Felton-based chef Jessica Yarr of The Grove Cafe & Bakery is returning to the prestigious Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival, joining a lineup of more than 200 culinary heavyweights and celebrities for a weekend of tasting, seminars and exclusive dining experiences. Known for her plant-forward cuisine, Yarr will bring inventive, vegan-friendly desserts to the Sunday tasting pavilion and a ticketed vegetarian lunch alongside nationally known chefs.
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An update on the start of Dungeness crab season is coming next week
On Nov. 21, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will assess the risk of marine entanglement in order to determine whether or not the commercial Dungeness crab fishing season can open in early December. The fishing season has been postponed for the last six years due to an abundance of migrating whales off the coast, which can become entangled in the fishing gear used to harvest crabs.
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Eaters Digest: Gelato at Emozioni Pasticceria, chef Enzo’s latest success
Eaters Digest July 12, 2024 Eaters Digest is delivered as a free newsletter via email, as well as on our website. Sign up for texts from me to get an alert the moment it’s in your inbox. To read the full story, click here to become a Lookout member – and access all of Lily’s […]
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Best of Santa Cruz County food & drink events, Jan. 19-25
Get a taste of the best food & drink events happening this weekend and beyond around Santa Cruz County from Lily Belli and Lookout’s BOLO calendar.
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Laurie Love on Wine: Cab and views at Premier Cruz, Wine Enthusiast honors locals and events aplenty
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of this week’s Laurie Love on Wine column, covering wine news and events. Click here for Part 2, with Laurie’s Wine of the Week pick and her Wine 101 lesson. Welcome to Laurie Love on Wine! I am Laurie Love, a professional wine writer and educator based in Santa […]
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Lily Belli on Food: Changing local Italian menu, La Cabaña update and highlighting stellar staff
Welcome to Lily Belli on Food, a weekly food-focused newsletter from Lookout’s food and drink correspondent, Lily Belli. Keep reading for the latest local food news for Santa Cruz County — plus a few fun odds and ends from my own life and around the web. And do join us as a member, if you haven’t […]
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Eaters Digest: Burger and fries at Oswald
Lily Belli brings you her recommendations for what to eat in Santa Cruz County, along with a weekly guide to the most important food and drink events in the area. She’ll also point you to Lookout’s list of area food guides and the best in food news.
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After merger, Scotts Valley Faultline Brewing gets rebrand as Laughing Monk Brewing and Gastropub
Sunnyvale-based Faultline Brewing Company opened a second location in Scotts Valley last year. Its owner, Bay Area-based Bedrock Restaurant Group, recently acquired San Francisco’s Laughing Monk Brewing, and is preparing to merge the two brands. The Faultline name is being retired, and the restaurant and taprooms will reopen under the name Laughing Monk Brewing and Gastropub at the end of this month.
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From Ukraine to Capitola, Sugar Bakery’s Ela Crawford amasses following with macaron magic
In the two years since it launched, Capitola’s Sugar Bakery has scored big commercial clients like New Leaf Community Markets and the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and earned more than 83,000 followers on Instagram. Self-taught baker and Ukrainian immigrant Ela Crawford specializes in making macarons, a notoriously difficult cookie. But before she and her husband launched the business in early 2021, she admits she had barely turned on an oven.
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California Dungeness crab season delayed for a second time this year
The start of California’s commercial Dungeness crab fishing season has been delayed for a second time because of a high risk that migrating humpback whales may become entangled in the fishing gear, state officials announced Friday. The next assessment to determine the risk of whale entanglement scheduled for around Dec. 7. Recreational crabbers along parts of the Central Coast, including Santa Cruz County, will also continue to face restrictions on using traps.