Email Author Jonathan Kauffman

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 2, 2011

  "Shark's Fin - Understanding the Political Soup"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 17, 2011

  "Tacko: The Nantucket Gringo Take on the Taco"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 19, 2011

  "Leatherneck Steakhouse"

• 2010 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published July 1, 2009

  "... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published March 18, 2009

  "Healing from a Hot Pot"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 9, 2009

  "Drawing Room Comedy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published July 1, 2009

  "... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of German Butterballs"

• 2009 - Bert Greene Award/International Association of Culinary Professionals, published January 23, 2008

  "What I Saw, and Ate, at the Pig 'Sacrifice'"

• 2009 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published October 23, 2008

  "Juno Aces on Ambience"

• 2009 - Association of Food Journalists Awards, published October 16, 2008

  "Nostalgic for Where You've Never Been"

• 2009 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published January 23, 2008

  "Slices of Life"

• 2008 - Pacific Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards/Society of Professional Journalists Region 10, published August 15, 2007

  "Teriyaki's Boss"

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published November 30, 2005

  "Endangered Species"

• 2006 - Association of Food Journalists Awards

  Restaurant Criticism

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2010 Stories by Jonathan Kauffman

• Pasion Flares, Atelier Crenn Announces an Opening Date

  published Dec 31, 2010

  rThe past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Did you want to dine out on New Year's Eve but forgot to make a reservationr Pan-Latin Pasion... More >>

• S.F. Rising: Raisin Brioche from West Portal Bakery

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Just in time for your low-carb New Year's diet, SFoodie is resuming our weekly survey of bread in San Francisco r the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Raisin Brioche Source: West P... More >>

• Roundup: The Experts Help You Drink Champagne (As If You Needed Help)

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Not long ago, every December brought a cluster of articles in the food media on how to pick an inexpensive, non-Champagne sparkling wine for a party. First it was cava, then prosecco, then cremant. Th... More >>

• Kauffman's Top 10 New Restaurants of 2010

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Tuesday, SFoodie posted a list of the 2010 restaurant closures that hurt the most. Today brings the yang to the yin: a list of my 10 favorite new restaurants. (Hey, since everybody's doing it...) I've... More >>

• Bistro St. Germain and Place Pigalle Bid Adieu, Homeroom Readies for Winter Term

  published Dec 30, 2010

  rThe past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.SFoodie was under the impression that the gossip flow would slow in the last week of the year, but... More >>

• The Year in Food: The Return of the Iconoclast

  published Dec 29, 2010

  Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. Daniel Patterson's 2005 essay in the New York Times (of all places!) decrying Chez Panisse's stylistic tyranny over... More >>

• A Bigger Brenda's Expected Soon, Cafe Divis Becomes a Wine Bar

  published Dec 29, 2010

  rThe past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Tablehopper reports that Brenda's French Soul Food will move into its next-door expansion (much... More >>

• Ten 2010 Restaurant Closures That Hurt

  published Dec 28, 2010

  With the great scything-down of 2008 well past us, San Francisco's restaurant industry sent up hundreds of blooms, some of them quite brilliant. Yet competition, normal restaurant-world pressures, and... More >>

• Camino Hires a Proper Pastry Chef, Tango Gelato Takes a Bow

  published Dec 28, 2010

  rThe past 96 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Grub Street chats up Russell Moore of Camino and learns he's hired the restaurant's first full-ti... More >>

• The Year in Food: Coffee Seeps Farther

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. rIn San Francisco, it's still all too easy to get a crappy cup of coffee. But the walking distance between the avera... More >>

• Amber Dara to Open in the Mission, Chris Daly Purchase of Buck Tavern Really Happening

  published Dec 24, 2010

  rThe past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Eater SF reports that the owner of Amber India chain, Vijay Bist, is taking over the space at 680 ... More >>

• The Year in Food: Cocktails Get More Respect

  published Dec 23, 2010

  Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. To call 2010 a revolutionary year in cocktails would be an overstatement. But it was certainly a year in which cock... More >>

• The Top Five San Francisco Dishes of 2010

  published December 29, 2010

  I recognized it in the first bite of my first meal on the job at SF Weekly — that quality that lured me back to San Francisco... More >>

• Dumpling Kitchen, a New Contender in the Soup Dumpling Contest

  published Dec 23, 2010

  You might think the contest the title of this post refers to is about the quality of the xiaolongbao, or Shanghai-style soup dumpling, but the contest is really which foodista can convince rivals that... More >>

• Amanda's to RIP, LA MILL Coming to SFr, BBQ to Triple Crown

  published Dec 23, 2010

  rThe past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Well, this is counterintuitive: Inside Scoop reports that Amanda's Feel Good Fresh Food, the... More >>

• Four Barrel Comes Out with Barista Mugs

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Four Barrel Coffee set out a new line of commemorative diner mugs on its countertop last week, just in time for the holidays. SFoodie spotted the cups, did a double take, and broke out laughing. Each... More >>

• The Year in Food: Pizza Pizza Pizza Pizza

  published Dec 22, 2010

  Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food.You and SFoodie and everyone we know all knows the story of how 2010 turned out to be the year of Peak Pizza. It star... More >>

• Pasion Flares to Life, Coda Plays Its Last Measure

  published Dec 22, 2010

  rThe past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Tablehopper reports that Pasion (737 Irving, 724-5727, pasionsf.com) should open in the old PJ'... More >>

• Sweet Jo's Leaves the JCC, the Lineup Lives Again

  published Dec 21, 2010

  rThe past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. In sad news for JCC members, Inside Scoop reports that Joanna Karlinsky and Victoria Smiser will... More >>

• Fried Catfish at Daddy O's Cafe

  published Dec 21, 2010

  After more stops and delays than an Amtrak ride to Los Angeles, Daddy O's opened in the old Schnitzelhaus space last week. The giant steins of beer: gone. The antler lamp: gone. The lederhosen: sadly... More >>

• Mars Fights Hershey With New Pure Dark Pop-Up

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Wednesday sees the launch of a pop-up store in Cow Hollow promoting a line of artisanal-looking chocolates that SFoodie has never encountered before: Pure Dark. Today, SFoodie was sent a press packet ... More >>

• Twenty Five Lusk: Food is secondary in this grandiose space

  published December 22, 2010

  In the late 1980s and early 1990s, San Francisco had a serious crush on the supper club, a decadelong trend that only survives in the success... More >>

• The Year in Food: Big-Ticket Dining Surges

  published Dec 20, 2010

  Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food.Back in January, people were talking about the San Francisco restaurant scene as if it were flagging fast. The fretti... More >>

• Loving Hut Showers the Sunset with Benevolence, Dash Cafe with Waffles

  published Dec 20, 2010

  rThe past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Thrillist reports on the appearance of Dash Cafe (420 Judah, heh heh, 661-1237, Facebook page),... More >>

• SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 13: Cookies and More Cookies!

  published Dec 17, 2010

  The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.rSFoodie has learned over the past three weeks that sugar cookies decorated to OC... More >>