Comments on: Manresa (Los Gatos, CA) – A Summer Meal

By: Karel

Karel — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:51:22 +0000

Thanks for your input!

By: chuckeats

chuckeats — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:34:39 +0000

Hi Karel, some options, depending on what you’re looking for:

high-end:
- Coi – increasingly in vein of noma-type restaurants
- Quince – best pasta in the US?
- Commis – former sous of Manresa, 1*, with a vision

middle:
- Frances – best casual restaurant in SF right now
- Sons & Daughters – a very exciting new restaurant
- Blue Plate – perfect “American” food (meat loaf, mac’n'cheese, etc)
- Delfina Pizzeria – one of better neopolitan pizzas
- Martins West – excellent gastropub

cheap:
- 4505 – best hamburger on Thurs & Sat Ferry Bldg farmer’s markets
- Humphrey Slocombe – get the secret breakfast ice cream flavor
- Blue Bottle – several locations, excellent coffee
- Ritual – also great coffee
- Dynamo Donuts – pretty good donuts

By: Karel

Karel — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:42:22 +0000

Hi Chuck,

Nice blog!
new octopus logo is fab

In September we will be travel in CA for 3 weeks. LA, SF, Napa Valley,…
Manresa and Ubuntu are already en our dining schedule.
What are the restaurants fine, casual dining that you think we should visit?

Thanks,
Karel

By: cirio

cirio — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:46:03 +0000

Fresh Uni? Pretty easy to get along the central California coast.

You can go out and pick em yourself. It’s pretty much as good as it gets, scooping it out of a live shell.

By: ulterior epicure

ulterior epicure — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:20:35 +0000

That Brillat Savarin – Iranian caviar dish sounds stunning.

re: Commis – that is a common complaint I have with restaurant menus. The first courses all sound so appetizing that the main courses seem breathless by comparison.

By: Uncouth Gourmands

Uncouth Gourmands — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:46:19 +0000

I just went for a post birthday dinner and was blown away. Your pictures are a million times better than mine but here was my experience http://uncouthgourmands.com/2009/10/23/a-post-birthday-to-remember/

By: Arthur Che

Arthur Che — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:33:46 +0000

Never seen a piece of uni like that before. Did it taste any different, other than being really good? It’s hard to imagine eating uni that big!

By: Frodnesor

Frodnesor — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:11:35 +0000

A chef at a Japanese restaurant here in Miami scored some of that uni overnight from Oregon around the same time in July and it was phenomenal. Some pix here (about a dozen pictures in).

By: Steve Plotnicki

Steve Plotnicki — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:28:19 +0000

Is that uni or calves liver?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:34:09 +0000

Chuck, I just set your uni photo as the background on my phone. Great review and photos.