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Potlatch restaurant blurbs: a preview
Jan. 31st, 2009 10:05 pmAll you can eat salad, soup, and pasta bar. Not as exciting or reliable as it used to be, but a good standby. When health-conscious out-of-state visitors want to try something distinctively Californian, I take them here.
This is my local home for hearty, spicy Chinese food. A few dishes are odd, but most are excellent. A house special lamb is heavily seasoned, with bits of bell pepper, but the best dish is a four-alarm dry braised chicken, also with bell peppers, called Marni’s Chicken.
Thai restaurant with a large vegetarian menu. If you order the sticky rice here, it’s sticky: it comes in a loaf that almost has to be cut with a knife.
Takeout burrito vendor in the back of a Mexican grocery store. There’s a few tables outside if you want to eat there. Closest thing to the fabled San Francisco Burrito, as celebrated by Calvin Trillin, that you’ll find down in these parts.
Photos of famous and infamous politicians loom from the wall over the waiting area, but despite the celebrity status this is actually a good Chinese restaurant, with a knack for imaginatively tasty versions of standard dishes.
Where old people go for endless quantities of baked chicken, baked fish, baked spaghetti, and unseasoned vegetables.
Pakistani and Northern Indian. For serious meat eaters. This is a good place to get your goat. They also have brains on the menu. Brains.
This is my local home for hearty, spicy Chinese food. A few dishes are odd, but most are excellent. A house special lamb is heavily seasoned, with bits of bell pepper, but the best dish is a four-alarm dry braised chicken, also with bell peppers, called Marni’s Chicken.
Thai restaurant with a large vegetarian menu. If you order the sticky rice here, it’s sticky: it comes in a loaf that almost has to be cut with a knife.
Takeout burrito vendor in the back of a Mexican grocery store. There’s a few tables outside if you want to eat there. Closest thing to the fabled San Francisco Burrito, as celebrated by Calvin Trillin, that you’ll find down in these parts.
Photos of famous and infamous politicians loom from the wall over the waiting area, but despite the celebrity status this is actually a good Chinese restaurant, with a knack for imaginatively tasty versions of standard dishes.
Where old people go for endless quantities of baked chicken, baked fish, baked spaghetti, and unseasoned vegetables.
Pakistani and Northern Indian. For serious meat eaters. This is a good place to get your goat. They also have brains on the menu. Brains.
