Longtime Redding residents will remember the old Italian Cottage on Hilltop Drive, pre-dating even the Mount Shasta Mall. Sawdust was piled high enough on the floor to get in your shoes, they put an olive in your beer, and the… Continue Reading
The late Dame Anita Roddick (founder of The Body Shop cosmetics chain) wrote of a visit to Mexico City when she was taken to Fonda Meson de Alonso, where she was promised “real Mayan cooking.” The house special was a… Continue Reading
Femme de Joie only dined twice at Doc Clearie’s Skyroom, once on the occasion of her high school graduation and again a few years later for a reason she can’t recall now. She remembers nothing whatsoever about the meal itself;… Continue Reading
Being in a traveling trade myself, I know the problem of asking someone in a strange city for the best restaurant in town and being led to some purple palace that serves “Continental cuisine” and has as its chief employee… Continue Reading
Cottonwood is one of those I-5 exits most people zoom on past. Unless they need to fill the tank or get a cup o’ joe, the average driver sees it as a blip, another of the zillion green exit signs… Continue Reading
As they always are, Amico del Signore and Femme de Joie were in search of decent Chinese food when they got to San Francisco. There’s no shortage of such restaurants, but weeding out the chaff from the wheat (to mix… Continue Reading
On September 12, 2012, The Village Voice wrote a not-complimentary review of the new restaurant opened in Times Square by celebrity TV chef Guy Fieri. Three weeks later on October 2, the New York Observer published a scathing review of Guy’s American… Continue Reading
www.walkscore.com recently rated San Francisco as the second most walkable city in the US, and indeed, a car is largely an expensive impediment for an enterprising tourist. Put on a decent pair of shoes or fill up a Clipper Card, and… Continue Reading
The first time Femme de Joie dined at Brick’s, back when it was on Placer Street (in the tiny building now occupied by the wildly popular Wilda’s), she was underwhelmed. She and Amico del Signore ordered sandwiches (the exact contents… Continue Reading
Femme de Joie arrived late to the Dry Creek Station party. She had heard of it but had always assumed it was a sort of roadhouse-cum-greasy spoon with nothing much to justify the drive out east of Redding. Nothing against… Continue Reading
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