I love giving cookbooks as gifts for birthdays and holidays, and several strong Bay Area titles have come out this year! I'm working on a larger holiday gift guide for the column, but here's a sneak peek of the cookbooks that will be recommended in it
I'm writing you on my birthday morning to share one of my gifts that is helping me learn more about one of my favorite new places in the San Francisco Ferry Building: Parachute Bakery. It's been open for a few months, and the lines haven'
Just got back from spending the morning at La Cocina's SF Street Food Festival, and I have a few recommendations if you're thinking about going tonight or tomorrow. Oh, how I’ve missed this event, which was last held in 2019 and fed over 300,000
Treasure (510 El Camino Real) I found out about Treasure, which opened in October, from David R. Chan, a retired tax attorney from the San Gabriel Valley who writes about Chinese American restaurants. He recently came to the Bay Area to check out many of the newest high-end Chinese restaurants,
A particularly stressful week in the Bay Area makes me want to give everyone therapeutic cupcake assortments. My close friend brought me a box the other day, so I know how much they help, if they're really good. The gift inspired me to make this list of the
Just got back from Emeryville, where I got to help celebrate the soft opening of Honey & Pearl's new East Bay kitchen on 65th Street in Emeryville. They're currently taking pre-orders for next weekend, and will be selling most weekends after that. Highly recommended! Good Taste:
On Thursday, during a Filipino food crawl that I'll be writing about in the coming week's GOOD TASTE column, I was asked if I had eaten anything recently that I found exciting. I could have given several answers, but the one that was foremost in mind
If you want to explore the food scene in Palo Alto one weekend, here are some recommendations to get started! Meyhouse (640 Emerson Street) I was invited to have lunch at this beautiful, two-year-old Turkish restaurant yesterday and had surf (Orfuz: charcoal-grilled pink grouper skewer and Meyhouse greens) and turf
October promises to be a good eating month in the Bay Area! Today, I want to suggest a few places to go in the first half of the month. I'll do a second letter with ideas for the second half of the month (including Halloween) soon. Mondays in
I'm currently working on a brunch feature for an October edition of the GOOD TASTE column, and I thought I'd share a sneak peek of a few standout dishes from some of the places I plan to mention. Halloumi and za'atar croissant at Roast
I've got some restaurant and other food recommendations to consider for your weekend adventuring! This is something I'll do here regularly, with a mix of brand new, true, and OG spots. King Katsu Land 2085 Gellert Boulevard, Suite 6, Daly City I love eating in LA&
A few months ago, I started hearing the unmistakable Mister Softee ice cream truck playing in my San Francisco neighborhood, which was a trip because I knew it to be an old-school East Coast thing from all my visits to New York City. I haven't seen anyone write