Flea Street

36 years ago today, August 28, 1980, in an unlikely neighborhood just outside of the city of Menlo Park, in the county of San Mateo, on an unlikely street Alameda de las Pulgas aka., “Avenue of the Fleas” we signed a lease and brought to life, Flea St. Cafe. As anyone who has grown anything that has survived for over 36 years knows, growth and change are a process. Sometimes that change is incremental and barely noticeable, other times it's convulsive, dramatic…essential. The

Peaches. Like anything from the farm they are worth waiting for. Thankfully, the wait for the world’s tastiest organic heirloom stone fruit is over and it's that time of the year again. Not only do we get to celebrate peaches (and nectarines) in every conceivable way on our menus, but we also get to celebrate Masumoto Family Farm which has been sustainably growing Elberta peaches and La Grand nectarines on an 80 acre farm south of Fresno for almost 70 years. Years ago we "ado

Earlier this summer I was invited to the marriage of two of my favorite people, David Evans, Owner of Marin Sun Farms and Claire Herminjard, CEO, Co-founder of Mindful Meats. Weddings are always a heart felt occasion but when two local farmers or ranchers join together it’s something truly unique and wonderful. It was a celebration of two people and their families, but also an intimate acknowledgement of a wider connection between these two to the land, the water, their live