My second time eating dinner here – here is my first - and it got even better. This is the *best* izakaya in town. This time it was a party of two. We had a bottle of sake, and five izakaya plates, all terribly delicious! We started with a small plate of pickled vegetables, mainly seaweed. [...]
Business lunch, and we had the whole place to ourselves. I’m serious, we were the only customers on a weekday from 12-1. After 1 pm a couple other people filtered in, but other than that it was us and the spanish and latin tumbleweeds. The calamari small plate was my favorite of the appetizers, with [...]
I TOLD you, this place is a chick magnet. Even mid-afternoon. I am in the cafe, *right now* and I kid you not, there are only women here. Two chicks behind the counter and three chick customers tapping away on laptops. Two of the customers are cute blondes. And then there’s me. But two out [...]
peace.love.food. I write this as a separate business to Crushcakes Cupcakery, even though the rooms are joined and are under the same ownership. The hours of CrushCafe are different to the cupcakery next door, and you do business with the two places separately. Hence, a new business entry. CrushCafe is uber cute. The space is [...]
Santa Barbara doesn’t have much by way of asian food markets, but Indo-China gets the job done, plus more. It’s run by one family, and they greet me happily anytime I or someone in my family comes round to shop. This is where I go for noodles, ginger root, all sorts of spices and canned [...]
I have two old memories of this place. First, chicken strips and stuffed potato skins. That’s the State and A in my eyes. Come here with surly high school friends, we’re poor, we order the chicken strips and stuffed potato skins. Second, my first blind date. Freshly 18 and I got stood up! Jerk. The [...]
