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Welcome to the FoodNut.com. The site was created by folks nuts about food! They help those looking for great restaurants, especially ones in our home base, the San Francisco Bay Area. Their goal is to find the best food, not review every place under the sun. Their friends and family had kept asking where to eat, so they decided to build this website for them and foodies at large.
Foodnut Blog
1w ago
Why did we dine here? – Hummus Mediterranean Kitchen has become our goto place when looking for this type of food. They have expanded to four locations including Palo Alto, San Francisco and Mountain View. Hummus Mediterranean Kitchen is owned by Onur Alkanoglu and Yasar Bulutoglu, who are immigrants from Turkey that wanted to further Turkish cuisine into the Bay Area with the original San Mateo location. In 2020, Amir Hosseini joined the Hummus Mediterranean Kitchen team as a partner and helped open the Palo Alto, Mountain View, and San Francisco locations. Surprisingly decent M ..read more
Foodnut Blog
3M ago
Spoon is one of those rare finds in the Lake Tahoe region. The food is simply really good. Its easy to pay a lot up here, but not easy to find a spot like this. We’ve dined at all the stalwarts that have existed for decades and none match up. “Spoon is a funky, off-beat and cozy restaurant with an eclectic american dinner menu.” Closed Tu/Wed Gluten free and vegetarian options. Specials change daily. Last visit end of 2023. Much of the seating is outside with heat lamps during spring/summer, so dress warmly. Why did we dine here? – Spoon is a highly rated American restaurant on Yelp in this b ..read more
Foodnut Blog
3M ago
We visited Osaka, Japan in December 2023 and made a list of interesting finds. Our goals are to eat local and seek out authentic experiences. Sushi, udon, soba, yakitori, oden, whatever! Yelp and Trip Advisor were not helpful in spotting places to eat at, only Google reviews were useful. We did not seek our Michelin rated spots. The exchange rate was US$1 = 143¥, very favorable. Many meals cost 50% less than in San Francisco, with BETTER quality too! Where to buy a SIM Card at the Osaka Kansai Airport (KIX) After you clear customs, you will see vending machines down the hall ..read more
Foodnut Blog
5M ago
When we get asked, “where do we get the dim sum in Chinatown?” The answer usually is.. Great Eastern Restaurant San Francisco has been serving Cantonese Chinese food in this location for many years. They serve dim sum during lunch and traditional items during dinner. We visited for dim sum lunch lunch, early on a weekend day. Great Eastern Dinner was reviewed on a separate visit. President Obama famously ate here in 2012. Our last visit for dim sum was in the fall of 2023. Be sure to read our Introduction to Chinese dim sum article and Chinese restaurant San Francisco post. Cuisine – Cantones ..read more
Foodnut Blog
7M ago
Exciting food in an energetic atmosphere. Why did we dine here? – Liholiho Yacht Club is a Hawaiian influenced restaurant from Ravi Kapur, formerly of Prospect and Boulevard. He returned to Hawaii and found inspiration in the cuisine he grew up with. It is a very popular restaurant with hard to get online reservations, so book on Resy weeks in advance. You need to wait 30 minutes or more before it opens to grab one of the open butcher-block tables if you walk in. Last visit in fall of 2023. They also run Good Good Culture Club Insider Tip – Get there early Cuisine – Hawaiian Fusion Location ..read more
Foodnut Blog
7M ago
Best cornbread in town! House of Prime Rib opened in 1949 and concentrates on one dish, Prime rib. We have been coming here for many decades, whenever we have a desire for beef. They use corn-fed Prime beef Midwestern beef that is aged for 21 days and cooked in coarse rock salt. Our last visit was in Summer of 2023. We arrived at 5pm as did a ton of other folks, and had our food within 15 minutes. We tried Pandemic takeout in 2021 and found portion sizes small and a ton of packaging waste. Hope it never comes to that again. Our first visit to this fine establishment was way back in the 1970’s ..read more
Foodnut Blog
10M ago
Lai Hong Lounge Restaurant is a Cantonese Chinese restaurant on the outskirts of Chinatown. They have been around since Lichee Garden closed, 2012. They are VERY popular for lunch (Noon had a Wait for a Monday lunch), but it was much more quiet at dinner. We were in the neighborhood so we decided to try it out, being big Chinese food fans. This restaurant is a sister restaurant to Hong Kong Lounge. The menu is similar, but we found the food better here. Be sure to read: Foodnut’s Beginners Introduction to Chinese Dim Sum Best Chinese in San Francisco Be sure to read our article How to order i ..read more
Foodnut.com Blog
10M ago
City View Restaurant is a Chinese dim sum restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown. that only serves lunch.. Our last visit was in the middle of 2023 when they moved in to a new location next to Portsmouth square. Be sure to read our Introduction to Chinese Dim Sum Decor, Vibe – Modern clean decor with nice ambience, a lot better than the old location. People of all ages, tourists, families, friend get togethers. City View Menu City View’s menu has the usual classic dim sum dishes. Pictures are next to each entry. Not much in the way of modern inventive dimsum. City View Food Picks: Blac ..read more
Foodnut Blog
11M ago
One of our favorite Italian restaurants in San Francisco. Perbacco is a popular Italian restaurant in San Francisco’s financial district that opened in 2006. We had been to their sister restaurant next door Barbacco recently, and felt it was high time that we came back to Perbacco. Founder Chef Staffan Terje left in 2022 but is still an owner. The restaurant continues to focus on Piemontese, Ligurian, and Venetian regional Italian dishes. “Perbacco” translated is an Italian word to accentuate positive comments. Our last visit was in the Spring of 2023 when they had both indoor and outdoor din ..read more
Foodnut Blog
11M ago
Why did we dine here? – Copra is run by Srijith “Sri” Gopinathan and Ayesha Thapar (who also own Ettan in Palo Alto) so we had to give it a try. The chef last had two Michelin stars at Campton Place. It is located across from Japantown in the location that used to be Dosa. Beautiful interior. The food is focused on Cuisine from the chef’s home state of Kerala in Southwestern India. Copra pays homage to the coastal cuisines of India’s southern states: Kerala where Gopinathan was born and Tamil Nadu where he grew up, and will also look across the Palk Strait to the island nation of Sri Lanka, a ..read more