Recent Stories
Cooking for Solutions 2013 – Hog Wild Times
Hog Island Oyster Farm stars at Cooking for Solutions, celebrates 30 years and stares down big threats.
At the Hog Island Oysters in the San Francisco Ferry Building, the staff often sees oysters disappear – whether they’re baked with butter and bacon, served in an assortment of Tottens and Salt Ponds or ...
Bouncing Burgers
The rise of the Golden State Warriors means great news for much of S.F., but not Red’s Java House.
This story starts where it will end: a funky old burger shack-and-bar on the dirty docks. But not before it ducks under the San Francisco Bay on BART and surfaces in an ear-splitting Oracle Arena. ...
Peaceful Warrior
Scott Fujita retires from pro football atop a Peruvian peak in South America.
Of all the places to retire from a long and fruitful career as an NFL linebacker, Carmel Valley resident Scott Fujita chose sunrise at Machu Picchu, 8,000 feet high in the Peruvian Andes – after ...
Major Upgrades
Exploring the six best epicurean breakthroughs of the moment.
Two of the trickiest food-friendly properties to keep afloat finally have tried-and-true brain trusts in place. Two new and neighboring tasting rooms are suddenly the sexiest settings to try wine in the area code. And ...
Flower Power
The 31st annual Wildflower Triathlon reasserts itself as a one-of-a-kind accomplishment.
Photo by Kaori Funahashi First and Third: Jesse Thomas of Bend, Ore., claimed his third straight long course win in his signature aviators. Last Saturday a champion stormed through the dusty Lake San Antonio heat ...
ANTON & MICHEL
Storied Carmel institution Anton & Michel daringly switches gears, with mixed results.
The bar is beautiful. Carmel stone, cut thin, runs floor to ceiling. Large format bottles of local wines occupy small shelves. The polished wood bar gleams. Specialty cocktails like the Mad Martini ($9.50) and Planter’s ...
Geek and Peat
How some of the best peated whiskey in the world came to be made in rural Salinas.
It’s hard not to root for Bryan Davis – and his partner in life and liquor, Joanne Haruta – and not just because Davis makes incredible 100-proof, single-cask whiskey from a homemade still on the ...
WINE & FOOD 2013: Seitan Worshipping
The big new thing coming out of Moss Landing, Sweet Earth Natural Foods, will give healthy plant-based eating a big ol’ boost.
~ • ~ Talk about a burrito with everything. The Anasazi burrito from Sweet Earth Natural Foods includes some of the same heirloom Anasazi beans that once sustained the ancient cliff-dwelling Pueblo people of the ...
Happy Place
Firestone Walker Brewing Co. ranks as the top reason SLO people are so upbeat.
For a minute I thought the main reason for all the happiness might be the little peekaboo window. It looks out from the curved brick shower into Room 2 at the new hipster boutique hotel ...
Classic Day
Ways to navigate a super fun sequence at the Sea Otter Classic.
There’s so much going on at Sea Otter Classic, it’d be understandable if a festival-goer got so overwhelmed they rode off on the lengthy group-ride Gran Fondo to Carmel Valley and never came back – ...
