Tortilla Flats (Soquel) – Restaurant Review
In Mexico, one of the big holidays is the Day of the Dead, or in Spanish, Dia de Muertos. It’s a three-day holiday during which people remember and pray for…
Restaurants in Santa Cruz
Café Gratitude, Santa Cruz – Restaurant Review
I have always been kind of uncomfortable with the while concept of obligatory gratitude. All the treacly demands that I practice daily gratitude, that it’s some kind of moral obligation,…
Pearl of the Ocean, Santa Cruz – Restaurant Review
After you’ve done it enough, reviewing restaurants becomes, unsurprisingly, a little predictable. Preparing and serving food is, after all, a business. There are best practices, like in every business, and…
Ideal Bar and Grill, Santa Cruz – Restaurant Review
Santa Cruz is a town with a split identity. Wow, that sounds like the beginning of a detective novel, doesn’t it? One personality is Beach. Sun, sand, surfing, families, Monterey…
Center Street Grill, Santa Cruz – Restaurant Review
One of the things I find profoundly irritating about restaurants is the unfortunately common practice of Trying Too Hard. This entails dressing up what ought to be straight-ahead dishes with…
Hollins House, Santa Cruz – Restaurant Review
This place is a hidden gem, and an unbelievably romantic throwback to a whole other era in the history of the Bay Area. A little background: Santa Cruz is overwhelmingly…
Lago di Como, Santa Cruz – Restaurant Review
Lago di Como is an odd place. The food isn’t bad, and everyone’s friendly and everything, but you get the impression when you go there that they’re just kind of…
Aquarius, Santa Cruz – Restaurant Review
Santa Cruz is an unusual town. It has an amazing, and slightly unreal list of world-class things to do and see – the Boardwalk, Big Basin, Monterey Bay, surfing. But…
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