Seth Zurer is a recent Riverside transplant, cottage baker (try Zurer Bread!) and food writer. His food writing has appeared on Yummly.com, the Chicago Reader, Timeout Chicago and elsewhere.
It’s only been open for a month, but MandiXpress is already one of the most interesting places to eat in Downtown. Seth explored the menu and has recommendations for eaters who are ready to dive into this fascinating and delicious cuisine.
There’s a new weekly community market in Riverside. Stop by on Tuesdays and you might catch Seth chowing down on pupusas and Thai desserts in the shadow of the Riverside Community Hospital parking complex.
Seth takes a tasting tour of UCR’s incredible collection of citrus varieties and shares some ways to sample them yourself on campus and at the upcoming Third Annual Citrus Festival at the California Citrus State Historic Park
Why settle for soup and a sandwich when you could have a sandwich in soup? Try the signature “drowned” Jalisciense sandwich at La Chiva Rayada, a torta ahogada specialist on Mission in Jurupa Valley.
Seth overcomes his mega mall aversion to recommend outstanding Lanzhou-style noodles from an unexpected source: a stall in the food court at the Tyler Galleria.
This week, as pomegranate season peaks and trees all over Riverside are bowed over with heavy fruit, Seth learns about a project at UCR that aims to diversify the world of pomegranates with research into varied and delightful cultivars beyond the Wonderful.
In today’s Eat This column, a conversation with a respected donut shop owner led Seth down a donut rabbit hole to investigate whether Riverside’s independent donut shops are all serving more or less the same donuts made with the same industrially packaged donut mix. Spoiler alert: they are!
In a tidy subdivision in the hills above the Citrus State Historic Park, Kali Hathaway is baking the bagels of her dreams in her licensed home bakery. In today’s edition, Seth learns more about Parzel’s Bagelry: a great bagel bakery with big bagel ambitions.
This week, a hot tip from a hair stylist led Seth to this venerable grocery store/taqueria at Tyler and Cypress, where chicharron and fresh masa in many forms are the highlights of the taco counter.
