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Hot Eats: The Commissary & Chino Open
Chefs Reylon Agustin, Robbie Lewis and Traci Des Jardins inside The Commissary Kitchen. Photo: Aubrie Pick With so many hot new food projects it can be hard to keep track of them all and this month is...
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Watch Check, Please! Bay Area review Hana, Cocotte and Sakoon
Guests and host Leslie Sbrocco tape the eleventh episode of Season 9 of Check, Please! Bay Area at KQED. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend Check, Please! Bay Area’s Season 9 episode 11 airs this eve, Thursday,...
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Make Spicy Micheladas: The Perfect Beer Cocktail for Father’s Day
Toasting with Micheladas – The Perfect Beer Cocktail. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend Yes, it’s true. The first time I heard about a Michelada I thought: GROSS! A beer cocktail? Blech. Clamato? Ew!!!! But the...
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Father’s Day Menu: Classic Summer BBQ with a Twist
Both my dad and my husband (father to our 2-year-old daughter) are meat-and-potato guys at heart. This is not to say they don’t love fresh vegetables and seafood and fruit. But if I’m planning a...
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Tequila Nation: Mexico Reckons With Its Complicated Spirit
Blue agaves grow in a plantation for the production of tequila in Arandas, Jalisco state, Mexico, in December 2010. In the past 20 years, tequila has become fashionable all over the world,...
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Summer in a Cocktail: Cucumber-Lemon-Mint Vodka Fizz
Cucumber-Lemon-Mint Vodka Fizz. Photo: Wendy Goodfriend Forget about standing there at your next backyard party mixing one individual cocktail after another and never getting to enjoy your own! This is...
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Make Your Own Fireworks With This Fourth of July BBQ menu!
If you are hosting a backyard barbecue this Fourth of July (or even looking for some scrumptious dishes to take along to another gathering), you’re in luck! This complete menu has something for...
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Key Chain Blood-Alcohol Testing May Make Quantified Drinking Easy
The BACTrack Vio keychain breathalyzer and app on the iPhone at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C. A public health researcher says tools like this could help people make better decisions about...
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Seeking Proof For Why We Feel Terrible After Too Many Drinks
Listen to the Story on Fresh Air: http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2014/08/20140818_fa_02.mp3 It can be nice to relax with a glass of wine, a beer or a shot of whiskey. But one drink too many, and...
View ArticleA Guide to 15 Top-Notch Gastropubs in the South Bay
The restaurant scene is roaring back to life in the South Bay and a common theme among them is restaurants featuring a unique bar program paired to a dining menu equal in creativity. While the concept...
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Jack’s Oyster Bar & Fish House: Oysters with a uniquely Oakland view in Jack...
Jack’s Oyster Bar and Fish House by chrisoldaker, Oakland Local (8/26/14) Almost once a week, after a particularly long day on the grind, when the stress starts to overwhelm me, I get a serious craving...
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Café Underwood: North Oakland’s New Work-At-Home Café
While working in cafés is not a new concept, it’s not all that common to find a space specifically designed for this purpose. Café Underwood is pitched to folks who work from home, but want to...
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Longitude: Downtown Oakland’s New Tiki Bar
The bar at Longitude. Suzanne Long, former cocktail maestra at Forbidden Island, has opened Longitude, which feels like your very own Polynesian living room, with fabulous drinks. As a daily wine...
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End of Summer Tacos & Tequila: Tacolicious Cookbook Review and Recipes
Sending the kids off to college? Packing up the lamps and extra silverware for their first on-their-own apartments? Do your Bay Area-bred offspring–and their future social lives–a favor by tossing in a...
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Chocolate Tour of the Mission Unwraps More than a Taste of History
Tray of chocolate tastes at Dandelion. photo: Lila Volkas Ten ardent chocophiles are seated around San Jalisco’s multicolored tile table. We scan the festive tangerine and lemon walls adorned with...
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What’s New at Oakland’s Eat Real Festival, Happening September 19-21
Eat Real bread made by Mike the Bejk. Photo courtesy of Eat Real Festival. Oakland’s popular Eat Real Festival is changing things up this year to bring more attention back to the organization it...
View ArticlePumpkin Beer And Beyond: 9 Local Bay Area Seasonal Booze Options
What the Bay Area may lack in dramatic, Norman Rockwell-esque seasons, we make up for in seasonally appropriate booze. From traditional favorites like pumpkin beer to more obscure specialties like sloe...
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Our Ability To Digest Alcohol May Have Been Key To Our Survival
Rotten, fermented fruit has some nutritional value, and may have looked pretty good to our hungry ancient ancestors. Evolving the ability to metabolize the alcohol in fermented fruit may have helped us...
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It’s Brown, It’s Barrel-Aged, It’s … Gin?
Anthony Keels, bar manager at Verbena in San Francisco, Calif., serves up a cocktail made with barrel-aged, dark gin. Keels calls this gin a game-changer. Photo: Stacy Adimando for NPR by Stacy...
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Hangover Helper: Tips To Prevent A Horrible Headache
Seeing double after toasting? Just wait for the hangover that’s coming, thanks in part to those bubbles in sparkling wine. Image: Chris Nickels for NPR Listen to the Story on All Things Considered:...
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