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BJ's Restaraunt & Brewery
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Woodland Hills, CA
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Good microbrewery. Very, very bad pizza place.
Stay away from the pizza. It's bad no matter what city or planet
it claims to be from. Two of my companions were fron NYC, four from
the North Shore of Chicago. All of us agreed that the pizza ...
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Good microbrewery. Very, very bad pizza place.
Stay away from the pizza. It's bad no matter what city or planet
it claims to be from. Two of my companions were fron NYC, four from
the North Shore of Chicago. All of us agreed that the pizza needed
to be sent back. The waitress was good about it.
Fortunately, there are other things on the menu, but neither
I nor my companions were pleased with the price or quality of burgers,
chicken and steak items. OK not great.
Noisy and crowded, but then again, all the sports bars and microbreweries
are like this. BJs has a better menu and more interesting beer
than Yankee Doodles, just up the street, but it really could use
some improvements in the quality of some dishes.
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Harris Ranch Inn & Restaurant
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Coalinga, CA
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Up Interstate 5, out in the middle of nowhere, not too far from
the cute, sedate little San Joaquin Valley town of Coalinga is
the Harris Ranch Inn & Restaurant.
This place has been around since the 1930s, and has grown into
quite a spectacular r ...
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Up Interstate 5, out in the middle of nowhere, not too far from
the cute, sedate little San Joaquin Valley town of Coalinga is
the Harris Ranch Inn & Restaurant.
This place has been around since the 1930s, and has grown into
quite a spectacular restaurant and conference center.
Steak, steak and more steak. Meat dishes and prime ribs are the
superb forte of this oasis in the desert, as Harris Ranch supplies
top notch beef to many of the better Los Angeles and Bay Area supermarkets
and restaurants.
The restaurant is superb, and you can get anything from a really
outstanding burger to a thick cut USDA Prime Rib. It does not matter
if you eat your lunch or dinner in the "Ranch Kitchen" the bar or
the restaurant. The food is prepared in the same superb fashion.
Like Claim Jumper or other ranch style restaurants, expect very
large portions of everything. Quite a bargain. Everything is
freshly made to order.
Outstanding and attentive service from the waiters and waitresses.
There is also a store which will sell you Harris Ranch Beef at great
prices - expertly vacuum packing and dry ice packaging your beef
so it will easily and safely make a long return trip by car back
down into LA, the Bay Area or San Diego in even the hottest summer
weather.
About the only thing I can ding these people on is their lunchtime
Corned Beef Sandwich. While the corned beef is in generous portions
and quite lean, it is served COLD! Sorry, but no self-respecting
lover of deli would eat it this way.
You can't go wrong with anything else on the menu, though. Excellent
soups, salads, chicken, turkey and beef dishes.
More than you can possibly eat.
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Las Hadas Restaurant & Cantina
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Northridge, CA
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Decent quality Sonoran tex-mex food, at a standard price.
Las Hadas is as good as any of its competitors - El Torito,
Acapulco, etc. The problem is that it isn't any better.
Service, however, is very good. They have an extensive and noisy
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Decent quality Sonoran tex-mex food, at a standard price.
Las Hadas is as good as any of its competitors - El Torito,
Acapulco, etc. The problem is that it isn't any better.
Service, however, is very good. They have an extensive and noisy
bar area, as well as quiter booths away from the booming bands.
Live music and (unfortunately) Karaoke in the bar area, as well
as dancing.
Las Hadas does not disappoint, but it is not anything unusual
or special. It's a good restaurant with good standard tex-mex
food.
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San Andreas Brewing Company
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Hollister, CA
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Hard to disagree with my buddy, Dave Mori on this one.
The San Andreas Brewing Company is a really good find out in the
middle of a sleeping town of Hollister. Superb home made Root
Beer and Sasparilla on tap. Really good beer for those into mi ...
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Hard to disagree with my buddy, Dave Mori on this one.
The San Andreas Brewing Company is a really good find out in the
middle of a sleeping town of Hollister. Superb home made Root
Beer and Sasparilla on tap. Really good beer for those into microbreweries.
Very good quality sandwiches and burgers. Stick with the burgers.
They seem to go best with the drinks.
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Prime Italian Ristorante
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Northridge, CA
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Really excellent New York thin crust pizza, in gourmet and traditional
style toppings.
The crust is light, folds perfectly, and crisp. Sausage is fresh
and appears to be made locally. Pizza sauce is excellent, and
the pizza has just the right a ...
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Really excellent New York thin crust pizza, in gourmet and traditional
style toppings.
The crust is light, folds perfectly, and crisp. Sausage is fresh
and appears to be made locally. Pizza sauce is excellent, and
the pizza has just the right amount of cheese.
Pasta dishes, however, are good, but nothing really special.
The spaghetti with meat sauce (Bolognese) is a large portion,
heavily hit with garlic - but comes off being a little too watery,
due to inadequate drainage of the pasta before serving.
This, however, is still an excellent restaurant, popular with
the locals, and with occasional live entertainment at dinner
to lighten the atmosphere, and certainly worth the short trip.
The restaurant is clean, modernized, out-of-the way (located
in a strip mall kitty-corner and behind a gas station on Roscoe
Blvd, a ways due west of the Van Nuys Airport. The area fools you
a bit, as it is predominantly residential)
When you want to have a quiet pizza dinner with someone special,
this is a superb place to go. Very family oriented and casual.
Slightly off the beaten path.
Majority of the menu is in the $8 to $10 range. Affordable and good.
Pizza, again, is the star attraction here. It's better than anything
in the immediate area.
If you're after pasta and sandwiches as well as pizza, however,
I would go to Chi-Chi's in Northridge or Lido's on Victory & Sepulveda.
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Dakota's Mesquite BBQ
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Simi Valley, CA
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Great casual-to-business dress type restaurant. It is a little
hard to find, but worth the trip.
This restaurant is reminiscent of Charley Browns in its 1970s
heydays. A good view, classy but not snooty, a good bar, and predominantly
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Great casual-to-business dress type restaurant. It is a little
hard to find, but worth the trip.
This restaurant is reminiscent of Charley Browns in its 1970s
heydays. A good view, classy but not snooty, a good bar, and predominantly
BBQ, beef, prime rib and surf and turf dishes.
Not a bad place for a business power lunch/dinner or a get-to-know-you
first date.
Garlic rolls are excellent. Soups are thick and hearty. Portions
of all dishes are good sized. Service is always good. Expect to
drop $20-$45 per person here.
Interestingly enough, they have a drive-up take out booth attached
to the outside of the restaurant. A nice touch for those who just
want to pick up something impressive for dinner on the way back
home or to a hotel.
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Buon Gusto Ristorante
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Mission Hills, CA
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Fair quality italian food at a decent price. Mostly northern
cuisine, as opposed to Bolognese (meat sauce) dishes. This is
a good restaurant, but not a great one. Modern, clean facilities
and a very good service staff. Parking can be a little sca ...
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Fair quality italian food at a decent price. Mostly northern
cuisine, as opposed to Bolognese (meat sauce) dishes. This is
a good restaurant, but not a great one. Modern, clean facilities
and a very good service staff. Parking can be a little scarce.
Located right off the 405 Freeway on Devonshire St. Best bet is
the Linguine Bolognese. Again, not great, but good.
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Faultline Brewing Company
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Sunnyvale, CA
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Standard microbrewery fare with an atmosphere and ambience
transported and cloned from TGI Fridays. Loud, small portions
of good food, but a bit expensive.
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Jake's Of Sunnyvale
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Sunnyvale, CA
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Mediocre pizza and italian fare in a run down strip mall on Mathilda
& Fremont. A Straw Hat/Round Table Wanna Be.
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Gumbas Ii Pizzaria
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Sunnyvale, CA
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Sorry, but I can't agree with the other reviewers on this one.
Gumbas is pretty bad. Sandwiches are just not good, pasta has
way too much garlic, and as far as pizza go - BIG does not equal GOOD.
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