dining-out

Whenever most people think of dining out, they’re fantasizing about that favorite restaurant or trendy new place that they’ve been dying to try, don’t you think? I know that’s what we usually mean here in the pages of weirdcombos. So today, to get away from that trend and stop being so rigid in our thinking, [...]

We were thrilled to try Locanda in the Mission District over the July 4th weekend. We’ve been long-time admirers of Delfina in the same ‘hood, and when we learned about this “child of Delfina” we had to go. Unlike the parent, Locanda is in a sketchier part of town: Valencia between 16th and 17th Streets. [...]

Candle Café is an incredible work-in-progress made good. Located in the Seventies on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, it began life as a health food store. The previous owners would light candles each night to bless the place. Apparently it worked. In 1984, the new owner, Bart Potenza, liked the idea so well that he renamed [...]

The name for this stunning restaurant is a mouthful. We usually refer to it as “Plant Organic,” or more often, simply as “Plant.” There are three locations in San Francisco though I’ve only ever tried the one on The Embarcadero near the Ferry Building on the Bay. Aside from being fairly close to home, it [...]