Two years ago in March, the week before restaurants shuttered for the pandemic, I drove down to San Jose to try the desserts at K Cafe Patisserie & Tea House. The interior design is a combination of ...

Sitting in his front sittingroom, surrounded by embroidery, painted plates and ceramics decorated with pink Damask roses, Amin Hamza al-Bettar reflects on the harvest season, which has just finished: ...

Paolo Bicchieri is the associate editor for the Northern California and Pacific Northwest region writing about restaurant and bar trends, coffee and cafes, and pop-ups. Now Damask Rose offers a blend ...

Gloved and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows. “Thank God for the rain,” said rose picker Fatima El Alami. “There are roses ...