A Weekend in Portland

A Weekend in Portland

For the amount of times I went to brunch in less than 72 hours in Portland, and for the amount of minutes I spent waiting for brunch, you would think ...

Mexico City Meets Marin at El Huarache Loco

Mexico City Meets Marin at El Huarache Loco

Strip malls are frightening things to me. I often get lost in Bed, Bath & Beyond, and I am constantly bewildered as to how I convince myself every time that ...

Prizefighter: Ten Things You Need to Know

Emeryville’s got a new bar, and here’s the skinny: 1. They have delicious punch bowls. Menu says they serve 6-8 people. We say 3-5 for a good time. 2. For ...

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Rainy Day Fare: Hawker Fare

Rainy Day Fare: Hawker Fare

The rainy weather is back in session and we all need a ...

East Oakland Thai: Old Weang Ping (don’t blow it up)

Old Weang Ping is overgrown with ivy and tropical plastic flowers. Wood ...

Strollerless in Rockridge

I know most of us strollerless folks tend to avoid Rockridge for ...

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Two Countries and Three Cities in Two Weeks

Two Countries and Three Cities in Two Weeks

Special to Ferronlandia: Guest Bloggers Viva and Jonathan eat their way down the East Coast, starting in Montreal. Best place to stay in Montreal, pronounced Mont(insert gurgle sound)eal: Plateau District Imagine San Francisco’s Mission district if all the locals were bilingual and nice. This is the Plateau neighborhood in Montreal. Here you’ll find yourself surrounded [...]

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Brunch, Without the Wait

Brunch, Without the Wait

As many of my friends and coworkers have learned the hard way, I’m not the nicest person pre-coffee. Or pre-breakfast. If I’m going to brunch, I usually have a snack right when I wake up. Not because I feel hungry, but so that when my neighbors put on their fancy hats and walk arm and [...]

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East Bay Sweets

Eleven months out of the year I’m not a big sweet tooth. If it ain’t dark chocolate then I’m not really that into it. But come that time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and I start thinking it’s okay to have a cookie for breakfast. There’s something about the constant flow of leftover Thanksgiving pies, holiday [...]

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Local Holiday Shopping Guide

Local Holiday Shopping Guide

The only thing worse than Rebecca Black’s youtube video, “Friday” is Kohl’s adaptation of it for their Black Friday commercial, in which a bright-eyed woman in a puke green sweater is pushing her shopping cart and singing about the joys of going to a massive department store at 4 am and getting 500 early bird [...]

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How to Keep Eating Like You’re at Eat Real

How to Keep Eating Like You’re at Eat Real

True food festival freaks feel a little empty when food festival season is over. Summer ends, fall arrives, and soon it’s back to the ol’ holiday sit down dinner. Meals with your loved ones, real forks and knifes, comfortable places to sit, and carefully selected wine. Bah humbug, give me a grilled cheese and a [...]

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