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Peter Lawrence Kane
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Well played, Fearless Coffee, well played.
Plus Napa gets a food truck depot and is someone seriously scribbling anti-Hillary stuff on the shells of crabs?
Smuggler's Cove, ABV Win at Tales of the Cocktail
The
Spirited Awards at New Orleans' Tales of the Cocktail yielded two impressive trophies for Bay Area bars: Smuggler's Cove won Best American Cocktail Bar and ABV won for Best American Bar Team.
Newly Expanded Ramen Shop Rolls Out a Takeout Menu (There's No Ramen on It, Though)
Beginning tomorrow,
Ramen Shop (5812 College Ave., Oakland) will debut a takeout menu, hot on the heels of its physical expansion. Eater reports that the bigger kitchen has enabled the second menu, but sadly, there won't be ramen on it. There will, however, be plenty of apps and mains, like a shaved vegetable larb salad ($10.50), a wok-smoked spicy tamarind pork ($15.50) and a Family Donburi (Tamaki Gold white rice, kombu, pickled ginger, dashi cucumbers,shiitake mushrooms, broccoli, and scallions. With choice of crispy duck, pork tonkatsu, or tuna confit, $22.50).
The Food Truck Corral Opens in Napa
As of this past weekend, the South Napa Century Center has something like SoMa StrEat Food Park called the
Food Truck Corral (155 Gasser Drive, Napa). Eater reports that every day for the next year — at which time the owners will evaluate how things are going — a rotating selection of four food trucks will be stationed there from 11 a.m. - 9 p.m., except on Saturdays and Tuesdays, when a farmers market will push the opening back to 12:30 p.m.
The History of Nathan's Hot Dogs
If you have a perverse fascination with competitive eating, and a love of the sinister underbelly of the boardwalk, read this
New York Times account of
Nathan's Hot Dogs in Coney Island. Cary Grant — then known by his birth name, Archibald Leach — worked there!
Somebody in Maryland Is Painting Anti-Hillary Messages on Crabs
And then throwing them back for others to catch, presumably? One
reads "Hillary is a Lying B*tch." Note: This was also reported as happening in Florida, which would be only too perfect.
