Chicago quartet Bottomless Pit is the beautiful unsmiling creature that grew itself out of the ashes of the exemplary American indie-rock band Silkworm. The…
The plates at the 2-month-old Verbena look like they've been arranged by a crazy person, one with a penchant for intricate tweezer cuisine and…
“What can I do for you?” the bartender asks me in an Irish brogue. “I'm trying to figure that out.” “Well,” he says, smiling,…
A couple of years ago, the California Senate declared February “Craft Beer Month.” Our livers, shuddering in fear, took solace in the fact that…
The Wheat and the Chat Just 108 years after San Francisco was reduced to rubble by a cataclysmic act of God, it happened again….
Rare Barrel: A new brewery dedicated to sour beer opens in Berkeley. The tasting room housed inside the production facility, with its 10 beer…
It's an old routine: A maintenance truck rolls up to the corner of Fourth and Market streets, right outside the Old Navy department store….
There's been a flurry of excellent Japanese spots opening in the city lately — Roka Akor's refined sushi and robata grill, Maruya's critically acclaimed…
Great China: Rising from the ashes after a destructive fire two years ago, this Berkeley Chinese restaurant has reopened a block from its original…
Alta CA: Daniel Patterson has brought market-driven, region-specific dishes to mid-Market in a new restaurant named after a 19th century newspaper. House specialties include…