Eating and drinking with Franny and Zo!

Bassett Cafe in Bassett, CA on the road between Downeville and Sierraville is a great place to stop in for a great malt or down home burger! They are super friendly and make you fee as if you grew up stopping in every day.

What a birthday trip last year for Zo! I bought tickets for a Haunted House tour for the wrong weekend we were there. Then we have an exciting trip to the Emergency Room where we found out that stress can cause you to be dizzy and experience nausea (Who knew? other than the docs.)

I did not want Zo's B-day to be a total wash. We needed to relax and have some fun so we found a nice Sushi place in Mountain View to celebrate Zo's birthday. We checked the web reviews and found this place was highly recommend and only a couple of miles away from our hotel.

The fish fresh, the rice sticky and firm, the Nigiri perfect, the Saki tasty, the environment was classy but casual and the service was on the spot fast and friendly!

We tried a more than a few rolls and in our opinion you should make sure to try the, submarine, dragon, crazy, kamikaze, red dragon, soft shell crab and cherry blossom rolls.

Also do your self a favor and get some Karatanba (premium cold sake) it is delicious. Chilled, smooth and warming when it settles. You are going to need a cab because you will want more!

www.tsunamisushi.info/home.html
What Francis says: Fresh and Tasty!
What Zo says: Great rolls and Sake!

Fred's? I would expect Fred's Chicken Joint maybe but Fred's Szechuan? That is America for you land of the melting pot!

We were in Nevada City meeting Zo's friend for lunch, only we were starving because her friend was a few hours late (love ya Em.) So we decided to get a quick bite of Chinese food.

I know I did not expect a place named Fred's in Nevada City of all places to be so good but wow. First of all I saw the lunch prices and thought, "Oh man Asian food this is always greasy and gross." Zo and I ordered up some crab cream cheese puffs, sizzling rice shrimp soup and some egg foo yun. The waiter was super nice and we were able to choose whether or not we wanted MSG in the food.

Chit chatting about what we wanted to do next our neighbors got their food. It looked so good. It looked so good I wanted to order everything they had. Plus it smelled so good! our food came out and it was so excellent. I could not believe for this price we were eating such good Asian food, heck for this quality of food we usually paid 2-3 times as much.

We were very pleasantly surprised and will definitely stop in here again our next trip to or through Nevada City.

No web site so here are some sites that have reviews:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/freds-szechuan-chinese-restaurant-nevada-city
http://local.yahoo.com/info-21807937-fred-s-szechuan-chinese-restaurant-nevada-city

What Francis says: Amazing food for the price.
What Zo says: I love this place!

If you are near El Dorado, CA. make sure you Keep and eye out for Poor Red's.

When Zo and I were first dating, I talked about this place called Red's that my Uncle Bobby took me to during my teen years. I told her they had great BBQ and there was this drink call Golden Cadillac that tasted like milkshakes. The best part being when you order one you got two! One in a martini glass and then one in a regular glass. I wished I could remember where it was because it would be fun to go together.

Around rolls my birthday and Zo has a mystery trip planned. We end up at this great bed and breakfast called Albert Shafskys House in Placerville, CA. It was really nice and the two owners were very friendly, polite and boy could they make a delicious breakfast! If you stop by scratch there pup Lily behind the ear for me.

Zo took me driving around the area and says, "So do you know what we are doing here?" I tell her I have no idea, about that time we take a turn and there is Poor Red's! I get over whelmed by how much she must love me and told her how much I adore and love her.

Inside it is just as I remembered it, great smelling BBQ being made in the back room... Wait what is this? The BBQ joint is closed during the week because business has been slow the bartender tells us. What a bummer!

The friendly bartender ask what we will have and we both already know what we want. A Golden Cadillac. We chit chat and enjoy the smooth flavor. The bartenders birthday was the day before mine so he comps my drink. Can life be any better? Only if we would have been able to get some of that BBQ, otherwise life wass pert near perfect!