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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: The Melt

The Melt New Montgomery 115 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Grilled cheese. American classic. So utterly simple. Get someone like Jonathan Kaplan, founder of the Flip camera, to complicate it and make it simple all over again. This guy made several hundreds of millions of dollars when he sold Flip to Cisco. The [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Bouchon in Napa Valley

Bouchon 6534 Washington Street Yountville, California 94599 707.944.8037 Recently, I posted about a visit to Yountville, where I raved about the land of Thomas Keller, in a quaint town in Napa Valley reminiscent of Europe. It could have easily been one of my French, Spanish or Greek holidays taken or to be taken. Travel is [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Centrale Kitchen & Bar

Centrale Kitchen & Bar 1825 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA (209) 939-1825 With the limited choices in the area, Centrale Kitchen & Bar (also turns up as Centrale Restaurant & Lounge in Internet searches) has quickly become my go-to place for a good dining experience. The food, the ambience, the service and the crowd are just the [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Angèle Restaurant & Bar

Angèle Restaurant & Bar 540 Main St Napa, CA 94559-3353 (707) 252-8115 In truth, I am easy to please when it comes to food. But you know what, this meal we had at Angèle has been one of the best meals of my life. It was the most perfect thing because every dish, basically, everything [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Universal Café

Universal Cafe 2814 19th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Tel: 415.821.4608 For an early 1st church wedding anniversary celebration, Chef spent the night in San Francisco courtesy of his sister and brother-in-law, who was also one of our principal sponsors. Sometimes, it seems that Chef and I have been together forever that things like this, [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: La Note Restaurant Provençal

La Note Restaurant Provençal 2377 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 Last Saturday, my French class went on a field trip to know the French culture in our local community. For our semi French culture immersion, our itinerary included lunch at a French restaurant and a visit to the post-impressionist exhibition at the de Young museum. [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Morimoto’s Napa

Morimoto’s Napa 610 Main St, Napa, CA 94559 (707) 252-1600 Morimoto, as an Iron Chef, is pretty main stream and we all know that anything this Japanese genius would venture into is not particularly “hole in the wall”. Nonetheless, that’s the name of our Restaurant Review series. Morimoto’s Napa is located in Napa’s newly developed Riverfront [...]

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Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Luna Park, San Francisco

When we were kids, our parents always took us to eat out and always try new places. There was even a period when we have dined at every restaurant in Tomas Morato in the Philippines, which is a busy strip with food, clubs, salons, etc., that’s always hip and happening. That love for trying new [...]