Deschutes Brewery
22Jul
2014
22 Jul 2014

Deschutes Brewery

Portland — american, brewery, food, pearl district

Want good bar food? And no, it’s not a trick question. You got it. This place was a local recommendation. Good beers and surprisingly good food for a brewery. And to be honest, I don’t expect much when I go to these types of places. After eating here though, I realized I should expect good

Yama Sushi
21Jul
2014
21 Jul 2014

Yama Sushi

Portland — food, pearl district, sushi, sustainable fish

This place was right around the corner from Puppet Labs, a place we were suppose to be later. More about that toward the end. You’re here for this sushi place that I looked up. Not too hard to find when you’re walking around the area. It’s on the corner and had outside seating. Best of

Andina
20Jul
2014
20 Jul 2014

Andina

Portland — food, pearl district, peruvian, tapas

Sunday night and places were busy. At least two of the places I moseyed on over to had horrible wait times. I can’t wait an hour and a half to eat. I hunger. Thankfully, by the third attempt we found a place with open seating. Andina. A lovely Peruvian restaurant that had two floors of

Ramen Yamadaya
31May
2014
31 May 2014

Ramen Yamadaya

San Francisco — food, japantown, ramen, tonkatsu

Not sure how I ended up at this place. It sat on the second floor in the blocked out street of Buchanan. I think it was relatively new, because come on, I’d notice the ramen sign walking by this area on the way to karaoke. Oh so many karaoke memories. “These guilty feet have got

What’s Hakata Ramen?
25May
2014
25 May 2014

What’s Hakata Ramen?

Los Angeles — food, hakata ramen, little tokyo, thin noodles, tonkatsu

Another regional style of ramen you say? From the opposite end of Japan? Well sign me up for a bowl. Literally, it seems like half of LA waiting was outside of Shin-Sen-Gumi. The other half was waiting for Daikokuya, a place I’ve eaten many times. This place, however, was new for me. It opened in

Pine & Crane
24May
2014
24 May 2014

Pine & Crane

Los Angeles — eater la, healthy, number, silverlake, taiwanese, verdict: pass

I’ve read about this place when it popped up on Eater LA (doing some due diligence on places to eat this trip). It was a surprise to see a Taiwanese place pop up in Silverlake. Sure I’ll buy into the hype. We didn’t have any ideas for lunch. Everything good in Little Tokyo had a

State Bird Provisions
10May
2014
10 May 2014

State Bird Provisions

San Francisco — fillmore, food, hype, kabuki, new american, no reservations, provisions

We happened to mosey on by State Bird Provisions one afternoon after a movie at the Kabuki Theater. My geeky explanation of why I didn’t like Captain America was cut short. We came across State Bird Provisions, where I had to reboot my story telling of impossibilities to that of getting a reservations at this

Plentea
10May
2014
10 May 2014

Plentea

San Francisco — boba, financial district, line, milk tea

On a walk to one of my favorite watering holes on Friday, I saw this place. One of three actually, on the way towards North Beach where I’ll sit in a tiny bar and cry out my day’s miseries. But first thing I do when I see my bretheren was to mention the onslaught of

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