Jessica Yadegaran

Model Bakery, the century-old bakery, is opening its first cafe outside Napa Valley. The highly anticipated Walnut Creek location is set to open in mid-October.

Founded in 1932, Oakland's Fratellanza Club is a private Italian social club for men that offers guests a four-course all-you-can-eat dinner for $35.

Darryl Bell opened Stateline Road Smokehouse in Napa after working at Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bistro and Philip Tessier's Michelin-starred Press restaurant.

If passed, Measure GG would impose a large tax on Berkeley businesses in buildings over 15,000 square feet, including Berkeley Bowl and Boichik Bagels.

Prologue Coffee & Tea, a unique cafe inside the Walnut Creek Library, offers stellar sandwiches and Asian-inspired coffee drinks.

Meat Carnival is an all-you-can-eat spectacle that draws hundreds into a Mare Island warehouse for live-fire cooking of tri-tip, rib-eye and A5 wagyu.

Merchant Roots, an immersive fine dining restaurant in San Francisco, serves creative, themed menus born from team collaboration.

After a yearlong closure, famed restaurant Park Tavern is reopening in North Beach with pioneering California chef Jonathan Waxman at the helm.

Vox Media, which owns Eater, announced layoffs Thursday that will change the way the SF food news website and its sister sites cover the nation's dining scene.

Bay Area restaurants pay a premium to get into Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza, the East Bay retail hub surrounded by even more new restaurants.