Archive for January, 2008

January 30th 2008

Oakland’s Franklin Square Wine Bar pours on the refinement

Inside Bay Area - What sets Franklin Square apart from most other wine bars is its grounding in chefly talent and experience. In the East Bay on this side of the Caldecott, only Cesar can match these cooking chops, which give a lift to even the simplest dishes. That’s …

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January 30th 2008

Robles ripe and ready: Wineries turn slumbering cowtown into cool … - Santa Cruz Sentinel


Robles ripe and ready: Wineries turn slumbering cowtown into cool
Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA - 5 hours ago
Central Square Park is lined with restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, antique stores and wine bars. Meandering country roads outside town are home to

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January 30th 2008

Robles ripe and ready: Wineries turn slumbering cowtown into cool …

Santa Cruz Sentinel - Central Square Park is lined with restaurants, coffee shops, boutiques, antique stores and wine bars. Meandering country roads outside town are home to quaint country inns, golf courses, gourmet restaurants, organic fruit orchards, olive oil farms …

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January 30th 2008

Find a ’sports bar’ worth cheering for on Super Bowl Sunday - Los Angeles Times


Find a ’sports bar’ worth cheering for on Super Bowl Sunday
Los Angeles Times, CA - 6 hours ago
But lately, with the proliferation of neighborhood gastropubs, sushi sports bars and even beer-friendly wine bars, there are alternatives.

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January 30th 2008

Off the Menu - New York Times



New York Times
Off the Menu
New York Times, United States - 7 hours ago
BAR VELOCE On Monday, Frederick Twomey turned the sliver that had been Bar Tonno, then Room 4 Dessert, into another of his Bar Veloce wine bars: 17

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January 30th 2008

Enoteca Drago

Los Angeles Weekly - In New York City, Italian wine bars are multiplying like mosquitoes. In Los Angeles, the most serious Italian wine bar is probably the posh Enoteca Drago, an outpost of Celestino Drago’s pasta-driven empire, where you can chase a plate of prosciutto …

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January 29th 2008

City wine bars toast success - Yorkshire Post


City wine bars toast success
Yorkshire Post, UK - Jan 29, 2008
a one per cent dip in like-for-like sales since the end of September, but growth at its 10 City wine bars was 4.1 per cent higher than a year ago.

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January 28th 2008

Porto Alegre

Los Angeles Weekly - The upper-west level of Pasadena’s Paseo Colorado complex is a catalog of mild modern sins, a promenade of cigar stores, wine bars and tea shops, crystal-laden boutiques and holistic-massage parlors, overlaid by a thin film of hot suburban lust …

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January 28th 2008

Beware of wildlife when hitting the road

FOXSports.com - Thanks to the movie Sideways , good wine bars are everywhere. But if you’re ready to get away from the excitement (translation: wicked traffic and Giants fans) drive east on Shea Boulevard into the town of Fountain Hills. Turn left on Saguaro, go …

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January 28th 2008

Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death

Spokane Spokesman-Review - A 21-year-old University of Idaho senior was found shot to death early today in his Moscow apartment. David Robert Boss, a history major and Boise native, was found dead by a roommate about 2 a.m., Moscow police officials said. Boss’ roommate …

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