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We launched Food Friday to learn more about our readers' favorite restaurants. Some of our most-read stories are restaurant news, and business leaders are always looking for the best restaurants to take their clients, prospects or job candidates to. We're here to help. Last week we learned about readers' favorite places to grab a salad.

With local dessert shop The Paleta Bar recently announcing expansion plans, we wanted to know where readers go to satisfy their sweet tooth. The answer was another…

Chef Dean Robb is opening his latest restaurant at Pepper Place.

Two in the next two weekends — Denver BBQ Fest and Cochon555 — could have particular impact.

McDonald's will test an alternative to plastic straws in the U.S. and introduce paper straws in more than 1,000 markets in the U.K. and Ireland, the fast-food giant announced Friday.

The plan is expected to be completed by 2019. Already, McDonald’s is experimenting with plastic-straw alternatives in its restaurants in Belgium, with more tests planned for locations in the U.S., France, Sweden, Norway and Australia later this year.

With more than 37,000 stores in 100-plus countries, Chicago-based…

Kakaako business executives delved into headwinds, tailwinds and trends that are affecting the ever-changing neighborhood during Pacific Business News’ inaugural Kakaako Means Business panel event, held Thursday at Dave & Busters in Ward Village.

Speakers included Todd Apo, vice president of community development at Howard Hughes; Colin Yost, chief operating officer at RevoluSun; John Whalen, chair of the Hawaii Community Development Authority; Clint Hamabata, assistant vice president, condo…

The Lost Lake Festival, a multiday concert scheduled for October at Phoenix’s Steel Indian Park, has been canceled, according to a report by music publication Billboard.

This would have been the second year of the music festival, which was being promoted by New York-based Superfly, the company behind the popular music festivals Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and Clusterfest.

Superfly partnered with Tennessee-based AC Entertainment to promote the event. Locally, Superfly worked with Stateside Presents,…

I recently arrived at a local fitness studio, ready to tone a muscle I'd ignored too long: my mind.

I was at Fitness Rangers at 1717 34th St. in East Sacramento, ready to try its new Somadome. A 20-minute session in the dome-shaped device — which focuses on sound, color and light therapy — could help me on my path toward achieving clarity, Somadome's top executive said.

“Ideally, you do it like any healthy habit,” Sarah Attia, Somadome's founder and CEO, said of incorporating future visits…

As Yolo County's recreational cannabis market takes shape, some residents are turning up their noses at marijuana cultivation in their backyard.

To placate their concerns, county officials have drawn up a draft cannabis land use ordinance that includes an entire section on odor assessment and control. The ordinance would rely on objective benchmarks for assessing odors from cannabis cultivators. The way they plan to measure those smells? Something called the Nasal Ranger.

At least, the device…