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PUNCH Magazine is an idea about how to live a life that is more engaging and authentic, be it through personal adventures and what we feed our bodies and souls to the culture that fulfills us and the traditions and new discoveries offered by the Peninsula

04/22/2026

Celebrate Macarena's one year anniversary (and Spain's annual Feria de Abril) with festivities throughout this week! Check out this Palo Alto restaurant's new outdoor terrace and order craft cocktails and dishes made specially for the festival, like salmorejo cordobés (a chilled Andalusian tomato soup) and calamares fritos (crispy, garlicky squid with aioli). You'll want to stop by for the flower truck on Thursday, April 23, where everyone who orders the Rose Cocktail also recieves a free bouquet. 🌹🌹🌹
Learn more about Macarena's incredible chefs in PUNCH's August 2025 issue available in the archive section on our website.
Words by .harlow
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04/21/2026

John and Sue Diekman, Atherton art collectors, don't believe in sticking their 100+ artworks in storage. Step with us into their gallery-like home in PUNCH's spring issue and encounter some of their extraordinary pieces.
Words by Sheryl Nonnenberg
by Katya Mizrahi

04/16/2026

One week and counting until the Flavors of the Peninsula celebration! This 10-day culinary celebration includes painstakingly-prepared prix-fixe menus and a medley of other special dining experiences. 130 restaurants in the San Mateo County will join in the delectable fun, including which we covered in our November issue.
The festivities will kick-off on April 23 with a diverse tasting featuring chefs, wineries and cocktail partners set to live music at Camber in South San Francisco and will conclude on May 1 with a seafood experience overlooking the ocean at La Costanera in Half Moon Bay.
Grab your tickets here: shorturl.at/wLhlF or click through to the link in the bio of

04/15/2026

Interested in checking out the Bay’s best wildlife hikes where you can come face-to-face with the fauna? PUNCH joins nature photographer and bird walk tour guide Rick Morris on the trails to track down creatures great and small in our magazine's spring issue. Look for it on driveways, newsstands, and online. 🦉🦉
Words by .harlow

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04/08/2026

Heritage breed chickens are at the center of Chef Jared Wentworth's new restaurant concept Café Vivant. These aren’t the industrial hybrid birds we all know with mild-mannered meat that serves as more of a blank canvas for sauces and marinades. Heritage chicken—hardy traditional breeds established before the mid-20th century that mature more slowly—offer firmer texture and a delightful depth of flavor. Jared believes in complexity behind simplicity. “As a young chef, you will throw everything but the kitchen sink at a dish,” he reflects. “You don't need 700 ingredients thrown at something. Let's keep it down to four really pristine ingredients that pair well with this.” Which is why whole-roasted chickens at Café Vivant are spotlighted with their own umami-rich jus simmered from about 300 birds a week. “It's kind of like my Americanized French mole,” he describes. Learn more about Menlo Park's latest restaurant in PUNCH's spring issue on driveways, newsstands, and online at the link in our bio.
Words by: .harlow
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03/27/2026

The classic adobe with rugged wood beams, tile floors, wrought iron hardware resonated with the owner's beloved Mexican heritage and invited their whimsical touch. But its authenticity rendered it too rustic for contemporary living. Let us regale you with Fergus Garber Architects’ herculean task to preserve the soul of this artful adobe while also ushering it into the 21st-century. Find the story in PUNCH's Spring issue, on driveways, newsstands, and online at the link in our bio.
Words by: Loureen Murphy
📸 by Ye Rin Mok

03/16/2026

Tucked away on the outskirts of Stanford University, neat rows of crops stretch out across six peaceful acres. Unlike commercial operations, every row at the school’s O’Donohue Family Educational Farm reveals a shift in vegetation, producing a pleasing profusion of colors and textures. There are crinkly kale leaves and glossy chard flushed with ruby red stalks. Bursts of bright orange marigolds and blue borage. Feathery carrot tops and pops of bright red peppers. Learn how farm director Patrick Archie and his team are nurturing the ground and cultivating the community growing up around it in PUNCH's Spring issue, on driveways, newsstands, and online at the link in our bio.
Words by: .harlow
📸 by Jessica Chu
Photo of Patrick: .harlow

03/03/2026

As the Peninsula landscape bursts into floral color and verdant green, celebrate the season with PUNCH's spring issue! 🌸 We'll inspire you to step outdoors with wildlife hike recommendations, a getaway to Carmel Valley, and a peek at the educational farm on Stanford's campus. You will also learn about an art-collecting Atherton couple who reject the idea of storing away their extraordinary collection, instead setting it free around their home, as well as about Café Vivant, which highlights heritage breed chicken, a far cry from the mild-mannered meat most of us associate with this bird. Find all this and so much more in the pages of our latest issue. If it's not on your doorstep, find PUNCH on local newsstands or at the link in our bio.

Also join us in welcoming PUNCH's new editorial director .harlow!

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02/25/2026

As a child, Susan McConnell fondly recounts visits to a colony of wood rats who’d taken up residence in a collapsed barn near her family’s home. “I spent hours as a little girl watching them,” Susan recalls, a twinkle in her eyes. “They were so interesting—all their behaviors!” It’s no great shock that Susan became a wildlife photographer. When she’s not plunging into the jungles of Central America, the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa or the tundra of the high Arctic to capture images of the wild and the wonderful, she works as a neuroscientist and biology professor at Stanford University. Learn more about Susan's close calls in the field and the photo that landed her on the cover of National Geographic in our Winter issue, on newsstands or online at the link in our bio.

Words by .harlow
📸 by Susan McConnell

02/23/2026

San Mateo's favorite neighborhood cafe and patisserie, Bonjour Bakehouse, tempts passersby with flaky, buttery pastries served hot from the oven. We recommend swinging by for a bacon scone and a steaming cup of Ginger and Turmeric Chai, then finding an outdoor table while reading PUNCH's article about François Bernaudin and Ingrid Sarlandi, the French co-owners behind this inviting bakery.

Words by Jen Jory
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