Keep the weekend, you filthy animal.
Your Perks: 1) A pair of custom-made jeans you can wear for the better part of 2015 (and beyond). 2) A unique print of famous superheroes like you’ve never seen them before. Seriously, look. 3) A few things to make happy hour healthier. There’s a sentence you never thought you’d read.
Locanda’s honoring their Italian heritage with a big Feast of the Seven Fishes. Expect risotto with Dungeness crab and Santa Barbara uni, and charcoal-grilled whole fish. They’re also offering an optional wine pairing. Optional is another word for not-optional.
If it happens you didn’t yet meet your sherry quota for the year, Romolo will help you take care of that. They’ll be serving 18 sherries by the glass, sherry-marinated pork tenderloin and cocktails like the Suckerpunch, with bourbon, fernet, pumpkin and coffee tincture. And sherry.
Friday night... it’ll be like any other at Mission Chinese Food. Except you can now make reservations online. If they can’t seat you right away, they’ll put your name at the front of the sign-in list. Could be why they punctuated “reservations” with a question mark. Close enough.
There has probably been at least one Saturday night in your Saturday night canon that... could’ve benefited from some poutine before bedtime. Canada’s Smoke’s Poutinerie has set up its first stateside shop in Berkeley, with all sorts of poutine. Think: bacon cheeseburger. Peppercorn steak. Chipotle pulled pork. It just feels right.
3D food photos. That’s a thing you might see people do now. If you were a person who’d download 3DAround, you’d just hit record and revolve your iPhone’s camera around your food, then the app would stitch the photos together to make a 3D image. If.
