As the weather cools, craft brewers trade crisp, light warm-weather styles for the boozier, spiced and malty beers of autumn. The popularity of wet hops, pumpkin-spice everything and Oktoberfest brews has made fall the season en vogue for limited-release brews. Brown Shugga, a hop-heavy strong…
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HOM, pronounced like home, the new fast casual Korean eatery on Santa Clara Street, occupies a cozy shotgun-style space squeezed between Dive Bar and Muchos Taqueria. Like other fast casual spots, the restaurant takes clear inspiration from Chipotle, from its fixed-up fresh food down to…
Usually, ordering a medium rare beef patty is like requesting indigestion. But in downtown Sunnyvale, Nom Burger serves a juicy, pink middle because they buy whole muscle from Napa’s 5 Dot Ranch and grind it fresh, in-house, multiple times a day. “There’s a misperception when…
San Jose’s Japantown gets a moment in the national spotlight this weekend with a short segment on Anthony Bourdain’s CNN show Parts Unknown.
Yaniv Benaroya’s restaurateur father gave him two options: go to college or start selling pita. Benaroya, 18 at the time, chose the latter and began his apprenticeship at a bakery that imported all their equipment from Israel, the flatbread and Benaroya’s homeland. “The quality really…
Tree Leaves may be changing color, but autumn remains hot and sunny, which all but requires visits to sidewalk cafés and restaurants. While the main drag in Mountain View, Castro Street, may not exactly offer the people-watching of an Italian piazza, the authentic food and…
Zola is a small establishment serving French cuisine and it is a study in quaint, charming appeal.
Gleaming tech campuses and the beige sprawl of Silicon Valley is built on some of the world’s richest soil. The Community Alliance for Family Farmers (CAFF) strives to highlight the area’s oft-overlooked local agriculture as globalization, corporatization and mechanization threaten to take over the way…
The summer of 2015 hasn’t been solely a dry spell—a wave of ramen joints has risen up throughout the Bay Area. Notably, Myzen Ramen holds its own against the latest batch of slurp-happy noodle havens.
The milk tea genre has been in the Bay Area long enough to develop aficionados like Candy Gomez and Caleb Bui, who became such avid fans they created their own shop selling organic fusion teas.
