May 16, 2025 – On a breezy and beautiful Sunday afternoon in Carmel Valley, Corral Wine Company owner Larry Bell proudly showed me around his newly updated new tasting room digs at 19 East Carmel Valley Rd. Located at what was most recently the
May 13, 2025—There are clear indicators Carmel-by-the-Sea Culinary Week is looking to make a leap. Consider olive trees from Griggs Nursery lining a 120-foot banquet table in the middle of Dolores Avenue for a La Dolce Vita dinner. Or fire breathers, fire dancers, violinists
May 9, 2025—Indigenous foods “chieftess” Christina Lonewolf Martinez claims some high-powered kitchen cred after apprenticing at Sierra Mar in Big Sur and helping open Stokes Adobe and Cella Restaurant & Bar in Monterey. But for her, the most compelling place she’s cooked, and continues
May 9, 2025 – The wind was perhaps the strongest it’s ever been for the annual SLH Sun, Wind and Wine event in its 17 years. Combined with periods of heavy mist and dark clouds, interspersed with teases of sun, last Saturday’s weather illustrated emphatically why
May 6, 2025 – There’s no place like HOME, as in the famed Soquel restaurant, and soon, there will be no place like Home Away, Brad Briske and Linda Ritten’s forthcoming new outpost just down Main Street on the corner of Soquel Drive. Home Away
May 6, 2025 – Mother’s Day kicks off the season of weddings, graduations, anniversaries and brunch. Now is the time to stock up on sparkling, rosé and Pinot Noir, and we’ve got a few ideas, both local and imports you can find fairly easily.
May 2, 2025—The shock is so sudden a neck injury nearly results. I do a double take at the dish in front of me and wonder, “I made that?” The breakfast dish was about as simple as it gets, essentially a two-ingredient omelet, whipped
May 2, 2025 – A schizophrenic sky kept us guessing what it would do next as we checked in for The Perfect Pair—the annual wine and food pairing event at Cabrillo College’s Sesnon House, run by Wines of the Santa Cruz Mountains in conjunction
April 29, 2025 – Sadly, we just lost local legend Ken Burnap, founder of Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard, on April 25. Larger than life, and with a zest for travel, adventure, awesome food and cool climate Pinot Noir, he filled his 94 years with
April 29, 2025—Talk about an impactful exchange student experience. Céline Molière—co-owner of brand-new Emilie and the Frenchies, which soft-opened last weekend—came to Santa Cruz as a high school student, from Nice, France, three decades ago. Her host sister, bakery co-owner and store manager Mary
