Matthew Stafford

Occasional bouts of food poisoning notwithstanding, being a restaurant critic isn't a bad way to make a living. There's the miraculous fact that someone's...

Californians take their hamburgers seriously. Whenever a New Yorker sneers at our pizza, we sneer back at their listless, scrawny, unimaginative burgers. We are...

Although Laos has borrowed the occasional ingredient and cooking technique from different influences over the centuries, the national cuisine is absolutely unique — fresh...

For nearly a decade, 2271 Shattuck Avenue was the home of Beckett's, an Irish pub/eatery/hangout known around Berkeley for its live music, high conviviality...

Every year there's a certain day in early spring when the rains that have been drenching, battering, and otherwise depressing the San Francisco Bay...

The Westside Cafe has been famous for its meal-size muffins, corned beef hash, exemplary cinnamon rolls, and hippie-dippy service for a quarter-century. But last...

We felt happy as soon as we walked into Disco Volante, a new nightspot-bar-restaurant in downtown Oakland. Some restaurants are like that. While lesser...

Nothing could be simpler: Take two slices of bread, put something on top of one of the slices, put the other slice on top...