A funny thing happened on our way back to Buffalo from testing Apple’s new iPad in San Francisco this week: a snowstorm. Given the choice of being stranded in Las Vegas overnight or staying with family in Southern California, we gladly picked the latter, and unexpectedly spent a few days catching up on some places that we think you might enjoy reading about. The first of our two articles looks at Los Angeles’s increasingly famous Kogi’s BBQ, then shifts over to Rancho Cucamonga’s Bass Pro Store, the latter a name that Buffalonians have been hearing about – but not seeing – since November of 2004. Our second article discusses California pizza and the growing California Pizza Kitchen chain, as well as the famous steak and rib house Claim Jumper.