.Food & Drink

June 4, 2025

Playing Nice

At French café Emilie and the Frenchies, the menu is hand-crafted southeastern French-inspired salads, sandwiches and pastries.
June 4, 2025

Beautiful Pair

Santa Rita Hills Chardonnay is ripe and enticing—“It’s precise and full of energy with sunlight shining out of the glass.”
May 28, 2025

Clove Affair

Chant it with me: garlic fries, garlic ice cream, garlic cookies, garlic popcorn, pickled garlic, garlic rubs, garlic olive oils, garlic steak tacos, garlic chicken, garlic calamari, garlic mussels...
May 28, 2025

Belly of the East

The rockstar appetizer is the Thai-style salt and pepper shrimp. Entrée signatures include the fried chicken and croissant waffle paired with hot honey sauce and togarashi slaw, drunken clams with mezcal and bacon.
May 21, 2025

Brie-aking News

There were grate expectations. Cremes of the crop. Fondues and don’ts, wheys to go, bleu feelings and harvarti parties At last month’s 19th annual California Artisan Cheese Festival.
May 21, 2025

Sea Stewards

Hook & Line offers a popular raw bar, with several types of oysters on the half-shell and rotating ceviches like the current halibut leche de tigre.
May 20, 2025

Highlands Fling

luscious Sonnet Pinot Noir has “the typical spiciness of the Highlands appellation, coupled with a fantastic depth of tart red cherry fruit.”
May 14, 2025

Upper Level

The faux bookcase door that adds to the speakeasy feel of the pocket-sized gem that is Ulterior bar, tucked upstairs at 110 Pearl Alley, won’t be enough to keep this revelation quiet.
May 14, 2025

Spore Lore

Popular small plates include a mushroom and cheese empanada and a mushroom chowder with lobster, oyster and clamshell mushrooms.
May 7, 2025

Blooming Rosé

Inman Family Wines’ 2023 Estate Brut Rosé ($80) is a méthode champenoise wine made with 100% pinot noir from Inman’s Olivet Grange Estate Vineyard....
May 6, 2025

Family Thai

Thai cooking featuring traditional dishes based on mom’s recipes, and most items have customizable spice levels ranging from one to five.
May 6, 2025

Taste Chase

Thousands descended on Roaring Camp’s old-growth redwoods in Felton for the Santa Cruz Mountain Mushroom Festival last weekend.
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