friday five

five area stories of note from the local food media:

is it game on for original joe's walnut creek? [ed. note: sure looks like it...] (diablo dish)

if you subscribe, check out john birdsall's new new yorker story with local flavor, "the semi-fictional book that transformed the culinary world." (the new yorker)

ticket-holders can listen in on a gathering of winemakers at "unfiltered: conversations about wine" tomorrow, july 26, at donkey & goat, with an after party at banter. (tablehopper)

spotlighting the new generation of east bay ethiopian and eritrean restaurants. (kqed)

finally, we noticed that milkbomb berkeley's funky hours and lingering limbo presence came to a gentle, official close this week, as it was finally marked temporarily closed on yelp and permanently closed on google. so long ice-cream-stuffed doughnuts, we'll miss you. in comforting news, the space will soon reopen as a new location for walnut creek's annie's ice cream italian gelato. milkbomb berkeley was at 2079 university avenue in berkeley. the san francisco milkbomb remains open. (yelp)

july 25, 2025