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, […]
fish and chips
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What’s Good
Po’ boys and sympathy If you go to Fat Anne’s Bakery & Bistro’s new spot on Main Street in Ferndale (939 Main St.), get the fried chicken. Then tell me what it’s like because the fryer was down the day I visited, though I hear it’s being remedied. It happens. But there is little that […]
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Down at the Docks
Sometimes I walk from the Journal offices down F Street to the plaza, with its wind-whipped flags, and look across the water as the fishing boats come into the bay as they have for lifetimes, bringing their haul back from the unkowable depths and think, “Shouldn’t we have, like, a million places for fish and […]
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Boat to Table
Long have we enjoyed the hefty sandwiches and stacked, house-ground burgers at Arcata Pizza and Deli. They’re almost enough to hinder exploring the rest of chalkboard menu. And, OK, maybe rolling in late at night, a little worse for wear, you weren’t in the mood to experiment with the seafood. Let your gaze drop to […]
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How to Eat Somewhere New
When a new place opens, the common wisdom is that you should try it in a couple of months when it’s worked out the kinks. Are you made of stone? There’s a whole unexplored menu to peruse and sample. What if there’s something you’ve never eaten before? Once you finally break down and pull up a […]
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Jack’s to the Waterfront
It’s a common tourist question Eurekans struggle to answer: Where’s a good place to dine on the waterfront? There’s no place, you answer, at first, before remembering the few anchors of hope in this bay-abutting town: the humble restaurant with a deck over on Woodley Island. Glass-encased, fancyish Bayfront, in Eureka proper. Shamus T Bones […]