BiteClub Eats

Thanksgiving 2008 ideas

Blazing Saddles is that kind of BBQ joint. The type you don’t stumble upon but go out of your way to find. Red and white checkered tablecloths, burnt-wood art and cowboy knick-knacks at the hind-end of an industrial mini-mall.
Unsaddled by ambiance. Full of potential.

On a recent BiteClub blog about the woes at COPIA, a reader reported that Julia’s Kitchen had been closed rather unceremoniously. BiteClub called the restaurant to find out what was up and got a recorded message that says the restaurant is “closed temporarily” and will not be taking reservations at this time. The recording directs [...]

Patisserie Angelica

Channel your inner czarina at the new Vodika Lounge in Petaluma, NorCal’s first 28-degree premium vodka tasting room. As in it’s actually 28 degrees inside (four degrees below freezing).

How does a restaurant last two decades? And not just last, but thrive. What keeps people coming back year after year, Friday night after Friday night, season after season? What brings in families, couples and seniors in equal number?

UPDATE: The owner of Saigon Bistro claims the restaurant is NOT for sale as previously reported by BiteClub. In an email to PD sales staff (phone calls and emails to BiteClub have not be returned at this time), Kim Ngo says that the information obtained by BiteClub about the 4-month old restaurant being for sale [...]

So, the news is in…COPIA will likely be selling off its 12-acre property which is struggling with a staggering amount of debt and move operations into San Francisco. Word is that the food/arts center may try to lease back part of the building to stay maintain its Napa presence, but that’s still up in the [...]

Heir apparent to the troubled Club Seven Ultra-lounge (liquor-free until mid-December) is Santa Rosa’s newest entrant into the nightclub scene, Casbar. As in bar. Not the Clash song.

The second of two downtown Santa Rosa restaurants slated to open before the end of the year is looking for a chef. GG’s Earth and Surf, located in the former Worth Our Weight Space, has put out a call for a chef/kitchen manager to help with opening menus for their anticipated Dec. 2008 launch.