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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 bakery game on the East Bay exploded this summer when famed San Francisco bakery Tartine opened an outlet in the Graduate Berkeley Hotel.
Tartine, which has grown from a Mission bakery with a famous queue to Tartine Manufactory locations in Los Angeles and Seoul, brought its excitement for breads and morning buns across the […]
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada
Finally wrapping up the variety of eats I experienced from my summer weekend in Montreal last month. The city has a vibrant eating scene, and it was fun trying both old favorites and discovering new ones.
But to be transparent, not every meal I had was a success. There were a […]
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The French is asserting its influence in San Francisco all over again.
Sure, the beaux art design of City Hall and other Civic Center buildings echo Paris. But now the French comes in the form of a six-story culinary complex in the Union Square area with the opening of One65.
TOKYO
For the longest time, Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market drew tourists far and wide to watch the live auction of fresh fish that’s shipped all over the world. Being a lover of food, I always dreamed of one day visiting the temple of quality seafood.
Then last year Tsukiji closed and re-opened in […]
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One of the latest new vendors at the growing Public Market at Emeryville has got BBQ lovers buzzing.
BBQ spot Pig in a Pickle opened in November and features barbecue meats sold by the pound. This is the second location for chef-owner Damon Stainbrook, who worked in the kitchens at the Lark Creek Inn, One […]
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TAIPEI, Taiwan
I just got back from 10 days in Taipei and Taichung, and the main reason I was there was, of course, the food.
Everything is freshly done in Taiwan, and it helps that food there is so cheap. It’s especially cheap at the famous night markets, which are street fairs that start […]
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One of the highly touted new dining destinations in San Francisco has added a spark to the city’s traditional Chinatown with a buzzing marketplace and restaurant. China Live has arrived.
China Live, in the former Gold Mountain dim sum restaurant space on Broadway, is a two-story food emporium that some have compared to New York’s […]
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I’m a fan of Vietnamese food, and San Jose is said to have some of the best in this country, which makes sense because it has the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam.
During the holiday break, I drove down to visit my good friend Denise and her girls, and we met up at one […]
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San Francisco is home to several marketplaces, where food stores and eateries assemble together in a shared space. The Ferry Building is the grand-daddy of them all, but mini marketplaces have popped up around town, which makes sense given the high commercial rents in the city.
One marketplace that opened earlier this year is called […]
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Everyone kept telling me to check out Tartine Manufactory, the new culinary destination from the people behind the widely popular Tartine Bakery. So this weekend, in between the rain storms, I visited the space in the Mission area bordering Potrero Hill.
The warehouse-like space isn’t a bakery, or even a cafe. But it’s what co-founders […]
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PORTLAND, Ore.
I dare to say that Portland may be the culinary destination of the Pacific Northwest (in the United States, not considering Canada’s Vancouver, B.C.). In the last few years, this sleepy lumber town of a city has exploded with a food scene that’s keeping up with the likes of Los Angeles and […]
The corner market may be getting a second chance if the recent opening of Howden Market is any indication.
From the people behind the next door Spice Monkey restaurant, the market opened on Wednesday at the corner of 17th and Webster Streets in Oakland’s booming Uptown neighborhood. The quaint, impeccably styled store offers a deli […]
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Not too many people may have heard of Firebrand Artisan Breads, the Oakland-based bakery that has been making wood-fire baked breads for the last few years. Until now.
Firebrand, which has only done wholesale business to restaurants and select stores since it started, opened its first retail bakery and cafe last weekend. It’s a large and spacious […]
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