Nine Fine Dishes From Wine & Dine 3.0 Plus a Wonderful Cab Franc We Left Out (Oopsies)
The stories are, in a word, glorious. They are tales of by-the-bootstraps winemakers and hustle-down-to-the-bone-marrow tastemakers. They are plotlines of progressive bread programs and flat-out inspiring water ideas (free filtered sparkling water that requires no shipping?!). And they are all thoroughly local. They are the backbone of the food-and-wine community ...
Independent Marketplace in Sand City to Experiment With $5 Cover Charge
In a perfect world, communities would gather in a hip urban setting of concrete and commerce to buy and sell super-fresh seafood, browse mindfully curated art, listen to live music and valet their just-bought sauerkraut, jams and greens with the smiley volunteer while they sip local wines and graze on ...
Esteban's New Breakfast—Including Lemon-Ricotta Pancakes—Are Not What Stunt Pilots Have for Breakfast
New breakfast at Esteban in Monterey stars inviting items like a Spanish Benedict with Tasso ham, housemade cilantro-and-cheddar biscuit and piquillo hollandaise.
All of the Bacon Madness in Our Lives Deserves Haiku—and Free Tickets to Bacon, Blues and Brews
It's like Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin says in The Naked Gun 2 1/2 as he drives by a nuclear energy plant with reactors shaped like a woman's bosom: "Everywhere I look, something reminds me of her…" Only for me the love isn't Priscilla Presley. It's bacon. As widely as I ...
Salinas Valley Food & Wine: Imbibing in Oldtown
It feels wrong, dangerous and perhaps illegal to drink from a filled wine glass while sauntering around downtown Salinas. But for an afternoon at least, the law turned its eyes and the masses imbibed publicly and in broad daylight. Several hundreds (perhaps, all told, thousands) of people converged on old ...
Chamisal Courtside Cafe Installs New Owner, Chef
Chamisal Courtside Cafe (261-8834) is shifting its dishes. For several years it’s been one of the area’s nice under-the-radar spots for fresh fare—nice because of its sunny Los Laureles Grade cradle looking at Castlerock cliffs and is above average wine and food, and under-the-radar because it’s off the beaten path ...
Big Fat Foodie Events to Anticipate, Starting With Salinas Valley Food & Wine
When Berlin does an intense "Take My Breath Away" in Salinas tomorrow night, many in the audience might shake their heads at how vivid the memory of Tom Cruise and Kelly McGinnis from the Top Gun scene remains. I'll shake my head in amazement at how full the local foodie ...
Offset Project's Tasty-Trashy Party for the Good of the Earth
This was a beautiful bag of trash, a clear plastic number filled with soiled food trays, contaminated cups and yucky unidentifiable stuff. It was small and lonely—only half-filled, and totally alone—but that only made all the more beautiful. It represented the sum total of trash from last week’s typically big ...
Second Cheapest Wine: The Viral Experience, and What It Has to Do With Marilyn Remark Rose
They aren't everyday pieces of wine advice: • "You don't know much about wine, but you do know enough that you shouldn't get the cheapest." • "Impress your friends with a year [on your wine] that's not the current year because—trust us—that is good." • "We'd elaborate, but you'd have ...
Crema Espresso & Wine Bar Now Open in Pacific Grove
Créma Espresso & Wine Bar (375-1300) is not your typical Pacific Grove foodie enterprise, and not just because Manager Katie Minafo believes coffee should be its own food group (though that helps). The just-opened locale, which occupies the victorian where Pasta Mia once sat at the corner of Lighthouse and ...
Huge Week for Happy Girl Kitchen—Featuring a Cute Video Too
Happy Girl Kitchen is about as hip as it gets, what with the Sand City Independent affiliation, the pop-ups, the powerhouse pickles and preserves and, now, the Kickstarter campaign vid.
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