Barfly wins first place in CNPA journalism awards contest!
My Barfly column has beat out all the other columns in California for the top slot in the California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) contest! just saying……
Maybe it’s time to stop blaming everything on the pandemic
Periodically, during the Covid lockdown I received links from readers to bad restaurant reviews posted by oblivious people who couldn’t understand why they couldn’t have their…
New Marin liquor products now available to taste test at home
The old “tied house” ABC law essentially broke down as such: liquor companies in California were unable to sell directly to the consumer, they had to…
The restaurants might be different, but the people aren’t
I was in another place, a place so different from the place I’m used to, but in reality, not all that far away. Bridges are a…
One’s position at a bar, is not the same as one’s position in life
Visine, coffee, and a breath mint. I felt a little like Roy Scheider in the 1979 film “All That Jazz.” But that is often how stepping…
Barfly Podcast Season Three with Sean Saylor
Pet peeves for a post pandemic world https://www.buzzsprout.com/169913/8851745-season-three-sean-saylor.mp3?download=true
From Marinite to mezcal producer in just 7 years
Seven years ago, Joseph Gilbert set out on a culinary quest. The Terra Linda High/Marin Catholic alumnus had spent some time working in the kitchens of…
Papa would have been shaken by a broken blender too
“Sort of like a Waring Blendor” My electric blender just broke. “So what?” you say. But for me it is a pretty big deal. Bartenders have…
Barfly Podcast, Season Three, Guest: Vicki Larson, Lifestyles Editor Marin IJ
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/season-three-vicki-larson/id1376751260?i=1000527193178
Fighting words are not pretty, even in pink
The man in the pink striped shirt cleared his spot at the bar as if he were policing a campground. He moved the napkins, the hand…