Ubuntu trumpets aromatic pistou of borage You thought Ubuntu Linux was bad enough, right? What with the freedom-loving Mark Shuttleworth behind it and all the peacenik developers. Baked Beaver and Stoned Salamander could only be a couple of releases away. Near Silicon Valley, however, there lurks a darker, more sinister Ubuntu - one dripping with so much hippie …
I mean really - it's got a wine list filled with Pope Valley and Trefethen wines for Pete's sake - who CARES about the food?!?!? The nectar of those two wineries alone is reason enough to go, and I hate lots of vegetables. And it looks nice (with plenty of wine!) inside:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntunapa/2495343926/in/photostream/
And as for the yoga, a man has got to know his limitations...but if Vanessa feels like helping me find mine, I am all for it!
Ah... several years ago I was part of a week long camp for sound artists. We offered a fully vegan menu. The food was delicious, truly outstanding.
Three days in though people began recording and editing the sounds of the end result - a very gaseous and entertaining bit of audio recording it was.
That one's so old it's drawing a pension and so common it's got a village built around it. It says something about hairdressers that they persist in thinking it's clever.
However, the original one is somewhat amusing, but only because it proves there's some hairdresser out there crap enough to a) still think it's clever and b) get it wrong....
oi. I'm losing respect of theregister.
i'm a vegetarian (was a vegan a long time back) and this menu looks lovely.
if you want to eat meat, go elsewhere with your haughty views. plenty of
people who wont be suffering bowl cancer, cholesterol problems and clogging
up the NHS due to their meat-excessive diets will enjoy eating here.
Dear Ashley,
I've found two restaurant reviews for this place (I had thought that a mate of mine who reviews for the Michelin Guide had reviewed it early last year when he visited Napa, but apparently not).
http://www.chow.com/stories/11149/
Quote: "In February, Ubuntu was lauded by New York Times food critic Frank Bruni as one of the 10 best new restaurants in the country alongside meat-centric places like New Orleans’s Cochon."
Alternatively,
http://madeater.blogspot.com/2008/03/not-review-of-ubuntu.html
(So, Pizza is on the menu, and wine, and salt (lots of salt), Mr Tanuki)
From what I can see of the wine list, there's lots of Napa wine (duh!), but perhaps a little surprisingly none of the wines I'd personally select from Napa are there. Perhaps that's to be expected, as most Californian wine never makes it onto the shelves of wine stores here in the UK. On the other hand, the French wines with which I'm much more familiar don't inspire much confidence in the sommelier. Delas Freres Cote-du-Rhone? An eminently missable Sauternes?
My best guess? Ashley probably won't like this restaurant anymore than I would.
I saw the hairdressers 'Curl Up and Dye' in the film "The Blues Brothers". It's where the jilted girlfriend (played by Carrie Fisher) appeared at the beginning of the film.
Just goes to show that absolutely nothing is original anymore, especially shop names (I remember a hairdressers called 'Haircut 100' - it was the 1980s though and everyone was probably on Drugs).
I think the NHS would be clogged up with rickets, vitamin D deficiency, and a number of other complications associated with vegitarianism/veganism instead in your perfect world mate. If we were built to run on vegetables alone we would be able to digest cellulose like herbivores can, then we wouldn't have these issues.
@Richard Sloan
Been vegetarian for rather more than half my life, during which time I've only seen the inside of a medical establishment after falling off my bike and cracking my head open. Doubtless diet related. You do eat all your meat directly off the raw carcass, I suppose, as nature intended. Gotta put all those huge canine teeth to use.
IT angle?
'"HUMANITY" is not a member of a group specified for any attribute'. Profound, but sadly invalid.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubuntunapa.com%2Fhtml%2Findex.html
-A.
In a jungle far far away, a long time ago my Hominid ancestors discovered FIRE,
and then found that using that to heat(cook) bits of other mammals , made it much more easy to digest.
I understand that started our brain on the enlargement path.
They have much to answer for.
But it did result in Paris!
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