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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: 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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Wanderlust: New Year’s Eve in Rome

Up until 6 years ago, I welcomed the New Year in the Philippines. It was loud and chaotic, with people throwing firecrackers. In larger places that can afford P5,000 a pop, there are fireworks displays. The idea is to make noise. And plenty of it. The next day, there would be a number of people [...]

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Le Critique: Homemaker’s Toys: Samsung 3D LED TV 8000

I don’t know if a TV is really a homemaker’s toy as it does not help me make my home. But, I’m a homemaker, and this is Chef’s and my new toy. In truth I would say we’ve earned this TV. We’ve been living together for 4 years and since we moved in, we’ve always [...]

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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: Book Review: Wicked, The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

SPOILER ALERT: I am somewhat describing the plot and will have constant references to different parts of the book. The last revisionist novel that I read was Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty series, which of course is not the Sleeping Beauty of Disney charm. I read those novels a million years ago in high school and [...]

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Le Critique: Movie Review: Inception (2010)

Oh boy, not another Inception review. Lol! Well, by now the whole world (except probably Ms C) has seen the movie. I won’t really even bother to give a spoiler alert. Just my two cents as usual. We follow Dom Cobb (Leo DiCaprio), a professional extractor of information, as he enters the depths of one’s [...]

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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 [...]