Our first reaction when we saw that Alan Richman anointed three local restaurants as serving one of America's 25 best pizzas in GQ -- Pizzeria Delfina, Gialina Pizzeria, and A16 -- was pride in our hometown: Cool! That's 12 percent of the best pies around!
Richman boasts of visiting 10 different cities -- and going deep into their outlying areas -- ultimately racking up, he said, 20,000 miles. (Hometown New York gets 5 out of 25. Big surprise.)
Like his earlier pieces on the best burg
Ruth ReichlIt had to happen.Just as a couple of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners had already been laid off from their paper four months before they won their award, the winner of the James Beard Foundation's 2009 award for Newspaper Feature Writing with Recipes, Rebekah Denn, wrote her piece, "High on the Hairy Hogs: Super-Succulent Imports are Everything U.S. Pork Isn't", for a newspaper that is now defunct: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.Denn, the Beard Foundation blog reported, "began to cr
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The chef had a hunch something was upNate Appleman's certification by the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association as a pizzaiolo (one of a very few practicing the art in the US) paid off big time when A16's romana pie was named one of the 25 best in the US by GQ's Alan Richman.
"It made me very happy," Appleman told SFoodie, "especially because he told us he didn't like anchovies -- whole anchovies -- on pizzas, or whole olives. When he was here he had three or four p
Nate ApplemanNate Appleman was ebullient and accurate about his chances to win the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year ("a chef 30 years or younger who displays an impressive talent and who is likely to have a significant impact on the industry in years to come") when SFoodie talked to him a couple of months ago: "Being nominated three times, I just think it's my year."
And he was happy to comment a few weeks later when we asked the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association-certified pizzaiolo h
Our favorite morsel from the food blogs.
You asked for it: Grub Street New York published its Grub Report earlier this week. Think of it as a Twitpic of the state of the nation's restaurants, captured, collectively, by about a dozen critics. Anthony Bourdain, Jonathan Gold, Gael Greene, Ed Levine, Alan Richman -- some majorly serious bros. Among them is Michael Nagrant of the online mag Hungry. Now, while answers to some mighty predictable questions (When and how will fine dining rebound
zipfly/FlickrWho are we to disagree with Ed Levine, for chrissake?We're not sure why we turned down Delfina for this. Dinner was a thoughtful treat, extended impulsively out of sympathy for a rough 24 hours culminating in 10 excruciating minutes with the most alarmingly awful customer service professional the Apple Store on Stockton has likely ever produced. Delfina was offered, but we took Gialina (2842 Diamond at Kern) instead, anticipating new pleasures in an acclaimed restaurant we'd
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