Thrifty Girl
Let’s face it, city living is expensive but there’s a way to have our style and eat it too. A thrifty girl is a smart girl. Besides, saving all those pennies affords us the luxuries that our city has to offer. Or better yet, for that rainy day… in Paris!
La Mediterranee
Way back when I was a student at Berkeley, I dined at the La Mediterranee outpost on College Avenue all the time. But in recent years, after my departure from the East Bay, the restaurant sort of fell off my radar … That is, until I recently met up for lunch at the Fillmore location [...]
Daiso
A few weeks ago, I was driving through Daly City, along 280, when there — at Serramonte Shopping Center, glowing in the fog — was the word “Daiso.” Big and red, on the side of a building that used to be a Good Guys.
It was already past nine o’clock, so the store was already closed [...]
Heath Ceramics
As the temperatures start to drop, visions of lounging by the fireplace, sipping tea from a lovely Heath Ceramics cup, start to dance in my head. But what makes this vision even better? That said Heath Ceramics cup was picked up at a discounted price from the factory store — after a tour of the [...]
