Alex Jackson

Unconfirmed Allegations Surface about Ex-Corner Chef Alex Jackson

Alex Jackson provided SFoodie with this photo of himself last year.​Grub Street's Jay Barmann posted first word last night on what promises, ultimately, to be a complex story: Claims that Alex Jackson, the chef once at the helm of The Corner, and whom SF Weekly food critic Jonathan Kauffman re ... More >>

Corner Owner Just Wants to Forget About Alex Jackson

Alex JacksonThe Corner's Philip Bellber says he's just glad Alex Jackson, above, is gone.​The owner of the Corner and Parada 22 describes ex-employee Alex Jackson as a guy with a lot of charisma, serious cooking chops, and a sort of compulsion to exaggerate his own background and accomplishmen ... More >>

Chotto Really Opens in the Marina, Black Sheep Strolls Into Russian Hill

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Eater SF can now say with relative certainty that the Marina izakaya Chotto (3317 Steiner, 441-2223, chottosf.com), whose projected Monday opening was unexpectedly delayed, opened last night. ... More >>

Martin Yan Hits the Food Court, The Corner Fans Itself

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. In the print edition of Inside Scoop, Paolo L. reports that local cookbook author and TV star Martin Yan is bringing a new restaurant to the Westfield San Francisco Centre food court sometim ... More >>

More Black Sheep, More Tiki Masks, No Citizen Cake Yet

​​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Carolyn A. of Eater SF spots a liquor license announcement poster for a new business titled Black Sheep at 2032 Polk Street. The owners must not have read all the news stories about Alex Jackso ... More >>

Parada 22: Doesn't have to be traditional Puerto Rican to be tasty

Jonathan Kauffman: Is Parada 22's Puerto Rican Crossover Convincing?

Archive Victor/FlickrThe menu freely edits the Puerto Rican canon.​Is Alex Jackson the city's new source of restaurant-concept energy? Fresh off a consulting stint at Weird Fish, the chef has tweaked The Corner into a place with a carnivorous American menu as striking as its setting, is plotti ... More >>

Chef Alex Jackson Talks About Keeping Parada 22's Puerto Rican Soul Real

​Last week, I called up Alex Jackson for two reasons: The first was to see if I could get more details from the chef of The Corner about his upcoming gastropub, Black Sheep. The second was to learn more about his new Puerto Rican restaurant, Parada 22, which I review this week. The quiet empire-bu ... More >>

Corner/Parada 22 Chef Alex Jackson Talks About Black Sheep, Due This Summer

​Alex Jackson, chef and partner in The Corner, is accomplishing the rare feat of opening two restaurants at once. The first, a small Puerto Rican restaurant named Parada 22, opened in the Upper Haight six weeks ago ― check back next week for more information on that project. The second, Black S ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch: Hot Brown at The Corner

John Birdsall"Hot Brown" with oxtail, tomato jam, fava leaves, fried egg, rutabaga Mornay ($9).​Tues., May 18, 2010 Genevieve Y./Yelp​Credit Fred K. Schmidt for devising the Hot Brown more than 80 years ago at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Ky. Schmidt's original was a hybrid of the clu ... More >>

Parada 22 Expected to Debut Later This Week

Jay Barmann/Grub Street San Francisco​A few weeks back, Jay Barmann of Grub Street San Francisco hipped us to the imminent opening of Parada 22 (1805 Haight at Shrader), a Puerto Rican restaurant helmed by chef Alex Jackson (Weird Fish/The Corner). At that point, the projected start date was t ... More >>