Eva's Wine Cellar

George is right, come to the East Bay. Everything you love about SF, but with better weather!

Cycloptichorn

I live on yellow sticker stuff mainly.

Maybe it's my slow computer;

some of the links are: http://thedecadentdiva.blogspot.com/2011/07/pot-stickers.html

http://blogchef.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/potstick.jpg

http://www.gourmet.com/recipes/2000s/2006/02/shrimpandporkpotstickers

http://www.jbgorganic.com/community/topic/pork-and-bok-choy-potstickers

Cut it out. This agreeing stuff has got to stop !

I love it how we have several conversations going on at once here

Yes, I do like San Francisco, it's nice to visit - but ONLY visiting! We're
much more laid back down here, partially due to the weather and our proximity to neighboring Mexico, I guess.

The last time George came down to "upper San Diego", we had lunch here...

Ahhh.

We call them dumplings The best Dumpling house in Australia, is in Melbourne, David knows the name, I can't recall but we have been there. Three storeys high and they make their own at the front of the Restaurant. You can watch them doing it from outside, the window. Amazing.

Here's another link that I have used, you may find some things on there that interests you as well

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/collections/asian+recipes

There was a point in the US Open golf coverage when a long distance shot of Alcatraz was shown. As the camera slowly pulled back to the Olympic golf course we saw on the way what looked like a few hundred acres of geometrically designed barracks.

I like both but know SF and the peninsula and north of the bridge better.

I know nothing of what you are talking about, so couldn't join in until now

With

WOW
That place looks amazing.

is that the Valencia now?

If so, I knew it when it was on the quaint side, '64, and later in the '80's. In the eighties was when I went there by myself (visiting friends, but not right that minute). I went there as a sort of reclaim. I'd been there with friends for dinner one summer in the sixties. I'd been raped in a building on that street not long later, but not that place (yes, it's in that thread). Years went by.
That day in the eighties, I had a gin and tonic in that old long hallway, and walked the town. Not La Jolla's fault, a reclaiming.

Bittersweet; not to shadow the wine cellar, just another light.

Yes, it is a beautiful hotel w/restaurant and garden patio. One of the oldest
one we have here in town and always a treat to go there.
Here are more pictures... http://www.lavalencia.com/#

and some of the food selections

omg osso, what a terrible experience you have had there. I don't think you
ever mentioned it, at least I didn't know. I am so sorry to hear that. No matter when it happened, that's something you'll never forget.

Crime is everywhere - beautiful places or not!

So sorry to hear that Osso as well. That's horrible. I am kind of proud of you though , If I can say, that you went back.. Only a strong person would do that, good for you.

We are hopefully going to America next year, around this time, that's the plan anyway I just tried to see what it would cost for 2 nights and nothing was available lols.. Grrrr .. Beautiful place.

All we have and it's still good. Are historic townships and churches. I'd love to see something other than skyrise friggen apartments with a restaurant underneath at the ocean's feet..

That's true - although some get more statistics for good reasons re categories listed.

Well, you and I didn't meet for all that long, but I would have told you if we had more time to meet and talk, or I think I would have. Definitely not right away, but potentially. For one thing, you are quite straight talking, a quality I appreciate. I was comfortable with you.

two nights?

Nooooooooooooooo.

Or if you have to pick one place for (what? two nights of jet lag?), tell us what you want to see.. while you are out of your mind tired?

Then you better come to California, Found Soul! You probably have a flight
to Los Angeles anyway; rent a car and drive south to La Jolla to the hotel.
Later on, we'll send you up our famous highway 1 along the coast until you
hit San Francisco - georgeob1 and Cyclo can take it from there

I used to do that, flights to SD, brava - but not ... you two doing two nights in the US.
Fuggedaboutit.

Ten days would be good for california, at the least, including for a chef. And that would be a push, two weeks better.

I follow a lot of but not all california chef talk. Much as I love LA, look at the SF chronicle & archives. Re LA, the LA Weekly fabulous guy is now writing for the LA Times. Worth reading anything he has written, as it is cumulative. Jonathan Gold.

I'll add Russ Parsons, I've loved him for years. Different trips.

Yes, FS, come see the U.S.! Or, as much of it as you have time to see. It's an incredibly diverse country, so unless you have a few months, you'll have to choose what you most want to see...New England, NYC, Washington D.C., Florida, the South, the Midwest (Chicago), the Rocky Mountains, California, and the Pacific Northwest all have their charms. Each region is quite different from the others.

A pal of mine did three months in Calif. for British Telecom. He said that the population was completely mad.