In case last year’s season of Friday Night Markets in Old Town have been pushed down in your mental feed by the crushing cavalcade of events over the past months, here’s a quick refresher. The start time is 5:30 p.m. and lines for food stalls vary wildly. Parking is at a premium, so carpool if […]
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What’s Good:Shanty Burgers and Snax
Like a giant olive that’s somehow rolled out of an upended Martini glass and around the corner from the Shanty (213 Third St., Eureka), the dive bar’s namesake army green food truck appeared in the adjacent lot last Monday. Where once only a Shanty Dog was available to fortify patrons and soak up the evening’s […]
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Chili Town: A Look Back at Fieri’s Fair Cook-off
Coming from his sold-out meet and greet, dressed in snakeskin boots and smoking a cigar, Guy Fieri took the stage to announce the winners of Humboldt County Fair’s Chili Cook-off, calling it “some of the best chili” he has ever seen. The grandstands were the epicenter of a flavor explosion on Aug. 21, as 12 […]
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Farewell to Fernbridge Café
On March 15, Fernbridge Café & Coffee Barn owner Kimberlynn Wright posted the announcement she’d be closing the restaurant soon. As the sole owner since buying the spot three years ago, and a server at the café’s previous incarnation for seven years, she says she wanted to give her staff and regulars some lead time. […]
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Kokoro Ramen to Steam up Opera Alley
The dining room at 409 Opera Alley in Eureka’s Old Town has been painted but there are some kitchen updates needed before Kokoro Ramen can open in the former Opera Alley Bistro spot. Owner Joe Tan, who also runs and prepares sushi at Rooftop only a block or so away, says he’s eager to get […]
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Piak Sen Weather
February’s wet and windy exit is hardly the last we’ll see of chilly weather. Well, fine. The edge of cold and dampness makes hovering over a bowl of hot noodles and broth just a little more pleasing. Ramen has lately popped up on more menus to challenge the near noodle monopoly pho had previously held […]
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Follow the Trompo
Whatever I crave or plan when I walk up to a taco truck so often goes out the order window when I catch sight of a trompo. All that spice-reddened al pastor sizzling and dripping on a vertical spit is nearly impossible to pass up. And in the nighttime glow of the Tacos Don Paco […]
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Hot Pot Spot
Among the teeming suggestions for food-related resolutions for 2025, consider committing to more communal eating. Sharing a meal from a common bowl or platter, and tipping our faces into the steam together, is a balm to our beleaguered bodies and minds. We’re going to need it. Enter Ginger (1835 Fourth St., Eureka), which has meandered […]
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Gallagher’s Headed Back to the Eagle House
Amid the rise and fall and relocation of Old Town restaurants, one spot is returning to how it used to be. Gallagher’s Irish Restaurant and Pub is headed back to its digs in the Eagle House (139 Second St., Eureka) in early 2025. As Jessica Silva reported in the forthcoming issue of My Humboldt Life, […]
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Rooftop’s Ramen Warm-up
All summer, which includes October here, tables at Rooftop (148 E St., Eureka) were packed with those starved for vitamin D and hungry for sushi. But during the damp cold of winter, the indoor tables and counter (at last, comfy bar chairs) offer a view out of the chill and hot, hot ramen. The Spicy […]
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Jerk Kitchen to Close Friday
Yesterday Jason Mitchell, owner of Eureka’s Jerk Kitchen (427 W Harris St.), announced via Instagram that the Jamaican restaurant would serve its final meals of jerk chicken, stewed oxtails and fresh cornbread on Friday, Dec. 20. He begins the post by “saying thank you for allowing me to take one of my greatest loves, which […]
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Fieldbrook Country Kitchen Moves into Former Market
When the Fieldbrook Market (4636 Fieldbrook Road) closed, Paddy O’Dwyer was among those who grieved. “We used to come here a lot on the weekends,” he says. “It was pretty sad when it closed — it kinda’ preyed on me. Every time I’d drive by, I’d think what it would take to open it up.” […]