Business

Just the other day, I’d driven across the Golden Gate Bridge for an evening—and maybe more—away. There I was sitting at a quaint little Marin County bar, after having ordered wine and ceviche. I’d been carting around the prior weekend’s T Magazine, from the New York...

Jennifer Lin has a pitch she likes to repeat, and it usually gets a laugh: think of it as the antidote to the Amazon gift card. Lin runs the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce, and this spring she helped launch a community-wide gift card built...

Chef David Kinch announced this morning that he’s leaving Los Gatos’ acclaimed Manresa restaurant and soliciting bids for the business and the real estate. Post-pandemic economic realities have put tremendous pressure on high-ticket restaurants, with rising food costs and staff shortages. He’ll wrap up his more...

A San Jose recycling company has been ordered by a Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge to pay $25,000 in civil penalties for causing dangerous fires to start in the back of garbage trucks in Campbell.   The company, iDiskk, LLC, its principal Yue Zou,...

As tariffs against goods from Canada, Mexico and China were announced Sunday and Republicans hit national political television shows to slam our neighbor to the north, local winemakers braced for impact. But John Clerides, the owner of Marquis Wine Cellars—a Vancouver importer of Californian wines...

Downtown Los Gatos was flooded Saturday with green and red, different incarnations of Santa and Mrs. Claus strutting their stuff, young dancers and singers, and an abundance of cheer and goodwill. It was all part of the Holiday Promenade, which took cues from the successful...

Over two years ago, friends Nathan Gaudreau and Marcel Khorsand signed a lease to open their own Persian culture-inspired ice cream shop in the heart of Los Gatos. Sitting in the location that once housed Gymboree, the new shop, bakery and café arrives with...

Andrew Klein moved to Los Gatos last fall with his wife and new baby. He’s hoping to make a mark on the community. And he’s hoping his startup will provide the perfect way to get a “grip” on that plan. He founded Groovy Grips in February...

This holiday season, as members of Gen Z—the generation known for their affinity for convenience and endless personalization—pick out gifts for loved ones, they’re exerting an outsized influence on the overall shopping landscape, experts say. Members of Gen Z (born around 1995-2010), have been immersed...

A pair of Los Gatos medical businesses are making the move from leasing to owning. This morning, Walnut Creek-based Bay Area Development Co. said it had finalized a longterm "SBA 504" loan that will allow Young Naturopathic Center for Wellness and John McCleve D.D.S. to...