Julia Brown, Author at The Six Fifty

Culinary holiday happenings around Silicon Valley

Want to celebrate the holidays while supporting your favorite local eateries? From special food sales and makers markets to cookie-decorating workshops, there are food festivities fit for everyone's wish list. Here's a running roundup of food-centric holiday happenings around the Peninsula.

12 Peninsula eateries serving to-go Thanksgiving meals and desserts

Looking for a little reprieve in the kitchen this Thanksgiving? Restaurants and bakeries around the Peninsula are selling a range of offerings this holiday season, from side dishes and desserts to complete meals to go. Here’s what 12 eateries have in store this year:

From caviar-stuffed mozzarella to fried Parmesan pinwheels, Che Fico’s new Menlo Park restaurant puts a modern spin on Italian taverna fare

Handmade pastas and naturally fermented pizzas are key ingredients on the menu of the latest restaurant making its debut in Menlo Park this month. But you’ll also find freshly made mozzarella stuffed with an ounce of caviar and vongole in crosta, clams dressed with herbs and nduja butter, wrapped in pizza dough and baked in an oven before the dough is cut tableside.

San Francisco’s Robin brings its modern take on high-end omakase sushi to Menlo Park

The lineup of restaurants at Menlo Park's Springline development includes several buzzy and familiar names like Canteen, the sister restaurant of Camper's Greg Kuzia-Carmel, and San Francisco's Barebottle Brewing Company and Burma Love. But one element sets the newest addition, Robin Menlo Park, apart: It doesn't have a menu.

Celebrate Pride, head to the redwoods and taste beer in Burlingame: Here’s what’s happening in June

Here are 10 ways to spend the month of June around the San Francisco Peninsula, from Pride Month and Juneteenth activities to fairs and an air show.

9 ways to spend Memorial Day weekend on the Peninsula

Memorial Day weekend is considered the unofficial kickoff to summer for those too eager to wait for the solstice June 21. Here are nine ways to spend the long weekend.

How Peninsula residents have transformed their yards with native gardens

The Six Fifty checked out three gardens on the Growing Natives Garden Tour and spoke with participants about what motivated their decisions to garden with native plants and advice they'd give people who are considering doing the same.

Whiskey and wine festivals, wildflowers and Dream Machines: 15 spring events throughout the Peninsula

While the rain may not be done with us yet, spring's arrival on March 20 ushers in the return of more outdoor festivals and seasonal events and brings us that much closer to the long, warm days of summer. Here are 15 events this spring we have circled on the calendar.

How to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on the Peninsula

Whether you're looking to take advantage of food and drink specials or just want to listen to some live music, our running guide to Peninsula St. Patrick's Day happenings has you covered.

Why debut author and Atherton native Kimberly Young’s new novel set in Silicon Valley doesn’t focus on tech

Atherton resident and debut novelist behind the book "In the Event of Death" Kimberly Young talks with The Six Fifty about how overcoming a health scare inspired her to write a book and why she chose to include characters who don't work in tech.