Izakaya, a popular style of restaurant in Japanese culture that serves a menu of small plates meant to be enjoyed with friends over drinks, has grown quickly in popularity in the West. Bushido Izakaya is just one example why. With a casual setting in downtown…
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Instead ofventuring into the fog for SF Beer Week, craft brew aficionados can stay local and sample some of a dozen-plus beers in (relatively) warm, windless San Jose. The third annual San Jose Beerwalk takes place from 2 to 5pm Saturday in Japantown. The event…
South First Fridays, the monthly Friday night art walk that transforms the SoFa district into an interactive art gallery with live music, visual arts and performers celebrates 10 years this Friday with new exhibits and returning favorites. Each first Friday of the month, the streets are…
Lure + Till has the swankiness and cool one would expect in a neighborhood where bumper-to-bumper Teslas park and venture capitalists power lunch. An industrial chic dining atmosphere in step with its home at the luxuriously modern Hotel Epiphany, Lure + Till makes presentation a…
In it’s 10th season, No. 1 raking NBC show America’s Got Talent is looking Bay Area talent to join it’s cast this weekend at Santa Clara Convention Center. Open to all ages, auditions for the show are all day on Feb. 7 at the convention…
Boxers, tighty whities and push-up bras all are appropriate for the “brief” Cupid’s Undie Run arriving in downtown San Jose this week to raise money for children fighting neurofibromatosis. The run on Feb. 7 starts at noon at Britannia Arms downtown and encourages participants to…
After a short-lived season of business, the SoFa Market will temporarily close with the exception of one vendor during renovations that will bring several new offerings to the market. In a Facebook announcement, SoFa Market posted a rather detailed status announcing that the difficult journey…
At the corner of an innocuous strip mall in Cupertino is a large but not grand restaurant, and yet it serves up some of the tastier Shanghai dumplings in the South Bay. The lack of frills is present in the restaurant’s simple name, Shanghai Dumpling….
Mixx in Mountain View shakes up the dining scene on Castro Street with a head chef experienced in modern cooking techniques and a menu of updated renditions on American gastropub fare. On first impression, I really wasn’t sure what to make of Mixx. In a…
Despite what some Silicon Valley evangelists might have us believe, digital disruption is not the cure-all for all modern needs. Back in 2011, four years into his online menswear business, Bonobos founder and CEO Andy Dunn realized this with the opening of Bonobos Guideshop in…
