Spreckels
Spreckels, CA · Food & Drink
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People Drive From All Over California Just To Eat At This Hole-In-The-Wall Restaurant
There’s a little restaurant in Gilroy, California, that people are quietly losing their minds over, and once you taste the carnitas, you’ll completely understand why. Carnitas Michoacán isn’t trying to impress you with a flashy sign or a trendy interior, and somehow, that’s exactly what makes it so impressive.
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Safeway to close a San Jose location next month
(KRON) — Safeway will be closing one of its San Jose grocery stores next month, a spokesperson confirmed to KRON4. The 6150 Bollinger Rd. location is expected to shut its doors on or around Nov. 13. The store sits within the Orchard Farms Shopping Center in West San Jose, bordering the City of Cupertino to […]
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A Legendary Chef Bids Farewell With One Final Dinner in Oakland
For more than a decade, Sarah Kirnon presided over one of the Bay Area’s most widely celebrated restaurants. Until it closed in 2022, Miss Ollie’s, Kirnon’s Afro-Caribbean spot in Old Oakland, served up some of the tastiest braised oxtails, Bajan pepper sauce and skillet-fried chicken in the Bay. The restaurant also served as an important gathering place for Oakland’s Black, brown and queer communities.
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Benny Walker's Soft-Opens in Downtown Monterey With a 1,700-Year-Old Sequoia Bar
A sequoia that stood for 1,700 years before lightning, wildfire and wind brought it down now forms the centerpiece of Benny Walker's, the new restaurant that has soft-opened in downtown Monterey from the husband-and-wife team behind The Butter House in Seaside. The restaurant currently runs daily from 4 to 8 p.m., with a menu that blends classic comfort food with Pacific Islander influences, from loaded Spam musubi to a full barbecue dinner plate.
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Brisbane's historic 7 Mile House
It’s served generations of customers, survived Prohibition, and even made headlines for an FBI raid.7 Mile House is the oldest bar and restaurant in the Bay Area still operating under the same name and in the same location, and the last original mile house still standing where it began. Meet the three generations of Filipina women preserving a piece of Bay Area history.
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The Oldest Big Boy Diner In America Is Hiding In California And It’s Pure Nostalgia
There’s a chubby kid in a red checkered outfit holding a hamburger on Riverside Drive in Burbank, and honestly, he might be the most beloved icon in the entire city. Bob’s Big Boy is not just a restaurant. It’s a living, breathing time capsule that somehow survived every...