Shoshi Parks

2 days ago | 7x7.com | Shoshi Parks

The first event of the year—the free, three-week-long photography festival In Plain Site—has turned the Alameda Point shoreline into an open-air exhibition of climate-focused imagery. “We like to think of it as a visual journey into our future,” says Tara Pilbrow, executive director of the West End Arts District, one of the initiative’s organizers.

5 days ago | 7x7.com | Shoshi Parks

So, most years, this is right about the time we’d be encouraging readers to plan a getaway to one of our iconic bastions of the natural world. But this isn’t most years. Deep funding cuts have left national parks struggling just to keep visitors safe, let alone to pick up all the garbage they leave behind, ready their campgrounds for summer, and operate normal activities.

1 week ago | 7x7.com | Shoshi Parks

This June, the winery debuts its first ever Summer Garden Party, a relaxed and festive family-friendly event right in its backyard. There will be live music, local food trucks and, of course, wine. A ticket includes your first glass free of charge, and they’ll have plenty more for sale, including bottles.

1 week ago | theinfatuation.com | Shoshi Parks

Fitoor is the best new restaurant in Santana Row, if not the entire city, and it’s not hard to see why. While most restaurants at the shopping hellscape play it safe to please the masses, this dynamic Indian restaurant pushes boundaries. There’s so much creativity with each dish, like the soft-shell crab fried and drizzled with poriyal and tomato chutney, scallops bathed in peanut butter salan, and grilled branzino topped with coriander-mint pesto.

2 weeks ago | 7x7.com | Shoshi Parks

It’s just one of 15 incubation rooms at Far West Fungi’s Moss Landing farm, where they produce more than 10,000 pounds of mushrooms every week for grocers, retailers, and 15 different farmers markets around the greater Bay Area. In the U.S., even on the West Coast, Far West Fungi is something of an anomaly. The vast majority of the mushrooms grown here are cheap and easy to produce: white buttons, creminis, and portabellas.