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Elena Kadvany
@elenakadvany.bsky.social
Food reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: elena.kadvany@sfchronicle.com
More women are turning to psychedelics to treat postpartum depression. Yet it remains a taboo, under-studied topic. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...
This unorthodox treatment could help new moms: ‘The tipping point is coming’
Demand is surging among new moms for this once-taboo treatment, and the first trials of a new drug have shown promising results.
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I talked to chefs and influencers about the Kis Cafe drama, and unpacked the power dynamics and logistics of their dynamic www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
How a viral feud revealed the complicated rules for Bay Area restaurants and influencers
The speed and reach of the Kis Café drama stunned both chefs and influencers, and showed how precarious the dynamic between them can be.
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This story has it all: A woman pulling rotisserie chicken out at a vegetarian restaurant. Purse tuna. An egg salad influencer. Bodybuilders. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
People are bringing their own food to Bay Area restaurants. Is ‘purse tuna’ ever OK?
Bay Area chefs say they see people sneaking bites of homemade salads, spring rolls and even entire pizzas while dining at their restaurants.
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Here’s a link to our ongoing tsunami coverage at @sfchronicle.com No major damage at first light in California but tsunami is still ongoing and strong currents threaten harbors and marinas. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
Tsunami updates: 4-foot waves could hit California coast; Hawaii escapes major damage
Parts of the Northern California coast could expect to see waves of around 4 feet Wednesday while Hawaii escaped major damage after an 8.8 magnitude quake in Russia.
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Some of the Bay Area's best matcha is finally back 🍵https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/forest-tea-bar-berkeley-20769147.php
The Bay Area gets a serene temple to exceptional matcha
A Berkeley matcha popup with a loyal following has opened a café dedicated to the art of tea-making.
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We blind tasted 17 rotisserie chickens to find the Bay Area's very best! www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
We blind tasted 17 rotisserie chickens from Bay Area restaurants. Here’s how Costco ranked
The Chronicle conducted a blind taste test of rotisserie chickens from restaurants, butchers and grocery stores — including Costco — to find the Bay Area’s best. Here’s our list of the top...
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This ice cream is suuuper stretchy and hard to find in the Bay Area 🍨 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
"What I see in Fruitvale's street food scene is raw talent — a preview of future Bay Area restaurants. But I’ve often worried about the future of this corridor." www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
The most exciting street food in the Bay Area is on this one block
The Fruitvale area in Oakland is the home to some of the best Central American food in the Bay Area, like Shucos Magi, Pupuseria Fatima and El Sazon K-Tracho.
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What a honor, thank you @wearesfj.bsky.social!
FOOD WRITING PORTFOLIO, DIV 3 Three stories, columns or reviews by the same writer on any food topic. 🥇 1st Place: @elenakadvany.bsky.social 🥈 2nd Place: Emily Heil, @washingtonpost.com 🥉 3rd Place: @hannaraskin.bsky.social 🏅 Honorable Mention: MacKenzie Chung Fegan, @sfchronicle.com
MUST-READ: Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic By MacKenzie Chung Fegan www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry
Thomas Keller is a legendary chef. Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan hadn’t met him, until she went to the French Laundry and he asked her to leave.
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As someone who grew up in *sleepy* Menlo Park, it's wild to see this many new restaurants opening there. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Forget San Francisco. Restaurants see ‘huge opportunity’ in this quiet suburb
A wave of new restaurants are bringing energy to Menlo Park, a quiet Bay Area suburb that is perpetually labeled as sleepy.
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🎧 Listen to the podcast! SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene. 🔗:
Oakland’s Restaurant Scene Is Swimming in Praise, But Struggling to Stay Afloat
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MON at 9AM SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig join to discuss the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene. ❓ If you’re in the Oakland restaurant industry, what has your experience been like?
It’s America’s hottest food city. Restaurateurs say they can’t survive here
Oakland is home to nationally acclaimed restaurants, but it's harder and harder for them to survive, owners say.
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Scoop: A century-old #SanFrancisco building two blocks from Union Square that last housed controversial French-Vietnamese restaurant Le Colonial has been sold to a pair of local bar operators. Reporting with @elenakadvany.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
Downtown bar owners will breathe new life into 100-year-old S.F. building
The SF restaurant space at 20 Cosmo Place, previously Le Colonial and Trader Vic's, has been sold to new owners behind Persona bar.
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I have not stopped thinking about this dessert since I had it a few months ago www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
How one magical dessert is made at this S.F. Top 100 restaurant
San Francisco's Verjus, one of the Chronicle's Top 100 restaurants, makes an exceptional version of pain perdu, French toast, topped with gelato and caramel.
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Restaurants that rely on imported goods from China, from tea to Sichuan peppercorns, are bracing for price hikes www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Raise prices? Remove dishes? Tariffs rattle Bay Area Chinese restaurants
The price of dishes at Bay Area Chinese restaurants could be increased due to President Donald Trump's staggering tariffs on China.
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Can this Bay Area restaurant and farm disrupt the way we eat chicken in the U.S.? www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This new Bay Area restaurant wants to change how America thinks about chicken
Cafe Vivant, opening soon in Menlo Park, will serve heritage chicken raised exclusively for the restaurant on a Pescadero farm.
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INVESTIGATION: A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions have no idea they’re at risk My colleagues @meganmunce.bsky.social and @susien.bsky.social have worked on this story for months. If you're a homeowner in California, please read this story.
18 of California's 20 most destructive wildfires have occurred since 2003, destroying 63,000 structures. Homeowners hoping to rebuild consistently run into a roadblock: insurance companies grossly undervalue the cost. A @sfchronicle.com investigation exposes the California underinsurance crisis.
s/o to the people with camping chairs and snacks (I got in line around 8:15 a.m., long after some of the early birds) www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Customers brave epic lines at opening of Bay Area Korean market
Customers at Jagalchi, a new Korean market in Daly City, waited in massive lines on opening day.
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Jagalchi is almost here! (and there will almost certainly be long lines) www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Here’s a first look at the Bay Area’s huge new Korean food complex
Jagalchi, a huge new Korean food complex in the Bay Area, brings groceries, a restaurant, bars, a bakery and more to Daly City.
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Meet the meticulous, quietly funny and misunderstood man who powers this tiny Bay Area pizzeria www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
One chef. 30 pizzas a night. Inside the Bay Area’s most eccentric pizzeria
Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, a one-man pizza sensation, has been selling out for 15 years in the Bay Area.
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Oakland's Daytrip is back, with juicy rotisserie chicken and a new business model www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Celebrated Bay Area restaurant reopens with a new plan: juicy, affordable roast chicken
Oakland's popular Daytrip is reopening with a new model and menu focused on affordability and roast chicken.
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The chefs of the Michelin-starred Maum are finally back with an exciting, personal new restaurant www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Their first Bay Area restaurant won a Michelin star. Here’s what they’re opening next
The chefs of the now closed, Michelin-starred restaurant Maum are opening a new Korean-Taiwanese restaurant in Menlo Park called Yeobo, Darling
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