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The Whaling Station adds American Wagyu prime rib to its nightly menu.
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The Whaling Station adds American Wagyu prime rib to its nightly menu.

  • Dave Faries
  • Nov 7, 2025

How do you make a steakhouse better? 

Burning Question: Whatever happened to beef Wellington?
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Burning Question: Whatever happened to beef Wellington?

  • Dave Faries
  • Jan 6, 2023

It is said that Napoleon could do wonders with dessert. For his part, Wellington was a red meat master—and pretty good with puff pastry, to boot.

Burning Question: Is the prime rib really prime beef?
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Burning Question: Is the prime rib really prime beef?

  • Dave Faries
  • Mar 1, 2019

Controversy seems to follow prime rib, for some reason.

Celebration of life held for local restaurant legend Jim Gilbert.
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Celebration of life held for local restaurant legend Jim Gilbert.

  • Taryn Yudaken
  • Oct 26, 2018

Local restaurateur Jim Gilbert was a legend in these parts, at least to the countless industry people whose lives he touched. In fact, he was …

Quick Bites: Super gala for good, chef exit and a new Japanese grill.
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Quick Bites: Super gala for good, chef exit and a new Japanese grill.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Sep 12, 2017

A special gala dinner celebrates the 25th anniversary of a special things: the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

EDIBLE: John Pisto talks life and history before a free demo in Carmel.
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EDIBLE: John Pisto talks life and history before a free demo in Carmel.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Feb 16, 2017

John Pisto sits at the center of his world: the kitchen. His kitchen. Before him lays a cutting-board countertop that would be the envy of mos…

A team tracks bottles of booze to keep restaurants profitable.
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A team tracks bottles of booze to keep restaurants profitable.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Oct 20, 2016

It’s lunchtime on a Monday, and light streams in through the windows onto the bar at Hacienda Mexican Grill in Westridge Shopping Center in Sa…

PHOTOS: New crab-centric restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf.
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PHOTOS: New crab-centric restaurant on Fisherman's Wharf.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Apr 12, 2016

It's already been a busy 2016 on Fisherman's Wharf, what with the addition of hip tea and coffee outpost Water + Leaves, the arrival of massiv…

EDIBLE: Big updates do Moss Landing right on seafood and beer.
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EDIBLE: Big updates do Moss Landing right on seafood and beer.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Mar 31, 2016

Maybe it’s an aftereffect of watching dozens of otters eat their way to a quarter of their body weight, as they do each day. Or the appetite t…

Quick Bites: Great food truck news, dry cider, Drew Barrymore.
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Quick Bites: Great food truck news, dry cider, Drew Barrymore.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Mar 29, 2016

After years pacing the streets for some decent food-truck grub, local trendy eaters are getting their hallelujah on thanks to two courses of g…

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