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September 25, 2023
A Call for Authenticity
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...
.Food
September 25, 2023
Raising Bagels
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...
September 22, 2023
Tenacious Focus
If it wasn’t a ridiculous, horrible idea, Bex Pezzullo might have named her company and the fine hard cider she crafts, “Tenacious Focus.” Instead, the hospitality and beverage industry veteran applied greater wisdom, selecting Sincere Cider and...
August 23, 2023
Banter Wine
Most couples who have a glass of wine after work don’t go on to start their own wine bar and shop. But five months ago, Claire Sullivan and Devin Hohler opened Banter Wine in El Cerrito. The...
.Food
April 26, 2023
The Casein Point
The East Bay is in love: with cheese. It’s that simple. Survey anyone about curdled, pressed and in other ways casein made magnificent—even ask total strangers—and find ample testimony and proof that cheese is either just one...
April 26, 2023
Spirited Stories
Not only do East Bay distilleries produce world-class spirits, but the stories behind their inceptions are beguiling. East Bay checked in with four of them.
Absinthia and the Green Fairy
Absinthe was illegal and banished from the world of...
