Salt Fish House — Arcata, CA

This restaurant is in the top 5 or maybe even top 3 restaurants where you might find us in Arcata on a Friday night.   Humboldt was in need of something that helped you forget you are in a restaurant…

Cafe Beaujloais–Mendocino

We’ve spent two nights in the lovely little town of Mendocino this weekend while we attended a picnic over in Anderson Valley. We love it here and we love Cafe Beaujolais. Last nights dinner was as always, beautiful and delicous…

Original Solo Piano Music Releases

Many years after the release of Redwood Reflections, two new albums of original piano music were released by Arianna Recording: ‘Relaxing Piano Music’ and ‘Relaxing Piano Music Volume 2: Portraits and Landscapes’. Additionally, in 2023 the single ‘2 Cooks in…

Review – The BevMo 5 Cent Sale

People have asked what is good to get to take advantage of the BevMo 5 Cent Sale. First, the not-so-secret is that BevMo always has wines on the 5 cent sale. When they do the big advertising for it they…

Review – The Costco Bordeaux Box

Many of you have seen the Bordeaux Box at Costco and are probably wondering whether it is any good. We took some notes going through a couple of these boxes. here our impression. Value for the price: Pretty good. There…

Grgich Revisited

One of our favorite wineries is Grgich and we stopped in again for a tasting. Our last experience here was the phenomenal Library Tasting experience, which we reviewed earlier. This time was just an opportunity to taste these fantastic offerings.…