Today’s your last opportunity to vote for your favorite restaurant.

San Miguel’s very best favorite restaurants.

No, I’m not going to tell you which restaurants they are. You’re, hopefully, going to tell me. For it’s time again for the SMART awards, the annual event where I ask Don Day in SMA readers to share with me their very best favorite places to eat. SMART stands for San...
City Market puts veal back on my menu.

City Market puts veal back on my menu.

It was the late seventies when I and a lot of other people dramatically reduced their consumption of veal. A portion of the change was for humane reasons. But it was mostly about dollars and sense. Veal had become more and more expensive and the consumption of veal...
Mesa Marrakesh. “Why did it take us so long to get here?”

Mesa Marrakesh. “Why did it take us so long to get here?”

Guilt. Extreme guilt. That was what we were feeling when we arrived at Mesa Marrakesh. It had been over four years since we had eaten any of Chef JJ Castañeda’s food. It had been five years since we had tasted his Mediterranean/North African/Middle Eastern cuisine. We...