Especially if it's a tower of citrus chiffon cake with buttermilk gelato, as shown here during a celebratory lunch with my soul sister Rita @ Ristorante Avanti. Feast your eyes.....

The inviting pastry display at Kelly's includes enough eye candy to help you channel your inner 5-year-old.  Or simply bring your own youngster to the Ingalls Street landmark and watch her smile.

Santa Clara's Triton Museum of Art has much to recommend itself, and a current show of Old Masters-style work by Southern California's Domenic Cretara is a prime example. Painting for many decades in the extreme chiaro scuro style of Baroque maestro Caravaggio,...

One picture is worth a thousand words! Soif does small plates on Tuesdays. This little number ran me $3. Serrano ham, half a soft/hard boiled egg, a thin slice of cheese, a thin crostini, and a slick of mustard. With an Italian red! (for a few $$ more).

Just to review: yes, Randall Grahm has decided to move his Bonny Doon Vineyards tasting room to a new location in Davenport.  The old-fashioned white clapboard structure on Highway One (next door to the Roadhouse) that has been home to Davenport Gallery for the last...