Top Tickets: March 14–20
Comedian Aziz Ansari headlines at the Paramount Theatre, Chabot Space and Science Center talks about astronaut food, the city of Dublin turns green, and more this week in the East Bay.
Celebrating its 30th year in business, Chef Chao feels like a neighborhood favorite, with its hundreds of photos of smiling patrons celebrating their birthdays and wearing colorful Chinese hats. Despite its history, this clean, pleasant Mandarin-style restaurant doesn’t feel aged or dated. More importantly, the food tastes fresh and vibrant. For starters, the pot stickers are house-made daily, and they taste it, while the “drums of heaven” are aptly named, offering moist, succulent chicken within a sweet, crispy, garlicky skin. The Singapore noodles—with shrimp, pork, carrots, scrambled egg, onions, and bamboo shoots—are a lighter-than-typical rendition. The braised tofu with bok choy and eggplant exemplifies the honest quality of this restaurant’s food: Each ingredient tastes fresh (not overcooked) and complements each other perfectly. Lunch Mon.–Sat., dinner daily.
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