Piperade, a San Francisco restaurant owned by renowned Basque chef Gerald Hirigoyen, is celebrating 10 years years in business and has added a new private event space. The 1,000 square-foot space is called Lauburu, which is the Basque cross, and seats 30 people who can order from a personalized menu. Details of the new event space, which is next [...]

Basque festivals are popular — everyone enjoys them, especially the food. Here are a few videos inspired by recent festivals — and the summer festival season has barely started. Video producer Jean Paul Barthe gives a glimpse of the San Francisco Basque Club picnic June 3.

Two new Basque restaurants in California are scheduled to be opened in San Francisco and Shell Beach. In San Francisco, Bask is expected to start operating within several weeks in an area near North Beach and the Financial District. It will be the latest Basque-themed restaurant in a city with a storied Basque culture and history. RELATED EUSKAL KAZETA REPORTS: [...]

Zagat has named Chef Gerald Hirigoyen’s Piperade restaurant as the top “Spanish/Basque” restaurant in the San Francisco Bay area. Piperade was rated number one among five “Best Spanish/Basque Bay Area Restaurants” singled out by Zagat. Started in 1979, Zagat publishes consumer-based surveys that are read worldwide and have been dubbed “The Gastronomic Bible” by the Wall Street Journal. Related Euskal [...]

Txoko restaurant, which lies near an area that was once home to San Francisco’s historic Basque community, has opened its doors and features plates inspired by pintxos in the Basque County. Among the Basque-themed platters featured at the new restaurant are green egg and ham pintxo, grilled lamb loin chop, crispy sweetbreads and roncal chorizo croqueta. The restaurant also serves [...]

Korrika is a running event held every other year in the Basque Country since 1980 in support of the Basque language Euskera. It is a community run in which thousands of people join in, sometimes up to 600,000. This year, four U.S. Basque communities, San Francisco, New York City and Boise and Mountain Home, Idaho will be joining the Basque [...]

Two San Francisco restaurant owners are planning to open Txoko, where chefs will specialize in Basque-style pintxos. The new restaurant is named in honor of popular Basque gastronomical societies, where people gather to drink wine, socialize and cook sumptuous dishes. Txoko will be located in North Beach at 504 Broadway near Columbus, an area where a cluster of former Basque [...]

Singers Mikel Markez and Erramun Martikorena are a generation apart and represent two different styles of music.

The Basque Country duo of Harkaitz Martinez de San Vicente and Mikel Ugarte have focused the spotlight on the unique instrument known as txalaparta here in the U.S.

San Francisco chef Mattin Noblia, who appeared last year on the popular Top Chef show, is selling his Iluna Basque restaurant. Noblia opened the trendy restaurant in 2003 on the edge of the city’s tree-lined Washington Square. He was just 23 at the time. Related Euskal Kazeta reports: Video: Basque on Top Chef Show Mattin Noblia Talks about Operating Iluna [...]