Ever since Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse on Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley has been synonymous with seasonality. If there were ever a city to spawn a market-driven ramen house, Berkeley would be it, and of...
Temescal, the bucolic neighborhood in north Oakland, still holds some surprises. On March 23, I was headed to Doughnut Dolly, the popular piped-to-order donut shop in Temescal Alley – one-time stable houses that now...
San Francisco is one of my favorite cities on the planet, and I was lucky enough to make six trips there in 2013. Learn about my 2013 Top 10 San Francisco Bay Area dishes,...
For two decades, chef Russell Moore was a company man. Of course, the company he worked for was Chez Panisse, Alice Waters’ bastion for seasonal, sustainable California cuisine. Still, it became time for Moore...
In a recent post, specifically THIS ONE, I proposed a Central Coast craft beer itinerary. Now let’s see what is new in NorCal. In this companion piece, we venture even further north to the...
International Boulevard, which runs south from Oakland’s Lake Merritt, may be best known for Mexican street food, but there are viable alternatives, including Banh Mi Ba Le. A family from Saigon has owned this...