Bethany Clough

The Bee doubles food coverage with new reporter. Where should she eat in Fresno?

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  • The Fresno Bee has added Amber Hair to its food reporting staff.
  • Amber Hair was a reporter and editor at the Pacific Coast Business Times in Ventura.
  • Readers are asked to suggest restaurants and what she should visit via a Google form.

Fresno, we know you love to eat.

And you’ve shown us that you love to read about places to eat. So here at The Fresno Bee, we’re bumping up our local food coverage and adding a second food reporter.

No, longtime restaurant reporter Bethany Clough isn’t going anywhere. But now, Amber Hair has joined the staff covering restaurants and food.

She comes to us from Ventura, where she was reporter and editor at the Pacific Coast Business Times.

She’s originally from Ohio, but also grew up in Florida. She’s a graduate of the University of Central Florida and got her master’s from Arizona State University.

She’s bounced around a lot, including studying in Singapore for six months. There, she picked up a taste for roti prata, an Indian flatbread she’d get from a 24-hour shop down the street from her flat.

She’s covered small businesses — including restaurants, retail, food and agriculture — at various publications.

Hair is a lover of theater, the arts and cats, and is looking to find her place in the local queer community.

But as she’s new to Fresno, we want you to tell her what restaurants she should visit. Fill out the Google form below, let us know why she should visit that restaurant and what she should order there.

Amber Hair, right, joins Bethany Clough in writing about food in Fresno for The Fresno Bee. Amber comes to Fresno from Ventura.
Amber Hair, right, joins Bethany Clough in writing about food in Fresno for The Fresno Bee. Amber comes to Fresno from Ventura. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com
Bethany Clough
The Fresno Bee
Bethany Clough covers restaurants and retail for The Fresno Bee. A reporter for more than 20 years, she now works to answer readers’ questions about business openings, closings and other business news. She has a degree in journalism from Syracuse University and her last name is pronounced Cluff.
Amber Hair
The Fresno Bee
Amber Hair (they/them) is the food and restaurants reporter and influencer. Amber has been in professional journalism for more than a decade, writing for outlets like the Orlando Sentinel, The Villages Daily Sun, the Pacific Coast Business Times and others. In their spare time, they enjoy going to concerts, reading and spending time with their cats.
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