Erin Baker's Granola

I love breakfast food, but rarely eat it at home. I generally prefer going out to brunch to have decadent french toast or bread pudding, or at least visiting a bakery or cafe for fresh baked goods.  But lately I've been lazy, trying more simple at-home options, like cereal and granola. I discovered Erin Baker's, a brand with several product lines, including breakfast cookies (!!!), "Homestyle" granola, and "Endurance Granola".  The endurance granola...

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Cupcakes from That Takes The Cake

That Takes the Cake was a bakery located in the Marina, that I discovered on to LevelUp.  They seeded LevelUp accounts with enough to get a free full size cupcake, or, for the indecisive, two minis!  The dessert lover in me could not resist. The cupcakes were decent, and I probably would have returned, but unfortunately, they closed just a week or so after I found them.  Doh!  I heard that they just re-opened in Oakland, but they weren't really...

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Playa Azul

Playa Azul is a casual, Latin American restaurant in Bernal Heights.  Not a neighborhood I normally frequent, but I was nearby, and wanted a snack.  I quickly pulled up my favorite new restaurant discovery tool, LevelUp, and cross-referenced the nearby locations with Yelp reviews.  Playa Azul quickly rose to the top, so I checked it out. It was a friendly place, with bar seating and standard tables.  I got my food to go however, so I didn't...

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Bite American Tapas

As you know from my posts last week, I was recently up in Tahoe for a few days.  Summary: Tahoe is great, but culinary mecca it is not.  I had some ok breakfast, and some crappy fish and chips.  But I didn't really have high hopes for those establishments in the first place. However, when I asked for recommendations of places to eat near Incline Village, one place kept coming up: Bite American Tapas.  The Yelp reviews were great, but I really...

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Dinner by Chef Sean Mowell, via Munchery

A few weeks ago, I wrote about my first full meal from Munchery.  I enjoyed that dish, and I've been watching the menus since, eager to try out another dish.  I can't get over how awesome this service is - quality dishes, prepared by great chefs, delivered to my home, designed from the start to be reheated, for totally reasonable prices.  It fits my lifestyle perfectly. I was very excited when I saw a dish listed by Chef Sean Mowell (previously of...

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