The Miller Family

Author: telmiller

  • Like Cointreau but less coin

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    My favorite margarita recipe depends on Cointreau. A friend who occasionally dabbles in infusions passed along this recipe which I plan to try as an alternative margarita ingredient. Let’s see if I can wait two months for this. 50 coffee beans1 orange with 50 gashes in it50 sugar cubes26 oz of vodka50 days in jar,…

  • Millennium – vegan with heightened awareness

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    It’s Friday night, my twin daughters’ birthday, and I just lost my job running sales at undeniably the coolest software developer platform company on the planet. We’re out at Millennium, in Rockridge, one of the top vegan restaurants in the Bay Area. Of course I’d like a cocktail before dinner. As we sat down, we…

  • Shizen and grateful tuna

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    Vegan sushi. So, ebi, ahi, and you, hamachi, you all can relax now. They don’t take reservations. I recommend getting in line around 4:30-4:45pm (they open at 5). When you’re at the front of the line, they’ll either seat you if space permits or put your name on the list and text you when your…

  • Piccino – low-key fancy, Dogpatch style

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    You can go here if you want to be fancy–a great bottle of wine & great entrees–like if you’re on a date. Or you can go low-key, and just get pizza and a glass of red–like when you don’t feel like cooking. Hopefully you knew you wouldn’t feel like cooking several days ahead of time…

  • Udupi Palace – Great Indian take-out in The Mission

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    Udupi is the perfect balance of inexpensive, but not greasy/oily delicious Indian cuisine with great options for vegans. The restaurant is low-key, but always packed. We like to get take out here, the only problem is that there is no complete menu on the web. Since I can’t hold on to stray slips of paper…

  • What? A pain.

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    Something’s going around our watercooler channel on Slack at work about chocolate croissants. I’ve not weighed in yet. I’m still new there. When the kids were little, these delights were one of their primary sources of nutrition. You couldn’t see the floormats in the backseat for all the golden flakes left there by my little…

  • Gracias Madre – but don’t ask Siri to book it

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    Excellent vegan mexican. You’ll likely sit at a community table, but because the guests here are a higher class of proletariat, you’re unlikely to get pulled into an inebriated conversation with total strangers when you’d really rather enjoy your meal with those you intentionally brought along. Speaking of inebriated conversation, sometimes I wonder where Siri…

  • Toca Madera

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    Gracias Madre was closed for a private event the same day as the twins’ 21st birthday, so I scrambled for reservations at an equally cool spot. With Toca Madera, we overachieved. We almost missed because we had to get across half of LA, during Thursday night rush-hour traffic in about 40 minutes. Think of James…

  • Pomegranate Martini

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    1.5 oz Vodka (make it a good one)0.5 oz Pomegranate juice0.5 oz Cointreau1 oz Sour mix Shake and strain into Martini glass Sour Mix: 1/2 cup white cane sugar dissolved in 1/2 cup hot water (need to heat on stove to completely dissolve). Let cool and combine with 1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice and…

  • List of Santa Cruz Restaurants

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    Downtown Hoffman’sSmells a bit like the inside of an old vacuum cleaner. Seems threadbare. Hard to imagine this was a project on “Restaurant: Impossible” just a couple of years ago. It didn’t stick. Lillian’sGreat little local italian restaurant. Nice enough to be an “event” restaurant for one of our birthdays, but reasonable enough to go…