Fresno provided comfort food and place-comfort this year in a difficult time.
Fresno comfort food respect list for 2025
- Me & Ed’s pizza. Pepperoni, diced pepperoni, pepperoni & canned mushrooms, all did the trick. Every. Single. Time.
- Tacos. Street tacos to be precise. Although one messed me up (internally, we’ll say), and I have not gotten back on the taco horse since.
- Whole Foods Salad Bar. One of the few salad bar options in town anymore. There is an art to keeping your salad build as light as possible (aka keeping it cheap as possible) while still making it something you enjoy eating.
- Berrock Shop. Mostly the chili. A lot of chili.
- Mad Duck – Northwest. Cheers to the Tuesday all-day happy hour.
- Breakfast burritos from anywhere.
Area places gave me comfort, too:
- Out Of The Barrel (beer bar in Fig Garden)
- Every trail I went on in Yosemite.
- Zumwalt Meadow Trail in Kings Canyon NP.
- Gazebo Gardens.
- Walks down Van Ness.
- Sequoia Brewing returning.
- Walks around the San Joaquin River.
- Sitting on a patio anywhere.
This was an awful year for me, I’ll just say it, with the breakup of my marriage and other things as well. But what has come with that is a focused appreciation of when things are good. And of the good little moments that happen even when things are bad.
Just like Fresno, I will keep grinding for sunny times. Hope you will this year too.
Thanks for reading!
-Mikey
