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2009 Stories by Matthew Stafford

• Queen's Louisiana Po-Boy Cafe brings the flavor and fun of N'awlins

  published December 23, 2009

  Finding honest-to-God Louisiana cooking in this town is as difficult as tracking down a proper deep-dish pizza, an outstanding haggis, or a... More >>

• Fish & Farm: 'Tis the season for comfort food

  published December 9, 2009

  'Tis the season for comfort food, for bountiful platters of rich, soul-stirring grub brimming with fresh veggies and juicy cuts of meat and... More >>

• Saison: Haute cuisine in the country

  published November 18, 2009

  At Saison, Joshua Skenes' celebration of 21st-century haute cuisine, the whole notion of fine dining is upended. Sure, the kitchen assembles... More >>

• Morning, noon, and night, Ironside wants to be the SOMA spot

  published November 11, 2009

  Ironside, a new eatery and hangout northeast of AT&T Park, takes American classics like pizza, burgers, Caesar salad, mac 'n' cheese, clam... More >>

• Pal's Takeaway, Rhea's Deli, and Mission Burger offer handheld delights

  published October 21, 2009

  If anything demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, it's the way San Franciscans have kept their highly attuned taste buds nurtured... More >>

• Coda gives us all that jazz, and food too

  published September 23, 2009

  The local jazz scene hasn't really thrived since the days when the Fillmore played host to Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and John Coltrane,... More >>

• Trademark invades a Eurocentric street with fresh American fare

  published August 26, 2009

  August is the best eating month of the year. Now is when the blackberries ripen along trails and roadsides; the tomatoes and peaches burst with... More >>

• The old-fashioned food cart is now hip -- and on the run -- with the help of Twitter

  published July 29, 2009

  The renegade food-cart craze currently sweeping San Francisco depends on word of mouth for its very existence, which is why Twitter, everyone's... More >>

• Little Skillet's stellar takeaway can brighten a summer day

  published July 1, 2009

  The second day of summer 2009 almost persuaded San Franciscans that maybe all that warm summer weather talk isn't just a lot of hype. The sky... More >>

• Beer Is Good Food

  published June 24, 2009

  The art of matching food to beer hasn't quite attained the snob appeal of pairing the perfect wine to that juicy slab of porterhouse, but we're... More >>

• Bar cuisine at the Broken Record

  published June 3, 2009

  If you live out in the Excelsior District, you probably already know about the Broken Record. Located four blocks east of the Mission/Geneva... More >>

• Contigo takes a bite out of Catalan

  published May 6, 2009

  The best thing about a trip to Barcelona, the Mediterranean and the architecture of Gaudí notwithstanding, is going on a chateo, or... More >>

• What's a man gotta do to find the real soul food deal?

  published April 8, 2009

  It isn't easy finding a platter of honest-to-God soul food in this town. A lot of what is passed off as the genuine article may be Creole... More >>

• You've Aged Well

  published March 11, 2009

  "I have seen purer liquors, better seegars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier cortezans, here... More >>

• SOMA Samba

  published February 11, 2009

  Rio de Janeiro is one of those great cities that works its way into your plasma and lingers there, time and distance notwithstanding. The place... More >>

• Crabby in Winter?

  published January 14, 2009

  There are more than 4,000 varieties of crab in the world, but the Dungeness has its own unique cachet for San Franciscans. Found along the... More >>