Category: BiteClub

Sausage is a religion in Chicago. And Hot Doug’s is the high altar where locals come to pray from 10:30am to 4pm daily in a steady stream of devotion. We all stand quietly, penitently in a growing line that snakes down the block outside the small suburban diner. Slowly, the line moves forward a person […]

Chicago in April is cold. As in an maybe 37 degrees and sleeting–in stark contrast to the lush, almost summer-like conditions I left in Sonoma County last week. Now granted, it was a little thick-headed, but thinking of spring back home, I actually asked someone if there were any good farm markets I could visit […]

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 […]