Food & Drink

Shaunt Oungoulian and Diego Roig have come a long way since shoveling grapes through a basement window in Orinda. Walking into the Les Lunes cellar in Richmond makes that clear. High ceilings and climate-controlled storage rooms house...

Wolfsbane is an herb and a poison. It’s also the name of Rupert and Carrie Blease’s new restaurant. When I spoke with Rupert Blease, the chef explained why he, his wife and their co-founder, Tommy Halvorson, chose...

Alyssa Gilbert likes the taste of a funky cheese. As the executive director of the California Artisan Cheese Guild and the owner of Ollie’s American Cheese and Provisions, Gilbert recommends Tulip Tree Creamery’s double-cream cow’s milk Foxglove....

The first Bay Area high tea service I experienced was at a downtown San Francisco hotel. A friend of mine at the time was crazy about drinking tea with petit fours. When she wasn’t making them at...

In the culinary world, the term “franchise” invariably connotes fast, unhealthy food. The idea of opening one is suspect and implies the owner lacks originality. Or that they’re reaping the benefits of an established brand not by...

Nine months after opening, Evergreen Café is comfortably settling into its identity as a community hub. Alongside colorful photos of crowded toasts, cookies and giant jars of preserved citrus, co-owners Stacie Frederick and Sara Rahimian post regular...

Bay Area Pizza Week is a 12-day celebration of everyone’s favorite food. From April 22 through May 3, participating restaurants all over the Bay will put together special menus for their guests and pizza lovers to enjoy....