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1782 4th St
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 525-1440

Café Rouge  

Categories: American (New), Mediterranean
Neighborhood: Fourth Street

5.0 star rating
11/29/2011
This is the best burger in the east bay.

Excellent cocktails at a zinc bar.

Dollar oysters.

Impeccable fries, too.

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1027 41st Ave
Oakland, CA 94601
(510) 534-5480

Fazule & Sons Plumbing  

Category: Plumbing
Neighborhoods: Fruitvale, East Oakland

5.0 star rating
11/27/2011
Tony is a hero.  He's come to our rescue a number of times.  He's always prompt, does good work, and his rates are super reasonable.  He's also got a great sense of humor!

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2424 Lincoln Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
(510) 522-1300

Speisekammer  

Categories: German, Bars

5.0 star rating
11/18/2011 Purchased a Yelp Deal
This is my favorite restaurant in Alameda.  Great food, great beer, great service.  Live music.  Patio with umbrellas!

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1413 Lincoln Ave
Calistoga, CA 94515
(707) 942-0555

Cafe Sarafornia  

Categories: American (Traditional), Diners

2.0 star rating
9/19/2011
Meh.  The food here is solidly mediocre.

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2526 A Santa Clara Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
(510) 769-9463

Du Vin Fine Wines  

Category: Beer, Wine & Spirits

5.0 star rating
8/11/2011
This place is great.  Amy and I stopped in once on the way to a party and asked Dan if he had any chilled Fino.  He fished a bottle out of the back of his fridge saying "Not a lot of people ask for Fino -- I keep this chilled for myself."

Everything I've ever bought here has been great (and very reasonably priced!)  

Stop by on the way to your next dinner party!

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151 Townsend St
San Francisco, CA 94107
(415) 543-0900

The Bagel Bakery  

Category: Bagels
Neighborhood: SOMA

5.0 star rating
12/24/2009
These are the best bagels I have found in the Bay Area.

Yes, they are boiled.

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1304 Lincoln Ave
Alameda, CA 94501
(510) 749-0332

Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge  

Category: Lounges

5.0 star rating
8/16/2009
The drinks are excellent.  My cocktail bias is strongly Paul Harrington-infulenced  classic cocktail revival purist: primary booze, secondary booze, mixer (usually fresh squeezed citrus), accent.  This place is opening my palate to sublime drinks with more than four ingredients.  

The Monkey Pod, a sublime concoction of rum, coconut, lime, and *tamarind* and mint gets my vote for inclusion in the canon of classic cocktails.  (I'm a sucker for tamarind.)

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1560 Custer Ave
San Francisco, CA 94122
(415) 282-6683

Corrib Moving and Storage  

Categories: Movers, Self Storage
Neighborhood: Bayview/Hunters Point

5.0 star rating
8/9/2009
These guys are experts.  Total professionals.

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455 Broadway
New York, NY 10013
(212) 334-2002

Muji  

Categories: Home Decor, Furniture Stores
Neighborhoods: SoHo, TriBeCa

5.0 star rating
5/16/2009
One stop shopping for Cayce Pollard.

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5540 Doyle St
Emeryville, CA 94608
(866) 792-5084

Icon At Doyle  

Category: Apartments

1.0 star rating
4/29/2009
The people who built this place built a nice building.

It's too bad that the people who run it are too disorganized to keep it that way.

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