Eat + Drink

Diners enjoy a balmy Tel Aviv evening over good food and conversation at Joz ve Los in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo: Super G)

Joz Ve Loz’s Chef Serves Up Crave-Worthy Delights

Hot, Joz ve Loz is, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from the women behind this destination restaurant, especially in its new location. The restaurant moved to the Florentin, an artsy and edgy emerging neighborhood in the southern part of Tel Aviv, March 2015.

It is well worth the adventure journeying away from the action of Tel Aviv’s fashionable northern neighborhoods to dine at Joz ve Loz.

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Del Sur Mexican Cantina’s enchiladas (Photo: Courtesy of Del Sur Mexican Cantina)

Mexican Soul Food A Hit In San Diego’s South Park

Life has been good for restauranteurs Lauren Passero and Kate Grimes in San Diego’s South Park neighborhood.

The duo has created a series of neighborhood restaurants that have become a destination for locals and visitors.

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Medicine Creek Tasting (Photo: Courtesy of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Visitor & Convention Bureau)

Visitors To Olympia Can Now Create Their Own Tasting Tour Of The Region

There’s more to Washington than Seattle and Walla Walla, there’s Olympia. Birthplace of the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s, Washington’s capital city poised at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet is celebrating its roots that have little to do with indie girl punk rock music.

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Rica Sunga-Kwan scoops up Chai Chocolate Cardamom at Churn Urban Creamery’s pop-up ice cream cart. (Photo: Heather Cassell)

For The Love Of Ice Cream! Churn Urban Creamery Scoops Up A Healthy Summer Treat

Ice cream is always called for in the summer. Who can forget the delight of licking the creamy goodness of your flavor or flavors of choice while holding it all in a crunchy graham cracker cone as fast as you can before it begins to drip onto your hand as a kid or an adult?

I mean, there’s a reason why ice cream is everyone’s favorite treat. It certainly is Rica Sunga-Kwan, 31, owner and ice cream maker of Churn Urban Creamery, a boutique pop-up ice cream cart that has been appearing around San Francisco and San Mateo since April, favorite food.

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Blue Point and Kumamoto oysters served up at Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar in Healdsburg, California. (Photo: fattyshaddy.blogspot.com)

Shucks To You! Willi’s Seafood and Raw Bar Has The Oysters & Great Food To Boot

The best spot to get oysters in Healdsburg is at Willi’s Seafood & Raw Bar (403 Healdsburg Avenue, 707-433-9191, starkrestaurants.com/willis_seafood.html) in California.

Ms. H. and I bellied up to the bar to watch our expert oyster shucker, Kayla, work her magic on the Beau Soleil, Blue Point, Drakes Bay, Kumamoto, and a bevy of other oysters after a morning of wine tasting.

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Tomales Farmstead Cheese (Photo: Courtesy of California Cheese Trail)

It’s The Cheese For The New California Cheese Trail App

It’s cheesy goodness along California’s Cheese Trail.

Now it’s easier than ever to find the more than 70 creameries in the Golden State with the California Cheese Trail’s new app launched July 19.

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Women enjoy sampling the bites at the Friday Grand Tasting at Feast Portland 2015. (Photo: Courtesy of Feast Portland)

Portland Is A Bountiful Feast For Carrie Welch

Driving into her office recently, Carrie Welch, co-founder of Feast Portland, pinched herself to make sure she wasn’t simply dreaming as she cruised through the quaint streets of Portland, Oregon.

“It feels like a dream. It really does,” she says. “You know how people say that expression, ‘Oh I’m living the dream,’ and a lot of times these days they say that ironically like they don’t really mean it, but I do. I truly do.”

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Priya Sen, general manager of SPiN San Francisco (Photo: Rick Gerharter)

A Woman’s Spin Launches SPiN San Francisco

A hip social club that aims to bring San Franciscans of all stripes together has opened in the heart of San Francisco with a woman leading the way.

Priya Sen is SPiN Global’s first woman to head up the launch of the new pingpong social club, SPiN San Francisco (690 Folsom Street, 415-636-5995, SanFrancisco.WeAreSPiN.com) across from the Moscone Center and Yerba Buena Gardens.

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Pom Pom’s Teahouse & Sandwicheria (Photo: Courtesy of amplifiedculture.com)

Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria Takes Sandwiches to New Heights

Want to impress your date in Orlando? Take them to one of the city’s many fine gourmet eateries.

Want to find out if your date is The One? Take them to Pom Pom’s Teahouse and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com) in Orlando, Florida.

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Co-founders of Equator Coffees & Teas Helen Russell, right, and Brooke McDonnell, left, at the Proof Lab Surf Shop location in Mill Valley, California. (Photo: Equator Coffees & Teas / Alex Salkever)

Love & Coffee Takes These Ladies To The White House

Listening to Brooke McDonnell wax on about the notes in her espresso while sitting on the steps of Pioneer Square in Portland during the early 1990s, Helen Russell, who was enjoying her mocha with the whip cream piled high, suddenly had an idea: let’s open coffee shops in San Francisco.

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(Photo: Stephanie Brusig)

Chef Syme Delivers Fine Fare at Yaletown’s La Pentola Italian Restaurant

Chef Lucais Syme delivers an unmatched and irresistible meal at La Pentola in Vancouver, British Columbia’s Yaletown neighborhood. Situated inside the OPUS Vancouver Hotel, this rustic Northern Italian restaurant is an experience to be had – and not forgotten.

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Tako Cheeno's Indian Butter Chicken Burrito (Photo: Courtesy of Tako Cheeno)

A Profusion Of Fusion At Orlando’s Tako Cheena

When Pom Moongauklang opened her first Orlando restaurant, the eponymous Pom Pom’s Tea House and Sandwicheria (67 North Bumby Avenue; 407-894-0865; PomPomSteahouse.com), patrons were spooked by watercress and walked out when they realized American cheese wasn’t available.

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