Todd Mundt

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Because I can’t resist plugging a few other restaurants we visited in San Francisco and northern California on our latest trip:

* Ubuntu: Amazingly good vegetarian (and vegan-friendly) restaurant in Napa, with Jeremy Fox (recently from Manresa) at the helm. The New York Times’ Frank Bruni named it one of the 10 restaurants worth trying outside [...]

It didn’t take long to figure out my approach to writing about our dinner at The French Laundry on Thursday. I’m not Ruth Reichl, so I can’t review it and call it “the most exciting place to eat in the United States.” Frankly, I can’t review it at all. But I can give you a [...]

My concentration is straying to our vacation, which begins on Wednesday and lasts into early next week. I tried to do up a little post over the weekend on Chandler and couldn’t think about it long enough to write more than a paragraph. Probably because it’s kind of ugly in its duckling phase. I’ve heard [...]