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Standout chef Soerke Peters is selling the Pacific Grove favorite, Mezzaluna.
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Standout chef Soerke Peters is selling the Pacific Grove favorite, Mezzaluna.

  • Dave Faries
  • Mar 17, 2026

After years staking the hilltop in Pacific Grove as a destination for Italian dining, Chef Soerke Peters and co-owner Amy Stouffer are handing…

Burning Question: Do chefs watch cooking shows?
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Burning Question: Do chefs watch cooking shows?

  • Dave Faries
  • Oct 19, 2018

Bobby Flay called me once. Early in the morning. On a Saturday.

Au revoir Lafayette Kitchen, bonjour Etats-Unis French American Bistro.
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Au revoir Lafayette Kitchen, bonjour Etats-Unis French American Bistro.

  • Raúl Nava
  • Aug 21, 2018

The Lafayette Kitchen sign remains hanging out front, but take a seat inside and the menu declares Etats-Unis French American Bistro. Qu’est-c…

The very best handful of new restaurants for Monterey County in 2016.
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The very best handful of new restaurants for Monterey County in 2016.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Dec 29, 2016

It was an omen, a hint, a harbinger. At our booth sat Giuseppe Panzuto, author of arguably 2015’s best new Monterey County restaurant, il Tega…

Quick Bites: Foragers Fest, chowder fries and $500K wine theft verdict.
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Quick Bites: Foragers Fest, chowder fries and $500K wine theft verdict.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Dec 27, 2016

The annual Big Sur Foragers Festival, happening Jan. 13-15, will not happen in iconic Big Sur.

EDIBLE: The appetizing Monterey County stories keep coming.
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EDIBLE: The appetizing Monterey County stories keep coming.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Apr 21, 2016

Thank Goddess Al Gore invented the internet. Because 1,400 words are never enough.

How the Aquarium helps make Monterey more sustainable than…anywhere.
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How the Aquarium helps make Monterey more sustainable than…anywhere.

  • Ivan Garcia
  • Dec 14, 2015

Seafood Watch hosts educational discussions with chefs all over the world—from New Zealand to Thailand—according to its website, which is teem…

Quick Bites (16!): Post-fire party, pop-ups, awards and more.
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Quick Bites (16!): Post-fire party, pop-ups, awards and more.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Sep 15, 2015

Leave it to the community-minded Basil Seasonal Dining (626-8226) in Carmel to turn its own disaster—a bizarre wall-based kitchen fire—into an…

Chef-of-the-year awards and more go out Saturday at Portola Hotel.
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Chef-of-the-year awards and more go out Saturday at Portola Hotel.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Updated May 26, 2015

The first time Soerke Peters, chef and co-owner at Basil Seasonal Dining (626-8226), remembers seeing a grocery store, he was 12.

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