Janice Nieder could be the love child of Indiana Jones and Julia Child. Previously a specialty food consultant in NYC, Janice is currently a SF-based culinary tourism writer who has wined & dined her way through 80 countries.
Yippee! Pinot days are here again. I'm ordering myself and a girlfriend a bushel of wine wipes (handy little disposable pads that remove red wine stains from your pearly whites) and trying to narrow down our...
If you and your girlfriends have sipped your way through Sonoma and Napa more times than you can count, than why not explore what the relatively undiscovered Lake County (just a two hour drive from S.F.) has to offer...
Does the thought of spending the evening undercover with Michael Bauer, The San Francisco Chronicle's esteemed restaurant critic, where you'll learn what goes into critiquing a dining experience and writing an award winning restaurant review, get...
After a long TGIF night of partying why not do something nice for your body this Saturday morning, Grab some girlfriends and head over to the Ferry Building where you can chow down on a scrumptious, farm-fresh...
And you can even add "tasty" to the list of descriptives, because for the next three Saturdays special $75 tickets at Cutting Ball's docudrama, Tenderloin by writer/director Annie Elias, includes an escorted restaurant...
May brings spring flowers, Mother's Day, and a cluster of great wine events around the Bay Area. Many of these sell out in advance, and you're going to be real sad if everyone else is heading...
Question:What do you get when you recruit a dream team filled with internationally celebrated designers and architects, such as Terrence Conran, Rocco Yim, William Lim (eminent interior designer), Dr. Patrick Blanc (International botanical designer who pioneered of the concept...
For a stylish new hipster hotel, The Mira is surprisingly intimate, comfortable and user friendly. Fresh and smooth after a recent $65 million transformation, Tsimshatsui’s newest luxury lifestyle property is sporting the latest tech-savvy features, a...
I recently returned from a trip to H.K. where I stayed in one of the newly renovated rooms at the five star, InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, and I have to tell you, it's well-worth hearing...
The only thing I love more than wine tasting in Dry Creek Valley (my totally fave Ca. wine area) is doing it during their special Passport to Dry Creek Valley® weekend. And I'm not the only...