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Earlier this week, the Winter Fancy Food Show was in town, making its annual trek to San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Presented by the Specialty Food Association, this major trade show brings together food exhibitors who try to connect with distributors to eventually get to their products in the hands of consumers. As a food blogger, […]
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The annual Eat Real Festival in Oakland’s Jack London Square seems to always luck out with the weather, providing the perfect environment to enjoy the last weekend of summer with sunshine and good eats.
My exhibit above are just some of the sights and sounds from this year’s event. […]
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Restaurateur Kash Feng is pretty comfortable in San Francisco’s Design District in SOMA. I mean, that’s where he opened his first restaurant, the high-end Omakase. That was followed by the Japanese izakaya Okane and then the uber popular modern Chinese restaurant Dumpling Time.
Now in one swoop he’s added three additional properties on a block […]
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Filipino food seems to be getting its day in the limelight, and that may be partly due to the marketing savvy of several groups that have done a lot to educate Americans to this Asian delicacy.
I have to admit, I’m not the familiar with Filipino food, even though Filipinos are one of the dominant […]
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This weekend was the annual Oakland food event, the Eat Real Festival 2018 in Jack London Square. The three-day festival shrunk a bit from previous years, so I had some rumblings from people who felt there weren’t enough interesting vendors and food trucks to check out. But when I […]
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PLEASANTON, Calif.
On a warm summer night, who doesn’t love street food outdoors? Apparently, the entire Bay Area.
That was evident in this weekend’s debut pop-up of NorCal Night Market, inspired by Asian night markets and set at the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton. Hundreds of people piled into the fairgrounds […]
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People can’t get enough ramen. Anytime a new ramen restaurant opens in the Bay Area, you can expect the long lines to follow.
But what if you can skip the line and have ramen in the comfort of your own home?
That’s right, a lot of people who can’t get good ramen often end up […]
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I’m not a big expert on craft beer, so I’m always happy to learn more and discover new flavor profiles.
That definitely happened today at the inaugural Juicy Brews Westfest, a boutique beer festival that popped up at Classic Cars West beer garden in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood. Juicy Brews, produced by New […]
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On Sunday, I made a return to the San Francisco International Chocolate Salon. Twice a year, artisan chocolate vendors gather for this event and show off their best, and I’ve gone many times in the past. But I took a break the last year as […]
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What can be better than a night of specialty cocktails and appetizers from San Francisco’s popular restaurants and bars? Throw in a few puppies for the win.
Last week I attended CUESA’s first cocktail event for the year, its “Paws and Pours” Winter Cocktail Event, which was a fundraiser that involved a […]
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Popular Japanese ramen chain Ippudo, which opened last year in Berkeley, is now hitting the San Francisco crowds with the opening of its new restaurant in Yerba Buena Lane in SOMA.
The San Francisco spot has been in soft opening mode for the last week, and has already been drawing lines. I got a chance […]
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This week was the annual Winter Fancy Food Show at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The massive trade show by the Specialty Food Association is overwhelming in sights and sounds and taste as you go through two arena-size exhibition halls to check out the latest in specialty foods.
This year […]
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It was another weekend of checking out a food festival, but this time it was closer to home as I explored and ate my way through Oakland’s Eat Real Festival 2017 at Jack London Square.
The annual food celebration that highlights food trucks often luck out with warm weather, and it hit […]
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PORTLAND, Ore.
Put a fork in me because I’m done.
Wait, on second thought, don’t poke me. I may just burst from all the food I’ve been eating the last four days at Feast Portland, the massive food festival here in the wildly weird and quirky city in the Pacific Northwest.
This is my […]
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