Restaurants for Jains in the Bay Area

Which are the restaurants which are suited for Jains. Some of the visitor parents are often Jain or have reservations about eating at places which serve Non-Veg also. Over the weekend I was speaking with Rupesh and he mentioned 3 restaurants that are suited for Jains. 1) Udipi – Rupesh …

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Bay Area Regional Organizations

This post created to capture the various Bay Area Regional Organizations that exist. Always helps to keep tabs on other community based Indian organizations since we can get inspired by some of their activities and events. 1) Maharashtra Mandal Bay Area – http://mmbayarea.org/ 2) Rajasthan Association of Northern America – …

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High Returns Bank Accounts

Which ones are some of the high yield on savings account banks? Wachovia bank seems be one of them with APY of 5.00% in first year. (and a bonus of upto 300$ for first year). This article on Wachovia bank caught my attention and hence this post. StarOne used to …

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Junoon

Don’t remember if I’ve written about Junoon – by far my favorite special occasion restaurant on the peninsula! Excellent food, eclectic menu – they change it 4-5 times a year, so you get seasonal flavors. Their virgin drinks are *very* good. Entrees can get expensive, so the trick is to …

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Real Estate website – Redfin

Started by an ex co-founder of Plumtree, Redfin is a real-estate website that refunds 2/3rds of Redfin’s commission at closing for buyers and charges a flat fee of $4,000 for sellers. I found their UI to be very speedy and user friendly.

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