Photography by Susan Yee

Don’t get Randy Paragary started on the governor and his whipsawing COVID restrictions. Red tier, purple tier, no to indoor dining, yes-no-yes to patio dining—it all makes him see red.“I don’t think it’s fair,”...

Being a restaurant worker in a pandemic is no picnic.After recently talking with more than a half-dozen servers and bartenders, I came away with a new appreciation for these unsung heroes. For the past eight  months, they have...

Here, people are used to trekking to South Sacramento when they have a hankering for authentic Vietnamese food. Mymy Nguyen and her husband, Jimmy Voong, envisioned something different: a hip restaurant in a hip...

More than two years after getting fired from his namesake restaurant, Lou Valente is back and better than ever.The former Lou’s Sushi frontman debuted Southpaw Sushi on a suddenly bustling stretch of Del Paso...