.Restaurant Review

Dec 3, 2024

Shaka Shack serves it up Hawaiian-style

The bright yellow Locos Only food truck—the one with the anthropomorphized pineapple on the side—has made appearances at East Bay breweries, events and wineries since 2018. Donald Kubisch and Amy Griffith’s first culinary project gained momentum after a successful 2014 pop-up at Faction Brewing in Alameda. “I found out...
Honor reopens with new patio
Sep 17, 2024

Honor reopens with new patio

For many years, Honor Kitchen & Cocktails has been conspicuously situated on the corner of Powell and Hollis streets in Emeryville. A corner of my eye registered it as I drove by on the way to Bay...
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,...
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...
Chef DanVy Vu chases flavors at Top Hatters
Jul 23, 2024

Chef DanVy Vu chases flavors at Top Hatters

A meal at Top Hatters Kitchen and Bar is not for the narrow palate. Executive chef and owner DanVy Vu embraces a refreshingly offbeat culinary approach, playfully combining flavor and texture profiles for dishes that are as...
Mumu Hot Pot Shares Soups with Options Aplenty
May 28, 2024

Mumu Hot Pot Shares Soups with Options Aplenty

Bay Area chain Mumu Hot Pot recently moved into its fifth location, on the northwest corner of Bay Street Emeryville. Hot-pot dinners aren’t an obvious post-pandemic dining trend or entrepreneurial investment. At the height of Covid closures,...
Attraros Thai Eatery Joins Swan's Market
Mar 12, 2024

Attraros Thai Eatery Joins Swan’s Market

While Pim Soithong attends to customers who walk through the front door of Attraros, her husband, chef Akara Sutraromluck, stands behind the kitchen counter frying up a variety of Thai dishes. Attraros Thai Eatery is the couple’s...
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