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LATINO CACAO Casa de Chocolates’ co-founder, Amelia Garcia, left, passed the bonbons to current co-owner Linda Sanchez, who hopes to showcase the Indigenous Mesoamerican influence on cacao. (Photo ...

Navigating the world of technology can be challenging, but Katerina Orr loves riding into the eye of the storm. Her biggest strength is her knack for translating complex concepts into accessible ...

Everyone deserves a table decked out with an enticing spread of banchan. Mugunghwa, a new Korean restaurant in El Cerrito, embraces a celebratory approach to dining, much like its shabu shabu sister ...

CULINARY ODYSSEY Familiar dishes, like this chicken biryani, are reinvented with aplomb at Emeryville’s Pippal. (Photo by Kim Nies) When Izler Thomas, the energetic head bartender at Pippal, claimed ...

After 30 years on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, Cafe Colucci is moving into Soul Slice’s former address on San Pablo Avenue. Daniel Aderaw Yeshiwas, general manager of both Cafe Colucci and Brundo ...

PERFECTION The spicy Caesar salad at Rose Pizzeria is perfectly dressed, with plenty of bread crumbs, black pepper and pecorino mixed in. Rose Pizzeria served my favorite salad of 2021. Co-owners ...

PLENTIFUL One bowl of Mam’s bun will stave off hunger for at least 24 hours. On my way to Mam Hanoi Restaurant on 10th Street, I passed a pre-holiday crowd bustling inside the confines of Lincoln ...

INNOVATIVE Amsterdam-based BCXSY makes a Möbius-shaped neck pillow that twists and molds to fit in any space. Not everyone is ready to get back out on the road—but many are. If someone on your gift ...

News you don’t want to miss for Nov. 12: 1. Berkeley Councilmember Sophie Hahn is proposing to rename Thousand Oaks Elementary school after vice president-elect Kamala Harris, the San Francisco ...

Former Oakland police chief Anne Kirkpatrick was fired in February. During her tenure she clashed with the newly-created Oakland Police Commission. Credits: File photo 1. “Former Oakland Police Chief ...

News you don’t want to miss for Aug. 18: 1. The federal monitor overseeing reforms at the Oakland Police Department strongly criticized Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for being silent and not acting ...