Category: BiteClub

A Goode Day: Will social networking save the wine biz?

In a competition with more twists and turns than a midnight ride over the Oakville grade, the final ten candidates for Murphy Goode Winery’s coveted “Lifestyle Correspondent” gig are pulling out all the stops during an intense three-day race to the finish line in Healdsburg. And boy are their fingers tired. In a swirl of […]

Summer Cocktails: Sipping through SoCo

There's no sound more beautiful than the clink of ice in a cocktail glass on a hot summer day. Because whether it's 5pm or just north of noon, 'tis the season for salted rims, muddled mint and tiny paper umbrellas.

Final 10 headed to Healdsburg for Murphy Goode’s $10K-a-month gig

Like golden ticket winners to Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, the ten remaining candidates for Murphy Goode winery's much-talked-about $10,000 a month social-networking gig are headed to Healsburg on June 18. Over four wine-soaked days, they'll take part in a final round of interviews, meet winemaker David Ready, Jr., and experience "hi-jinks, excursions, poker, Liar's dice, food and, of course, wine drinking," according the winery.

Shepos leaving, new bbq

Shepos leaving Stark’s SteakhouseMark and Terri Stark are preparing for a bittersweet goodbye — longtime chef Tracey Shepos-Cenami announced to the couple that she’ll be leaving in August. “This wasn’t a short-term decision. There was months of thinking about this. They’re like my parents. But it’s been ten years and that’s a long time in […]