Local Link Lovin'

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Bay Area News Group is holding a Hunger Games food competition, and I want to do it because I work from home and can technically bake/cook while I fact-check and write. You can do a Capitol dish, meal inspired by Greasy Sae, bake one of the district's breads, or make a "wild card" dish inspired by the books. They all have different deadlines, so feasibly you could do all of those. Color me....way too excited. Seriously. I read those books way too quickly. Peep the deets over at San Jose Mercury News.


Oakland Local explores the city's best used clothing stores: Oakland Local

Sf Weekly gives some love to the Oaxacan standoff at Prizefighter: SFWeekly

A review of Creek Monkey Tap House in Martinez: The Merc

The New Parkway bringing the theater pub back to Oakland: EBX

Umami Burger coming to Oakland. Take THAT SF and LA: Inside Scoop

Lift Lounge appeals city's decision to move closing time up an hour to 11:30: Patch

A (brief) mention of Rosamunde's East Bay plans: Bay Area Bites

Willie Brown thinks the Claremont Hotel is too good for Oakland and Berkeley: Inside Scoop SF

Random Bits:

According to the Phil's Sliders e-newsletter, the Berkeley restaurant plans to extend bacon cheeseburger Mondays into an all week thang, and pretty soon you'll have beer and wine to wash it down with! I smell a liquor license on the horizon....and bacon. But I always smell bacon.