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Jan 7, 2025 | 
msn.com | Mario Cortez
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
fresnobee.com | Mario Cortez
A Friday night crackdown on impaired drivers yielded multiple arrests. Santa Rosa police announced the five drivers were arrested at a DUI checkpoint at Piner Road and Coffey Lane from 8 p.m. through midnight. During the operation, 871 vehicles were contacted and 10 suspected impaired drivers were evaluated. The checkpoint also led to 22 citations for driving without a license.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Mario Cortez
Five years ago, the downtown lunch rush on a Friday kept cooks and bar staff at San Francisco’s Wayfare Tavern in an intense, steady rhythm from 11 a.m. through around 3 p.m. Then, after 5 p.m., activity revved up all over again for happy hour and dinner. But now, even with pandemic restrictions long relaxed, Friday — a day restaurateurs used to look forward to — has become one of Wayfare Tavern’s slowest days of the week. “Business is a lot more casual and spread out throughout the day.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Mario Cortez
Pizza was a hot item in the East Bay in September, with two specialists bringing Neapolitan and New York-style pies to the masses. Openings in Oakland’s Temescal held steady with a new cocktail bar, while nearby Rockridge welcomed a new scoop shop with wild ice cream creations. The far-inland reaches of the East Bay got a top katsu maker as well. Click here for a list of August restaurant openings in the East Bay.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Elena Kadvany |Cesar Hernandez |César Hernández |Mario Cortez |Jess Lander |Esther Mobley | +1 more
7 hours agoBeat the crowds to Knightville's seafood, soft serve, sandwiches, craft beer, and bread with true terroir. Just across the Casco Bay Bridge from Portland, Maine, the South Portland neighborhood of Knightville has long been a locals’ hub, stretching from a location of sandwich chain Amato’s — founded …
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Elena Kadvany |Cesar Hernandez |César Hernández |Mario Cortez |Jess Lander
There’s never been a better time to eat luscious, dreamy soft serve in the Bay Area. We have it all. Drive-thru soft serve from a century-old dairy institution. Classic swirled vanilla and chocolate soft serve from local shops. Boundary-pushing soft serve drizzled with black sesame oil or crowned with chewy boba pearls. It’s on the menu at Italian, Chinese, Korean and Michelin-starred restaurants.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Mario Cortez
When San Francisco’s shape-shifting restaurant Merchant Roots — among the Bay Area’s top fine dining spots — reopens on Friday, Aug. 23, it will unveil its biggest change to date. After closing its original Fillmore district restaurant last spring, Merchant Roots will resurface inside a massive, 4,500-square-foot space, magnifying the restaurant’s footprint by five times — yet will serve only 12 customers per seating.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Mario Cortez
The chef behind a Bay Area French restaurant that held Michelin-star status for 12 years, nine of those with two stars, is opening the doors to his new bistro. Bruno Chemel, best known for the luxe Baumé in Palo Alto, is opening his newest restaurant, Le Parc Bistrobar, at the Galleria Park Hotel in San Francisco’s Union Square on July 8. Inside, he has turned to more traditional French fare, with an eye toward affordability.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
sfchronicle.com | Mario Cortez |Elena Kadvany
Dazzling pastries and doughnuts from chefs with Michelin-star cred, modern Indian food and a restaurant all about oysters await Bay Area diners this summer. Numerous exciting projects are set to debut in the coming months, including a new restaurant from a team known for boundary-pushing Indian food, and an enormous brewery from one of the Bay Area’s top craft beer-makers.
