Rockridge/College Ave spoiled us. HELP us in San Leandro
We are so spoiled, used to drive down College Ave and just pick anyplace to eat and it was good. Right now we can't do that. Our home in Rockridge is being remodeled. We are in a house in San Leandro for 2 to 3 months. Where are some good spots to eat? We find mostly chains, and even for chains they are so bad. We found a good Mexican, Titos I think, and a very nice Italian, Paradiso. Both places had good food and good service.
What else is out there? We eat most anything,Philly Cheese Steak to truffles; Korean, Chinese, Thai, Bar B Q. If the food is really good, price is a minor consideration.
There has to be some Chow worthy places. The grocery near us has great produce, deli, meat. They eat well here, but where when they aren't cooking?
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Agree with you to a point. They don't have a lot of cheeses but they do have a lot of different deli meat. They still have the Romanian Mici sandwich, just tried it yesterday. Tasted great, like venison. They did offered me choice of 4 or 5 kinds of cheeses to go with it and I chose pepper jack. I think their focus is on sandwiches now.
If I am not mistaken, mortadella is not Romanian, no? They do incorporate that into some of their regular sandwiches, though, like the muffaleta.
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re: sljay
Robert Lauriston
Jan 14, 2007 04:28 PM
The new owners are not Romanian and most of the Romanian products I'd seen on prevous visits were gone, as were the other top-quality imports and domestic artisanal products.
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re: sljay
Robert Lauriston
Jan 3, 2007 03:32 PM
I stopped in the other day, dunno about the sandwiches but as a deli it has declined dramatically since it was Vatran's. Selection of meat and cheese is greatly reduced. No oddball Romanian products. The people who were working there couldn't tell us whether they had imported mortadella, had to check the label (they didn't).
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Don't expect anything decent to eat at the Englander. Wide beer selection and very popular for sports, but the food is truly awful.
http://www.englanderpub.com/But do go to Ricky's for football. You'll have a cultural experience that you can't experience in Rockridge.
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Melanie Wong
Dec 20, 2006 05:48 AM
Consider yourself lucky to have Daimo in your town. Smokes any Hong Kong-style restaurant in Oakland -
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/... -
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re: Raidermatt
Robert Lauriston
Dec 19, 2006 09:08 PM
Some of the food there is kind of gloppy. And the wait can be ridiculous.
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Robert Lauriston
Dec 19, 2006 05:45 PM
My dad lives there so I've eaten there a lot.
Paradiso is San Leandro's closest thing to a Rockridge-type restaurant.
Daimo is good Chinese (somewhat different menu from the Richmond branch).
I haven't tried the San Leandro Ohgane but the Oakland branch is my favorite Korean place in the area.
Joaquin Deli makes good tri-tip sandwiches and the like.
My dad eats at Luke's Grill and Emil Villa's all the time.
Unfortunately the great BBQ place, Perry's Food for the Soul, closed.
This is a pretty exhaustive list, though I don't share her taste:
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re: Robert Lauriston
Thanks Robert for the list of restaurants and the reviews. We will be trying many of these places. We like the Ohgane on Broadway. I had forgotten they are in San Leandro also. Maybe we won't have to cook every night afterall. We can find good eats here. The reviewer does seem to have narrow taste. But at least there is a list to work from.
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