.Food

In 2016, Zaytoon Restaurant opened to expand people's conception of what Middle Eastern dining can be. In the decades since, the tastefully decorated Albany mainstay has achieved much more than just delicious plates. It is a display...

Chef Lauryn Dakota Holbert understands why some people are put off by oysters. When she’s asked her friends, “Don’t you just love them?”, the replies have ranged from, “Oh my God; I’ve never had one,” to “They’re...

Community-based organizations are finding innovative ways to address food insecurity through bottom-up organizing, including Planting Justice, Community Kitchens Oakland, West Oakland Punks with Lunch, and Rogers and Rosewater, which are driven by the passion to take care of fellow humans.

Bisou Chocolate and The Xocolate Bar both offer creative, high-end, locally made chocolates, with Bisou's truffles and bars being vegan and gluten-free and The Xocolate Bar's candy bars experiment with flavors.

Late 2000s Clement Street housed Singapore Malaysian Restaurant. If the dry heat led to caving in the East Bay, the mie tek tek at Padi in San Leandro provided comfort. And having overcome heat, terrible parking and...

For Emily Winston, bagels are family.  An onion bagel covered in chive cream cheese. An everything bagel loaded with lox and garlic cream cheese. A garlic bagel stuffed with tomatoes, capers, onions and chile cream cheese. All of...

Whether it’s pillows of gnocchi, spaghetti strings or the twisted strands of casarecce, the homemade pasta dishes at Matt Solimano’s Sfizio make one forget that other Italian restaurants exist. Even though Solimano, whose heritage is Italian, claims...