Wesley Severson

If you love pasta, you’ll be elated over a new shop coming to Inner Richmond that will eventually become a mini pasta factory, a retail pasta and pasta-making supply shop, and a restaurant.

Just over two months after becoming Mayor of San Jose, Matt Mahan has put forward his first budget plan that has a major focus on public safety, homelessness, housing, and blight.

There are pizza options galore in Berkeley, and there is about to be one more option that is sure to become a hit.

San Francisco’s only home beer-brewing supply store has closed.

A popular Bay Area-based ramen chain that has expanded well beyond California has just opened a new location in Silicon Valley.

Shake Shack burger joints keep popping up all over the Bay Area, and now the East Bay is seeing its second Shake Shack to open in two weeks.

The 16th largest bank in the U.S. and one of the key lending partners to countless Bay Area tech startups has failed. Silicon Valley Bank, which is responsible for $210 billion in assets, collapsed on Friday, sending shockwaves across the U.S. economy. It is being reported as the biggest banking collapse since the fall of Washington Mutual in 2008.

There’s now one less option to grab Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay Biscuits in the South Bay. One of the San Jose locations of the iconic seafood chain has closed after nearly 40 years in business.

There’s a new Mexican restaurant in the Marina that features breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes traditional to the Yucatan Peninsula. Las Mestizas has taken over the space formerly occupied by Sushi In at 2280 Chestnut Street.

A partly plagiarized history book that was being written about local governments and Native Americans in Silicon Valley, the subject of a mini-scandal last year, has now been canceled.

Xica, open as of Monday at Levi's Plaza, is a counter-service-style eatery that offers a brunch menu as well as traditional Mexican lunch items like tacos, quesadillas, and Xica Bowls.

San Jose’s Little Italy neighborhood near downtown just got a new food hall, appropriately dubbed The Littlest Little Italy.

Big moves are being made to make the southern portion of Milpitas, near the BART Station and the Great Mall, more lively.

A chic new Spanish tapas restaurant has opened in Silicon Valley. Vida Tapas has now started serving customers in downtown Mountain View, taking over the space formerly occupied by Xanh Vietnamese at 110 Castro Street.

Google’s ultra-ambitious Downtown West development in downtown San Jose is facing some obstacles that have thrown the long timeline for the housing and office project into reassessment mode.

A 22-year-old Irish pub in San Francisco’s Mission District has poured its last beers. Super Bowl Sunday was the final night of drinking at The Phoenix at 811 Valencia Street.

It’s now been one full week since the CEO of a South Bay development company has eaten.

A new Mexican restaurant, Xica, that spotlights tasty breakfast options is about to open in San Francisco’s Financial District, which brings its owners back to their restaurant roots in the neighborhood.

During this year’s San Francisco Beer Week, if you’re looking to break away from all the craft taprooms you’ve already visited, there will be a new brew spot to check out with a familiar name for beer lovers.

Fans knew that it was only a matter of time before San Francisco-based United Dumplings crossed the Bay Bridge and set up shop in the East Bay.

Chezchez, a sister restaurant and bar to the highly popular bar Trick Dog on 20th Street in San Francisco, has permanently closed.

A new and provocative natural wine bar has just opened in SoMa and will no doubt make a big splash in the nightlife scene.

Santa Clara County just conducted its federally mandated "point-in-time" homeless census, which is typically conducted every two years, out of sync with every other Bay Area county.

Police response times in the city of San Jose are not getting any faster and are falling well short of policing goals.

A real estate firm based in China is causing some major frustrations in San Jose because of a lack of action on a few major development projects. The drama comes after a top executive for Z&L Properties was arrested in London over a bribery and corruption case in San Francisco.