Jack’s Restaurant and Bar
When the best eating establishments in the region are mentioned, Jack’s Restaurant and Bar at 80 Crescent Drive in Downtown Pleasant Hill deserves to be on that list. This unique…
Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup
By Carol and Randi, the Frugirls, frugelegance.com Baby, it’s cold outside! And when it’s cold, there is nothing better than a warm, hearty bowl of homemade soup. Our recipe for…
Out to Lunch: Bambino’s
By Richard Eber On a chilly Monday evening in late November, many restaurants were closed or hurting for business. Not Bambino’s. Even during Covid-19 times, this popular eatery in a…
OUT TO LUNCH:
By Richard Eber With the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions permitting more indoor dining, (the county’s equivalent of removing restaurants off ventilators), many local restaurants are gasping for support. The places…
Stayin’ Alive – Restaurants Struggle for Survival
By Richard Eber Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me. Somebody help me, yeah. Life goin’ nowhere. Somebody help me, yeah. I’m Stayin’ alive. – The Bee Gees from Saturday Night…
California Fish Grill
OUT TO LUNCH by Richard Eber When it comes to sea food, very little exists in the casual dining genre past pre-breaded frozen sandwiches offered by the likes of Mc…
Holiday Baking: Butter Sugar Cookies
Mrs. Butterbanks The most loved tradition in our family, at this Holiday time of year, is baking all kinds of different cookies, bars, fudge, peppermint bark and delivering to family…
Change Things Up With Chinese Broccoli
Thanksgiving means family and friends around a table laden with traditional food and drink. What about surprising them with some new and interesting recipes using Asian vegetables. They’ll fit right…
Thanksgiving Caramel Pecan Rolls
Mrs Butterbanks “You only live once, lick the bowl“ Happy November! While most people are focused on pumpkin recipes and turkey, we sometimes forget that our family get-togethers include breakfast.…
Nepalese Style: Momo n Curry
OUT TO LUNCH by Richard Eber When it comes to the success of new restaurants, the real estate adage “location, location, location”, usually holds true. With such logic, Momo N…
Dark Chocolate Guinness Cake
by Mrs. Butterbanks Grab your beer stein, a fork, and get to celebrating Oktoberfest! Who isn’t drawn by a cake that is described as a “Boozy Chocolate Lover’s Dream Cake”?…
Brasas do Brazil Opens in Concord
Out to Lunch by Richard Eber There was a time some 35 years ago when I moved from San Francisco to Concord that the place was a culinary wasteland. In…