These ginormous pumpkins always look like deflated balloons to me.
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Oaklanside Nosh.
Ballots and beers: Join us for the 2025 Nosh Awards kickoff party
Come by Brix Factory Brewing Oct. 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. to cast your nominations and meet fellow East Bay foodies.
2400 Mandela Parkway.
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Market Hall in Rockridge.
Great Crucolo Cheese Parade on Oct 25 12-3pm
Excerpt:
Each year, we honor one of our favorite Italian cheeses from the Trentino-Alto Adige region by rolling an enormous wheel of Crucolo down Shafter Avenue—complete with lively music, dancing, and plenty of fanfare. Expect samples, a chance to take home a wedge of this hard-to-find cheese, and a joyful celebration. Market Hall Foods is proud to be one of only two shops in the U.S. that carry this creamy cow’s milk cheese. In addition to Crucolo, we’ll also have many other Italian specialties to taste and discover. We hope to see you there!
5655 College Av.
Oakland
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KRON4
Half Moon Bay considers proposal for housing for senior farmworkers
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/half-moon-bay-considers-proposal-to-house-elderly-farmworkers/
Oaklandside Nosh -
2 new stalls at Emeryville Public Market
Alma Y Sazon vegan take on the flavors of Michoacan.
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Edalatpour in East Bay Express -
Parachute Bakery opens in SF Ferry Building in the former Out the Door takeout spot from Charles Phan.
excerpt:
The pastries on display at Parachute Bakery sit on individual pedestals. They look like pieces of edible art in an avant-garde gallery. A cube-shaped croissant’s center contains a luscious blast of passionfruit that’s paired with a white chocolate-vanilla crémeux. Chocolate croissants are baked in the shape of cylinders. A taller, muffin-shaped pastry is filled with a roasted-banana-and-pecan-praline cream. We all smiled after taking a bite out of it. The cross-laminated dough of the pain suisse holds not the traditional duo of chocolate and creme patissierre, but goat cheese, garlic and vegetables.
jphoto by Lamarr English
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from CBS 13 in Sacramento
Grape farmers in Lodi dumping crop because of lower sugar
From KQED California Report
Angel Cruz Park in north Stockton has been home to Hmong and Cambodian food vendors for over 30 years.
From 2024, rebroadcast for the 30th anniversary of the California Report.
Derek likes the hand-pulled noodles and dumplings at the new location of OK Noodles at 52 S Abel in Milptas
52 S Abel
Milpitas
Closed on Wednesdays
6692849146
89th Walnut Festival Oct 16-19
Antioch Fairground
10th St
Antioch. CA.
$15, free for under 6, seniors, active military.
Jermaine Ellis says he is now doing better with deliveries for DoorDash than driving passengers for Uber because Uber use is slowing and rates are falling with competition coming from Waymo and Zooks.
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SF Standard ate at 27 restaurants in the SF Japantown Center Malls and ranked them all
Luke at KQED
Lion Dance Cafe cookbook of vegan Singaporean recipes, Authentic, Not Traditional
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Largest Cantonese restaurant in U.S. opens Oct 16 - H L PENINSULA in Castro Valley
3868 Castro Valley Blvd
Castro Valley
Phone Number: [(510) 999-3838](
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Mike Lim returns to Harry’s Hofbrau in San Leandro
14900 E. 14th St
San Leandro
from KTVU2 -
Wine crushing party at V. Sattui in St. Helena to try and bring in younger winedrinkers
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I enjoyed the black sesame & yuzu cookie I tried on their first soft opening day. I’ll have to see if the laminated pastries are worth the prices (which I think we discussed somewhere upthread).
It’s a big deal for us in the area, but I didn’t realize it was THAT large!
Jermaine Ellis of SF discusses the practical applications of the new DoorDash autonomous delivery robot
from Business Insider -
California produces 99% of America’s pistachios and Wonderful Orchards in Lost Hills, which is in Kern County 41 miles from Bakersfield, is the largest producer in the world. Pistachios use even more water than almonds and the water supply is a continuing problem, especially for smaller farms..
SF Standard
Will Castagnola’s at SF Fisherman’s Wharf reopen after 5 years being closed?
Obelisco moves to Lakeshore in Oakland.
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from CBS KPIX 5 -
New India Bazar in SF is charging more for supplies for Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, due to high tariffs on India’s exports.
Diwali is a five-day festival that began on Oct. 20, 2025
New India Bazar
1107 Polk St
SF
from Oaklandside Nosh -
Impression of Lanzhou, 1878 Euclid St., Berkeley, is in soft opening serving traditional beef Lanzhou noodle soup and dumplings.
That’d be good if Castagnola’s did reopen. It’s a bit of an eyesore now, though it has been cleaned up some.
