Dinner in the suburb

Walnut Creek, Califonia, February 13, 2015—

IT LOOKS INVITING enough; the waitress was fun; the food was okay: just another meal, I don't really call it a "dinner," in an American suburb. After an acceptable Martini I had a Caesar salad and a hamburger. The salad seemed, well, tossed together, more or less mechanically, with the right ingredients though substituting garlic for anchovy. The hamburger was decent meat though far too much of it; it came on a commercial uninspired bun, with a paper cone of acceptable thin-cut French fries, little pots of "aioli" and tomato catsup, a slice of nvg tomato, and delicously pickled onion.

Tempranillo

• Corners Tavern, 1342 Broadway Plaza, Walnut Creek, California; 925-948-8711
☛Restaurants visited in 2015 are listed at Eatingday's Restaurants