Category: BiteClub

Like you, I love to eat out. And, like you, I have uh, many of those in-between-paycheck days where things have to get a little creative. I have been known, in fact, to dig for change in my backseat just to avoid those gnarly Tupperware bowls of leftovers in the fridge. So, here are my […]

BiteClub has learned that Bistro V, the popular, Michelin-rated Sebastopol restaurant owned by Chef Rick Vargas and his wife, Meekk, has gone up for sale. An advertisement in the Sunday Press Democrat listed the restaurant for $1.25 million and adds, ‘illness forces sale.’ When BiteClub called the restaurant this morning, an employee explained that Vargas’ […]

Check out a first look at Green string farm, a small farm market going beyond organic. More details to follow… Green String Farm: 3571 Old Adobe Road, Petaluma, 707.249.0144. Open Friday through Monday 10am to 6pm.

SF chefs head to Napa top open a red-hot new BBQ joint, BarbersQ. Early reports are glowing, lauding the use of lots of local purveyors like Alexis Baking Company, Long Meadow Ranch for beef and Fulton Valley chickens. Plus, cheddar biscuits with ham. Is it hog heaven? BiteClub’s strapping on the bib as we speak. […]

If you’ve endured a winter anywhere, well, east of the California border, you may understand the unbridled glee that we non-natives feel about spring farm markets. Yeah, that’s us fondling the spring onions and caressing the asparagus. Weird? You try living on beets, potatoes and cheese all winter. In the next few weeks, BiteClub heads […]

The obligatory list of Easter Brunches for the omelette-and-french toast crowd. Love it like a little furry bunny. PASSOVER SEDER April 2: Passover Seder at Bistro-V, 6pm. Bistro V, 2295 Gravenstein Hwy S, Sebastopol, 707.823.1262 April 3: Passover Dinner at Syrah Bistro, Prix-fixe, $65, 205 Fifth St., 707.568.4002. Wednesday through Saturday: Buckwheat knishes and duck […]

BiteClub is a fan of firemen–especially young hunky, off-duty ones. Except when they’re blocking my way to the buffet table. And then BiteClub gets a little grouchy. But it wasn’t the hungry fire fighters hogging the buffet line at My Ha that had me perturbed. It was the buffet, itself. After so many of your […]

BiteClub has learned that Seafood Brasserie, the McCormick & Schmick-managed seafood restaurant in Santa Rosa’s Hyatt Hotel will be losing its longtime chef, Liz Ozanich and restaurant’s management group, McCormick & Schmick’s will be pulling out. The change comes as the Hyatt Vineyard Creek & Spa transitions ownership to the Noble Investment Group. McCormick & […]

I arrived at 5pm. The doors opened at 5:30. To say the tension was palpable would be an understatement. The waiters huddled around an impromptu staff meal awaiting instructions. Cooks fiddled with their mis en place, checking and double checking the ingredients. Busboys threw on white jackets and checked their hair in whatever reflective surface […]