Half Moon Bay

'Ask a Scientist' on Mavericks, Tsunamis, and Apocalyptic Doom: Do not attempt to shoot curl

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off: Now With Bigger, Uglier Squash

Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off: Now With Bigger, Uglier Squash

The Best Cosco Busan Oil Spill Map on the Net

Mavericks: It's Officially Official, It Might Happen This Year

Reminder: Pumpkin Fest This Weekend

Drink of the Week: Odwalla's Super Protein Pumpkin

The ever-reliable Odwalla, which was started in Santa Cruz and has its headquarters up the coast in Half Moon Bay, offers this Super Protein Pumpkin soy milk drink every winter; it's one of their only seasonal flavors. That's a shame because, with our mild weather year-round, when is it a bad time ... More >>

Night+Day

The ever-reliable Odwalla, which was started in Santa Cruz and has its headquarters up the coast in Half Moon Bay, offers this Super Protein Pumpkin soy milk drink every winter; it's one of their only seasonal flavors. That's a shame because, with our mild weather year-round, when is it a bad time ... More >>

Equinox Alert

elraigon.comSpring is here, and the city's farmers markets are brimming with fecund, fragrant, Technicolor abondanza: needle-thin asparagus fresh from the Delta; stalks of Pescadero rhubarb and Half Moon Bay snap peas; a dazzling array of Watsonville basil; loquats and fava beans and haricots vert f ... More >>

Bay Area's Last Stagecoach Robbery Commemorated By Band of Eccentrics Wearing Funny Hats

On August 17, 1905, an unknown man wearing driving goggles on his face and feedbags over his boots leaped, screaming, from a tree and into Bay Area lore. The masked man demanded stagecoach driver Ed Campbell throw down the Wells Fargo strongbox and the mail bags before passing a hat among the coach' ... More >>

Anti-Social Investment Watch: Ratings Agency Downgrades Half Moon Bay 'Vampire Bonds' To 'Robin Hood Bonds'

This economic metaphor comes equipped with a band of merry menLast Week we urged anti-social investors -- the opposite of do-gooder "social investors" who shun tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- to load up on a pending "vampire bond" coming out of Half Moon Bay, 30 miles southwest of San Franc ... More >>

Half in the Bag in Half Moon Bay

It's worth the gas to get gassed Coastside.

Music for Swingers

The Giants' theme songs get us thinking outside the batter's box.

Taking a Shot for the Team!

A drinking game to get you through the Giants' dismal season.

Park It for the Summer

A survival guide for outdoor musical events in the city.

Let the Games Beijing

Spend a day of Olympic proportions beyond the Dragon's Gate.

Best Outdoors Club

Spend a day of Olympic proportions beyond the Dragon's Gate.

Paint It Orange

Pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere in Half Moon Bay

Bad Vibrations

Surfers battle enviro-surfers over a proposed jet-ski ban that would protect wildlife -- but threaten big-wave surfing at the legendary break known as Maverick's

Squeezebox Celebration

Give the accordion a hand

The Cocktail Charade

Is the Clift mucking with its martinis?

Animal Magnetism

Seal Lion 10th Anniversary

The Selling of a Wave

Three sports clothing companies are sponsoring contests that encourage surfers to ride the 60-foot waves at Maverick's Point. Someone may be encouraged to death.

Unspun

Three sports clothing companies are sponsoring contests that encourage surfers to ride the 60-foot waves at Maverick's Point. Someone may be encouraged to death.

Night+Day

Three sports clothing companies are sponsoring contests that encourage surfers to ride the 60-foot waves at Maverick's Point. Someone may be encouraged to death.

Sexy Dishes Week Specials

Today through Friday is TasteTV's "Sexy Dishes Week" in the Bay Area, a celebration of the release of the book Sexy Dishes that contains profiles of hot local chefs and their recipes. Several establishments are offering specials based on or inspired by their chef's recipe(s) in the book. Announced s ... More >>

Sexy Dishes on the Pacific

Sam's sensuous ceviche Last week was Sexy Dishes Week, and, since SFoodie was feeling rather fetching (and sponsor TasteTV kindly set up some opportunities for us to nibble on offerings from its new Sexy Dishes book), we decided to head for the restaurants closest to water. Sam's Chowder House (42 ... More >>

Anti-Social Investment Watch: Half Moon Bay Mulls Issue of 'Vampire Bonds'

So-called social investing -- where soft-edged sharpies stay out of tobacco, blood diamonds, and the like -- has come under fire for producing substandard returns. Such critiques of do-well-by-doing-good investment-picking carry the implicit moral that one might do better by doing bad. Into the the ... More >>

An Early Peek at Eat Real Fest Oakland's Street-Food Vendor List

Organizers of the Oakland edition of the Eat Real Street Food Fest in August have been announcing the event's growing vendor list one by one on Twitter. Instead of tracking down these peripatetic purveyors on their erratically scheduled street rounds, Eat Real is gathering up a carefully curated gro ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Odwalla's Mojito Mambo

​It's rare that you'll spot SFoodie chillin' with a diet drink in hand, especially one sweetened with stevia, which is arguably what one might imagine a can of Raid to taste like. But Half Moon Bay's Odwalla health beverage company has made us reconsider with its nine-month-old Mojito Mam ... More >>

Five Local Ways to Pump(kin) it Up

T. PalmerSee's Candies' marshmallow Jack-O-Lantern.​San Francisco's few pumpkin patches are open for business, Half Moon Bay's annual World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off is set for October 12, and the Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival will follow on October 17-18. Yes, folks, it's definite ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Caroliner @ the Lab (Sat. and Sun.)​Hardly Strictly Bluegrass @ Golden Gate Park (Fri.-Sun.)Wait, what? Steve Martin and MC Hammer and Neko Case and Steve Earle? Yeah, it's the city's biggest free hootenanny with a cross section of roots music fans. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass kicks off today at 10: ... More >>

Save the Date: Next Weekend's Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival Promises to Give Squash Its Due

SFAntii/FlickrPumpkins are like chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.​If the shrimp-infatuated Bubba from Forrest Gump had grown up, not in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, but in Half Moon Bay, California, he might have extolled the virtues of a different food to his new buddy Forrest. We ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

www.epiphanydance.orgTrolly Dances Sat. & Sun.​The Intelligence, Hank IV, Mayyors, Bronze @ Elbo Room (Fri.) Portland's postpunk, postapocalyptic noisemakers The Intelligence headline a Friday night to remember. The band brings its lo-fi, high-trash sound to an Elbo Room lineup where it gets s ... More >>

It's Buy One, Get One at Kara's Cupcakes in the Marina Sunday

kaplan.davidari/FlickrThe Karavan, at August's Eat Real Festival.​Sunday is looking pretty suh-weet. That's when Kara's Cupcakes' original Marina location (3429 Scott at Chestnut) will be offering one free cupcake with purchase, per customer, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Seasonal fans may favor the ... More >>

Plenty of Food Cart Lunch and Dinner Options in S.F. Today

T. PalmerSmitten Ice Cream debuts its quince streusel flavor today.​There are ample opportunities to check out some food cart-and-truck action in San Francisco today, whether the hankering is for lunch or dinner. Sam's Chowder Mobile of Half Moon Bay, rarely in S.F. (but still working on building ... More >>

TLC Filming America Eats With Sam's ChowderMobile Tomorrow

T. PalmerSexy truck food: Lobster roll from Sam's ChowderMobile​More media rumblings on the street-food front: Sam's ChowderMobile of Half Moon Bay will be parked in front of 500 Terry Francois (at Mission Bay) tomorrow from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., and seeks customers to come purchase seafood fare i ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Peter Mel at Mavericks ​This is a big weekend if you're into surfing, pillow fighting, swapping spit (and/or records), and other cheap activities. Here's our to-do list. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down & The Thermals @ Sproul Plaza (Fri.)(We posted this one earlier in the week, but here's a r ... More >>

Mavericks Fans' Painful Wipeout News Even to Many Spectators

Despite requests on the surf competition's Web site, massive crowds poured into Half Moon Bay Saturday to witness 24 top surfers take on enormous waves at the Mavericks Surf Competition. Spectators happily hoofed a mile-and-a-half to the hills clustered above the surf spot, with dogs, children, and ... More >>

Is S.F. Museum's Filched Tortoise Ambling Around Half Moon Bay?

Dom MosurHas Arthur the stolen tortoise found a new home? ​Last week we reported on Arthur, the 50-year-old California Desert Tortoise filched from San Francisco's Randall Museum. The middle-aged gentleman had been living at the museum since Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt were a hot couple -- and ... More >>

Tomorrow: S.F. Food Carts Take a Field Trip Down the Peninsula

Tamara PalmerYou deserve it, dear Peninsula.​Local homies Crème Brûlée Cart and Magic Curry Kart are heading south tomorrow afternoon for a rare field trip to the Peninsula, where they'll sell lunch in front of fashion e-commerce site Moxsie (120 Hawthorne at High, Palo Alto) from 11:30 a.m ... More >>

Sam's ChowderMobile Rolling Into Golden Gate Park

John BirdsallThe "shortie" lobster roll from Sam's ChowderMobile.​Eater reported that Sam's ChowderMobile will begin weekend service behind the band shell in Golden Gate Park, starting Saturday, 11:30-4:30 p.m. That's a good-news/bad-news thing for those of us who live in walking distance and ... More >>

Kombucha Starts Returning to Bay Area Shelves

As of last Saturday, Berkeley Bowl West was fully stocked with kombucha.​Things are still tense in the kombucha industry. Earlier this summer, several federal agencies announced they were investigating the fermented tea to see if its alcohol content was high enough to regulate kombucha like an alc ... More >>

Half Moon Bay Brewing Co.'s Kirk Hillyard

Justin LewisHalf Moon Bay Brewing Company brewmaster Kirk Hillyard.​Half Moon Bay Brewing Company ― about a half-hour down the coast, just off Highway 1 ― just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Sipping pints by the fire pit at the family- and dog-friendly brewpub has come to exemplify Cali ... More >>

Peruvian Spot La Costanera Marks First Anniversary

Thomas C./YelpThe Montara eatery is the third restaurant by the owner of Mochica and Piqueos.​Chef Carlos Altamirano, owner of local Peruvian restaurants Mochica and Piqueos, tonight celebrates the first anniversary of his third restaurant, La Costanera. The festivities start at 7 p.m. The ... More >>

Mavericks: Coast Guard Bans Spectator Boats From Waves

Matt SmithLike, a little space, dude​The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a special federal rule banning spectator boats from encroaching on giant waves during the annual Mavericks surfing  contest. The new rule will let boats affiliated with the contest tow surfers toward big waves and cruise ne ... More >>

Sion Milosky, Hawaiian Surfer, Drowns at Mavericks

A powerful wave​Top Maverick surfer Sion Milosky was killed yesterday evening after drowning while surfing the Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay.Media outlets are reporting that the 35-year-old Hawaiian native died after falling in the face of a massive wave that engulfed him. He had caught ... More >>

Up-and-Coming on the Catwalk

A powerful wave​Top Maverick surfer Sion Milosky was killed yesterday evening after drowning while surfing the Mavericks off the coast of Half Moon Bay.Media outlets are reporting that the 35-year-old Hawaiian native died after falling in the face of a massive wave that engulfed him. He had caught ... More >>

Food Forward Celebrates Real Food Heroes Across the Country

The modern food landscape is more confusing than ever. Words like "organic," "sustainable" and "all-natural" have been so diluted from overuse and vague definition as to become meaningless to most. Worse, populations across the country have little or no access to fresh produce of any kind, irrespe ... More >>

Comprehensive Guide to CSAs in San Francisco: Fruits and Vegetables

Contents of a weekly share from Shooting Star CSA​The number of CSAs -- Community Supported Agriculture groups -- available to San Francisco residents has really grown in the last few years. From farm-fresh produce to grass-fed beef and sustainably caught seafood, there are just so many choice ... More >>