Barfly wins “best column” in California!
Barfly wins 1st place in California Journalism contest (mailchi.mp)
Barfly wins 1st place in California Journalism contest (mailchi.mp)
Forty years in the restaurant business, by any measure, is a long time. Marin’s Sean Saylor has been at it for at least that long. Closing…
Don’t they want to make money?” the woman asked her friend as they stood at the front door 45 minutes after we’d closed. It’s common enough…
The rain came down in little patters, filling potholes and creating an obstacle course of sorts in the darkened parking lot near the restaurant. The people…
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The man looked vaguely familiar, but not familiar enough for me to remember much about him. I didn’t know his name, his drink or even, for…
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If there was an open fire, I’m sure chestnuts would have been roasting on it. Instead, we had to settle for a gas fireplace and a…
“Joyeux Noël,” Miss Moller had said. And we as a class repeated it back to her. Learning a language in high school actually meant becoming familiar…
I pulled into the nearly empty parking lot with a bag full of goodies like I was Santa Claus. It wasn’t really Santa’s bag — it…