Core Bar

I tend to have a kinda love-hate relationship with snack bars.  I like them in theory, very convenient, good way to get reasonable snack or breakfast replacement with protein.  And I'm definitely drawn to the flavors ... again, in theory.  So many of them sound decadent and dessert-like: "chocolate drizzled cookie dough", "white chocolate macadamia indulgence", "coconut key lime pie", etc, etc.  But then ... I rarely actually like them.  The...

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Holy Nata

I'll admit, that prior to 2016 when I first visited Portugal, I don't think I knew that a *Portuguese* egg tart, e.g. a pastel de nata, was a different thing than say a traditional Chinese egg tart.  I think I always just thought some were eggier and denser than others, some had flakier or shorter crusts than others, some seemed burnt on top, etc, but didn't realize they were fundamentally different things.  And then I visited Lisbon, and discovered...

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Pizza @ Tony's Pizza Napoletana

Update Review, April 2024Tony's Pizza Napoletana.  Probably the most hyped pizza place in SF.  And it has been that way for years now.  So many awards won.  Always lines.  Yadda yadda.  I visited back in 2012 and wasn't blown away, but after a dozen more years of living here, I finally tried it again (although for delivery this time, not dine-in).Tony's has 11 different styles of pizza.  No, I don't mean 11 varieties of pizza, e.g....

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