How love led an Italian chef to relocate his eatery to Redwood City When I asked Momo Farouq what his favorite flavor of pizza is, he said “My wife.”  Farouq and his wife Sarika Batra have perhaps the cutest meet-cute I have ever heard. California-born Batra met Italian pizza maker Farouq while on vacation in […]

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How heritage and family inspired a Woodside winemaker My name is Eleanor, and I will be providing your wine and food intel for the week. I am a local wine enthusiast and winery harvest intern turned journalist at the Peninsula Foodist’s sister publication, The Almanac, and I am taking over the newsletter this week to […]

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Rise and grind: Neighborhood coffee shop opens in historic Redwood City house At 105 years old, Redwood City resident Louise Prado started a coffee business. After her death in 2022, her niece Chris Sakelarios continued Prado’s legacy by running her online shop Auntie Lou’s Brew. Then two weeks ago, Sakelarios took a big step and […]

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Steak, sushi, dumplings and more: The latest in Palo Alto’s food scene Suns out, (steamed pork) buns out.  This week, I drove all around Palo Alto in search of new restaurants and discovered some pretty tasting findings: A  Sausalito-based Brazilian steakhouse and a Sunnyvale-founded fried chicken franchise will be opening along El Camino, a dumpling […]

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Healthy living, mandatory service fees and more: What’s up with these surcharges on my restaurant bill? A surcharge on a restaurant bill is more than just a number – it’s a reflection of California’s minimum wage, tip distribution laws and even regulations on treatment of animals. Some say a surcharge is a bandage, not necessarily […]

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Meet the chef-owner behind Donato Enoteca in Redwood City When Donato Scotti moved from his hometown of Bergamo, Italy, to New York, it “was too big of a shock,” he said. He then moved to Los Angeles, but he “wasn’t a big fan of traffic.” But when he found the Bay Area, he said, “We […]

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These siblings are opening a cafe in the former home of Nini’s Coffee Shop WiFi’s Restaurant (pronounced “wee-fees”) was the name of the imaginary childhood restaurant started by my brother and me. Thinking we were culinary geniuses, we would ransack our kitchen, mix a horrendous combination of ingredients together, bake it and taste test (it […]

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A new Menlo Park restaurant, Burlingame board game cafe and Belmont food truck The “chicken tender people” are what I like to call the people who refuse to eat anything other than chicken and basic starches. And shockingly, many exist in this world.  But I think the existence of “chicken tender people” speaks to the […]

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Bavarian brats, Spanish tostadas, Colombian pork roast and more: Meet the women behind World Kitchen at Ava’s Market in Mountain View The first time I was ever asked if I have children of my own was when I was interviewing Gisela Qasim for a story on the recently opened World Kitchen in Mountain View. While […]

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Redwood City neighbors are baking focaccia, cherry pecan bread and more Being best friends with your next-door neighbor is rare, but starting a business with your next-door neighbor might be even rarer. Neighbors Jenna Johnson and Brian Clarke are opening a bakery and cafe in Redwood City after almost a year of operating a bakery […]

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