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5 Best Restaurants in Richmond, California You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them

Richmond, California — a city where the Bay’s salt air drifts through neighborhoods old and new, where murals bloom on brick and stucco, where the clang of shipyards and the laughter of children echo across parks and avenues. Here, the skyline is a patchwork: cranes and cranes, eucalyptus and palm, each block humming with the stories of those who built, rebuilt, and keep rebuilding. Richmond is a crossroads — of Black, Latino, Asian, and white, of newcomers and old-timers, of artists, activists, and dreamers who refuse to let the city’s spirit fade.

Richmond, CA · 10d

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5 Best Restaurants in San Leandro, California You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them

San Leandro, California — a city where the fog rolls in from the Bay and lingers in the morning, where pastel houses and redwoods stand sentinel over neighborhoods stitched together by memory and migration. Here, the laughter of families mingles with the quiet wisdom of old-timers, the dreams of newcomers, and the steady rhythm of those who have called this place home for generations.

San Leandro, CA · 7d

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This Budget-Friendly East Oakland Soul Food Spot Fries Chicken And Catfish That California Diners Say Are Worth The Trek

Some people drive all the way from Santa Rosa for a plate of fried catfish. Others order the fried chicken at least once a week and never get tired of it. In East Oakland, one small counter has built a loyal following by keeping its prices low and its fryers busy with food made to order. It is not fancy, and the neighborhood can feel rough around the edges, but the crowds keep coming back anyway.

Oakland, CA · 1d

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Beloved 17-Year-Old Napa Valley Italian Staple Shuts Down in Days

It made the Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants list several years in a row.

Napa, CA · 1d

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5 Best Restaurants in Berkeley, California You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them

Berkeley, California — a city where the hills tumble toward the bay, where the air is perfumed with eucalyptus and espresso, where every block is stitched with murals, bookstores, and the laughter of students, old-timers, and dreamers. Here, Craftsman bungalows lean into the future, co-ops and Victorians stand shoulder to shoulder, and the scent of sourdough and spice drifts through neighborhoods alive with possibility.

Berkeley, CA · 4d

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Sausalito’s famed Trident building declared unsafe after ‘severe damage’ found

The storied site was associated with Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones and the rise of the tequila sunrise before the restaurant closed at the end of 2025.

Sausalito, CA · 3d

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5 Best Restaurants in Napa, California You Need to Try Before Everyone Else Finds Them

Napa, California — a valley where the morning mist clings to the vines, where sun-warmed stone and weathered wood cradle a thousand stories, where the laughter of winemakers, the hum of harvesters, and the quiet pride of families echo between rolling hills. Here, the architecture is a patchwork: Victorian facades, rustic barns, glass-walled tasting rooms, and the gentle sprawl of olive groves. Napa is a crossroads — of old-timers and newcomers, of chefs who chase the seasons and farmers who coax life from the land, of dreamers who believe that food and wine can be a kind of poetry.

Napa, CA · 1d

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Major grocery chain to close 60-year-old California bakery plant as 92 jobs are affected

A longtime California bakery facility that has supplied Safeway stores for decades is preparing to shut down, ending over 60 years of operations. The planned closure will affect 92 employees…

Richmond, CA · 1h

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This California Italian Restaurant Makes Handmade Pasta Worth Planning An Entire Dinner Around

The walls here were hand-plastered in waves meant to look like pasta shapes or wedges of Parmigiano. Even the lamps above the tables were designed to mimic pizza dough. I like how this restaurant treats dough as more than dinner. The pasta is shaped by hand, and the menu changes daily.

San Francisco, CA · 2d

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Sonoma’s hottest new tasting room has a three-Michelin-star secret

When Mac McQuown and winemaker Jeff Baker founded Stone Edge Farm Estate Vineyards & Winery in 2004, food was integral to the wine brand’s identity from the outset. First, there were farm-to-table lunches with seasonal produce from the winery’s garden. Then, there was Edge, a private supper club and restaurant in downtown Sonoma, where diners could enjoy Stone Edge Farm’s wines alongside cuisine from chef Fiorella Butron.

Sonoma, CA · 2d

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You’ll Fall In Love With The Homemade Breakfast At This Old-School California Diner

Not every great restaurant announces itself loudly, and Oceanview Diner in Berkeley, California is proof that the best ones often don’t. It sits along a Berkeley street with a green awning and a neon sign in the window, looking exactly like what it is, a real diner that makes a real homemade breakfast, and that’s more than enough.

Berkeley, CA · 4d

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A mysterious closure rattles Menlo Park

Longtime employees, regulars stunned at abrupt closure of Cook’s Seafood. When news broke on Thursday about the closure of Cook’s Seafood, a 98-year-old fish market and restaurant in Menlo Park, it quickly became the talk of the town. Almanac editor Andrea Gemmet told me that the Sunday Menlo Park farmers market was full of chatter about the closure, and theories were circulating about why Cook’s had closed – and so abruptly.

Menlo Park, CA · 1d

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Landmark Seafood Restaurant Closes After Nearly 100 Years

After nearly a century in business, Cook's Seafood closed the doors of both of its locations last week. As the New York Post reports, the original Cook's Seafood began serving shellfish in 1928 and soon became a San Francisco Bay Area institution, drawing foodies for its catfish, salmon, and other dishes.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA · 3d

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This Historic Pleasant Hill Restaurant Is The Last of Its Kind as Sister Location Closes After 20 Years

PLEASANT HILL, CALIFORNIA – A restaurant that has been part of Pleasant Hill for more than half a century is carrying on the Zio Fraedo’s name after its waterfront sister location announced its farewell. The Vallejo restaurant named Sunday, October 25, as its final day after roughly two...

Pleasant Hill, CA · 3d

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Napa native investing love and money into Napa nightlife

A lifetime ago, as a teenager attending Vintage High School, John Truchard was more interested in farming than in music and art. Fast forward to today, and some consider him the King of Napa nightlife. The nickname is not hyperbole; over the last decade, Truchard has emerged as the face...

Napa, CA · 3h

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A Beloved Filipino Bakery Is Now Brewing One of the Bay Area’s Rarest Coffees

For more than three decades, Ling Nam (formerly Ling Nam Starbread) has cultivated a huge following for its sweet, pillowy señorita bread — arguably the Bay Area’s most widely beloved Filipino American baked treat. Now, the new Union City location of the bakery also serves a unique coffee that goes especially well with a fresh batch of señorita bread.

Union City, CA · 23h