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November 2009

November 2009

 


Wine
I’m bullish on Spanish wines. Whenever a customer asks me for a great bargain red wine, more often than not, I’ll suggest a Spanish red.
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Once your taste buds have overruled your budget-consciousness, and you’ve gotten over the fact that you’ve paid $23 for two pieces of fried chicken, you can’t help but appreciate what Picán brings to Oakland’s dynamic dining scene
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Oakland Magazine »  November 2009

November 2009, Volume 6, Number 6

November Features

Brunches With Punch

by Kathryn Jessup (Photography by Lori Eanes and Mitch Tobias)

By and large, the economic recession has been terrible for restaurants, although the East Bay’s food-loving community seems to be keeping old favorites and hip new arrivals afloat.

Too Many Cooks?

by Wanda Hennig (Photography by Mitch Tobias)

When eight East Bay culinary divas stir the pot and spill the beans, what you get is a sizzling stir fry of raucous musings, candidness, collaboration, ebullience and deliciousness.

November Departments

From the Editor

by Judith M. Gallman

Saturdays and Sundays were meant for leisurely brunches, but far too many of us are in such hurries that we rarely enjoy such a luxury.

In the Mix

by Wanda Hennig(Photography by Deborah Sherman)

Enter a Den of Delicious Decadence

Legacies

by Mary Mcinerney (Photography by Chris Duffey)

Bonds That Bind Forever in an Exclusive Club

Soundtracks

by Lee Hildebrand

Nervous Norvus: What a Cat

Taste of the Town

by Derk Richardson(Photography by Lori Eanes)

Once your taste buds have overruled your budget-consciousness, and you’ve gotten over the fact that you’ve paid $23 for two pieces of fried chicken, you can’t help but appreciate what...

Wine

by Jeff Diamond

I’m bullish on Spanish wines. Whenever a customer asks me for a great bargain red wine, more often than not, I’ll suggest a Spanish red.

Second Helpings

by Wanda Hennig(Photography by Lori Eanes)

Sports cafés and pub grub. The notion conjures up an image of a bunch of inebriated folk bellied up, several layers thick, to a crowded bar, tussling and shouting for drinks.

Out on the Town

by Mary Lee Shalvoy(Photography by Courtesy of Benoit Fontaine 2009, Cirque du Soleil Inc. )

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