Jeff Burkhart

The man looked vaguely familiar, but not familiar enough for me to remember much about him. I didn't know his name, his drink or even, for sure, where I knew him from.

The lion walked into the modern-day oasis without a care in the world. If an oasis is defined as a place of respite with abundant food and drink, then

Here we are one week into the new year. By now, all those New Year's Eve endcap displays of sparkling wine in every supermarket anywhere have been replaced by nonalcoholic beer displays. In days gone by, that was your only no-alcohol New Year's resolution option outside of soft drinks and the like. But if you craved that ...

You can now find nonalcoholic Italian sparkling wine, nonalcoholic IPA beers and nonalcoholic amaro.

You can now find nonalcoholic Italian sparkling wine, nonalcoholic IPA beers and nonalcoholic amaro.

Here we are one week into the new year. By now, all those New Year's Eve endcap displays of sparkling wine in every supermarket anywhere have been replaced by nonalcoholic beer displays.

The rain came down in little patters, filling potholes and creating an obstacle course of sorts in the darkened parking lot near the restaurant. The people who parked in the restaurant’s actual par…

“Don't they want to make money?” the woman asked her friend as they stood at the front door 45 minutes after we'd closed.

Forty years in the restaurant business, by any measure, is a long time. Marin's Sean Saylor has been at it for at least that long. Closing his namesake bar and restaurant last November came as a bit of a shock. The Sausalito fixture had been at its Bridgeway location since 2006, first as Saylor's South of the Border, before rebranding as Saylor's Restaurant and Bar in 2011. A previous Saylor's Lan ...

“Oh, darling, you simply must get them a drink,” said the woman at the bar. “Something to get their date going.”