Hawaii is the most food insecure state in America. It imports as much as 90 percent of its food and is highly vulnerable to disruptions in food supplies and spikes in the cost of oil.

Blush serves Americanized sushi and a few varieties of oysters and a forgettable shrimp cocktail. The menu includes sushi with lots of squiggly squirted sauces, spicy tuna rolls, dragon rolls—that kind of thing.

The chef-owned restaurant is something of a rarity in Silicon Valley. There is a difference between a restaurant owner who hires someone to do the cooking and the restaurant owner who also leads the kitchen.

Hold the beef. Here comes the fish. Alexander’s Steakhouse, a luxury steakhouse with locations in Cupertino and San Francisco, plans to open The Sea, a high-end seafood restaurant on the site of Trader Vic’s on El Camino Real in Palo Alto.

Small plates, appetizer, starters, whatever you want to call them, can pack a lot of flavor into a few bites. Here are five of our favorite places to live large with small bites.

The food festival and event season is upon us. Here are three choice happenings in the weeks to come. One of the biggest events of the summer is Sunset Magazine’s Celebration Weekend.

Mitsunobu says he wanted to give diners more choice when they order. A kaiseki meal is a set experience. Mitsunobu offers a four-course meal for $75 with two or more choices for each course.

Soulnese is the brainchild of the Fan brothers and their two childhood friends. Passionate about fine cuisine and preserving the traditional flavors of the comfort foods they grew up with, the San Jose natives decided to launch the Soulnese truck.

The Kraftbeer festival coming to downtown San Jose in July promises not to be just another keg party with porta-potties. Set for July 21 on Post Street, the event will feature some 60 domestic and imported beers, many of them obscure and hard to find.