Faster than you can say, “Where did November go?” Arcata’s most delicious tradition is back. Taste of the Holidays is here, dressing up the Arcata Community Center with holiday sparkle on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 5 to 8 p.m. ($45). The age 16-and-older event serves up the county’s best bites, sips and seasonal cheer. Have […]
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Choose the Bear
Toast Fat Bear Season at OktoBEARfest at Sequoia Park Zoo with Humboldt CiderCo. on Saturday, Oct. 11, from 4 to 7 p.m. ($25). The 21-and-over crowd can enjoy ascience-based good time with squee-inspiring animal feedings, informative zookeepertalks, live music, trivia, and tree-climbing and pumpkin-carving demonstrations (byhumans). Food and drink will be available for purchase, and […]
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Eastern European & Greek Festival this Saturday
Opa! The annual Taste of Orthodoxy Festival returns to Saint Innocent OrthodoxChurch — the oldest in Eureka — on Saturday, Oct. 11, from noon to 4 p.m. (freeadmission). Chubritza will be on hand with live Balkan and Eastern European folk music and dance, along with a Byzantine choir. Tour the architecture and treat yourself to […]
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Sushi up on the Rooftop
In Humboldt, we love the rain, the mist and the fog. But when the sun makes its appearance, we bask in its rays all we can. At Rooftop in Old Town Eureka, chef Joe Tan is serving classic and inventive sushi, with a dose of vitamin D. The fourth floor patio affords a panoramic view […]
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Falafel Love
King Salmon is “out of the way but not far away,” says Avi Leibson, owner and chef at Falafel Love. Since the restaurant opened there last summer, it’s been drawing folks out of their way with home-cooked Mediterranean specialties beyond its namesake falafel. The sweet dockside patio overlooking the canal, where the occasional kayak or […]
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Hopping into the Wild Hare Tavern
For years, Angela Robershotte toyed with opening her own bar. In 2024, with her kids nearly grown and flown, she decided to give it a real shot. After all, she had worked in numerous local establishments for years and was already working some 65 hours a week. How much harder could having her own place […]
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Siam Orchid in Bloom
Sommai “Bee” Inboon zips from Siam Orchid’s kitchen to the tables with the sureness of a career server, her arms stacked with plates of shimmering noodles and steaming pots of soup. A diner’s appreciative grin cracks her focused expression into a big smile. Inboon, who hails from the inland town of Ratchaburi in Western Thailand, […]
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A Country Breakfast
Well, menus plural — there’s the regular one and a gallery of chalkboards behind the counter touting specials and “secret” items. Are they secret if they’re on a blackboard? Do you care as long as you can add smoked pork belly to pretty much anything? The 100-year-old, three-generation McIntosh Farm opened its store and restaurant […]
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A Sweet Toast
There’s something satisfying about slipping through the door to Humboldt Craft Spirits and being greeted by a row of pale wood barrels and, beyond them, a wooden still dotted with brass stars, like a low-key steampunk contraption. David Cook and Tera Spohr-Cook, who’ll wave you over to the tiny bar they’ve set up on the […]
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The Fruits of Humboldt Cider Co.’s Labors
When the Humboldt Cider Co. first started pressing apples at its original location at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, just an apple’s throw from its new tasting room on Hubbard Lane, the plan was to produce single varietals. Co-owner Michelle Cartledge is still a fan. “The [Imperial] Macintosh apple is really wonderful and balanced, and not too […]
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Ladies who Brunch
SPRING IS IN THE AIR, and all I want on a midday weekend is a drink in my hand and some al fresco brunching. Maybe even a little sun peeking past the edges of an overhead umbrella, glinting off my fork as I savor another bite. Here in Humboldt, two mother-daughter teams, in a sea […]
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Hand Crafting at Diver Bar & Grill
SQUINT AT SHAWN STOOPS sliding a pizza into the Diver Bar & Grill’s hulking, black, riveted woodfire oven and you could imagine him shoveling coal into a steam engine. “When I built the pizza oven, it’s a boiler … steam donkey inspired,” he says, referring to the machines that once hauled timber from the redwoods […]