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Melissa Barnes

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    January 11, 2012

    AQ's Food Is as Intricate as It Is Seasonal

    Melissa BarnesAQ's scallops with parsnips.​There are restaurant reviews a critic finishes feeling content to have said all that he wants to say about a place. And then there are places like Matt Semmelhack and Mark Liberman's AQ -- the subject of the Weekly's full-length review this week -- where ... More >>

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    October 26, 2011

    Park Tavern Has Its Audience Figured Out

    Melissa BarnesPark Tavern's smoked deviled eggs.​Most restaurants take a few, financially perilous months to settle into their own skins. The tables get rearranged to improve the feng shui of the dining room. Slackoff servers are fired and wobbly line cooks are replaced. The kitchen masters the op ... More >>

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    September 21, 2011

    Piccino Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Pizzas

    Melissa BarnesPiccino's semolina gnocchi with roasted vegetables and black olive sauce.While most of the critics in town reviewed ​Piccino shortly after the four-year-old restaurant's move to a giant Victorian-era stable in May, I waited four months to file this week's full-length restaurant ... More >>

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    July 13, 2011

    San Francisco-Style Shabu Shabu: Not Quite Japanese

    Melissa BarnesIs this Japanese shabu shabu or Chinese hot pot? Kind of both.​Every time I drive around the Richmond and Sunset, I pass at least one restaurant advertising shabu shabu, the Japanese hot pot in which you swish-swish (shabu-shabu) pieces of thinly sliced meat through a hot broth s ... More >>

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    July 13, 2011

    Tadashi Ono, Japanese Hot Pot Expert, Describes the Real Shabu Shabu

    Melissa BarnesShabu shabu at Shabu Pub, which is not traditionally Japanese​While researching this week's review of Chinese-American shabu shabu restaurants in the Richmond and Sunset, I called Tadashi Ono, the chef of Matsuri in New York and co-author of Japanese Hot Pots. I wanted to get a sense ... More >>

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