thenewextrememimi's Reviews

For a dirt cheap, quick and tasty breakfast, a couple of taco trucks line up next to the taxi stand outside of Supermarket San Francisco de Asis, the …

This was the biggest lodging splurge on on our trip - about $60 for a beachfront cabana with private bathroom. The words "rustic" and "romantic" proba…

I've always wanted to try rock climbing, so I scheduled a trip to Mission Cliffs for one of my birthday days. Turns out, my friends are really only in…

I'm so glad I had my birthday dinner at Katia's. Everything was soo delicious, and I should know, because I demanded to eat off everyone's plate. Ever…

With its big backyard full of picnic tables, Zeitgeist kind of reminds me of a high school quod, which makes it a bit annoying when its croweded. Just…

I've only gone to Amnesia once, drunkenly, on my birthday, after Yelp-Celebrity-Ed suggested we take the party there since they had karaoke. I must sa…

We spent the night at Atousa's house in San Jose so we could get an early start along the windy road to the park. Atousa took us to some place called …

Ok, this is totally going to kind of a biased review because I ate here right after a 2-day, 17 mile hiking/camping trip, and after 2 days of hiking w…

Dine About Town is a San Francisco event in which nicer restaurants all over the city offer discounted menus. There's so many places to choose from an…

There are some things I just don't understand in this world -- including inseperable couples, Immanuel Kant, Paris Hilton... and dives that charge a l…

The Ebb Tide Cafe is my favorite breakfast place ever. Tucked into an unassuming space with mismatched coffee mugs, pushed-together tables and a weird…

The Viengtai was by far the "nicest" place I stayed on my Thailand and Cambodia trip. My friend paid $80 for the double room and couldn't go, so I got…

I had a great time at the Pong Pen Guesthouse. They're in the backpacker strip, on the River Kwai and offer both bungalows over the river and balconie…

I went to Abacus just because I heard it served crocodile, but it actually has some awesome food. The menu is French with exotic touches, with lots of…

Wat Phnom is a nice place to spend a half hour or so in Phnom Phen. Perched on a little hill, the pagoda is a very pretty structure with a lot of rand…

S21 is the infamous prison where almost 20,000 men, women and children were interned, tortured and sent to await death for supposedly being spies agai…

The Royal Palace is a complex of pretty wats, buildings and gardens, where the King of Cambodia still lives, although lots of guards and ropes prevent…

The Khmer Rouge gained control of Phnom Phen in 1975, in the chaos of civil war and U.S. bomb raids relating to the war for neighboring Vietnam. They …

China Air is Taiwan's airline; its logo is a big pink flower. They are not to be confused with Air China, from the mainland, whose logo is the red roo…

The Iberville Suites is like the redheaded stepchild of the Ritz Carlton. It's basically a building in the alley behind the Ritz where someone built a…

Can't decide which notable New Orleans restaurant to dine at? Go to Melange at the Ritz Carlton. The menu is comprised of selections from various area…

With its dramatic double row of old growth oak, Oak Alley's a great plantation to visit. The restaurant is a bit tourist trappy, though. The prices ar…

The Palace Steakhouse is like the dive bar of steakhouses. It's on the corner of Chavez and Mission, lit with a seedy looking yellow sign. You order y…

The Grand Canyon Hostel is pretty much your typical hostel, right down to the people you'll meet there -- that guy who spends his time drinking and ar…

I stumbled upon Maria's in a strip mall outside of Sedona. I love weird food, so I was really excited when I opened the menu and saw that they served …

This place is both awesome and so-bad-it's-awesome. First of all, it has a karaoke section and 2 pool tables in one bar, plus a huge outdoor section w…

The San Francisco Opera is a stately white-pillared building across from City Hall. The inside is decorated with exquisite carved walls and ceilings a…

Sunday brunch at Fresca is a treat. Along with the usual Fresca menu of latin-inspired dishes, a parade of heavenly benedicts and/or scrambles are ava…

Nestled in the middle of Golden Gate Park, the De Young is San Francisco's largest and most famous fine arts museum. Housed in a earthy meets industri…

So it's been 3 years since I moved here and I still hadn't seen Lombard Street, so I figured I might as well. I didn't really check the cross street a…

Hello tourist trap! I have to admit, everytime I drove by this place heading to or from Monterey, I totally wanted to eat there. I mean, its name is "…

The best thing about the restaurant at the Big Sur River Inn (you can get a room there, too) is the atmosphere of the location. Out in back, there's t…

The Redwood Shores corporate lunch crowd can be maddening sometimes. For lunch, everyone usually end up at the Oracle cafeteria, or the Nob Hill Foods…

We all drove an hour to go to Duarte's Tavern in the little seaside town of Pescadero. Duarte's specializes in artichokes and seafood dishes, as this …

On the north side of the island, about a block west of the seaside graveyard, there's a lady that sells barbecue out of her backyard. You have to catc…

At first glance, this place looks pretty touristy and lame. First of all, it's called "Herbal Tribe". I mean, why don't you just put up a sign that sa…

Edith's Guesthouse is one of the cheapest places to stay in Caye Caulker, and at $20US for double, it's a good deal. The room was kept very clean, som…

Antigua is chock full of gringo bars, but this one felt like home. They have cheep drinks during happy hour and decent prices throughout the day. Pub …

This place was pretty much the only thing in town still open after our minibus rolled into town at 8PM from popping a flat in the hills. Luckily, it w…

Pros: Gorgeous view, an awesome bed, excellent housekeeping, free lox and bagels at the VIP lounge upstairs (but i think you need status or to pay ext…

I have a total penchant for tourist food-- you know, regional food that no one really eats on a daily basis but that I can't get back home. So, a Fren…

We somehow always end up at Encore after we've gotten thouroughly trashed at another bar, mostly because this is the only time we have the guts to sin…

I don't really go to Japantown except to get my hair cut (Comsa/Art'y on Post street, yay!). Mostly Japantown's kind of a big mall with specialty stor…

The mall at Chodov station. I'm walking through the hallways of the mall, which looks like any other mall back home, except, you know, in Czech, when …

Bernal Heights overlooks the Mission, but on a clear day you can see much much more than that. When we went it got really foggy as we went higher. Thi…

I'm really into eating bizarre foods you can't get anywhere else, so my Everglades trip just had to include eating gator. Luckily, we found this great…

Rent a canoe from the Flamingo visitor center/ gift shop at the south tip of the park. I think it only cost about $20. Unfortunately, when I went, …

San Francisco's full of parks. As my friend JP says, every time they didn't feel like paving over the top of an especially steep hill, they'd just lea…

There's nothing better after a long days work than plopping down on a barstool in an dingy, dark, empty bar, lighting up an illegal cigarette and watc…

Delores Park is a stretch of green lawn in the middle of Mission Delores. The actual infrastructure consists of not much more than a playground, some…