While starting over on the mainland required some patience, Thai Chic Food Truck is rarely parked. “This is my dream job,” shares Ploy, “Because my family, every generation, we have food business. My grandma, my great grandma, my mom, my auntie, my sister, everybody sell food.

From the wrap-around canary-yellow couch in the grand lounge, to the veranda overlooking Broad St., to the 38 rooms dressed in various elegance, to The National Bar and Lola Dining, The National Exchange Hotel is a portal to an era synonymous with California.

In a cozy bay window, behind two glasses of red wine, sit Cathy Lee and Cheyenne Skye Coe, the all-women team managing the wine cellar at Nevada County’s longest-operating winery. “Dedicated, excited, and entirely optimistic,” read the...

The Holbrooke Hotel delivers unreasonable hospitality. In fact, it’s downright memorable. General Manager, Lunden Desmond, whose background in...

Noam Halpert is a renaissance woman, a mother, a small business owner, an investor, an architectural and interior designer...

The Ham Stand is a hole-in-the-wall eatery, which is only to say, it’s subtle, mysterious, and a bit of an anomaly in the volume and variety it produces––which makes their output an intriguing combination of experience and illusion.

It’s new-school, New York, high-flavor, cold-fermented, baked hotter, longer, and whatever you do don’t try and call because amidst the music, conversation, and buzz of the kitchen, the absence of a ringing phone––along with pepper and romesco broccolini, pesto and hazelnut carrots, pistachio and radicchio salad, and marinara-swimming meatballs––will take Grass Valley’s latest downtown addition from a single-slice pizzeria, to an apps and taps full-scale restaurant–– Italian

Ten years is diamonds, 15 is rubies, 20 is platinum, and 25 is… sushi? While most empty nesters are traveling, crying over grown babies, and joining book clubs, Lacie and Ryan Whittington, owners of Nourish Sushi, a Japanese fusion sushi bar and grill in downtown Nevada City, have rolled up their sleeves and honored their vows to become home-town restaurateurs. 

Planting New Roots in Nevada City’s Downtown Scene T here’s an intangible allure between Nevada City’s historic downtown architecture and...

The door to The 1856 Speakeasy Suites, a Nevada City hotel-style short-term rental with private rooms, ensuite bathrooms, and gold rush charm, is hidden in plain sight––a bit like Harry Potter’s Platform 9¾, The Chronicles of Narnia, or if you’re a gambling man, Let’s Make a Deal.

Bill and Dee Dee Barefield reopen the locations’ long-awaited return. Photos by Tanner Blake A second-wind blows through the front doors...

Handmade Salumeria, Delicatessen, and Catering Local owners and chefs, Kevin Soares and Rose Fisher, have carved their signature into a...

As a young adult attempting to replicate his mother’s (legendary) cooking, John found he needed quality ingredients and became quickly obsessed with gardening. This led to a chance visit to a local farm, and with his hands deep in the soft, sandy soil harvesting potatoes, he knew farming was his future.

GOLDFOLK: Why is locally-sourced organic produce so essential to the mission and origin story of Heartwood Eatery? Heartwood Eatery: Our...

A Conversation on Craft with BrewBilt Brewing Photos by Ingrid Nelson Bennett Buchanan, BrewBilt Brewing CEO, co-founder, and resident...