Hawaiian Host Chocolates

Hawaiian Host is a confectioner from Hawaii, specializing in products using macadamia nuts.  They sell plain nuts, but most of their products involve chocolate in some form or another.  "Hawaii residents voted Hawaiian Host the best tasting chocolate covered macadamia nuts in the island."When co-workers return from Hawaii, they frequently bring the macadamias, plain and chocolate coated.  I have never really cared for them.  But, Hawaiian...

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Neighbor Bakehouse

Neighbor Bakehouse is a bakery cafe in the Dogpatch.  I still haven't actually visited the cafe itself, but I've had, and greatly enjoyed, their baked goods before.  They also supply other area coffee shops, like Red Door, where I really enjoyed the Smoked Ham & Gruyere Morning Bun once. The bakehouse menu is full of temping items, but their croissant dough is certainly one of their signature items, used to make not only standard croissants...

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Napa Farms Market @ SFO

If you've ever flown out of Terminal 2 in SFO, you've likely grown to hate basically every other terminal in every other airport.  Shiny, clean, and new, with water ports to refill your water bottles everywhere, and an actual decent selection of places to get food.  Not a McDonald's nor Starbucks in sight.  There are chains, but they are things like Pinkberry and Peet's, both of which are actually, well, excellent, particularly if you are a captive...

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IHOP, 2020 & 2021

This year, 2020, my birthday pancakes were a very, very different experience.  Summer of 2020, the year of COVID.  Dining in and feasting on pancakes was not in order, and IHOP relaxed the conditions of their coupons to allow for takeout, something I've long wished for.  Thus, my first IHOP takeout review.But as you know, IHOP is home of what were once (can still have potential to be) my favorite pancakes.  If you'd like to catch up on past reviews,...

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