Favorite Breakfast /Brunch >> Hash Browns

Favorite Sweet Treat >> Sublime Ice Cream Sandwiches

Favorite Snack >> Chili & Lime Flavored Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips — for the fifth time, which means this product now goes into the Hall of Fame.

Bath, Body/Home >> Brazil Nut Body Butter, a seasonal product that will return in May or June, TJ’s says.

Favorite Overall >> Again the Rolled Corn Tortilla Chips, Chili-Lime flavor, won top honors.

And the new category, Favorite New Product >> Cashel Blue Cheese Irish Potato Chips, made in Ireland with Ireland-grown potatoes and an Ireland-produced blue cheese.

As the Trader Joe’s award announcers noted, this came as a surprise because, for starters, blue cheese is a “polarizing” flavor — you either love it or hate it. Also, they said, this limited-time offering arrived in stores late in the year, in November. But there’s something new coming soon from this producer — a garlicky potato chip.

Silicon Valley Pizza Week offers deals, special slices

The inaugural Silicon Valley Pizza Week will run through Saturday, with special pizza creations and pricing deals from restaurants in Santa Clara County and southern Alameda County.

More than 50 restaurant locations are taking part in the promotion sponsored by Metro Newspapers, Yelp and local chambers of commerce.

Among them are Tandoori Pizza in Fremont, Sunnyvale and San Jose; Centonove in Los Gatos; Campbell Pizza Company; Pizzeria Delfina in Burlingame and Palo Alto; Odeum and Mohi Farm in Morgan Hill; Mio Vicino and Krusti Pizza in Santa Clara; Bibo’s. Rollati, Last Round Tavern, A Slice of New York, Urban Putt, Pizza Way and Craving Pizza in San Jose; Amici’s in Mountain View, Menlo Park and San Mateo; Terun and iTalico in Palo Alto; Gumba’s and Quarter Note in Sunnyvale; State of Mind in Los Altos, Redwood City and Palo Alto; Parktown Pizza in Morgan Hill and Milpitas; and 18 locations of Pizza My Heart.

Look for details on special pizzas and slices on https://siliconvalleypizzaweek.com.

Forge Pizza lands at Oakland’s Terminal 2

Travelers looking for a cheesy, carb-loaded snack at the Oakland Airport have a fresh option: Forge Pizza, which opened a location this January in Terminal 2.

“We’re proud to incorporate a local Oakland business like Forge to help travelers truly feel like they are in the East Bay when they fly OAK (the Oakland Airport),” Craig Simon, the Port of Oakland’s director of aviation, said in a statement.

Forge specializes in sourdough pies baked in wood-fired ovens. For travelers getting off a red-eye, the airport location has an early menu served until 10 a.m. that includes a bacon-and-mushroom “breakfast pizza” (with a sunny-side egg on top, $20) and a veggie skillet with eggs, soy chorizo, gruyere and tater tots ($17.50).

The regular pizzas range from $18.50 for a margherita to $28 for a barbecue chicken and include a Fat Boy with sausage and pickled peppers ($26) and a Cauliflower with leeks and pesto ($24). There’s a burger and a fried-chicken sandwich, both on brioche, and other items like fried cheese curds with marinara ($12), crispy Brussels sprouts ($13) and an Angry Shrimp Caesar salad ($26).

The original Forge Pizza drew crowds for more than a decade in Oakland’s Jack London Square.

The restaurant shut down in December, but has plans to relaunch in the city’s Rockridge neighborhood later in 2025. The Napa location of Forge Pizza remains in business.

The new Forge is past security by Gate 26. That’s one terminal away from A16, the Bay Area pizza restaurant with Michelin cred that opened a branch in the airport last summer.

Send restaurant news tips to Linda Zavoral at lzavoral@bayareanewsgroup.com, Kate Bradshaw at kbradshaw@bayareanewsgroup.com or John Metcalfe at jmetcalfe@bayareanewsgroup.com.