Check, Please! Bay Area's fourth season episode 2 (#402) profiles and reviews these three Bay Area restaurants:

1) Shanghai Dumpling King: | restaurant information | reviews |

2) farmerbrown [CLOSED]: | restaurant information | reviews |

3) Caesar's Italian Restaurant: | restaurant information | reviews | [CLOSED]

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My name is Leslie Sbrocco and I'm the host of Check, Please! Bay Area. Each week, I will be sharing my tasting notes about the wine the guests and I drank on set during the taping of the show.

Wines of the Week: KQED Wine Club

Our guests enjoyed these two delicious offerings from the KQED Wine Club. These wines serve up worldwide diversity from a refreshing white to an elegant red. Join the club!

2006 Osseus Sauvignon Blanc, Santa Ynez Valley, California

Think of this wine as sunshine in a bottle. Bright and juicy with loads of citrus fruit flavors, it’s the type of wine you want to sip while basking in the sunshine.

2005 La Fenetre Cabernet Sauvignon, Santa Barbara, California

Cabernet Sauvignon is so popular because it offers a mouthful of fruit backed up with structure and body. It’s the kind of wine you want to drink with hearty fare from lamb to burgers.

Special Wine

2005 Judd’s Hill Petite Sirah, Lodi, California

Petite Sirah -- the grape variety -- produces wines that are anything but petite. Think of them as a linebacker on a football team nicknamed “Tiny.” This version packs a wallop of jammy fruit with a peppery kick.