I come not to steal from George Frazier, but to praise him. To render tribute by picking up where he left off, to grope around in the dark for “duende,” to find it and to bring it back into ...

Chef Paul Canales stands in the middle of his open kitchen at his new restaurant Duende. Canales, formerly of Oliveto has opened in downtown Oakland at 468 19th St. Wednesday Jan 16, 2013.

Duende, the modern Spanish restaurant from chef Paul Canales, has closed. Canales confirmed the last day of service was Sunday, June 30. “We had a great run,” Canales says, “there’s no ...

To understand the charm of duende is to recall how George Frazier, the late and very great Boston Globe columnist, viewed it: “Duende is so difficult to define.