A Taste of Four Beautiful Breads and the Search for More
When we break bread, it means so much more than sustenance. When you've got serious bread, you've got so much more than flour and water. ...
Hope for Monterey County Vegetarians (at Least a Little)
A robust vegetarian dinner, it seemed, would be hopeless. The line at Hula's (655-4852)—land of the vaunted Big Sur veggie burger ($13), jungle tofu bowl ...
Eat to Save the Whales and the Oceans and Ourselves
It's not many interviews that make me tear up. Fewer still make it happen more than once. But such was case when I met with ...
Love, Squid and Wild Boar at TusCA Ristorante
A Valentine’s Day dinner at TusCA Ristorante was love at second taste. The backstory is something like a rom-com plot in which two fated lovers ...
Shake, Rattle and Roll Mixology at Hyatt Carmel Highlands Delivers Undiluted Truth
You don’t need to know that it was English navy crews who invented gin cocktails to know that they’re best consumed strong. But English Gins ...
Lost Pug, Amateur Bartending and the Last Independent Marketplace Love Story
The last Independent Marketplace in Sand City on Feb. 7 had the makings—think fire-dancing, flash mob, acrobatics, Mundaka tapas, Carmel Valley Ranch tacos, La Balena ...
Greasy-Spoon, Old-School, Family-Run Glory at Daddy's Diner in Marina
This would be the special kind of place when the customers talk across booths, the owner-operators are married (and auntie's the lead server) and the ...
Much To Do at the Last Indy Marketplace
The last dance. The final final. The ultimate freakout. The Independent Marketplace in Sand City rose like a farm-fresh phoenix from the unfinished cement space ...
Iris Peppard/Everyone's Harvest Named Director of Carmel Artisan Market
The already long road to bringing a farmers market to Carmel stretched longer when the ad hoc committee formed to appoint a director had to ...
Carmel Residents, Supervisor Sour on BevMo! Coming to Town
BevMo!—the spirits-wine-microbrew-soda superstore that’s taking over the West—is scheduled to set up an outpost in The Barnyard Shopping Center in Carmel. Only a group of ...
14 for Feb. 14: Tons of Romantic—and Tasty—Choices for Valentine's Day
Chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate berry martinis. Oysters, scallops and prime beef. Tuxedo linguine and blood orange martinis. Fig crostini and mascarpone mashed potatoes. Wine ...
