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End of Summer Tacos & Tequila: Tacolicious Cookbook Review and Recipes
Sending the kids off to college? Packing up the lamps and extra silverware for their first on-their-own apartments? Do your Bay Area-bred offspring–and their future social lives–a favor by tossing in a...
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Project Open Hand Turns 30: An Iconic San Francisco Nonprofit Looks Forward
It started with pasta. Spaghetti, to be exact: tupperwares full of spaghetti cooked in the basement of Trinity Church then delivered to the homes of patients with HIV. That spaghetti was the beginning...
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GUIDE: Bay Area Restaurants On Film (For Hungry Movie Buffs)
Mrs Doubtfire’s Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan in Bridges, Danville (Screenshot: 20th Century Fox) The San Francisco Bay Area may lack many things — rain, summer, affordable housing — but at least you...
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San Francisco’s Groundbreaking Urban Agriculture Program Turns One
Available open space in San Francisco may be scarce, as real estate prices continue to rise and prominent urban ag projects have given way to condo development, but the hunger for urban agriculture...
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“Better Than Ice Cream”: Frozen Custard Comes To the Bay Area
Us Bay Area residents can be a proud bunch when it comes to food. And justifiably so! With a climate that guarantees us picture perfect produce year round, we live in a veritable Eden of fresh,...
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GUIDE: Here’s What You Need to Eat at Outside Lands This Weekend
Lucky enough to have a ticket to San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival this weekend? Consider us your gastronomic advance party. With almost 80 restaurants, nearly 40 wineries and over 30 breweries,...
View ArticleBay Area Bites Guide to 8 Great Places to Buy Fresh Fish
The Bay Area is surrounded by water and, at times, that can make it easy to find great local seafood. But often it’s not so simple. After years of fishing with little regard for sustainable practices...
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Bay Area Bites Guide to 6 Favorite Falafel Joints in the Bay
As much as enthusiastic fried chickpea eaters would like to disagree, the Bay Area is not a falafel town. (Okay, the Bay Area is also definitely not a town, so forgive the figure of speech.) There are...
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Are Your Grandparents Being Served?
James Wong is a man of routine. Every morning, the 63-year-old resident of San Francisco’s Sunset District meets his friends for some tai-chi exercise. Then they decide where to eat lunch. It’s usually...
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Chef Gabriela Cámara’s Cala Brings Coastal Mexican Food to San Francisco
Chef Gabriela Cámara in her kitchen on opening night. (Kim Westerman) Chef Gabriela Cámara is known throughout Mexico for her refined command of seafood, at both Contramar and MeroToro. The former is...
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25+ Reasons You Don’t Want to Miss CUESA’s First Mission Rock Farmers’ Market...
Nepalese dumplings, sheep milk ice cream, bone broth by the cup, and honey harvested from San Francisco beehives are just a few of the fresh and exciting tastes to look forward to at CUESA’s Mission...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: Lou’s Cafe, Pappo and LaSalette Restaurant
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 5 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The episode will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
View ArticleBay Area Bites Guide to 12 Great Butcher Shops
Whole animal butchery has gotten popular in recent years as part of our growing attention to what constitutes sustainable food systems. That has prompted a spate of new butcher shops, but running a...
View ArticleBay Area Bites Guide to 5 Favorite Fusion Dishes
Earlier this year, the Onion ran an article titled “Restaurant Gives Totally Unwanted Twist To Mexican Cuisine.” The location stamp? Berkeley, California. As any Bay Area resident knows, that article...
View Article5 Dedicated Gluten-Free Bakeries Around the Bay Area
When I used to walk into even the most elegant pastry shop and ask for something without gluten, I was lucky to be offered a “gluten-free” almond or coconut macaroon, which was cozied up in the case...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area reviews: Camber Montclair, Cole’s Chop House, Wise...
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 7 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The program will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
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Fighting World Hunger The Buddhist Way: Walk to Feed the Hungry with Buddhist...
In 2007, Bhikkhu Bodhi was disenchanted with a growing trend he saw in the American Buddhism community. The Theravada Buddhist monk, the author of several influential translations of Buddhist texts,...
View ArticleCheck, Please! Bay Area review: Kingston 11 Cuisine, 31st Union and The...
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 8 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The program will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
View ArticlePie Do’s and Don’ts from Three Babes Bakeshop
The perfect pie is delicate dance: the meeting of a sweet, luscious filling and a flaky, tender, golden crust. On Sunday, October 25, you’re invited to put your pie making chops to the test at CUESA’s...
View ArticleCheck, Please! reviews: Monsieur Benjamin, Aly’s on Main, Hog Island Oyster Co.
Check, Please! Bay Area Season 10 episode 9 airs tonight at 7:30pm on KQED 9. See alternative airtimes to watch the show on TV. The program will also be available online at the Check, Please! Bay Area...
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