Category: BiteClub

If you’ve ever watched Iron Chef, you’ll pretty much get the premise of the recent Steel Chef cook-off during Sonoma Showcase last weekend–throw a good-natured group of chefs into an impossibly stressful cooking situation in front of an audience; keep the key ingredients a mystery until the last second; set the timer for 30 minutes […]

Snuggled against the base of a sheer limestone mountain, the town of Field, British Columbia is just about the quaintest place on earth. The hamlet of 200 is little more than a way-station for summer vacationers who have the inside track on the popular eight-table bistro, The Truffle Pigs, who serve happily sweating diners beef […]

Along with ballet slipper flats and safety pin fashion, frozen yogurt has resurfaced as one of the summer’s hottest recycled ’80s trends. Like totally. But hold onto your mall bangs, sister, we’ve evolved way beyond TCBY. Enter Pinkberry. Raging through SoCal like an acidophilus-fueled wildfire, Pinkberry has elevated fro-yo to an art form by, well, […]

Chefs are a notoriously fickle bunch to feed. Anyone worth their whites can sniff out undercooked pasta at 100 yards and won’t hesitate to dress down a fellow cook (usually behind their back) with devastating candor if the fries are frozen or the spinach wilted. Suffice to say it’s not just their knives that are […]

When a friend recently told me he never eats fast food, I couldn’t help the look of shock and horror that came over my face. I called him a liar. Because in the year 2007 if you have any sort of normal life, hitting the drive-through at 11pm after everything else closes is pretty much […]

Seafood lovers might want to think twice before biting into that shrimp, tilapia or catfish. China, the world’s leading seafood supplier, has come under serious scrutiny by the FDA for exporting several types of farm-raised fish and shellfish that have been found to contain significant amounts of carcinogens and contamination. How do you know if […]

  Heather, I thought I would drop you a line and let you know about a new spot in Windsor that is incredible. Maybe you have already heard about Odyssey. It is in the former spot of L’Assiette, kind of hidden away just off the town green, but it’s soul is 1000’s of miles away. […]

Okay, it’s time for the ultimate coffee vote-down. Tell BiteClub the spot that you can’t miss in the morning. Who’s got the best beans, the best baristas, the best morning nibbles and the absolute-can’t-miss macchiato? Cast your vote for the best spot in SoCo and we’ll feature the top bets for when you’re jonesing for […]