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Vail travel: Pack a Fork tour offers behind-the-scenes look at Napa harvest http://www.vaildaily.com//dt.common.streams.StreamServer.c Link to Article: http://blog.qstc.net//vail-travel-pack-a-fork-tour-offers/... NIWOT Pack a Fork, a boutique tour company based in Colorado, is offering a six-day gourmet food and wine tour to Napa Valley, California, Sept. 25-30. Napa Harvest 2016: A Gourmet Food & Wine Adventure will take an intimate group of no more than 15 to experience the best of crush in Napa. Harvest is the best time of the year to visit bountiful Napa Valley, said Patty Moss, owner of Pack a Fork. With warm days and cool nights, grapes being harvested and a year’s worth of work coming to fruition, participants will experience the valley at its best. The tour is carefully designed to offer unique, curated experiences, private excursions, specially selected gourmet meals and luxury accommodations. Local tour guides and chefs will provide participants with behind-the-scenes looks into the harvesting of grapes, the art and science of wine-making and viticulture, olive oil production and the farm-to-table movement. FULL STOMACHS, SCHEDULES Participants will cook with a Napa chef, tour the Napa Farmers and Oxbow Markets, take a culinary garden tour, visit an award-winning olive oil farm, taste wine at select wineries, learn how to blend wines and experience food and wine pairings. Meals will feature the bounty of local seasonal ingredients at well-known and well-loved Napa and Yountville restaurants, as well as one luncheon on a winery terrace overlooking the vineyards in every direction. The tour will culminate with a chef-guided farm-to-table dinner using produce and meats from the farm. Important to Pack a Fork tours is time to unwind and relax. This is built in to the itinerary, so guests can have free time to do as they wish alone or with new friends. This is a unique, customized experience for men and women who want to discover the best of Napa, Moss said. It will be led by local guides, committed to giving guests immersive experiences in the valley they love so much. There will be main attractions and off-the-beaten path experiences. Experience, learn, create and immerse yourself in some of the best Napa has to offer. Normally a travel company catering to women older than 40, Pack a Fork has opened this tour to men and women 40 and older, including solo travelers and couples. The registration and deposit deadline is June 24. Potential participants should contact 303-652-1535 or [email protected]. #Sanfranciscotour, #Sanfranciscotravel, #NapaTour, #NapaTravel Quicksilver TownCar Blog http://qstc.net San Francisco Limousine Service

New flights lift Sonoma County Airport travel 39% http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com//dt.common.streams. Link to Article: http://blog.qstc.net//new-flights-lift-sonoma-county-airp/... Airline passenger traffic at Charles M. SchulzSonoma County Airport soared 39 percent last month, largely thanks to new routes, according to a new report. The number of passengers has been rising every month since January 2015, primarily due to the increase in flight activity, according to officials at the county-run facility on May 5. Last year, an average of five airline flights departed daily, compared with almost seven in April. Alaska Airlines, currently Santa Rosa’s only commercial carrier, started a daily route between Santa Rosa and Orange County on March 16. Also added were a third flight to Los Angeles and a second flight to Seattle.The number of travelers through the airport is set to increase even more when the Allegiant Air starts service as Sonoma County’s second airline on May 19. The airline is beginning with flights to Las Vegas and Phoenix.Total airline passengers through the north Santa Rosa airport in April were 25,585, compared with 18,393 a year before, according to the report.The number of passengers arriving in and departing from Santa Rosa so far this year increased 31.2 percent to 89,477 from 68,184 in the first four months of last year. The load factor how full the seats were on each plane was 78 percent, up 1.3 percent for the year, so the airport saw a slight increase in ridership as well.In April, there were 206 arrivals and 206 departures. #Sanfranciscotour, #Sanfranciscotravel, #SanFranciscoTravel, #SonomaTour Quicksilver TownCar Blog http://qstc.net San Francisco Limousine Service

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Tech layoffs have doubled this year Link to Article: http://blog.qstc.net//25/tech-layoffs-have-doubled-this-y/... Tech layoffs in the Bay Area have more than doubled during the first four months of 2016 compared to the same period last year, as the industry grapples with disappointing earnings, a frozen IPO market and a push to consolidate. The San Jose Mercury News reports this week that San Clara County had the majority of those layoffs, tracked by notices filed with the state of California, while San Francisco, Alameda and and Contra Costa all saw job losses in the sector. EnlargeTech layoffs in the Bay Area have more than doubled during the first four months of 2016. NANCY KUEHN | MSPBJ Yahoo’s 279 workers let go this year contributed to the 3,135 tech jobs lost in the four-county region of Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda and San Francisco counties from January through April, as did the 50 workers axed at Toshiba America in Livermore and the 71 at Autodesk in San Francisco, the paper reported. In the first four months of last year, just 1,515 Bay Area tech workers were laid off, according to mandatory filings under California’s WARN Act. For that period in 2014, the region’s tech layoffs numbered 1,330. Join the conversation: Follow @SFBusinessTimes on Twitter, Like us on Facebook and sign up for our free email newsletters. The report is careful to note that those numbers are likely much higher, because WARN notices are only required when a company lays off 50 or more people, and don’t typically encompass tech startups folding or jobs lost through attrition. Last month, Intel said it would layoff more than 12,000 workers worldwide. There is a lot of that, Wells Fargo senior economist Mark Vitner told the paper. When businesses begin to clamp down on costs, one of the first things they do is say, ‘Let’s put in a hiring freeze.’ I feel pretty certain that if you had a pickup in layoffs, then hiring slowed ahead of that. Still, there is some good news: Tech’s largest companies, like Google, LinkedIn, Apple and Facebook, are all expanding, as the sector becomes focused on large, revenue-solid firms that can deliver results. Plus, after years of tech booming, it’s only natural it would hit a stall in growth in some areas, experts said.We’re seven years into this expansion, so at some point we’re going to have a downturn, Vitner told the paper.My general sense is the tide is beginning to go out. It doesn’t mean a recession is right around the corner. #SiliconValleyNews, #SiliconValleyTour Quicksilver TownCar Blog http://qstc.net San Francisco Limousine Service

Most expensive neighborhoods in San Francisco Link to Article: http://blog.qstc.net//most-expensive-neighborhoods-in-san/... The 23 San Francisco’s housing market is, in a word, insane. Thanks to a perfect storm of interrelated factors from a tangled web of city policies that prevent development to an influx of young tech workers who want to live in trendy areas San Francisco doesn’t have enough housing for everybody.In fact, despite a dip in prices, the average price of a home in San Francisco in April 2016 was still $1.2 million dollars, says homebuying brokerage Redfin.But there’s a wide variety of neighborhoods in San Francisco, and some are pricier than others. And so, there are neighborhoods where even $1.2 million won’t get you much. Here are the 23 San Francisco neighborhoods, out of 50 total, where the median home price is $1 million or more, with data taken from Redfin’s April 2016 report. Just keep in mind that those averages take homes and condos alike into account, so prices may seem a little lower in areas with lots of little apartments. Spoiler alert: The most expensive neighborhood in San Francisco had a median home price of $2,137,500. #Sanfranciscotour, #Sanfranciscotravel Quicksilver TownCar Blog http://qstc.net San Francisco Limousine Service

Much-anticipated restaurant Bellota opens in SoMa - San Francisco Business Times Link to Article: http://blog.qstc.net//much-anticipated-restaurant-bellota/ Much-anticipated restaurant from Coqueta alum opens in SoMaMay 24, 2016,... In 2013, chef Ryan McIlwraith signed the lease at 888 Brannan St. with plans to open a Spanish-style restaurant within the year. Tomorrow night, three years of work will come to fruition: Bellota’s doors will finally open. Former chef de cuisine at Coqueta, McIlwraith partnered with the Absinthe Group to open the 5,300-square-foot space on the ground floor of the four-story building, which houses Airbnb and Pinterest, in the design- and tech-centric SoMa neighborhood. VIEW SLIDESHOW4 photos Former chef de cuisine at Coqueta, McIlwraith partnered with the Absinthe Group to open more This area has great options for food, but not as many high-end places, McIlwraith said. We wanted to provide that. And this is a social space, too, where you can lean over and talk to your neighborhood, which is important to the tech crowd. Join the conversation: Follow @SFBusinessTimes on Twitter, Like us on Facebook and sign up for our free email newsletters.The design community will appreciate the space, too. Designed by Sagan Piechota Architecture in Hayes Valley, the restaurant features a fully open, copper-colored stadium kitchen with wrap-around seating as the restaurant’s anchor, and hand-painted tile walls, bay laurel tabletops and counters and custom-made leather upholstered seating. The space can seat 170 in the main dining room and bar with the capacity to hold an additional 40 in the private dining room.With a full bar and dining room, Bellota will offer different experiences in the same space, whether it’s after work drinks and small plates or a long sit-down meal. The restaurant will offer tapas, but because it is so much larger than most Spanish restaurants in the city, the main focus will be larger plates.Half the kitchen is devoted to the four paellas on the menu, and meats will be grilled in the eight-foot-long wood-burning hearth and oven, or, as McIlwraith puts it, the whole wall of fire. A former factory site, the space was essentially empty when McIlwraith signed the lease, which is one reason why the buildout took so long. But apart from adding the infrastructure, McIlwraith also had to renegotiate the lease last year when the building sold to TIAA-CREF for $312 million.The restaurant will serve dinner Monday through Saturday with plans to open for lunch in the coming months and brunch soon after that. #Sanfranciscotour, #Sanfranciscotravel Quicksilver TownCar Blog http://qstc.net San Francisco Limousine Service