Author Archives: HeSaid

Ok. Time to dust off the site. *cough* *cough* In some token gesture towards working on the site some more, I did upgrade the guts of the site to Plone 4 though with the same gut-wrenching Googling as always.

Here’s the Ca’ Momi review. Ca’ Momi takes up where Folio died off (actually, I think Folio gave it a go with two different versions). Ca’ Momi’s claim to fame are the wood-fired pizzas. Here’s a picture of a Ca’ … Continue reading →

For the first time in about two months, I updated the site to include the Fish Story review. For those who don’t know, Stephen Barber left the self-named BarbersQ to be the head chef at Fish Story. That’s not something … Continue reading →

Christopher Kostow at the Restaurant at the Meadowood became the 2nd Bay Area restaurant (outside of the French Laundry) to get 3 Michelin stars. It’s very well deserved. He’s an aggressive chef who pushes the envelope with his food, and … Continue reading →

I guess I’ve developed a lot of “content debt” on the site. We’re still eating large and still taking the occasional fuzzy picture. But I haven’t added new reviews to the site in two months. Actually, I haven’t even updated … Continue reading →

I work on NapaEats mostly to get some experience with what it’s like to run your own site. One thing I’ve always been curious about is how online communities form organically from pretty much nothing. How did those communities get … Continue reading →

After a laughably half-assed installation of some Plone modules that I didn’t understand, I managed to break the site in two. Just for good measure, I accidentally erased my backup data file (woohoo!) But thanks to the folks at Webfaction, … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago while driving up 29, we realized that we didn’t see the Napa Valley Grille. Sure enough, I did some digging, and they closed in Dec 2009. Shows you how attentive we are although in all fairness, … Continue reading →

One thing we’ve noticed while eating out is that it seems like there are a lot more tourists here in 2010 than in 2009. Of course, 2009 was the first tourist season after the global meltdown so that’s a really … Continue reading →