Barry Jackson is the winemaker for Equinox Champagne and Bartolo Wine, which he co-owns with his wife, Jennifer.
Posts Tagged: Dining
Gabriella Cafe Celebrates 20 Years
Founded only yesterday—December 1992—Gabriella has been doing its seasonal, local, artistic thing for 20 years. Unbelievable. If you haven’t stopped by lately, you can find out why Paul Cocking’s landmark cottage is still the most romantic dining room in town. Gabriella Café—910 Cedar Street in downtown Santa Cruz. 831.457.1677.Here’s a Delicious Holiday Gift: A 2013 Outstanding in the Field al fresco dining gift certificate.
Local Wines Score High on ‘Chronicle’ List
Congratulations to winemaker Richard Alfaro, whose 2010 Alfaro Family Lester Family Vineyard Pinot Noir is among a choice few local wines included in the SF Chronicle’s pick of Top 100 Wines of 2012. The wine, from their Deer Park vines, is a moderately affordable $38 and a spot-on 13.7% alcohol, loaded with terroir, black currants and forest tones.
Q&A: Tom McNary & Tran Doan
The brains behind Aptos’ Carried Away—owner/chef Tom McNary and general manager/catering coordinator Tran Doan—took a minute to talk about how they balance a café and catering service.
Q&A: Pasta Mike
Mike Ruymen, the Santa Cruz fixture behind the Pasta Mike brand, took a minute to talk about his noodling.
Tom Breszny Does Pac Rim Food Tour
In the domain of the totally unexpected, a recent email from entrepreneurial legend Tom Breszny arrived with a mouth-watering invitation. Brezsny, you might recall, was one of the original partners in the former India Joze empire when it filled the Art Center dining rooms in downtown Santa Cruz. Brezsny usually ran the front of the house, but did his stints in the kitchen as well, soaking up spicy expertise from maestro Joseph Schultz himself.
Q&A: Tabitha Stroup
Former India Joze pastry chef and California Culinary Academy graduate Tabitha Stroup of Friend in Cheeses Jam Co. took a minute to talk about how a childhood favorite became cool again.
Dining With Local Stars at Gabriella
Just how was this going to work, I wondered? A flotilla of us were convening on the main dining room of Gabriella Cafe in hopes of hearing the loquacious über gardener Orin Martin orate on the topic of peppers, while his artist wife Stephanie demystified a few complex points of intaglio printing.
Bantam Adds To Santa Cruz’s Pizza Revolution
The Westside’s newest pizzeria-in-progress, Bantam, is almost ready for prime time. “Sometime in November” is what proprietor Benjamin Sims predicted as he showed me around the spacious scrubbed and polished industrial space at the edge of Fair Avenue, across from New Leaf. The obvious centerpiece of the new restaurant is the Mugnaini wood-burning pizza oven, handsomely tiled by Sims’ cousin, at the center of the exhibition kitchen.
New Pizzeria Captures Elegant Spirit of Avanti
While the rest of you were feasting on sugary candy corn, we spent our traditional Halloween dinner at Avanti. The “old” Avanti, a.k.a. the new Pizzeria Avanti, where Jeremy Geise, son of owners Paul and Cindy Geise, has grown gracefully into his role as resident host.
