Nancy Lucille (Hodges) Oakes, age 70, of Ottawa, KS died December 20, 2013, at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS. She was born July 13, 1943, in Santa Monica, CA, the daughter of ...

In Nicolas Delaroque, Nancy Oakes finds a chef who achieves the perfect poise between cutting-edge ideas and soulful French cooking. When Nancy Oakes opened San Francisco’s L’Avenue in 1988 ...

Between the swanky Ken Fulk design, the ultra-flattering lighting and Chef Nancy Oakes’s skills, Boulevard, a San Francisco mainstay that recently underwent a refresh, is hard to beat.