All photos by Ericka Xanthe Paris is no stranger to love stories. Among the symphony of baguette crust crackling, the burble of street side cafes, and the proximity of art and history, dreams and desires emerge and manifest. But Ericka Xanthe’s recent visit to France was less a discovery of love than a reminder of …
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With San Francisco flair and preserved Spanish Colonial design, Hotel Spero is best described by the ways it fuses the two together: hand-carved wooden beams that race across high ceilings, the building’s original marble floor, the sparks of color, and eye-catching art. And attached to the hotel: Jasper’s Corner Tap & Kitchen, a gastropub that continues the homage to the city’s identity through food.
Saeed Talai started his entrepreneurial career selling flowers out of a bucket. Several decades later, the “Mayor of Irving Street” operates a number of businesses in San Francisco’s Sunset District. But step inside Persian restaurant Lavash and you’ll see that Saeed’s floral roots have never left him!
Building off his first job in a coffee shop, Poesia owner Francesco D’lppolito has created a special place for San Francisco locals. As d’lppolito says himself, “The right wine with the right food with the right company, it’s like poetry.” Or, Poesia.
Farm-to-table advocates need not look any further than San Francisco’s One Market. K.A. Bussing talks to General Manager-Partner Lorenzo Bouchard about the restaurant’s history and how it promotes the concept in its own cuisine.
The story of Ozumo doesn’t begin with food. It begins with baseball. Around 20 years ago, founder Jeremy Umland traveled to Japan to play baseball, and, while there, gathered an affinity for the country: its language and culture — and, of course, the food…
Oren Dobronsky knows a few things about innovation. The entrepreneur has founded multiple start-ups, participated as a shark on Shark Tank Israel, and has been an investor for more than ten years. Which is why he saw that Silicon Valley lacked something essential, and he saw an opportunity…
David Sturno doesn’t use the word “magic” lightly, but there are few others that best encapsulate Goat Hill Pizza. The pizza restaurant, which now boasts three locations, has been a mainstay for generations of San Francisco diners, which the CEO attributes to its history and its integral role in the community for decades…
One does not simply enter Le Colonial. It begins by stepping into an alleyway, advancing up a flight of stairs, and finding yourself in a mosaic-tiled patio dripping with palm fronds, and soon, an elegant dining room lined with vintage photographs…
For Bradley Levy, owner of Firefly Restaurant in San Francisco’s Noe Valley, food is the language of togetherness. “I always loved food and cooking and had a good example in my mother of caring for people through cooking,” he says…
