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"I think with my stomach..."

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2462 Useful, 1772 Funny, and 2086 Cool

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Yelping Since

August 2006

Find Me In

La Jolla or San Jose

My Hometown

Seattle, WA

My Blog Or Website

http://missvicky.yelp.com

When I'm Not Yelping...

i'm eating... or cooking so i can eat!!!

Why You Should Read My Reviews

i love food. i'm quick to compliment and even faster to criticize!

My Second Favorite Website

google, wikipedia, williams-sonoma

The Last Great Book I Read

Marley and Me, Think Like a Chef

My First Concert

SF Symphony

My Favorite Movie

Love Actually, V for Vendetta, Cars

My Last Meal On Earth

a dry aged medium rare spencer steak  w/ a fluffy baked potato & creamed spinach

Don't Tell Anyone Else But...

this is a public website.... so why would I tell you?!

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865 Battery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
(888) 456-9970

Movin' 99.7  

Category: Radio Stations
Neighborhood: Embarcadero

2 star rating
 Update - 10/29/2009  
Sorry... my commute hasn't been the same since Balthazar left the morning show. He made the morning show bearable since I couldn't stand the trashy tacky Carmen prank calls. Now its been pretty much down hill since its only Maria. I switch between Movin' and 740 everytime Maria starts talking or there's a commercial.

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  • 4 star rating
    2/27/2009

    I drive at least 80 miles a day commuting. I got sick and tired of hearing Carmen bitching on the radio on "THE OTHER" channel. Poked around and found 99.7... Love how they play a good variety of music. Only downside is that I'm stuck listening to the Ladies Room in the mornings. Occasionally they have crappy topics but it sure beats hearing prank calls and beeps early in the morning!

    Love the mix of music!
    The love trap is my guilty pleasure... where else are you going to hear psycho girlfriends insist that their boyfriends are cheating, cougars dumping 18 year olds, its like trashy Jerry Springer on the radio!

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1313 Franklin St
Santa Clara, CA 95117
(408) 296-0818

Neto's Market And Grill  

Categories: Meat Shops, Delis, Barbeque

4 star rating
 Update - 10/19/2009  
OMG!! They opened!!! One of my biggest gripes about working up in Burlingame (aside from the long commute was not getting my sausage sandwich for lunch. Now with their nice big location, they have dinner available!!

Downside... the bread seemed a lot fresher during lunch. :(

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  • 5 star rating
    5/4/2007

    MMMMmmmm.... I heart Neto's! We swung by here today (Friday) to take advantage of their grilled sausages. We got the linguica and the calabrese and they were oh so yummy!! Maybe because it was cloudy out, the turnout wasn't insane. Paired with a bag of jalepeno chips and a jones soda, it was a superb lunch. Best yet, my friend treated me!

    You pick the sausage you want from the grill, take it into the store and pick your sandwich fixings and your chips and voila! Instant lunch!

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451 University Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94301
(650) 617-9000

Apple Store  

Categories: Computers, Electronics

1 star rating
 Update - 9/18/2009  
Seriously Apple. You guys need to get your sh*t together at this store. They have the WORST customer service here. EVERY SINGLE TIME I book myself for a morning Genius Bar appointment at 10:30 and EVERY SINGLE TIME I don't get seen until close to 11:30. What's the worst and most infuriating thing is that they tell you to get there early. WTF! If I wanted to be seen at 11:30, I would have booked the 11:30 appointment.

I went to drop my laptop off after they had diagnosed a problem. They told me dropping off was really easy and fast... just walk in and drop it off. Hah. Fooled me! I was stuck there for 45 minutes waiting for a tech to process and accept my laptop.

This is so infuriating... I'm at my wit's end with Apple. The service is great when they finally get to me but they REALLY need to work on their scheduling issues.

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  • 2 star rating
    5/19/2009

    This location makes me want to scream with frustration! I had to wait over half an hour for my latest appointment.

    Seriously. Why bother make appointments then!?

    I go online at home, see that there's a lovely appointment in half an hour. Booked it and packed up the lovely MBP. Drove down and found parking, walked into the store 5 minutes before my appointment. The genius bar guy told me that I was 5th in line. UM. Excuse me. Highly doubt that considering the screen behind his head said "Mac Customers" 1. Random Person 2. Vicky L. I pointed out that I'm second on the list. Not 5th!!!!!!

    Turns out that they interject a bunch of iPod and iPhone people in between. I ended up having to wait... and wait.... and wait... and in the 95 degree heat that I endured that whole day, I was in a foul mood.

    Then I found out that my beloved MBP gets diagnosed with a heat sensor issue and a fan doesn't turn on to dissipate the heat. Gee thanks Apple. Not only have I spent a crap load of money on your products, you don't even have the galls to schedule your appointments better and I ended up with a defective product.

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  • 2 star rating
    4/29/2009

    This location seriously frustrates me. My beloved MBP had a power failure (the cord got pulled out while it was still in completely depleted mode) and my Safari refused to start. Being that I was a complete loyalist, I didn't dl any non-Apple software onto it. I totally should have listened to my friends and gotten Firefox. I called this location and they told me in order to schedule an appt at the Genius Bar, I needed to do it online. Gee.... I wouldn't call if I could GET online in the first place. The gal finally got me scheduled in. In addition, my beloved iPhone Bluetooth started acting up. I made a quick appointment at work for another time slot. Annoyingly, both the person on the phone and online told me that I needed to arrive 15 minutes early for my appointment. Yes. I did what I was told and granted this appointment was like 10AM, I wasn't seen until more than half an hour past my scheduled time. VERY annoying. Swapped out the headset and then Safari started behaving again... Service was good just that their scheduling was total crap. UGH!!!!

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  • 3 star rating
    11/10/2008

    Parking's a bitch around here.
    Being sent over from the Palo Alto Shopping Center store because they couldn't fix my bluetooth was annoying. Dude! I know Steve Jobs can afford it, but you know how much gas was!? (This was a couple of months ago... when gassing up my car was 3.70 a gallon!)
    Worse part of this was that this location didn't have bluetooth headsets to replace my broken one.

    *shakes my fist at Apple*

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8513 La Mesa Boulevard
La Mesa, CA 91941
(619) 961-8980

Green Vision Building & Design  

Category: Contractors
Neighborhood: La Mesa

4 star rating
 8/24/2009   First to Review
The guys at the San Diego chapter were great to deal with. They put us in touch with owner, Buck who oversees both N and S California offices.

The designs have been solid and the workmanship has been great.

Super patient and great contractors to work with!

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Marin, CA 94965
(561) 247-3368

Green Vision Building & Design  

Categories: Contractors, Interior Design

4 star rating
 8/24/2009   First to Review
So S and I tore down the pergola since A and R Termites (see really crappy review) stated that we had termites in there. Needless to say we tore down a pretty decent pergola and found little evidence of termites. ARGHH!!! At the same time, the existing gate doors were rotting and flimsy. I was stuck waiting at the lumbaryard at home depot to get some shelves cut when I noticed two guys loading up their carts with TONS of redwood. At the same time, they kept consulting their paperwork and counting. (Yes... Home Depot really really sucks with customer service...) They saw me waiting and wished me luck in finding someone to help me. I asked if they were contractors and they gave me their business card... which led S and I to get in touch with Buck, the owner of Green Vision.

He's been super patient to work with, has great suggestions and works hard.

So far it has been great... he uses the same staff of workers and he's been completely on our job site at all times. The work has been great and he works hard and is good at what he does. He has a good eye for design and over seeing the entire project. The only issues we had were a few minor details that got overlooked. Overall... anyone who can save the crazy wisteria tree and build an amazing pergola and reverse birth that tree through the pergola does construction magic.

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San Francisco, CA 94199
(866) 444-3482

Diva Cup  

Categories: Health and Medical, Shopping
Neighborhood: SOMA

5 star rating
 Update - 5/19/2009  
*sigh* I'm in love... Totally in love with my diva cup. Now instead of dreading getting my monthly visitor, I'm a total hippie Divacup convert. Hell, I'd hug my Divacup if I could. I love the idea that I'm not adding more to the landfill. No leaks so far! AND I've worn this travelling on an airplane on my heaviest flow day!

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  • 5 star rating
    4/12/2009

    Just adding an "update" so that my original review which can be a little TMI is "hidden" except for a one liner... for those wanting to read details about the divacup, just hit the read more button on the original review. :)

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  • 5 star rating
    4/10/2009

    For those weak stomached and bored at work, go ahead and skip over this review for the time being cause there is information that is slightly TMI.

    So the lovely Tif W introduced me to the diva cup. I keep getting frustrated with dealing with tampons as the dioxins really do worry me. No, I'm not a tree hugging hippie but I am a diva cup fan. I can definitely see how I'd be using this long term and the idea that I can boil the hell out of it really appeals to me. So far I haven't had any leaks... the inserting and removing is kinda weird but not too painful. Definitely less irritation than dealing with a tampon and the awful wet post-peeing string.

    It looks menacing in the box I have to admit... but it folds down and then pops open to catch everything. Still need some time to fully get used to it but I'm a fan!!! Tampons and pads be gone!! :)

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2470 Charleston Rd
Mountain View, CA 94043
(650) 691-0364

Bed Bath & Beyond  

Categories: Home Decor, Kitchen & Bath

4 star rating
 Update - 5/19/2009  
Wow! They must have heard my complaints! We walked in an was greeted by practically the whole store. S bought me a bouquet of long stemmed roses and I had no vase to put them in. We ran into the store looking a vase and ended up in their wedding/china department. Geez!!! 100+ dollars for a vase!?!?!?

The prices weren't great but the customer service was superb. I ended up going across the street to Michael's...

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  • 2 star rating
    4/20/2009

    How can a BBB store do so much advertisement and not carry standard King size sheets!?! I got a snooty customer service rep who wasn't in uniform walking around with a walky and I had to ask if she worked there. When asked about King size sheets, she rolled her eyes and told me to order online. Geez... if I didn't need them in say within 2 weeks I would order them online... Totally unhelpful and definitely not "beyond bedding and bath-ing items" Well actually that's unfair to say. They have everything tv informercial item under the sun... basically they should focus on bed and bath items and not stock random things like a flea market.

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2781 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95051
(408) 244-5599

99 Chicken  

Categories: Korean, Chicken Wings

3 star rating
 Update - 5/19/2009  
I wasn't too happy with our latest visit here. Our chicken was obvious fried with the previous batch since it wasn't piping hot/burning my fingers.

Also, since it was super hot, they had a plethora of little flying gnats pestering us while we ate. :(

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  • 4 star rating
    5/11/2007

    I have to confess. I love fried chicken. I really hope my personal trainer doesn't use yelp.... After seeing so many reviews and seeing 99 chicken on the front page of yelp, I HAD to go and check it out. So my best friend and I swung by for lunch the other day (since she's also another fried chicken addict) and got our fried chicken fix. We popped in a little after 12 and the pictures were VERY misleading... I thought it was wings and drummettes.... so we ordered a 10 piece plate and a 5 piece plate... The downside to going in at that time was the wait. The owner didn't speak much english and we had some issues communicating. In addition to that, he was cleaning and wiping down his deep fryer so it took another half an hour for the oil to warm up. We ordered 10 minutes after 12 and our chicken didn't come out until 1. When he brought out the chicken, I quickly ran up to cancel out the extra 5 piece order... since they were full on drumsticks and chicken wings! He thought I wanted to add ANOTHER 5 piece order. EEK!

    All in all, the chicken was fantastic. Crisp, juicy, in its deep fried glory!

    Minus one star for the long wait... and also the fact that he likes to take pictures of us to post on the wall whenever we go in. I think I'm in like 7 of those pictures already...

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1781 E Bayshore Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
(650) 462-6800

Home Depot  

Category: Hardware Stores

3 star rating
 Update - 5/19/2009  
I sorted through all of our home improvement receipts and realized that in the last 5 weeks, we've been in here 31 times. HOLY EFFING BEJEESUS!! That's like almost every day!!! And yes... it does feel like we're in there everyday. There are certain staff members who recognize us now...

I finally experienced the horrendous customer service other Yelpers were complaining about. I stood in the lumbar area for a good half an hour and no one showed up to help make a few cuts for us. I had to resort to calling the store on my cell phone and requesting a manager. Turns out that his lumbar guys decided to play hooky and take an hour and a half lunch. The store manager was FURIOUS... Overall he handled it really well but... yikes! The people working here is really hit or miss...

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  • 5 star rating
    4/20/2009

    I'm surprised by all the lack of stars and bad experiences from other yelpers here. We've been frequently this location on a near 2-3 times a weekend basis for the last month. The staff have been helpful and approachable. The first time we were in there, Raider Steve who delayed his lunch break went through the entire store grabbing stuff that we needed. It made the entire process completely painless! He even went out of his way to go out to the front of the store when we needed a ladder and he remembered that there were some on sale out there.

    Overall throughout our many visits now, the staff has been really helpful and walking us over to the various rows and helping us find items and make purchasing decisions. I think with Lowe's and so many unhappy customer complaints, they're finally getting their act together. Keep the good work up!!

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939 W El Camino Real
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
(408) 749-0233

Mattress Discounters  

Category: Furniture Stores

5 star rating
 Update - 5/19/2009  
I GOT THE CHECK!!!!

YIPPEEEE!!! We got our price matched/refund check. Now all I'm waiting for is for S to deposit that piece of paper so it turns into Benjamins! :D

Superbly happy with their customer service. Jessica was SOOOO understanding and dealt with the situation superbly. Sadly, I've never met her in person but every single time she had to deal with me on the phone, she was super nice... considering I can unleash a scary can of whoop ass when things don't go my way!

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  • 5 star rating
    4/23/2009

    Omigosh! I'd totally jump with glee but I shall refrain myself...
    So we had a pretty smooth purchase with the Milpitas location. Unfortunately when it came down to the actual pricematch of the same comparable item I found online, Milpitas gave me the run around. They told me the foam was different, the springs were different, the online retailer didn't ship to my area, etc. Now I'd understand that if the mattresses were COMPARABLE but in this case, it was the same EXACT MODEL NUMBER AND NAME. Yes, the online retailer didn't have an option to ship to the Bay Area, but when I called them, they said they'd happily throw it onto a truck and get it hauled up here for 200 bucks. Considering we paid 1400 for the mattress and online was showing 799, I was really looking for my price match guarantee.

    I ended up calling this location to get the exact spring/foam specs since I felt that Milpitas was giving me clear enough information. It was my lucky day... since Zach H. picked up the phone. Turns out he was the district manager and got everything squared away for me. Yay!!!!

    We've run into some issues getting our refund check in the mail so I've been repeatedly calling. The gal who was unlucky enough to pick up my original call has been AWESOME in responding... Jessica's been emailing/following up with corporate to find our missing check and to get our check reissued. OMG... Superb customer service!!!!

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