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Andrew Simmons

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    July 30, 2010

    Lers Ros' Fried Rabbit: Buffalo By Way of Bangkok

    Andrew SimmonsLers Ros' rabbit, a satanic take on the hot wing.​It wasn't until after we raked up the last morsels that we realized our dinner at Lers Ros had consisted almost entirely of fried dishes. With the exception of succulent pork belly cubes, everything we'd ordered had come encased i ... More >>

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    July 13, 2010

    The Way We Wish All Recipes Were Written

    Aimee Shapiro/Bay Area Bites​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons offers up a recipe. No, not a list of shit things, dead on the page as a nutritional label, but a recollection, a reckoning of how he made a soup, green chickpea and cauliflower. Simmons: From g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Kauffman's Five: This Week in Blogworld

    ​My favorite bits from the blogs and beyond.1. Michael Jackson, RIP. Who would have thought he'd live on in San Francisco foods? 2. I haven't been able to touch carrots or potatoes after watching this Japanese curry ad. I blame you, Andy Wright, for putting me on a bread-and-steak diet for the pas ... More >>

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    June 11, 2010

    Kauffman's Five: This Week in Food Bloggicization

    MinniBeach/FlickrNow we understand why this line forms.​This week's favorite bits from the blog and beyond:​1. Bite o' the week: The custard tart at Golden Gate Bakery is one of those mythical San Francisco foodstuffs that has been so hyped up over the years I thought it couldn't possible be as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Perbacco's Staffan Terje Won Cochon 555 Yesterday. Our Shirt Lost

    Andrew SimmonsThe Fairmont's Gold Room was packed tight as a factory feedlot.​It was around the time we snared our first assortment of plates ― small, compostable tan ones decked out with roasted smoked pork loin and dark, blood-red bologna tucked between orange mostarda-smeared bread slice ... More >>

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    June 2, 2010

    Is Oakland's Pop-Up General Store Hopelessly Out of Touch?

    Michael Macor/ChronicleThe pop-up market brings together chefs and food artisans.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons pours champagne vinegar on the unhealable wound that's nagged progressive Bay Area foodies since the dawn of Alice: Is wonderful food fatally ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Kauffman's Five: This Week in Food Bloggery

    My favorite bits from the blogs and beyond:​1. Andrew Simmons just discovered that Rhea's, the Valencia Street deli where you can get katsu sandwiches and mom-made kimchi, is now offering bike delivery. For free.2. John Birdsall looks into the weird Chairman Bao dustup from last week and finds som ... More >>

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    May 19, 2010

    Introducing the 2010 Best Of San Francisco Issue

    ​SF Weekly's 2010 Best of San Francisco issue is now live online and filling street boxes around the city. The culmination of three months of research, dozens of extra meals, and one belt notch lost (and not yet regained, goddammit), these annual issues are always a lot of work ― good work. For ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Was Hapa Ramen a Victim of Blog Buzz?

    Bay Area BitesSome 500 ramen seekers showed up at Coffee Bar for last weekend's pop-up.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. It took us a day to digest Andrew Simmons' brilliant, sharp-toothed account on Bay Area Bites of Saturday's Hapa Ramen pop-up at Coffee Bar. The bowl of ramen Simmons le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Los Picudos' Enormous Torta Ahogada Is a Fallen Beast

    Andrew SimmonsIts greatest virtue? Sheer volume.​We remembered the 24th St. torta-off being a little more of a competition, La Torta Gorda's barge-size Mexican-style panini squaring off against the very slightly smaller, somewhat grungier sandwiches at Tortas Los Picudos. They're like apples a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    The Year Urban Farming Busted Out

    CUESA/FlickrRaised beds at Alemany Farm.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Green city: At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons muses on the city's dalliance with edible vegetation ― the urban farming movement that busted out in 2009 like fears about H1N1. What happened, Simmons suggests, is tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Doggy Bag: The Farm Next Door

    Little City Gardens​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Growing the green: Heather Smith, who wrote briefly for SFoodie last year, picked up on Little City Gardens, the backyard farm near Dolores Park whose efforts to expand Andrew Simmons has blog-chronicled here. Yesterday at Mission Loc@l, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Yats Making Plans to Open a Soup Kiosk in the Financial District

    T. Palmer​Thanks to a tip from Eater, we learned that New Orleans food specialist Yats' New Orleans Original Po' Boys started serving lunch last Friday at Annie's Bistro (2819 California at Divisadero). Trading under the name Creole Soups and Such, Louisiana specialties such as gumbo and alligator ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Doggy Bag: In Love with a Foil-Wrapped Local

    hypermodern/FlickrForearm-size burrito from Ocean Taqueria in the Excelsior.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Regular or super: SFoodie contributor Andrew Simmons files a writerly exposition of the Mission-style burrito for Bay Area Bites. It's not exactly the kind of apologia that appears ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Sweeping Panorama?

    ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Off the page: Andrew Simmons files a review of McSweeney's San Francisco Panorama for Bay Area Bites. It's a look at how print abides, even when the form is uncompelling. Simmons: What I am actually interested in is how Panorama's food pages might potentia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Get Wild This Thanksgiving -- with Locally Foraged Porcini and Chanterelles

    simpologist/FlickrStuffing saver: A porcino growing wild.​If you're dreaming of experiencing wild edibles 'round the table this Thanksgiving (a little extra oomph for your stuffing or risotto, per chance?), then ForageSF has an enticing bounty for sale. The wild and foraged foods gatherer is s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Doggy Bag: El Snuggie

    Beer and Rap/FlickrLos Jarritos' version: Hipster insulation.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Chill killers: At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons risks serious bloating on a chilaquiles crawl through the Mission. Simmons: The other weekend, hungover and exhausted from a morning of pick-up ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Sharing the Burn

    ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Lao chow: At Bay Area Bites, Andrew Simmons stretches out for a trek through some of East Oakland's Lao restaurants. The sunny San Antonio neighborhood at the edge of Fruitvale should be listed as a Bay Area culinary heritage site if such a designation exi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2009

    Hot Outta the Fryolator: Chili Cheese Fries at Mission Burger

    M. LaddGet 'em while they're scorching. And use a fork.​Now available at Mission Burger at Duc Loi Market (2200 Mission at 18th St.): smoky, salty chili cheese fries ($4 -- if you want to skip the chili cheese part, the naked fries cost $2). The fries have a pleasing crispness -- a group of di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    ​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. Don't get the soup: Andrew Simmons lays out a salad bar of office lunch reminiscences on Bay Area Bites, from the passively meh deli sandwich to the actively depressingly slices of dull pizza he scored at an indifferent place downtown. Soup? It can be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    ​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. The semiotics of yum: We once had an editor who enforced a ban on hated words: crispy, veggie, hipster, and foodie, a tag that necessarily shows up often on a site called SFoodie. At Bay Area Bites today, SFoodie contributor Andrew Simmons muses on fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Street map: At Grub Street, local street food agregator Matt Cohen offers a user guide to both Saturday's looming street food festival on Folsom and next weekend's Eat Real in Oakland. His tips go something like this: seek out unusual stuf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Meat is mystery: Our favorite Bay Area Bites writer Andrew Simmons has an epic post on flesh today. Of course meat's gross, unspeakably gross -- anyone but a 14-year-old contrarian in skinny jeans and acne and, well, Anthony Bourdain, woul ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Crimped and glazed: At Bay Area Bites, the increasingly excellent Andrew Simmons slices into pie. Lettuce-leaf conspiracy: Michael Bauer copped to checking out the soft opening of Gussie's Chicken & Waffles last weekend, part of Between M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Baked: Bay Area Bites' Andrew Simmons pondered the psychology of the thin crust Tuesday. Why in the hayle is Flour Water mobbed, while Valencia Street's Pizzeria is as overlooked and possibly underloved? Simmons hears the drone of the buzz mach ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Gas hog: We love the smell of subversion that hovers around a rickety street cart, but we're completely gobsmacked poring over pics of Maximus Minimus. Foodzie introduced us via tweet to the food truck shaped like a pig -- it started hawking pull ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

    Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Blowing smoke: Bay Area Bites' Andrew Simmons is ripped for a smackdown. He's blogged an earnest, sweaty argument for good barbecue, along the way bitch-slapping writers he considers terminally clueless (big ouch to Chron's Amanda Gold). But one ... More >>

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