When most of us say we “love” a pasta, a pot roast or even a person, our feelings rarely run too deep. But hearing Christopher Lee talk about food, one gets the sense that a meaningful relationship is ...

New York has experienced some fairly high profile closings in the past couple of weeks, but the problems are by no means endemic to this city. Which is why this SF Chronicle piece penned by Samin ...

Samin Nosrat was sous chef at Eccolo until it closed last Saturday. Here she shares what goes on behind the scenes as the restaurant struggled - and ultimately failed - to survive. As I watched my ...

With restaurants like Cafe Rouge, Tacubaya and O Chamé, Berkeley's Fourth Street has quietly been drawing food lovers to West Berkeley for a while now. (The Crate & Barrel outlet doesn't hurt either.) ...

For years Christopher Lee worked in the great training kitchen, Chez Panisse. Yet the food at his own three-year-old restaurant Eccolo, a bustling California-style bistro/trattoria in Berkeley’s ...