On Monday, Dec. 21, Toni’s 24-Hour Restaurant announced via Facebook that due to an employee’s positive COVID-19 test, the restaurant would be shutting down for a deep cleaning and reopening at 7 a.m. on Dec. 27. It’s the most recent of a spate of COVID-19 related closures in Arcata this month. “We’ve decided to close, […]
Toni’s 24-hour Restaurant
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Taking (Some of) the Contact out of Take-out
In the Friday afternoon lull between lunch and dinner, Eduardo Lopez still has to put the phone down to help customers at Toni’s 24-hour Restaurant. “It’s enough to keep us busy,” he says. Despite the suspension of table service under the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, he says, “we’ll get our rushes around regular times.” Restaurants offering […]
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Perfect Winter Trips
Don’t be a fool. Do the cool. Season, that is. Late winter and early spring delight the hale, hungry and healthy who harken to Humboldt’s call of the mild. For those seeking birds by land, whales by water and forests by bathing (read on, forest bathing is a thing), we have the guides to take […]
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Hum Plate Roundup
Waffling in Rio Dell Pull up to the Root 101 Nursery (770 Wildwood Ave., Rio Dell) and instead of soil you may smell waffles. Tucked in the corner of the shop is the Wildwood Waffles counter, behind which steams a trio of busy waffle irons. Puffed, crisp and moist inside, the waffles come straight off […]
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Toni’s is Fancy Now
Toni’s has had work done. In the weeks you spent driving past its empty parking lot, afraid the closure of the one spot in Arcata that was always open might be forever, the truck stop swapped out its humble decor for glass, stainless steel and enough barn wood to make an actual barn. On a […]
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Perfect Spring Trips
How better to start a cultural exploration than an inspirational pilgrimage, whether to a monastery with water colorists or a writer’s hideout on the Lost Coast? For the visualists, art walks and open studios abound in Humboldt, known as one of Northern California’s art meccas. Kids can follow the slime trail of SpongeBob Squarepants’ creator […]
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Roadside Attractions
Humboldt has classic summer road food well worth pulling over for. Nothin’ fancy, just favorites from the grill and the fryer that will take you back. Don’t forget napkins. Lots of napkins. Chili dog aficionados around here are devoted to Bob’s Footlongs (505 12th St., Fortuna). Feed your nostalgia with an order of piping hot […]
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Cue Explosion
Not everything is about subtlety. As moving and understated as the narrative gaze in a French film may be, once in a while you want a blockbuster. It’s the same with food, and this month we threw on the 3-D glasses and indulged in the gastronomical equivalent of an action movie marathon. Pie Hard Pie […]