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a very good, more quiet place. It used to
have theartworkofRobertDeNiro’s father.
Even thoughwe own interest in it, we like
going there because it’s just a good place.
Another great restaurant is Jardinière. The
chef is Traci Des Jardins, who just won a
James Beard Foundation Award for the
best chef in the Pacific region. Another
wonderful restaurant, for lunch andbreak-
fast, isCitizenCake—very sweetplace.The
Zuni Café is great. That’s one of the first
places my wife, Marsha, and I used to go
to, and we’ve seen it grow from one room
to two to three to four to five. Their Caesar
salad ismy favorite thing. Ikindof survived
on that for a long time. They serve a latte
that almost comes in a small tub— it’s in
this huge coffee cup that you’re going,
Oh,
what is this, apool?
And they have a great,
wood-burningpizza oven. You could spend
days inBerkeley. Chez Panisse is just won-
derful because itwasoneof thefirstorganic
restaurants that specialized in California
cuisine. AliceWaters has always been very
muchabout growing the foodandbeing re-
ally whole and pure. She knows where the
vegetables come from because she grows
manyof them.
Are youa fanof theSanFranciscoGiants?
Yeah.Wehave season tickets. AT&TPark is
one of those new stadiums. It’s really beau-
tiful. The location is great. The old Giants
stadiumused tobe sowindy, andwhen the
fog came in, sometimes guyswould lose the
ball in the fog. The stadium has really just
got a great feel to it.Nomatter how theGi-
ants are doing, it’s always full, which is a
great sign. The fans are there, I think, for
the experience of the stadium aswell as for
the team.
Is there a nightlife place that you really like
togo to?
There are a lot of places; there are a lot of
clubs and things. One thing for me— I’m
justoutofrehab, sodon’taskmeaboutbars.
But there are somany. There are also a lot
of music clubs. For comedy, there’s Cobb’s,
and there’s the Punch Line. The Fillmore
is back. It closed briefly, and it’s a great
place to see a show. There’s also Bimbo’s,
a wonderful club to seemusic and comedy
at, and it’s still around. Bimbo’s is a sweet,
sweet place. It’s old-school. It’s almost like
theCopa, aboveground. It’sa ’50s-styledin-
ner club, but they do very few dinner-club
events. The seating is at tables and in a
beautiful, old, intimate room. Norah Jones
played there. People goback andplay there
because they like the feel of the room.
Tell me a funny story about something that
has happened toyou inapublicplace.
I can’t, really, because nothing really funny
has happened to me. No, it’s been really
sweet. That’s why I like living here. One
time, when I was walking in the Castro,
therewas a very famous drag queennamed
Sister Boom Boom. And he saw me and
went, “Oh, theregoes theneighborhood!”
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