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I spend work time here at Paradise Bakery Desert Ridge - I like its free wifi, (even though PB has started clamping down on lunch work - 30 minutes only between 11am-1pm). Its food is always tasty and the coffee is scrumptious.

But last Friday, during a long chat with a pal, the Desert Ridge associate Dillon was awesome during our visit - he offered us coffee and tea refills, and brought us back each in new cups - very unexpected and very welcome (we were in a long work discussion). Kudos to him for friendliness and service! Highly recommended.

One drawback? The room has only 1 (maybe 2?) outlets to plug in laptop work. But then again, it's a cafe, not Gangplank, right? :-)

Yes,I see the negative reviews below, and agree that maybe the prices are a bit steep, but we had a splendid dining experience there on Friday evening.

Picture this - in comes two rowdy kids and a couple of overheated parents and everything *could've* gone badly. But they didn't. Our waitress (7 mos. preggers!) could've been surly, but she was very helpful and friendly. The hostess brought out a couple of table toys (Barbie laptop, Etch-A-Sketch) to entertain our kids - it worked. My wife had to order from the gluten free menu, and there was no fuss at all from the waitress. She gave us time to order, they brought us bread at the table when we asked (for the kids) and didn't charge us.

My wife order the salad which was huge and we split it deliciously. My ravioli with gorgonzola was excellent, the kids' Margherita pizza was yummy (though they didn't really like the tomatoes on top) , and my wife's gluten-free eggplant meal was great.

Sure the bill topped $60, and I tipped her nicely, so I wouldn't make this an every weekend place, but it certainly fit the tab on Friday night.

Kicked off Yelp Eats 2009 in high style Monday night, with a Yelp crew headed by GabiK and other cool peeps. We dined at Un Bacio,a fantastic Italian restaurant located in the folds of Gainey Ranch.
http://www.un-bacio.com/

One can be fussy about food items here and there, but really, there was absolutely nothing to quibble about last night. We ate from this menu:
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From the excellent bruscetta to the awesome bolognese and onward to canneloni dessert, everything was delicious and flavorful. I would heartily recommend a dinner experience at Un Bacio. Fantastico!

My wife has gone gluten-free this summer, and slowly I'm being sucked into better healthier eating habits! (Yikes, what's a wine swilling, carnivore eating male extremis to do? Oh, adapt for sanity. Got it).

Anyway, in our quest to be gluten free, we've shopped a bunch at Sunflower lately. Wow. I love this store. i feel healthy walking into it! Just last week, we got all our gluten free products for 30% off during the store's one-day sale. Is that cool or what?

I'm slowly foregoing the Frys/Albertson's of the world in favor of Sunflower. See me slim down. Maybe. :-)

All I can do is echo James - he put it best!:
"Does Gabi deliver or what!  When I reviewed a previous event I said it would take a chocolate fountain to top the event.  Hello!!!  I dipped my slice of Mamma Mia pizza in a freaking chocolate fountain tonight!  While a live band was playing!  Hello!!!!  And Sweet Republic was there!  Hellllooooo!!!  What other foodie social networking site treats members like rock stars!!!"

Yes, Amen. Fun night, good music and Yelpicity abounding!

Good margaritas, good peeps, classy servers and crosses all over the walls of The Mission in order to keep us in line.

Great to make another Yelp Happy Hour and fun to meet Brian, Georgie, Donald, Erin and others. Keep 'em coming.

Heck yay! All the reviews below are spot on, but I'll throw my two cents in. I had the lunch special (Magic Mushroom Burger) and ordered my son a basic cheeseburger. We both chowed down. Fries were a bit salty, but the burgers were bestest. And the $5 lunch special is toppermost!

The counter guys even had little airplanes for my kids to play with while we waited for our order. We sat on the back porch out of the sun and had a great lunch. Will visit again when I'm around.

My family's first time to Crust (we stumbled on it - wife spotted it). Trundled the kids in, and lo and behold - Free WiFi signs about! YES! I said, running back to car for laptop. I fired up YouTube for the kids while wife and I had a chance to meet and greet one another again. "Hi dear, who are you?" and "You look terrific? Where have I met you before?"

Service started a bit slow, but waters and drinks came around and then our family medium crust pie later - I loved it, wife said Yeah! and the kids were quiet, glued to video clips and my son ate a bunch of Crust pizza.

The Rustica thin crust pizza  seemed to be the Crust calling card, so we;ll have to try those next time too. Well done! And we didn't even try any wine! But next time we're in the hood, we will.

Brought my kids for the first time to Pei Wei here on Bell Fountain shopping area. My son gobbled up the Lo Mein and dumplings. I was happy with the Pad Thai. I said hi to the manager and my son made a big deal about loving the food, and the manager popped me a $10 gift card for our next visit! Sweet. So we went back a week later, and enjoyed it even more. Soon to be a mainstay for the Murrow kids, no doubt.

The cafeteria style ordering works for busy families too. Beer & wine available too.

Yes, Sail Inn rocks. Good drink prices, fine sound, friendly to local music players (I played last weekend), and good outdoor spaces to talk. Can't wait to see a big show on their patio. Here's a picture from the inside.
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