Author: Paolo Lucchesi

Interviews   San Francisco

Kim Alter on Nightbird’s Return — and Much More

When Nightbird reopens on June 23, it will mark the first time in roughly 16 months that chef-owner Kim Alter‘s…

By Paolo Lucchesi June 22, 2021

Interviews   San Francisco

Cassava’s Yuka Ioroi on Leading, Reopening, and Building a Better Restaurant Industry

For local diners, Cassava has long been a staple of its Outer Richmond neighborhood, with owners Yuka Ioroi and Kristoffer…

By Paolo Lucchesi June 17, 2021

Love Letters

Now Is the Time to Rally For Your Local Diner

To begin to fully appreciate the charm of New Taraval Cafe, and the quickly fading legions of old-fashioned diners like…

By Paolo Lucchesi February 3, 2021

Interviews   San Francisco

Marlena’s Serena Chow Fisher on how to support restaurants

The wife-and-husband chef duo of Serena Chow Fisher and David Fisher opened Marlena on the Bernal Heights corner of Precita…

By Paolo Lucchesi January 19, 2021

The Classics

Why Classics? Because Legacy Restaurants Tell the Stories of America

Welcome to The Classics. 

By Paolo Lucchesi September 8, 2020

Los Angeles

Presenting On The Line, a new documentary series about Los Angeles restaurants

Introducing On The Line, a four-part documentary shorts series by award-winning new media studio Crimes of Curiosity and Resy. The…

By Paolo Lucchesi August 27, 2020

The Road Back   San Francisco

Da Flora’s Darren Lacy on Outdoor Dining, North Beach Legacies, and Racism in the Restaurant Industry

Four years ago, the husband-and-wife team of Darren Lacy and chef Jen McMahon took over North Beach’s decades-old Da Flora…

By Paolo Lucchesi July 10, 2020

Black Lives Matter. Black-Owned Restaurants Matter.

Three years ago, Tunde Wey wrote about Charlottesville and the subsequent fallout, stating that when it comes to improving the…

By Paolo Lucchesi June 4, 2020

Washington D.C.

Weekly Specials: Kwame Onwuachi and the Kith/Kin staff, plus the one and only José Andrés

Welcome back to Weekly Specials!

By Paolo Lucchesi May 15, 2020

San Francisco   New York

Weekly Specials: Alicia’s Tamales, Ben Feldman, The Week in José, and Much More

Welcome back to Weekly Specials, a show to inspire you and maybe even make you smile, produced by Resy and the Welcome…

By Paolo Lucchesi May 1, 2020