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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,...
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...
Jan 16, 2024
Ninth Life’s Nostalgic Remix
Ninth Life, a bar inspired by the '80s, '90s and aughts, is a memory capsule that aims to balance kitsch with cool, but it suffers from both valorizing a past that never existed and not fully committing to it.
Jan 9, 2024
Chef Geoff Davis Redefines Soul Food at Burdell in Oakland
Chef Geoff Davis has created Burdell, a restaurant that serves soul food with a focus on fresh, local ingredients, and a personal and authentic approach to the cuisine.
Dec 26, 2023
Alameda’s Park Street Welcomes Mo’s Wine Bar
Mo's Wine Bar, located at 1515 Park Street in Alameda, offers a wide variety of classic and natural wines, and will host "Winemaker Wednesday" events featuring local winemakers.
Dec 12, 2023
Emeryville’s Flores Pairs Tradition with Passion
When Chili’s introduced fajitas to mall-goers everywhere, the chain popularized Tex-Mex dishes across the country. The company made sizzling platters of food a dining trend. But the Chili’s success story also ended dispiritedly, the way most chain...
Nov 29, 2023
Oakland’s Mensho Innovates Ramen
The name of Chef Tomoharu Shono’s latest ramen restaurant, Mensho, combines the Japanese character for “men,” which means “noodle” in Japanese, with the first syllable of Chef Shono’s name. Store manager Abram Plaut believes it’s a good...
