You Can Dance If You Want To: City Eases Mucky Duck Restrictions
Rejoice, Monterey: can now dance to the live music on The Mucky Duck's patio. And drink inside til 1:30am! The city Planning Commission voted this ...
Wo Hing Opens in S.F.'s Mission District, and Why It Matters to Monterey County
Even as Charles Phan continues to further cement himself as one of the most influential chefs in the West and the wider world, he is ...
Restaurant Week In a Night (Or, Why Fandango Rules)
A one-night tour of Monterey Restaurant Week leads to interesting discoveries, including affection for an old favorite.
Trippy 'Special Effects' Cocktail Recipes for Halloween
A lot of bizarre and even spooky missives make their way to my desk and inbox. A little while back, in came a six-page, single-spaced, ...
National Seafood Month Salute to 24 Local SeafoodWatch Partners
Maybe it's me, but I love not having to beg a server to check with the kitchen on where they get the prawns or how ...
'Food Day' Call to Action: Less Corn and Soy, More Nutrition and Common Sense
One of my colleagues just emailed me, "I thought every day was Food Day." But other emails appearing in my in box, from Slow Food ...
Tasting the Goods at a New Small Purveyor Incubator
Like barbecue sauce and garlic bread, or bacon, avocado and jack (on a chicken sandwich, perhaps?!), or mushrooms, pepperoni and olives on a thin-crust pizza, ...
Hooch Rules: Do's and Don'ts of Making Your Own Sauce (and Clues for Brews Too)
To hang with local organic farmer and Weekly food writer Jamie Collins at her home/farm/ranch in Aromas is to bask in self-sufficiency. She has goats, ...
A Look at the First Ever L.A. Food & Wine—and the Locals Who Made It Go
Randy Jackson of American Idol fame made his debut as a DJ. at Los Angeles Food & Wine's red-carpet opening gala. Something he spun early ...
How to Burn Your Mouth Off: A Local Ghost Pepper Story
Ghost pepper growers in Salinas try to tap the power of the world's hottest pepper.
New Locally Based Wine Review Website 'Guurgle' Gathers Input in Carmel
A new oenophile-friendly service is making moves in the local wine world and, hopefully, beyond. The site www.guurgle.com, according to CEO/COO Terry Pershall of Monterey, ...
A Fine Nine: Upcoming Local Edible Events Your Calendar Deserves to Know About
It's like a buffet that never ends. And these events are all stuffed into just the next week or so: 1. Monterey Bay Restaurant Week ...
On the Search for a Snappy Salad and Other Good Greens
News flash: Monterey County produce nourishes the country. But as Weekly staff writer/organic salad freak Rebecca Robinson has found since moving here from Portland, there ...
Gonzales Whiskey and Other Epicurean Notes You Should Know
At least one guy has got society snookered. Drinking Made Easy host Zane Lamprey is running around drinking for a living. He recently discovered what ...
More Harvest Bounty Insight: Pickling, Revisited and Reinvented
Behold the abundance of the past few weeks. Farmers markets are flush with melons, tomatoes and chard. Greens are go. Life is good. But as ...
A Farmer's Cozy Kale Recipe as Winter Greens Season Arrives
Last week Weekly food writer and local organic farmer Jamie Collins of Serendipity Farms in Carmel Valley riffed insightfully on the often underappreciated properties—and often ...
Crack a Six-Pack…of Quickly Onrushing Food-and-Drink Events
The eventfulness is appetizing, but it's approaching absurd. Here, just a sample of the action arriving in the next week or so, reveals lofty foie ...
Sneak Peek at Wine & Dine Special Signature Dish Publication 2.0
It never fails: Get chefs and restaurant owners on the horn and things get interesting—and it gets hard to focus on anything other than really ...
