• Bauer bestows an encouraging but un-stellar two and a half stars on Traci Des Jardins’ Truckee Ritz-Carlton venture, Manzanita, calling the food “good enough to be a destination” but not “startlingly inventive.” [Chron]
• Patricia Unterman treks out to the avenues to try out King Won Ton, saying that it’s not only “impossibly” cheap, but the “noodles had an extraordinary texture, a crispness between the teeth and on the tongue like none I’d ever tasted.” [SF Examiner]