Chef Cal DeMercurio and his wife Christa today announced they will open a new restaurant in downtown Redding’s former Pine Street School site, which celebrates its 89th anniversary this year. The deal signed recently between DeMercurio and property owners Les and Diane Monthei… Continue Reading
A few months ago Femme de Joie was searching the shelves at Winco for a decent loaf of whole-wheat sandwich bread without high-fructose corn syrup, when she chanced upon Dave’s Killer Blues Bread. Attracted by the catchy graphics and healthy… Continue Reading
Chef Jeff has stepped up to the plate and made some very positive changes at Pio Loco. Femme de Joie recently visited twice and noticed a huge improvement in the quality of the food. There are a few new items such as a roasted garlic and olive quesadilla and three-layer lemon cake, as well as price cuts on the menu. Chef Jeff is also much more … Continue Reading
Pio Loco first opened in 1986 in a former pizzeria on Lake Boulevard as a non-traditional Mexican restaurant; when the old gymnasium at the Pine Street School became available in the mid-1990’s, Chef Jeff Cerasaro upped sticks and moved to… Continue Reading
What a fun four weeks, but alas, all good things must come to an end. Friday’s Cooking at the Cascade finale was a blast, although a bit different in format from the previous three Fridays. First, Linda Regan-Bott and Carl Bott (Linda’s main-man… Continue Reading
As promised, here are the recipes from Friday’s Cooking at the Cascade demos. The first recipe, Southern Fusion Cheese-Stuffed Cheese, inspired by that evening’s film, Fried Green Tomatoes, was the brainchild of Downtown Eatery & Libation’s Chef Taylor Smith (that’s him, above,… Continue Reading
Dinner and a Movie at the Cascade Theatre was so much fun in January that come Friday, we’ll enjoy the first of a four-part encore. Bravo! It’s the same concept – popular culinary-themed films, food demos and delicious samples – with just a few changes.… Continue Reading
Note from Doni: Yesterday we promised the exclusive story about the new business that will occupy Oregon Tea Company’s space after the tea closes its brick-and-mortar doors Sept. 20 and goes strictly online. Today we talk with Brad Tillson, who’ll soon own and operate his… Continue Reading
A moment of silence for the passing of what sounded like a very cool restaurant plan. The Pio Loco Tapas project is dead, said Brad Tillson, who’d planned a tapas restaurant within Pine Street School’s 7,500-square-foot Mexican restaurant location at… Continue Reading
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