For the past couple of weeks, Facebook has been alive with comments about the recent opening of The Place, a small Italian restaurant at the southwest corner of Pleasant Valley and Buck’s Bar roads, a few miles east of Diamond…
Gekkeikan Sake – they tested the water
Over the past centuries California has lured people to it for its many assets: its climate, its farm lands and, most of all its gold. Today the gold is still here, not only in the ground but also in the…
Steppin’ Out – This, That and Other Things
Every now and then either Russ Salazar, I or both of us drop by a fast-food place to try out their latest offerings, most of which have the famous “For a Limited Time” notice on them. So, I am going…
Steppin’ Out – Los Amigos, Shingle Springs
Well, again Russ Salazar and I headed out to visit a restaurant that it turned out was closed on Tuesdays. Well, since we were in Shingle Springs, I thought we might try Los Amigos for Mexican food which, it turned…
Steppin’ Out – Sam’s Club vs Costco: The Ultimate Hot Dog Battle
My friend, Russ Salazar, emailed me a couple of weeks ago with an idea. “We should go to both Costco and Sam’s Club in Folsom and compare their quarter pound hot dogs and Polish sausage,” he wrote. Well, we have…
Steppin’ Out – Wally’s Pizza Bar, Cameron Park
A few weeks ago Russ Salazar met me in town for lunch. After a short conversation we decided to try one of several places in Cameron Park instead of Placerville. However, by the time we arrived there, we still hadn’t…