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10.16.2009 Outlet: San Francisco Chronicle When Jeremy Umland was considering opening a second location of his popular San Francisco restaurant, Ozumo, he considered Napa and Walnut Creek. Instead, he decided to follow the money. "Investors and developers, all with a lot more cash to risk • 'Duck' Into Citizen Hotels Grange Restaurant For Some 'Fowl Play' 10.14.2009 Outlet: HotelChatter Where: 926 J St. [map], Sacramento, CA, United States, 95814 October 15, 2009 at 9:19 AM | by EricRosen | 0 Comments When it opened last December, we told you all about the geeky glory of the Citizen Hotel in Sacramento. Now we want to tell • Hotels get creative to cope with hard times 10.12.2009 Outlet: Miami Herald - Online, The Faced with the toughest financial crunch in decades, hotels are moving beyond typical discounts and offering unusual promotions to lure clients and create buzz. The 27-room Crane's BeachHouse in Delray Beach, for example, offers a ''The Bed-in for • I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. 10.12.2009 Outlet: KTLA Morning News - KTLA-TV HI, ALLIE. Reporter: GOOD MORNING, YOU GUYS. I'M ASITTING IN MY OWN PRIVATE CABANA HERE AT THE HOTEL MAYA SWAGO. WE'RE GOING TO WIND UP DINE LARESTAURANT WEEK. COMING UP WE'LL SHOW YOU ALL THE APPETIZERS, ENTTRAYS, ALL COMING UP LIVE FROM LONG BEA • In San Francisco, hotel rooms for less than $100 10.09.2009 Outlet: Austin American-Statesman - Online TRAVEL By Helen Anders SAN FRANCISCO The Good Hotel is a good hotel. Its rooms are small and spare but contemporary-cool, and they have everything you need: a bathroom, a safe, TV, free wireless, an iPod dock and clever art. Some rooms are even ai • San Francisco Japantown hotel delivers anime immersion 10.02.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times - Online Check into mainstream manga: A Bay Area Best Western rethemed by a boutique hotel chain buzzes with vibrant comic sensibility. Click to Enlarge Three unique restaurants in San Francisco Hotel Guide Restaurant Guide Attraction Guide • HOTELS 10.01.2009 Outlet: Los Angeles Times Infobox Infographic Hoping to keep its 119 rooms filled, Hotel Erwin on Venice Beach is offering an unusual promotion for its countercultural clientele: an Ink and Stay package that includes $100 toward a tattoo and a bottle of tequila to numb • Treating Your Employees Like Honored Guests = Outstanding Customer Service = Business Success 09.30.2009 Outlet: Fast Company - Online FC Expert Blog This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert's views alone. Chip Conley, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre, the largest group of boutique hotels in California, believes in treating hi • Gourmet Stimulus Plan 09.30.2009 Outlet: North Bay Bohemian More than two dozen restaurants are offering $25 prix fixe menus as part of the inaugural Santa Cruz Restaurant Week, Oct. 1-8. Full menus are posted at www.santacruzrestaurantweek.com. Our advice: make reservations. Aptos Sanderling's Oc |
Cafe Andre Announces Evan Crandall Is Executive Chef
New Chef Brings Refreshing Concept and Menu to Union Square Bistro
San Francisco (February 23, 2007) - Café Andrée, the intimate bistro located adjacent to San Francisco’s Hotel Rex, recently appointed Evan Crandall to the position of executive chef and unveiled his new menu and concept for the restaurant.
With the new menu of “seasonal California cuisine,” Crandall celebrates the diversity of his native San Francisco and the many influences of the city’s famous neighborhoods. Dishes range from the Japanese-influenced Nori and Sesame Crusted Seabass with forbidden fried rice to Italian Pumpkin Ravioli with pancetta, wild mushrooms and red pepper cream. Specializing in delicate handmade pastas and seasonal desserts, Café Andree’s diverse menu promises a memorable meal for everyone.
Prior to joining Café Andrée, Crandall was the chef/partner for two years at Jou Jou Café, located in San Francisco’s Financial District. Before then, Crandall held the positions of executive sous chef at the Carnelian Room, chef de cuisine at San Francisco’s Park Hyatt and most recently as the executive chef at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame, Calif.
“I was always fascinated with cooking, even as a kid. I’d throw a bunch of stuff in a bowl, throw it in the oven, and see what came out. Sometimes it was a cake, sometimes a rock, it didn’t matter,” says Crandall. “Then I’d make everyone come over and try it out.” Crandall’s childhood fascination persevered, and he started cooking professionally at 17, right out of high school. At 19, he graduated from the City College Culinary Program and was selected for a coveted culinary apprenticeship at the San Francisco Hilton, from which he graduated in 1992. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Crandall appreciates the culinary variety and wealth of knowledge right in his backyard – even when he’s not cooking at Café Andrée, friends will find him seeking out more things to throw in a bowl to see what comes out.
Located just steps from San Francisco’s Union Square, Café Andrée in the Hotel Rex features a cozy setting that is an enchanting mix of San Francisco café and French bistro. With mirrored walls featuring the day’s specials, original pen and ink drawings, and a soothing color scheme of buttery yellow and burgundy red, Café Andrée offers an inviting destination after a day spent seeing the sights of San Francisco.
Click here for PDF of new menu.
About Joie de Vivre Hospitality
Based in San Francisco, Joie de Vivre Hospitality (www.jdvhotels.com) is a creative collection of lifestyle businesses. As California's largest independent boutique hotelier, Joie de Vivre encompasses other hospitality businesses such as restaurants and spas. Celebrating 20 years of creating dreams, Joie de Vivre Hospitality is expanding its California presence in Sacramento, Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Sunnyvale, Huntington Beach and beyond.
