Minoo Iranian Bakery

Those of you who are not familiar with my obsession for baked goods, well, you don’t even know me, really, do you? No matter. When I read about Minoo in today’s paper, there was only one thing to do: Hop in the car to Lake City and get some sugar. I ate a bamieh and …


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Yves Good Ground: Meh

I’m just not carnivorous by nature. I have to really make the effort to get enough protien in my diet. Plus, now that my blood is all fat, I’ve had to cut back on the dairy products. Man, I miss cheese. I’ve been feeling a little low energy lately, and thought maybe it’s the protien …


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The Jackson Street Crawl VIII

I ate at Malay Satay for the first time maybe, oh, five years ago. My pal B. and I were on this adventure eating kick and maybe once a month we’d go eat in an ethnic dive restaurant. Malay Satay totally blew us away. Then, when I worked at the start-up, one of the devs …


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Eating Jackson Street

Jackson Street VII Serendipitously, last Sunday found four Jackson Street Eaters in Nia’s house right around dinner time. I’d planned to go home and make dinner, but because I missed out on the Friday Feed, it was easy to convince me that what we really wanted to was wander over to Jackson Street for Vietnamese …


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Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Do not, under any circumstances, go to Agua Verde on the first sunny night of the season. You will be last to be seated, you won’t get the agua fresca you want or maybe you will, you’ll be lectured for standing on the pier where the kayaks are. You will wonder if all of a …


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Jackson Street Crawl V

The cool thing about the Jackson Street Crawl is that no matter the quality of the food, the company is always excellent. This little byproduct of having fine friends that also like to eat was important this Friday at New Kowloon where the food was, well, unexceptional but the company? First rate. We opted for …


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