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Farmed Salmon Worth Another Look

Nicolas Grizzle — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:21:05 -0800

There are two opinions on farmed salmon. One says that salmon is salmon and it’s good for you no matter where it’s from.…

Waitresses Talk

Gabe Meline — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:00:00 -0700

WHICH eponymous restaurant can't keep the "Help Wanted" sign out of the window because its owner pays the heroin dealer more often than the employees?WHAT Sonoma-area restaurant owner was spotted over Film Festival weekend pocketing his waitresses' tips?WHO spends his mornings "greeting customers"—a.k.a. blatantly checking out the asses of girls walking by on the sidewalk?WHICH restaurant and pub's clientele provided this overheard gem?: "When it comes to fuck music, it doesn't get any better than Touch, by John Klemmer."WHY is there a different girl every week working the counter at a certain Santa Rosa taqueria?WHERE does the waitstaff at a new, large downtown Santa Rosa eatery disappear to for 15 minutes after they seat their customers?WHEN will a certain vegetarian restaurant change their menu, open on weekends, or pay their workers over the table?HOW many times can a certain Windsor restaurant owner recycle the steamed rice before he finally tosses it out?WHAT body fluid was discreetly added to the order of a well-known real estate investor who's never left anything but pocket change for a tip?

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Cafe Saint Rose: Onward and Westward

Gabe Meline — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:00:00 -0700

Mark Malicki, sitting at a small table in his soon-to-be-evacuated restaurant space, says he'll scrape off the gold lettering in the window when he moves out, leaving only the letters "a-i-n-t."Café Saint Rose, after two years on its very cute and very awkward downtown Santa Rosa backstreet, will be moving out of its small Sebastopol Avenue location at the end of March and heading to greener pastures in west Sonoma County. It'll reopen at the property now occupied by Two Crows Roadhouse, five minutes west of Sebastopol on Bodega Highway, in late April.…

Superburger Rises Again

Gabe Meline — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:00:00 -0700

The last time I stopped by Gayle’s Superburger, on its final day in business, the atmosphere really wasn't as jovial and congratulatory as it should have been. As a matter of fact, it was decidedly depressing—despite the milestone, the former owners could only muster one other grungy customer in the joint, and he didn’t even know, or seem to care, that it was the last day they’d be serving up their famous King Burgers.…

Burger Joints in the City Designed For Living

Gabe Meline — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:00:00 -0800

In the middle of last week’s completely soaked Friday, I left the Bohemian office around lunchtime, intending to quickly grab something to eat a block, maybe two blocks away. Instead, and without an umbrella, I wound up running in the pouring rain for a full half-mile.…