Email Author Meredith Brody

2006 Stories by Meredith Brody

• One-Man Band

  published May 31, 2006

  Since a wall of the tiny restaurant Canteen boasts shelves of carefully selected books (not just randomly bought by the yard as decor, but books... More >>

• The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Cookbook

  published May 31, 2006

  By Christopher Hirsheimer and Peggy Knickerbocker Chronicle (Feb.), $22.95 On a glorious Saturday at the Ferry Plaza... More >>

• Hawaiian I

  published May 24, 2006

  On the whole, though I find film festivals more festive when I'm attending them in a city not my own (where mundane matters like, oh, cleaning the... More >>

• An Omnivore's Dilemma

  published May 3, 2006

  When pressed to justify my omnivorous eating patterns by those who choose to restrict their grazing, I've always replied, a trifle flippantly,... More >>

• Au Bon Coin

  published April 26, 2006

  There are a few days a year that, as the saying goes, I don't even think about going out to eat, Valentine's Day and Mother's Day being the... More >>

• Aix Marks the Spot

  published April 19, 2006

  Practically since my first month in San Francisco, I'd been meaning to take my cousin Erica out for a good French dinner. After eating at Jeanty... More >>

• Horse Race

  published April 5, 2006

  As I was driving us to Palio d'Asti on a chilly, windy, rainswept night, I was secretly hoping there'd be lasagna on the menu. A few days before,... More >>

• Defense Begins at the Table

  published March 29, 2006

  I can't say I wake up every morning with a song on my lips, but always — OK, often (I'm a realist) — I rise excited that I'll have... More >>

• Recipe for Success

  published March 22, 2006

  In the restaurant world's constant search for the new new thing, there's a time-honored trend of elevating a humble ethnic street food or snack by... More >>

• The French Quarter

  published March 8, 2006

  Despite its promising provenance (based on the book by Anthony Bourdain, created by Darren "Sex and the City" Star, and starring a host of... More >>

• Fork U

  published March 1, 2006

  It was the briefest of brief encounters, but in an instant I understood that I'd wounded him to the quick. "Eaten anyplace good lately?" was the... More >>

• Good Fressin' at the Delicatessen

  published February 22, 2006

  God knows, we live in a gastronomically blessed region, from the raw materials (I can still hear my Angeleno culinary-worker friends sighing as I... More >>

• Noodle-icious

  published February 15, 2006

  I haven't really been living in the Bay Area for the past month. I've been wandering the streets of Tokyo: the neon-lit Ginza at night, the tiny... More >>

• Big Shot

  published February 8, 2006

  We lucked out both times we dined at the new Tres Agaves. We found Hollywood parking within steps of the front door, were given one of the few... More >>

• City That Never Sleeps

  published February 1, 2006

  The first time I went to Globe, it was by accident. The San Francisco Film Society screening of Match Point at the Embarcadero started half... More >>

• Tofu for What Ails You

  published January 25, 2006

  By now everybody knows that You Are What You Eat. In an age when a book-flacking doctor appears on both Oprah and The View within a... More >>

• Dependable Pleasures

  published January 18, 2006

  The realization came to me with a jolt. I'd forgotten to mention one of the best things I'd eaten at Scott Howard in my review, something we had... More >>

• Shock and Awe

  published January 11, 2006

  When people ask me about my favorite new restaurants, sometimes I sense a certain disappointment -- even if I rave about a place -- if my... More >>

• I'll Have the Chicken

  published January 4, 2006

  When I assembled last week's list of the best things I'd eaten in 2005, there was a lot of pain involved. One kind was the torturous elimination... More >>