Shoshi Parks

Lately, it seems, the city can’t get enough of a good time. From swanky new lounges to street fairs and festivals, this stage of San Francisco’s post-pandemic recovery is all about gathering together over communal meals and out-of-the-ordinary experiences.Of all the styles of celebration going off i...

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A new food and wine festival debuts in the Bay Area this May, and it's unlike just about anything else out there.Over four days of uniquely curated food and drink experiences, the POC Food & Wine Festival will celebrate those chefs, vintners, brewers, distillers, and other makers of color who are of...

When I fell in love with a man and moved from San Francisco to San Jose, the city’s restaurants were high on the list of the things I was heartbroken to leave behind. But San Jose, it turns out, holds its own in the food department. They just do things a little differently here.For starters, most re...

It’s no secret that San Francisco doesn’t exactly make opening, running, and actually staying afloat in the restaurant industry easy.

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Michelin, those French arbiters of excellence, announced last week the first 124 U.S. recipients of its new key award for hotels.The guide has applied its new system to just seven primary markets for now (California, New York City, Chicago, Florida, Colorado, Atlanta, and Washington D.C.), and it sh...

Last month, Minnie Bell’s Soul Movement came home to the Fillmore.It had been more than a decade coming. Ever since the restaurant’s chef and owner Fernay McPherson first launched her business through the incubator program at La Cocina, she’s wanted to open a storefront in the neighborhood that’s be...

Over the years, we’ve seen the extras at hotels—the elaborate buffet breakfasts, the wine receptions, the complimentary in-room snacks—turn from free perks to, well, extras. But over in Pacific Heights, the Hotel Drisco is bucking the trend. While their competitors shave their amenities down to the ...

Dominique Crenn’s career has been so improbable, so extraordinary, it reads almost like a novel. She earned her first Michelin star at Luce in 2009, the same year she debuted as a competitor on the culinary competition show The Next Iron Chef. Two years later, Crenn opened her pioneering restaurant,...