Business

Here are some event highlights to add to your calendar: Entertainment at Gardino’s Gardino’s, 51 N. Santa Cruz Ave., features entertainment four days a week. May 26: Dennis Dove Band. May 27: Hootenanny. May 28: Kid Dynamite. May 29: Dylan Rose Band. Meet Annieglass founder The Butter Paddle,...

The Butter Paddle, a nonprofit gift store in Los Gatos, has announced it is expanding its collection of local artisans and American-made brands on offer. The organization behind the shop says this is part of a thoughtful response to changing retail costs. Among the newest...

Julia Anderson lives a sweet life. Under the banner of Blue Canary Sweets, the former restaurant owner, culinary professional, pastry chef and chocolatier, gets to create chocolates for a living, without the stress of a brick-and-mortar operation.  You might remember Anderson from her time as...

The Battle of Blossom Hill grocers has ended before it had much of a chance to heat up. Four months after Amazon-owned Whole Foods opened a giant new store directly across Blossom Hill Road Los Gatos Almaden Road from Los Gatos mainstay Nob Hill Foods,...

Tana Duncan began her catering company, Salt & Stone, in 2017, and has been serving hungry mouths from Napa to Big Sur ever since. She’s no newcomer to working in the food and beverage industry. Twenty-two years ago, Duncan started working as a short-order...

When the first bouts of Covid-19 hit the news, people went into a frenzy, leading to one of the greatest social isolations in modern history. As the first year ended, many were asking, Will we be able to have the holiday traditions and connect...

Jessica Kashian, the program manager of Los Gatos Music & Arts, Inc., says while Jazz on the Plazz may be wrapping up this week, that doesn’t mean summer musical gatherings are over. And while the exact location of the upcoming “Sunshine of Love” festival she’s...

The Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce's ongoing summer evening series made a big splash last week during one of those 100+ degree Fahrenheit days we’ve been having. Many Los Gatans brought themselves and their children out of the air conditioning and into downtown to see...

When superstar chef David Kinch decided to shutter Manresa at the end of 2022, it seemed an era of Los Gatos culinary fame had come to a close. Through several seasons the building sat, with its “For Lease” sign, looking like a child that...

Since the departure of women’s clothing boutique Jackie ‘O from what is considered prime retail space along North Santa Cruz Avenue, town residents, shop owners, Council members and the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce have been wondering what might replace it. The three-years-running Best of...