by Think In The Morning | Jul 31, 2016 | More |
DORIAN bartender Jacob Ring, “Torito” to his friends, was up to his usual tricks Saturday night. The youthful looking thirty-eight year old was once again serving drinks to senior citizens as if they were normal people. No matter the four unsuspecting seniors were...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 29, 2016 | More |
I don’t do restaurant reviews. This is an exception. I expect there will be more. San Francisco is a special place for me. I remember as a young boy first visiting San Francisco with my father sixty years ago. He was the owner of a restaurant and hotel in the...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 21, 2016 | Mexico |
“In northern Mexico they work; in central Mexico they think; in southern Mexico they rest.” She was travelling to Oaxaca for a two-year olds birthday party, the daughter of her friend. Chocolate cupcakes and a wrapped present were in the carry on. Her eyes laughed...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 16, 2016 | Sea Gull |
The old Sea Gull Cellar Bar really was a cellar, a hole in the ground carved out below the dining room and accessed via a spiral staircase from inside the restaurant upstairs. That staircase was the bane of many waitresses and waiters who ran up and down to retrieve...
by Think In The Morning | Jul 10, 2016 | Sea Gull |
A few patrons and some of the staff referred to the Sea Gull Cellar Bar as The Meat Market or The Butcher Shop. This was a variant of the Mendocino Shuffle itself “a pun on the rather open sex life of many free-love folks at the time” and the inspiration for at least...
