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The Temescal restaurant boom is spreading farther with the recent opening of Vietnamese eatery Co Nam at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and 40th Street, just a block from the MacArthur BART station.
The two-month-old restaurant is the East Bay location of Co Nam’s original location on Polk Street in San Francisco. I never had […]
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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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I was first introduced to the Cambodian food of Nyum Bai when it was a pop up stand at the Emeryville Public Market. I enjoyed the Southeast Asian flavors of the rice bowls served with soup, or bae, and limited selection of noodles and salads.
Very little of that food stand menu […]
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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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I live in Oakland but I admit I haven’t spent much time in the Fruitvale neighborhood, a vibrant and historical area in central Oakland that’s known for its Mexican food trucks and Latin American restaurants.
In recent years, the neighborhood has been marred by a reputation for crime and police brutality. But like many places […]
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With a high-profile spot right at the entrance of the transforming Emeryville Public Market, Paradita Eatery has been under construction for a few months. But it finally opened four days ago, bringing Peruvian-style street food to the East Bay.
Paradita Eatery is from Chef Carlos Altamirano, who brought Peruvian food to the East Bay a few […]
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The story: Curry Up Now started off as a popular food truck offering up Indian flavors in unique forms like burritos or fries. It opened a storefront in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood and has now spread to four other cities, with its latest being Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood.
Why I went: I admit, Indian food isn’t […]
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BROOKLYN, New York
I’m in New York for the Labor Day weekend, and one of the fun food events I’ve experienced so far on my trip was my day out at Smorgasburg on Saturday in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn.
First off, got to say, I love Williamsburg. I never spent much time here […]
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The story: The Chairman is the wildly popular food truck serving up Chinese-inspired buns with creative combinations of ingredients in various street food pods around the city. Earlier this year, it finally opened its brick-and-mortar spot in the Tenderloin, the gritty San Francisco neighborhood known sometimes as Little Saigon because of all the pho noodle […]
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MONTREAL
Fair warning, this is going to be a long post. I can’t help it but there’s so much to say and show about my vacation in this Canadian city that’s so often called the Paris of North America.
I’m half way through my weeklong vacation, checking out the fall colors and trying all […]
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I’m more a wine than beer drinker, but there’s something about a warm, sunny day that makes me want to just chug down a cold, refreshing mug of beer. That’s exactly what I was doing yesterday when I visited the Westbrae Biergarten in the northwest area of Berkeley.
Westbrae is a popular new beer garden […]
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Since Off The Grid launched it’s first food truck event on Friday nights at Fort Mason, it’s grown into a massive operation of traveling food truck pop-ups in neighborhoods all across the city. But one of its more unique events comes during the summer months and occurs every Sunday on the lawn of […]
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PORTLAND, Ore.
I’m in Portland this weekend for the 3-year-old Feast Portland food extravaganza. Events and dinners were happening all over the city this weekend, and I got tickets to two events. The first was the most fun: the USA Pears Night Market along the city’s South Waterfront area.
The Friday night event […]
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Sometimes there is such a thing as TOO MUCH success.
Take the case of La Cocina’s San Francisco Street Food Festival. For the last five years, the Mission incubator for small businesses/food entrepreneurs has drawn thousands and thousands of people for a massive block party on the streets of the Mission District.
It’s going […]
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