Happy New Year! On Dec. 31, I published a 2026 preview that you may have missed. Take a peek! Good Taste: 8 delicious reasons to welcome 2026 - 48 hillsFerry Building additions, Presidio newcomers, and a “no holds barred” supper club: Next year is looking tasty already.48 hillsTamara Palmer
I'm currently working on my last two Good Taste columns for the year. This coming week, I'll share some food highlights from 2025. The following week will be dedicated to previewing restaurants, supper clubs, and other food projects to look forward to in the Bay Area
Hanukkah starts tomorrow, and whether or not you celebrate, there's a limited edition babka that wants to go home with you this weekend. Mamahuhu and Loquat have collaborated on a red bean sesame babka ($20) with red bean caramel, sesame, orange zest, and osmanthus. I'm waiting
I launched a Food Book Club earlier this year with a 4/20 cookbook swap at Studio Aurora/Fault Radio (302 Valencia Street, San Francisco). We hosted a second one in June, and now we're planning a holiday edition on Dec. 21 that I hope you can attend!
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