Elena Kadvany
@elenakadvany.bsky.social
Food reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: elena.kadvany@sfchronicle.com
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As the class clowns of local media, alternative newsweeklies were smarter than they looked: They fearlessly called out corruption, launched artists’ and writers’ careers, and made journalism fun. Can COYOTE bring that energy back?
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September 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As the class clowns of local media, alternative newsweeklies were smarter than they looked: They fearlessly called out corruption, launched artists’ and writers’ careers, and made journalism fun. Can COYOTE bring that energy back?
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More women are turning to psychedelics to treat postpartum depression. Yet it remains a taboo, under-studied topic.
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This unorthodox treatment could help new moms: ‘The tipping point is coming’
Demand is surging among new moms for this once-taboo treatment, and the first trials of a new drug have shown promising results.
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August 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
More women are turning to psychedelics to treat postpartum depression. Yet it remains a taboo, under-studied topic.
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I talked to chefs and influencers about the Kis Cafe drama, and unpacked the power dynamics and logistics of their dynamic www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
How a viral feud revealed the complicated rules for Bay Area restaurants and influencers
The speed and reach of the Kis Café drama stunned both chefs and influencers, and showed how precarious the dynamic between them can be.
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August 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I talked to chefs and influencers about the Kis Cafe drama, and unpacked the power dynamics and logistics of their dynamic www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This story has it all: A woman pulling rotisserie chicken out at a vegetarian restaurant. Purse tuna. An egg salad influencer. Bodybuilders. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
People are bringing their own food to Bay Area restaurants. Is ‘purse tuna’ ever OK?
Bay Area chefs say they see people sneaking bites of homemade salads, spring rolls and even entire pizzas while dining at their restaurants.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This story has it all: A woman pulling rotisserie chicken out at a vegetarian restaurant. Purse tuna. An egg salad influencer. Bodybuilders. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
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Here’s a link to our ongoing tsunami coverage at @sfchronicle.com
No major damage at first light in California but tsunami is still ongoing and strong currents threaten harbors and marinas.
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No major damage at first light in California but tsunami is still ongoing and strong currents threaten harbors and marinas.
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Tsunami updates: 4-foot waves could hit California coast; Hawaii escapes major damage
Parts of the Northern California coast could expect to see waves of around 4 feet Wednesday while Hawaii escaped major damage after an 8.8 magnitude quake in Russia.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Here’s a link to our ongoing tsunami coverage at @sfchronicle.com
No major damage at first light in California but tsunami is still ongoing and strong currents threaten harbors and marinas.
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No major damage at first light in California but tsunami is still ongoing and strong currents threaten harbors and marinas.
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Some of the Bay Area's best matcha is finally back 🍵https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/forest-tea-bar-berkeley-20769147.php
The Bay Area gets a serene temple to exceptional matcha
A Berkeley matcha popup with a loyal following has opened a café dedicated to the art of tea-making.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Some of the Bay Area's best matcha is finally back 🍵https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaurants/article/forest-tea-bar-berkeley-20769147.php
We blind tasted 17 rotisserie chickens to find the Bay Area's very best! www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
We blind tasted 17 rotisserie chickens from Bay Area restaurants. Here’s how Costco ranked
The Chronicle conducted a blind taste test of rotisserie chickens from restaurants, butchers and grocery stores — including Costco — to find the Bay Area’s best. Here’s our list of the top...
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June 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We blind tasted 17 rotisserie chickens to find the Bay Area's very best! www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This ice cream is suuuper stretchy and hard to find in the Bay Area 🍨 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
June 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This ice cream is suuuper stretchy and hard to find in the Bay Area 🍨 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Esther Mobley takes us inside the selling drama at Toronado www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...
June 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Esther Mobley takes us inside the selling drama at Toronado www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...
"What I see in Fruitvale's street food scene is raw talent — a preview of future Bay Area restaurants. But I’ve often worried about the future of this corridor."
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The most exciting street food in the Bay Area is on this one block
The Fruitvale area in Oakland is the home to some of the best Central American food in the Bay Area, like Shucos Magi, Pupuseria Fatima and El Sazon K-Tracho.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"What I see in Fruitvale's street food scene is raw talent — a preview of future Bay Area restaurants. But I’ve often worried about the future of this corridor."
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What a honor, thank you
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FOOD WRITING PORTFOLIO, DIV 3
Three stories, columns or reviews by the same writer on any food topic.
🥇 1st Place: @elenakadvany.bsky.social
🥈 2nd Place: Emily Heil, @washingtonpost.com
🥉 3rd Place: @hannaraskin.bsky.social
🏅 Honorable Mention: MacKenzie Chung Fegan,
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Three stories, columns or reviews by the same writer on any food topic.
🥇 1st Place: @elenakadvany.bsky.social
🥈 2nd Place: Emily Heil, @washingtonpost.com
🥉 3rd Place: @hannaraskin.bsky.social
🏅 Honorable Mention: MacKenzie Chung Fegan,
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May 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
What a honor, thank you
@wearesfj.bsky.social!
@wearesfj.bsky.social!
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MUST-READ:
Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic
By MacKenzie Chung Fegan www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic
By MacKenzie Chung Fegan www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry
Thomas Keller is a legendary chef. Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan hadn’t met him, until she went to the French Laundry and he asked her to leave.
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May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
MUST-READ:
Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic
By MacKenzie Chung Fegan www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry. It turned into my most extraordinary night as a critic
By MacKenzie Chung Fegan www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
As someone who grew up in *sleepy* Menlo Park, it's wild to see this many new restaurants opening there. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Forget San Francisco. Restaurants see ‘huge opportunity’ in this quiet suburb
A wave of new restaurants are bringing energy to Menlo Park, a quiet Bay Area suburb that is perpetually labeled as sleepy.
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May 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
As someone who grew up in *sleepy* Menlo Park, it's wild to see this many new restaurants opening there. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
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SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
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SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
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May 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
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SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
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MON at 9AM
SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig join to discuss the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
❓ If you’re in the Oakland restaurant industry, what has your experience been like?
SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig join to discuss the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
❓ If you’re in the Oakland restaurant industry, what has your experience been like?
It’s America’s hottest food city. Restaurateurs say they can’t survive here
Oakland is home to nationally acclaimed restaurants, but it's harder and harder for them to survive, owners say.
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May 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
MON at 9AM
SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig join to discuss the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
❓ If you’re in the Oakland restaurant industry, what has your experience been like?
SF Chronicle food reporter @elenakadvany.bsky.social and restaurant and bar owners Paul Iglesias, Christ Aivaliotis and Stelle Dennig join to discuss the successes and struggles of Oakland’s food scene.
❓ If you’re in the Oakland restaurant industry, what has your experience been like?
If you love Kukje in Daly City, get excited www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Beloved Bay Area market to open Korean bakery
Kukje, a longtime Bay Area Korean market in Daly City, is starting its own bakery.
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May 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you love Kukje in Daly City, get excited www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
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Scoop: A century-old #SanFrancisco building two blocks from Union Square that last housed controversial French-Vietnamese restaurant Le Colonial has been sold to a pair of local bar operators.
Reporting with @elenakadvany.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
Reporting with @elenakadvany.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
Downtown bar owners will breathe new life into 100-year-old S.F. building
The SF restaurant space at 20 Cosmo Place, previously Le Colonial and Trader Vic's, has been sold to new owners behind Persona bar.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Scoop: A century-old #SanFrancisco building two blocks from Union Square that last housed controversial French-Vietnamese restaurant Le Colonial has been sold to a pair of local bar operators.
Reporting with @elenakadvany.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
Reporting with @elenakadvany.bsky.social for @sfchronicle.com
I have not stopped thinking about this dessert since I had it a few months ago www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
How one magical dessert is made at this S.F. Top 100 restaurant
San Francisco's Verjus, one of the Chronicle's Top 100 restaurants, makes an exceptional version of pain perdu, French toast, topped with gelato and caramel.
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April 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I have not stopped thinking about this dessert since I had it a few months ago www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
these sandwiches, this bread 😍 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This S.F. bakery is throwing incredible sandwich parties with made-to-order bread
Loquat, a bakery in San Francisco, hosts a monthly event centered around exceptional, freshly made laffa bread and sabich.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
these sandwiches, this bread 😍 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Restaurants that rely on imported goods from China, from tea to Sichuan peppercorns, are bracing for price hikes www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Raise prices? Remove dishes? Tariffs rattle Bay Area Chinese restaurants
The price of dishes at Bay Area Chinese restaurants could be increased due to President Donald Trump's staggering tariffs on China.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Restaurants that rely on imported goods from China, from tea to Sichuan peppercorns, are bracing for price hikes www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Can this Bay Area restaurant and farm disrupt the way we eat chicken in the U.S.? www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
This new Bay Area restaurant wants to change how America thinks about chicken
Cafe Vivant, opening soon in Menlo Park, will serve heritage chicken raised exclusively for the restaurant on a Pescadero farm.
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April 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Can this Bay Area restaurant and farm disrupt the way we eat chicken in the U.S.? www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
The full Top 100 drop!! 🎉 www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
100 best restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, ranked
The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area, from 100 to No. 1. See what’s on the list.
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April 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The full Top 100 drop!! 🎉 www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
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INVESTIGATION: A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions have no idea they’re at risk
My colleagues @meganmunce.bsky.social and @susien.bsky.social have worked on this story for months. If you're a homeowner in California, please read this story.
My colleagues @meganmunce.bsky.social and @susien.bsky.social have worked on this story for months. If you're a homeowner in California, please read this story.
18 of California's 20 most destructive wildfires have occurred since 2003, destroying 63,000 structures.
Homeowners hoping to rebuild consistently run into a roadblock: insurance companies grossly undervalue the cost.
A @sfchronicle.com investigation exposes the California underinsurance crisis.
Homeowners hoping to rebuild consistently run into a roadblock: insurance companies grossly undervalue the cost.
A @sfchronicle.com investigation exposes the California underinsurance crisis.
A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions are at risk
California's biggest insurance companies are using faulty algorithms and flawed processes to estimate rebuilding costs — leaving millions of homeowners unprotected from disaster.
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April 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
INVESTIGATION: A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions have no idea they’re at risk
My colleagues @meganmunce.bsky.social and @susien.bsky.social have worked on this story for months. If you're a homeowner in California, please read this story.
My colleagues @meganmunce.bsky.social and @susien.bsky.social have worked on this story for months. If you're a homeowner in California, please read this story.
Top 100 is BACK! www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
100 best restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, ranked
The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area, from 100 to No. 1. See what’s on the list.
www.sfchronicle.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Top 100 is BACK! www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
s/o to the people with camping chairs and snacks (I got in line around 8:15 a.m., long after some of the early birds) www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...
Customers brave epic lines at opening of Bay Area Korean market
Customers at Jagalchi, a new Korean market in Daly City, waited in massive lines on opening day.
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March 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
s/o to the people with camping chairs and snacks (I got in line around 8:15 a.m., long after some of the early birds) www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...