this lil’ gourmet piggy scored one of the prized seats at Dry Creek Kitchen’s Gala Dinner featuring five renowned chefs pairing their best with their Pinot Best choices, and this lil’ nerd piggy went to one of the seminars so he could learn how to work with pork….Whatever event you choose, or if you really…
Maybe not quite on a par with the Grammy’s, but San Francisco’s 7×7 magazine recently announced their Eat & Drink awards (a.k.a the Piggies, since the winners receive their own bronze pig statuette.) The good news for Bay Area foodies is that seven of the award-winning restaurants will host pork-centric dinners on Monday nights throughout…
What do you get when you take seven stars, $650 million dollars, one helipad, and 1,500 species of fish and build an edifice three times the height of the Egyptian pyramids? You get the extraordinarily excessive Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai. The interior of the hotel resembles a jumbo-size Technicolor jewelry box. Some say…
We’re in that terrible post-Christmas pre-spring break part of the year, where most places are gray and slushy for way too long and everybody’s sick of being back at work or school. So think about busting out and going on a mini-trip at one of these fun U.S. resort destinations. Even if you can’t get…
Ex- veterinarian, Sarah Lavely, has recently founded the perfect business for these trying times, a chic little downtown boutique called Sarah’s Smash Shack. Got canned from work? Unceremoniously dumped by you sig-other? Did your only other single friend just announce her engagement and you’re feeling majorly STRESSED? Trying to feel better by practicing yoga, chanting…
…with a darling 1 ounce container of Reserve California Estate Osetra, 2 demi mother-of-pearl spoons, packed in your own custom caviar cooler. If you really wanna be a sport, add their blini mix (and blini pan) and whip up some warms ones to feed each other. California’s Tsar Nicoulai harvests all their caviar from organically…
Our friends at Artista Creative Safaris are back again with special offers for February. These three-day workshops, held in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea, are a great opportunity to explore your creative side, even if you’ve never held a paintbrush before. Here are their rates for the February class, which will be taught by accomplished abstract painter Lauryn…