Let's Get Festive: Five Notable December Events
Maybe you just wish--just once--Santa would drop a bowl of Cal Stamenov's white truffle risotto in your stocking. Or that Hanukah could be eight nights of fine añejo tequila tastings. That may not happen, but some character rich holiday time activities will. They do make good gifts--after all, studies have ...
Fight For Your Right to Big Mac
Apparently a new cry has supplanted the "Know your farmer!" refrain or the "Keep your crazy hormones out of my meat!" mantra: "Don't let them take away your McRib!" Sigh. So it goes with our reactionary, polarized and unnecessarily politicized society. Now the Sarah Palins and Rush Limbaughs of the ...
Cannery Row Brewing Company's New Deal
Like its parent company Coastal Luxury Management, Cannery Row Brewing Company (643-CRBC) has a lot fermenting at once. On a recent Monday night they had a full bar tuned in to the NFL game, diners swung through for a special Monterey Restaurant Week menu and a lively 30th birthday party ...
Hopefully Your Thanksgiving Is a Little More Promising Than This
The scorpion-snake liquor I bought in Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City is professed to have healing powers. In my kitchen, however, it seemed to only have the power to turn my friends' faces into dried apples. Hey, scorpions aren't for everyone. But some people love nothing better than a good scorp ...
A Tiny Place for Great Crepes
Chef conversation floated about the closet-sized kitchen in fluid French. (Yes, that's the kitchen.) Autumnal sun lightly baked customers eating al fresco along the sea. Authentic buckwheat crepe batter sizzled, its savory scent all sensorial seduction. It was Friday afternoon. On Fisherman’s Wharf front deck. At a semi-hidden new place—tucked ...
Luxe Lounge Makes an Official Grand Opening
After a soft opening that experienced a little hiccup, Luxe Lounge is making its official grand opening this Friday. As Weekly staff writer Walter W. Ryce reports: "Luxe Lounge is open and ready to take on downtown Monterey nightlife in the former space of Doc’s Dance Lounge. Entrepreneur Dennis Barwick ...
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