After years of papered over windows, the spot at 621 Fifth St. in Eureka where the former Banana Hut’s palm fans once waved from the ceiling is open again. Once inside, look up and you’ll see the namesake vintage stove hood — roughly the size of a pickup truck bed — suspended over the host […]
Delish on 5th
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Soup for the Soul
It’s a Friday afternoon, and Christine Silver is at Humboldt Soup Co. on Myrtle Avenue in Eureka getting a pot — a very big pot — of soup ready. But this one, a hot 50-liters of chicken noodle soup, isn’t going to her drive-through customers. Instead, it’s headed down the street to the Silvercrest Residence, […]
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When Restaurants Go Dark
It hasn’t been an easy year for restaurants in Humboldt County. Ask managers and owners how it’s going and you’ll likely hear that profits are down in the already risky business. Plenty of them will tell you the tightened margins of legal cannabis is part of it but pretty much all of them will also […]
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Counter Culture
On a sunny day, it’s tough to beat lunch at a café table or even taking a sandwich, a drink and some pastry to the boardwalk. A brisk walk from the view of the boats in Eureka is Delish on 5th, where you can outfit a legitimately enviable picnic basket. The far end of the […]
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Hum Plate Roundup
Red sauce for the blues Pity those whose otherwise broadening travels render them unable to enjoy American immigrant iterations of their ancestral cuisines. I think of my old classmate returning from a semester in Rome, heartbroken from an affair and recoiling from the messy red spaghetti and glass shakers of parmesan cheese and red pepper […]
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Deli-ish Delish on 5th Coming to Old Town
The windows are still covered up where the Black Lightning Motorcycle Cafe once revved its engines and panini presses at Fifth and F streets, but not for long. Christine Silver, owner of Humboldt Soup Company, plans to open Delish on 5th sometime in the next couple of months. Says Silver, “It’s gonna be what I’m calling […]