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- From: mdk1@netcom.com (Mark Kaplanoff)
- Subject: Fourth Street Grill
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.223649.3568@netcom.com>
- Keywords: Fourth Street _Chronicle_ reviews
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:36:49 GMT
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- I wonder if others saw the review of the Berkeley restaurant
- The Fourth Street Grill in the _Chronicle_ today (1-27-93).
- I have never read such a vituperative restaurant review, and
- I find the review TOTALLY contrary to my own extensive
- experience of The Fourth Street. According to the reviewer,
- the kitchen can barely cook, the staff arehardly competent,
- and diners cannot hear their own conversations. I discovered
- The Fourth Street about four months ago and have driven over
- from San Francisco to have dinner there once or twice a week
- since. (It does help that I have friends in Berkeley who joint
- me.) To me the food has been consistently interesting, well
- cooked, and well presented, and the restaurant has the most
- relaxed and interestingly mixed atmosphere of any I know in
- the Bay Area. When I have friends visiting from Europe, I
- invariably take them there, as the best place to show them why
- dining out in California is special.
-
- If others who read this newsgroup have recent experiences of
- The Fourth Street, I would be very interested whether their views
- are closer to mine or to those of the _Chronicle_ reviewer.
-