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- From: HF.JGW@forsythe.stanford.edu (Weitz, Janet)
- Newsgroups: ba.food
- Subject: Re: Fourth Street Grill
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:54:38 -0800
- Organization: Stanford University
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- In article <1993Jan27.223649.3568@netcom.com>,
- mdk1@netcom.com (Mark Kaplanoff) writes:
- >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.
-
- I have gone to the Fourth Street Grill since the early 80s though
- not alot lately because we moved from Berkeley. I was there for
- lunch one day this past summer and it was memorable - wonderful food
- and superb service. I'm surprised at the Chron.
-
- Janet W.
-