The Oktoberfest sampler ($40) lets customers taste some menu highlights at Kathrin’s Biergarten. Benjy Egel begel@sacbee.com Is it still summer? Is it fall yet? Sacramento’s weather gods couldn’t make up their minds in September, and my food choices fluctuated greatly as a result. Nothing sounded better than light beer and German sausages when a heat … Read more
The Sacramento area is in a full-on restaurant boom, and hungry mouths everywhere get to reap the benefits. At least 33 restaurants opened around the region in September, following 35 in August. A normal month in 2022’s first half might have seen 20 open. Eight new restaurants opened around downtown and midtown Sacramento, a flood … Read more
Young Kwak picture Chef Ian Wingate is back in Spokane for his new restaurant, Outsider. HAS single dish can put a chef on the culinary map. For chef Ian Wingate, that dish has varied over his 24-year career, starting with the meatloaf at his first restaurant, Moxie, a word meaning courageousness, perseverance and skill. In … Read more
Fall, my favorite season of all — the abundance of fresh vegetables and fruits, the joy of celebrating the Harvest Moon, and the brilliant sunsets in the still warm evenings. This fall, I’m extra happy because my parents have come to visit. I have been busy in the kitchen with my mom experimenting with a … Read more
Rodent droppings on a kitchen cutting board, cobwebs inside an unused barbecue oven, mold dripping into ice machine, flies landing on clean containers and employees tracking raw sewage into the kitchen were among the violations that forced state inspectors to temporarily shut nine South Florida restaurants last weekend. The South Florida Sun Sentinel typically highlights … Read more
Photo courtesy of Pied Piper “The creative process for a new menu always starts with the artwork,” says Tia Barrett, the beverage director of Esmé in Chicago. When Esmé’s rotating art exhibit included a three-piece series by photographer Paul Octavious, for instance, she mirrored the theme in the wine list. “I showcased the Grenache grape … Read more
Hong Kong/Seoul CNN Business — Clark Park, a 35-year-old YouTuber, is one of many people in South Korea fed up with high food prices. That’s why he grabbed his camera and joined a huge throng of shoppers clamoring for cheap fried chicken one August morning at Homeplus, a hypermarket chain that had just slashed 12% … Read more
This Fall, an abundance of brand new high-end eateries have arrived in Manhattan including Verōnika, in the Flatiron District, six new restaurants in Jean Georges’ Tin Building on Pier 17, and Zaytinya, at the Ritz Carlton New York Nomad. Interior of Veronika Restaurant Alex Staniloff for Veronika Veronika Verōnika, one of New York City’s most … Read more
Flies landed on clean teacups and plates, cockroaches crawled on a container of cooked goat, and employees left a can of WD-40 — and a pair of sneakers — on a kitchen cooler. These were among the violations that led to four South Florida restaurants being ordered shut by state inspectors last week. The South … Read more
click to enlarge Hales Blackbrick Chinese / Facebook Blackbrick’s popular dan dan noodles. openings Blackbrick After sitting empty for upwards of two years, Dale Mabry’s former Pop N Sons diner will finally debut as a sleek, new concept. Richard Hales’ modern Chinese restaurant Blackbrick will soft open on Tuesday, Oct. 25, and dinner reservations for … Read more