Recent Stories
Taste of Vietnam
Sporting Chance: Taste of Vietnam banks on authentic tastes and a feel uncommon for Southeast eatery.
Seaside’s Taste of Vietnam, which opened last September in the Fremont Boulevard spot formerly occupied by China Chili, is making a play at a new type of fusion: an authentic Vietnamese restaurant that doubles as ...
Mission Statement
Tracing Junipero Serra’s arc through Monterey County by bamboo bike speaks to joys and pains of an iconic Catholic’s early California.
Somewhere west of Greenfield I decided to become a trespasser. If anyone had a problem with it, I figured they could take it up with Junipero Serra. Serra had inspired me to end up here ...
Riding the River
Tasting notes from Hahn and three neighbors.
It took a while, but the fog has cleared, and the Foothill/River Road track has come ripe. After years of producing second-rate Cabernet and Merlot grapes, varieties that are both ill-suited for the cool, Santa ...
Uncorking the Unconventional
Hahn Winery eyes an ambitious culinary center and an equally dynamic approach to food.
As we look out across the Salinas valley, with the distant Pinnacles pointing the way toward heaven, an almost-giggling Brian Overhauser turns and says, “I’m a big floater.” We are standing on a hillside above ...
Beyond Steinbeck
The Last Otter Hunter tells the story Cannery Row’s definitive historian always wanted to.
When Michael Kenneth Hemp moved to Monterey in 1979, it is tempting to imagine that Doc Ricketts and John Steinbeck breathed a sigh of relief from on high. Over the next decade, the author established ...
Hops From Heaven
The Moses brothers lead locals to a frothy promised land with Post No Bills, Monterey Beer Festival.
For locals who have discovered the pleasures of small-batch beer, there is good reason to add a few hops to the step: Two seminal, suds-lovers’ events – the opening of Post No Bills in Sand ...
New Moonen
A sustainable stalwart keys a hopeful and historic 10th annual Cooking for Solutions at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
“The bluefin tuna is done,” says Rick Moonen, with uncharacteristic pessimism. Though a man of unabashed hope, the sustainable seafood chef knows his science, and appetites: The most optimistic estimates put the Atlantic bluefin population ...
Julia's
Vexing Veggie: Julia’s in Pacific Grove gives vegetarians and vegans hope, or at least a little.
Though vegetarianism has been embraced by an ever-increasing number of our populace, one thing remains sadly the same: Herbivores face a dining-out dilemma. Sure, the rabbits among us can focus on a few things at ...
Haley Storm
A Big Sur photographer releases an acclaimed new book full of gripping decay.
If Bruce Haley’s been there, chances are you haven’t. In his 23 years as a professional photographer, the Big Sur resident has sought out the hinterlands of the globe, traversing such regions as the rebel-held ...
The Midas Touch, The Midas Effect
The controversial fumigant methyl iodide may soon be applied to local fields, despite dire warnings from some of the best scientific minds in the country.
If politics make for great live theater, then a Feb. 22 hearing held in Sacramento about the controversial strawberry fumigant methyl iodide might have been scripted by Franz Kafka. And much like a Kafka tale, ...
