SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Ristorante Mare This small restaurant, situated in a eucalyptus-scented hillside pocket of the Pedro Point area, looks like what it is: a good neighborhood place. Its proprietors — according to the framed newspaper items covering the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Val's Restaurant & Lounge Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: The Corral Steakhouse Remember in , when the pre-Skeletor-phase Jennifer Connelly, on the advice of a talking worm, walks through what appears to be a solid wall, but is actually a gap in the maze when she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Moss Beach Distillery Here's the thing: We are Breakfast Eaters, and we are drinkers, so the words "champagne brunch," once they enter our brain, tend to stay there, ping-ponging around and popping out anytime the old
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Celia's Mexican Restaurant We have our habits, and one of them is a powerful hankering for kickass Mexican food. Now, the Bay Area's abundance of taquerias and taco trucks is well-documented, and we have developed real
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Half Moon Bay Brewing Company Beer: We like it. So Half Moon Bay Brewing Company — a waterfront restaurant that brews its own — seemed a great choice for a foggy afternoon on the coast. We had s**t to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Nick’s Seashore Restaurant Remember in when Henry Hill's talking about how he and the other gangsters used to take their wives out on Friday nights? They'd go out for a nice dinner, and maybe there'd be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Ono Hawaiian Grill We got there around 1:30, still a busy hour on a weekend, and sat down to wait; ten or fifteen minutes later, the spacy but sweet teenage hostess found us a table.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Nona's Kitchen Beaches fronting bays full of wet-suited surfers, sheer cliffs, fog-shrouded hills with or without clusters of houses clinging to the craggy edge -- it's mostly gorgeous, but natural beauty appreesh is tiring and