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Louis Bishop

We managed the saltiness by limiting the amount of sauce clinging to the gnocchi and by dabbing bits of sauce with the bursting-with-whole-grain bread. As strongly as I tend toward healthy food, I still prefer a good French bread or similar crusty white bread with a fine meal.

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Restaurant Review: Urbane Cafe makes a dubious Splash

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Restaurant review: Raku rocks us all night long

By LOUIS  BISHOP For those of us who think that dining out in San Luis Obispo, frankly, sucks, there is a new kid on the block and her name is Raku. This darling of an Asian-fusion restaurant, open but a couple of months, is a game changer for our decreasingly-pathetic cuisine scene. Variously promoted as […]... (Continue Reading)

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Restaurant review: Robin’s a smashing success

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