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Name: Ryan Tate
Location: Berkeley, CA,

Journalist covering the business of restaurants and hotels.

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Recent blog posts of mine here at Covers

  • I'm blogging for Gawker (Jan. 29)
  • Mina elaborates on his Millenium concept (Dec. 6)
  • Tanya Holland brings TV glitz to West Oakland (Dec. 4)
  • Kuleto restaurants delayed, over budget (Nov. 26)
  • Update (Nov. 23)
  • More than half of SF restaurants open on Thanksgiving today (Nov. 22)
  • Failure of SF grease recycling goes ignored (Nov. 21)
  • Tony Bourdain keeping it real in Fruitvale (Nov. 19)
  • How to give a presentation in a hotel: Step one, avoid hotels. (Nov. 16)
  • Gary Danko's eunuch orgy (Nov. 15)

Recent articles of mine in the San Francisco Business Times

  • Chef brings sizzling Las Vegas Burger Bar to S.F. (Feb. 2)
  • Aqua to close Pisces restaurant in Burlingame (Web) (Jan. 31)
  • S.F. food to go -- to Oakland: Business climate, growth tantalize restaurateurs (Jan. 19)
  • Growing appetite for S.F.: Restaurants setting new tables in the city (Dec. 15)
  • Hotels run up tab to boost restaurants: Today's special: Hot chefs (Dec. 8)
  • Crowne Plaza, Palomar hotels hit sales block: 'The market is coming back' (Dec. 1)