.Food & Drink

Oct 1, 2024

Oakland Bloom launches Open Test Kitchen

Understory, a worker-owned collective on Eighth Street, closed its Oakland location at the end of June. The owners have yet to announce a reopening date elsewhere, but their progressive approach to running a kitchen and dining room lives on. Three new concepts opened in the space on Sept. 7....
Chef Anja Voth opens Anja’s in Berkeley
Sep 10, 2024

Chef Anja Voth opens Anja’s in Berkeley

Unlike the country singer Lynn Anderson, Chef Anja Voth can promise you a rose garden. The patio tables at Anja’s, her new cafe, are nestled alongside beds of pink and red roses. Anja’s is a restart for...
Rose La Moon encourages diners to mix and match
Sep 3, 2024

Rose La Moon encourages diners to mix and match

Shine Sarintra is a natural-born salesman and people person. When he greets customers at the entrance to Rose La Moon Thai Food & Desserts, his enthusiasm for Thai food beams across his face. While his wife, Suawaros,...
Crush’d opens in Danville
Aug 27, 2024

Crush’d opens in Danville

At Danville’s new wine bar, Crush’d, one of the bartenders zoomed over to our table to chat about the non-alcoholic aperol spritz ($13) we’d ordered. Trilling with excitement, he brought over the bottle of Lyre’s Italian spritz...
Film review: 'Widow Clicquot' fuses past and present
Aug 20, 2024

Film review: ‘Widow Clicquot’ fuses past and present

In Albert and David Maysles’ documentary, Grey Gardens, Little Edie Beale in a melancholy aside confides to the camera, “It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present. Do you know what I...
O2 Eatery opens on Solano Avenue
Aug 13, 2024

O2 Eatery opens on Solano Avenue

Making a delicious meal out of an egg is a great test of a chef’s or home cook’s culinary skill set. Fitting neatly inside the palm of one’s hand, these oval spheres don’t look formidable. But everyone...
Jennifer and Perry Huang open Nusa in Emeryville
Aug 6, 2024

Jennifer and Perry Huang open Nusa in Emeryville

On display at their new kiosk in Emeryville’s Public Market, Jennifer and Perry Huang’s Indonesian desserts look like an array of edible precious gemstones. The lapis legit, or thousand layer cake, is Perry’s favorite. Not only does...
A family dream becomes Roses on Adeline
Jul 30, 2024

A family dream becomes Roses on Adeline

Rose Clarke has dreamed of owning a restaurant since she was a child. “I loved eating with my parents,” she said. “They would throw parties, and we’d also go out to dinner.” Before opening Roses on Adeline with...
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