Have you swung by the summer’s hottest dining sensation yet? Waitress Casey Gardner serves malai rigatoni, one of the restaurant’s signature dishes. By the time the malai rigatoni lands, you have reached the center of Pijja Palace’s culinary maze. He studied both restaurant management and cooking in professional settings, including brief stints in some of the Bay Area’s fancier Indian …
The $74 cheesecake from San Laurel It’s a scene that verges on the obscene. I felt ridiculous as I sat at Jose Andres’ new downtown restaurant and watched our server grate a fresh truffle over a small round of burnt Basque cheesecake. Will this.gif of truffle being shaved onto cheesecake at a celebrity chef’s new restaurant make it into an …