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8 Hole-In-The-Wall Chinese Restaurants In California Where Lunch Specials Are Still Under $13

Want to find the best hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurants in California without emptying your wallet?. These 8 Chinese restaurants serve up incredible lunch specials and big, satisfying flavors!. 1. Golden Wall Chinese Cuisine (La Mirada) Tucked into a strip mall on Imperial Highway, Golden Wall Chinese Cuisine is the kind of...

California · 6d
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Pleasanton Weekly

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Cook’s Seafood teases possible return

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... One week after Cook’s Seafood abruptly announced it had closed its Pleasanton and Menlo Park restaurants, a new flyer posted at the Koll Center Plaza storefront suggests the business could reopen. “To our valued customers, Cook’s Seafood is currently restructuring its operations,” the...

Pleasanton, CA · 1d
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A Ritzy New Japanese Barbecue Spot Revels in All-You-Can-Eat Beef and Sushi

The Midnight Diners is a regular collaboration between KQED food editor Luke Tsai and graphic novelist Thien Pham. Follow them each week as they explore the hot pot restaurants, taco carts and 24-hour casino buffets that make up the Bay Area’s after-hours dining scene. The South Bay’s newest all-you-can-eat...

Milpitas, CA · 1d
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8 California Polish Delis That Are Worth Every Mile Of The Drive

One San Francisco deli still makes its own sausages, cured meats, and sauerkraut in-house. Not some of them. The sauerkraut too. That detail stopped me in my tracks. Then I learned a beachfront counter in Southern California serves zapiekanka, the open-faced Polish street sandwich loaded with melted cheese. I did...

San Francisco, CA · 2d
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KQED

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Bundoo Khan, Bungalow on Rose, Volpi’s Ristorante

In Fremont, Bundoo Khan serves Pakistani barbecue, including chicken tikka and masala fries. Danville’s Bungalow on Rose puts a contemporary spin on Thai comfort food, from pad see ew to roast duck and coconut cake pudding. Petaluma’s Volpi’s Ristorante offers Italian favorites, including ravioli, chicken piccata and tiramisu. Cecilia Tries It explores olive oil milling at Il Fiorello.

Fremont, CA · 3d

milpitasbeat.com

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From food truck to restaurant: The journey behind Dough Burgers in Milpitas

Going from an expelled high school sophomore to a four-time successful business owner sounds like something straight out of a fairytale story, but for a former Milpitas resident, it’s a reality. Meet the co-founder of Dough Burgers, who asked that we refer to him only by his first name,...

Milpitas, CA · 22h

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Sip Worldly Beers Beside an 11-Foot Polar Bear at This Wonderfully Weird California Biker Bar

Some of the best stops in California are the ones you almost drive right past. Picture a quiet road, a tiny town, and a plain old building that hardly looks like anything special. Then you walk inside and find a giant polar bear, walls packed with oddities, and a kitchen...

Port Costa, CA · 3d

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Nabolom Bakery closes after five decades

Fifty years after it first opened in 1976, Nabolom Bakery shut its doors to the public on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2026. Established in the Elmwood district in Berkeley, CA, the business prided itself on its “one of a kind pizza, fresh baked goods, beer, wine, and drip coffee,” and was well known for its high-quality ingredients and staple cinnamon twists. Prior to its closure, the business shortened it’s hours and fought to maintain a steady clientele, but ultimately struggled to maintain operations due to economic stress.

Berkeley, CA · 1d

The Coconut Mama

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Asian California grocery chain to close 2 supermarkets, cutting 103 jobs

California’s wave of grocery store closures is growing again. Tawa Inc., the operator of 99 Ranch Market, has filed plans to permanently close supermarkets in Chino and Pleasanton, affecting 103…

Chino, CA · 1d

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San Francisco Korean Restaurant Cited Over Cockroaches, Rodent Droppings, and Food Safety Issues

[Editor’s note: The report mentioned here is from an inspection conducted on November 5 and may not represent the future health inspection status of the food establishment.]. A routine inspection was conducted at Aria restaurant on November 5. The San Francisco Department of Public Health suspended the restaurant’s health permit and ordered it to close temporarily following the inspection.

San Francisco, CA · 1d

FoodWorldNews

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Cook’s Seafood Abruptly Closes Its Menlo Park and Pleasanton Locations After 98 Years, Telling Workers by Text Message

Cook's Seafood, a fish market and restaurant that has served Menlo Park since 1928, closed both of its locations on Wednesday, Oct. 28, and employees learned of the closure by text message, TheStreet reported. The closures include the original El Camino Real location in Menlo Park and a second location in Pleasanton that opened in 2025.

Menlo Park, CA · 1d

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California Parents Lost Their Eight-Month-Old Daughter and Built a Bakery to Keep Her Memory Alive

What began as a way for two parents to care for their seriously ill baby became a bakery dedicated to her memory. In California, a husband and wife started selling homemade sourdough while staying close to their daughter, who had been diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder. Waylynn lived for...

Livermore, CA · 2d

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Wood Tavern bids farewell after 20 years with a celebratory Pinot Paulée

After two unforgettable decades of serving the Rockridge community, the beloved neighborhood institution Wood Tavern is closing its doors. To honor 20 years of incredible memories, fine dining, and community connection, the restaurant is hosting a spectacular farewell event: “A Pinot Paulée — Celebrating 20 Years of Wood Tavern” with all proceeds benefiting the East Bay Agency for Children (EBAC). The event will be held on Nov. 20, 2026, from 3-6 p.m. at Park Station in Alameda.

Alameda, CA · 1d

Mountain View Voice

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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 · 2d

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Daly City Gets a Second Mountain Mike's, This One With Five TVs and a 1 a.m. Last Call

Daly City pizza fans now have a second Mountain Mike's to choose from. The chain has opened a new restaurant at 5999 Mission St., a 2,000-square-foot spot with a weekday lunch buffet, five big-screen TVs and hours that stretch past midnight on weekends. The opening marks the brand's second location...

Daly City, CA · 1d

Timeless Dishes

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Massive Asian Supermarket Opens in San Francisco With 50,000 Square Feet of Food

San Francisco shoppers now have a massive new grocery destination to explore, and it brings far more than the usual supermarket staples. T&T Supermarket, Canada’s largest Asian grocery chain, officially opened its first San Francisco location on Thursday, November 5, 2026, welcoming customers into a sprawling 50,000-square-foot store filled with fresh produce, live seafood, specialty... The post Massive Asian Supermarket Opens in San Francisco With 50,000 Square Feet of Food appeared first on Timeless Dishes .

San Francisco, CA · 2d

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San Francisco’s favorite power lunch destination is closing for renovations

San Francisco’s power brokers and politicos will need a fresh venue for their midweek lunches in the new year. On Jan. 15, Jackson Square’s go-to for silky pasta and wood-fired pizzas, Cotogna, will close for renovations, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. Owners Michael and Lindsay Tusk, who also run...

San Francisco, CA · 3d

SFGate

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San Francisco cafe opening in the spring could see 1 million visitors a year

“San Francisco is a place where wealthy people support food like it’s art.”

San Francisco, CA · 3d

San Francisco Chronicle

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You’ll wait an hour for this new Bay Area rice bowl, but it saves you a flight to Tokyo

Would you wait an hour for a rice bowl? Restaurant critic Cesar Hernandez says you should at this new Tokyo-born restaurant in the Bay Area.

San Jose, CA · 2d

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Kathleen Hill: Hungarian Dinner/Dancing, No Local Crab, Thanksgiving Dinners in Valley Restaurants

Sonoma’s Tokaj Sister Cities Committee is always thankful for the lives it has changed through its winery intern exchange program. This biennial dinner, featuring Hungarian dancing and performances, is not the stuffed Bell pepper that some elementary school cooks forced us to eat once a week, that I can still smell and taste to this day.

Sonoma, CA · 2d