $100 (after tax, before tip). Next time I'm in Vancouver, I'll be visiting.
I updated the places listing and also wrote a review on my blog with pictures.
http://norwitz.net/blog/2008/09/16/india-bistro-vancouver-bc/
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India Bistro
1157 Davie St, Vancouver, BC V6E1N2, CA
Add New Place Weirdness
I wanted to provide information for a Vancouver, BC restaurant I ate at recently. There's nothing about it in the Western Canada boards and I couldn't find it in places. I did a search and another one with the same name, India Bistro, came up but it was in Seattle. So I went to add a place, filled in the name, city, and area, and hit the button to submit.
And waited. And waited. After 15 mins or so, I hit the button again. It kept saying it was loading in the tab header. And at the bottom of the screen, it said it was accessing a site. Sorry I can't remember the name but it had several i's in it (like before a hyphen as a separate word).
I decided to start over and see if that helped. I didn't log out or close my browser but I went to places and, instead of searching, I just clicked on adding a new place. I put in the name, city, etc, and this time it came up with a match! So I went to the match and edited it, vs adding a new entry. Seems to work fine.
I have a Mac G4 running OS 10.4.11 and my browser is Firefox 3.
Vegetarian or Seafood for Anniversary Dinner
Vita Bella looks nice but there's nothing there I can eat (gluten, dairy, and eggs tend to dominate Italian cooking and it's difficult to assure that any food wouldn't be contaminated). Fresh inexpensive sushi a 10 min drive away is nice to know about though. I can't do prix fixe for the same reason I can't do Italian...
Thanks,
Cyndi
Vegetarian or Seafood for Anniversary Dinner
My family and I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and are taking a road trip to Vancouver next month. Our wedding anniversary falls during that time and our hosts have offered to babysit so we can have a romantic dinner alone. It's Thursday, August 21st, but it is possible we'll celebrate on a different day depending on our schedule.
They live in Burnaby, but near public transport, plus we'll have a car.
Some place with a nice atomsphere would be great, but it doesn't have to be fancy. A view, a cozy table, or music. Anything from quiet to moderately loud (nothing that sounds like a club). I can not be anywhere near cigarette smoke so not only does the inside have to be nonsmoking, but there can't be a smoking patio or open doors/windows to a public sidewalk. Ditto scented candles or any form or incense (even unlit).
My husband eats meat but not all the time. I don't, but am fine eating with others who do. We both eat seafood. I can't have eggs, dairy, gluten, or a couple other things, so I need a place that knows their ingredients and is able to accomodate.
A vegan restaurant would be wonderful, but someplace with vegan choices (solid main courses, not just salad and rice) is a plus. A seafood restaurant would also be a good choice, especially after reading another post about the local oysters (C Restaurant, though that's probably out of my price range). Ethnic is fine. Local and organic are pluses.
Would like to spend less than $50 or $60 for 2 dinners & trimmings, dessert, and 1 glass of wine.
On a separate note, I'm also open to suggestions for other meals/shopping with our 3 year old and our friends. For those, inexpensive with a good variety of foods I can eat. I love buffets too. Or farmer's markets, etc, especially if near Burnaby. My local friend has similar dietary and air quality restrictions, but there's always a chance I'll find a gem she doesn't already know about.
Thanks!
Oakland Kosher vs Tel Aviv Kosher Market and Cheap Matzah Hunt
It's not the cheapest, but it's the best...the only matzoh I'd consider buying is an organic brand that you can find in various places, including Whole Foods. Yehuda. Here's a review: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2008/04/09/FDGDVUOG4.DTL though I don't quite understand it because I have had the organic many times and it's light, crisp, and doesn't have that chalky mouthfeel that the whole wheat matzohs have (despite what the review says). Maybe it was a different variety?
Organic U-Pick berries/fruit in the Bay Area?
Anyone know any places for u-pick in the North Bay? the ones listed here all sound great but they're either out by Santa Cruz or way beyond Concord torwards Sacramento. I also want organic or chemical-free. Thanks!
