Kate Bradshaw

Learn to make quick-fix meals, how to eat like the elite or how to cook like a “Chopped” champion with these new releases.

Here’s our curated selection of fun beer, wine and spirit-forward events to take in the delicious sips the season has to offer.

Lutticken’s Deli and After 5 Restaurant, a sandwich shop and restaurant that has operated in unincorporated West Menlo Park since 1981, is set to close at the end of September.

A lushly landscaped haven is home to studios for makers like this vintage furniture restorer and textile designer.

The chef behind multiple Bay Area Michelin-starred restaurants explains how she teases out the nuances of recipes in “Cooking Thai.”

After facing a layoff from a tech job, Lisa Maria, accompanied by her husband Ryan Prawiradjaja, worked to figure out what to do next. 

Just months after an everything-with-matcha and dessert shop called BonBon Matcha opened in Cupertino, a second location is in the works in downtown Palo Alto. 

Demi Ebara moved to the U.S. from Kyoto, Japan, around 15 years ago. Now, she’s a chef opening her Bay Area sixth restaurant.

Tucked next to a car wash on El Camino Real, a new cafe in San Mateo serves creative coffee drinks, matcha lattes and Red Bull soda refreshers.

Redwood City has a new craft coffee, matcha and pastry lounge tucked inside a Middlefield Road church.