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Elena Kadvany
Journalist · Editor — The Bay Area restaurant industry as a business and a workplace: openings, closures, wage theft, workers' rights. Her first beat was the Peninsula and the South Bay, and it still shows in what she knows about Palo Alto, Mountain View and Menlo Park.
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Elena Kadvany has been on the San Francisco Chronicle's Food & Wine team since 2021 and was promoted to deputy editor of Food & Wine in November 2025. Before the Chronicle she spent eight years at the Palo Alto Weekly covering restaurants and education, and she created the Peninsula Foodist, the newsletter that was the first dedicated restaurant desk the 650 ever had. Her reporting has been recognized by the California News Publishers Association, and her work has run in The Guardian and Bon Appétit. She wrote The chef's bucket list: 47 Peninsula dishes to eat before you die, the one piece in this region that puts dozens of working operators on the record naming other people's rooms.
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