Subject: Anthony Bourdain

• No Reservations Movie Review. Grade: B

  July 25, 2007

• Cooking for the Gala Crowd: The Opening Night Gala at San Francisco Symphony

  September 20, 2007

• SFoodie: Mario Batali Flips Me Off

  October 2, 2007

• Anthony Bourdain At The Commonwealth Club: The Likeable Asshole Cometh

  October 18, 2007

• Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Boobs, Barry, Busan, and ... BoldWarKids

  November 16, 2007

• Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Boobs, Barry, Busan, and ... BoldWarKids

  November 16, 2007

• SFoodie: Mario Batali Flips Me Off

  October 2, 2007

• Anthony Bourdain At The Commonwealth Club: The Likeable Asshole Cometh

  October 18, 2007

• Pure, Unadulterated Bourdain Straight To The Jugular

  January 30, 2008

• Forbes Ranks Top-Earning Celebrity Chefs

  August 11, 2008

• The Olympics Taste China

  August 19, 2008

• TiVo Alert: Bourdain on Spain Will Drive Foodies Berserk

  August 21, 2008

• 10 Food Firsts for 2008

  (Palermo vs. Tokyo by Chef Ian Muntzert for Mission Street Food)By Tamara PalmerIt's only been a few months since I became your faithful daily food blogger, but it's a position I've been unconsciously training for all of my life. I have always been interested in the world of eating, from the political and scientific levels all the way down to an unabashed love of snacking. I'm making a concerted effort to try the new and different as much as possible, but have yet to achieve an Anthony Bourdain-

  December 31, 2008

• The Five Best Bacon Sweets in San Francisco

  Badge by S.F.'s Snarky McF*ckbuttonsYou may be tiring of all the hype and fuss surrounding bacon, but admit it: You're still not tired of bacon. Or sweets. So what should you consume if you need a fix of both at the same time? Enjoy this countdown of our top five faves.5. Bacon marshmallows from Perbacco (230 California at Front)We tasted these playful confections from Perbacco chef Staffan Terje at a Meatpaper party. They were so good, we slipped one in our bag for later. Strictly for res

  June 2, 2009

• Vittles du Video

  Throughout my television-viewing life there have been certain programs that I've obsessed over, planned my schedule around, discussed with my fellow zealots over water cooler and barstool and, in short, made a point to watch without fail, but nowadays there's only one show I can't live without, Top Chef, a reality show on Bravo. On Top Chef, a dozen or so line cooks, restaurant owners, caterers and cuisiniers from across the country gather in some food-obsessed metropolis (San Francisco, New Yor

  February 11, 2009

• More Details on Anthony Bourdain's San Francisco Adventure

  Last week, our Meredith Brody speculated on where celebrity chef/author/TV personality Anthony Bourdain would be filming during his trip to San Francisco for his No Reservations show on the Travel Channel. Bourdain jetted off this morning and now Eater SF has thoughtfully compiled a great map of all the places he was spotted in the city, from sipping a maple bacon latte at Pirate Cat Radio to devouring heads and tails at Incanto. Check it out to get the inside edge on the visit, or wait to be s

  March 26, 2009

• That Story Was Delicious

  April 8, 2009

• Light Dining

  No Reservations is sweet and savory fare. Without the foam.

  July 25, 2007

• Hungry for More

  Resolutions are easy to keep at the Mission District's delightful Weird Fish

  January 10, 2007

• The French Quarter

  March 8, 2006

• Tacos and Gimlets

  November 2, 2005

• Dinner and a Movie

  Stories of crime and passion weave in and out of a busy restaurant kitchen in Dinner Rush

  December 26, 2001

• Crossing Paths

  May 2, 2001

• Incanto's Cocina Povera Series Set to Take on the Cooking of Puglia

  phxpma/FlickrAre you feeling like a fresh and tasty Southern Italian mini-vacation -- via dinner -- is in order? Incanto (1550 Church at Duncan) is continuing its summer-long Cucina Povera prix-fixe dinner series on Sunday and Monday nights (it features the peasant food of a different Italian region each week). Chef Chris Cosentino knows his way around a cuisine or two: the under-explored corners of Italy, tasty salted pig parts, and barbecue are just the start. (Full disclosure: In March, Incan

  June 25, 2009

• Ten Gourmet Hot Dogs That'll Make You Sit Up and Beg

  A dog with ketchup and mustard? Nothing wrong with that, but sometimes you crave a bit more refinement than the classic red hot provides. There's a whole of craving going on these days -- gourmet wieners are poised to become a national (even an international) phenom, and that's just fine with us. Behold our list of the 10 best gastro-dogs currently gracing buns in San Francisco and beyond. Eat and enjoy -- cocked pinky optional. 1. Foie Gras and Duck Sausage with Truffle

  July 1, 2009

• Summer Reading That Won't Make You Stupid: Food Memoir with the Scent of Balls

  In Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00) Jason Sheehan rolls and ties an autobiographical narrative of a life spent toiling in the lower regions of food. Sheehan is resto critic for Westword, the Denver alt weekly and SF Weekly sister pub. His memoir ia a double dip into testosterone mash, stirred up with the gritty glamour of line work (it pays overt homage to Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential). You damn near catch a whiff o

  July 3, 2009

• Keep Checking SFoodie for Tickets to 'No Reservations' Private Viewing Party

  mangoandtabasco/FlickrYep, we're totally crushing too.​We know: You love Anthony Bourdain. We love him, too, which is why we're practically wetting ourselves that in exactly two weeks -- on Monday, August 10 -- the Travel Channel will air the San Francisco-Oakland episode of No Reservations. It was the source of sweaty, fervid speculation last spring when Tony was in town. Turns out SFoodie knows the super-secret backstory of local taping because, well, we were there. We'll let you in

  July 27, 2009

• Taco Truck Confidential: My Moment with Tony

  mangoandtabasco/FlickrDon't ask -- we won't tell.​We're counting down to the August 10 broadcast of the San Francisco/Oakland episode of No Reservations, the Anthony Bourdain food-and-travel show with an avidly sweaty following. Tomorrow we'll launch details of a contest that will yield five committed readers access to a private viewing party with eats and a stellar guest list. In the meantime, we're spilling selective details about our taping with Tony. When Bourdain and his production c

  July 28, 2009

• Tell Us Why You Love Anthony Bourdain, and You Might Win a Spot at a Viewing Party

  You might be sick of hearing about it -- the San Francisco episode of the Anthony Bourdain food-caked travel show No Reservations airs Monday, August 10. If you're not sick of hearing about it, you might be the perfect candidate for an SFoodie contest that'll yield five Tony-crazed winners a spot at a special viewing party for the broadcast. We can't give out too many details for fear of turning the whole thing into an unruly cluster-eff. What we can say is that it'll be at an easy-to-get-t

  July 29, 2009

• Just a Few More Hours to Tell Us Why You Heart Tony

  mangoandtabasco/FlickrThe man.​Hey, all you procrastinators: Midnight tonight is the deadline to enter SFoodie's No Reservations party contest. Tell us in 60 words or less why you heart Anthony Bourdain, and if you're sufficiently rabid or clever enough to be among the top five entries, you and a guest can come party with us at a special viewing event next Monday, August 10, at an undisclosed location in S.F. (totally being cagey so we don't scare away the night's special guests -- well, a

  August 3, 2009

• Winners of Our 'No Reservations' Viewing Party Contest Revealed

  It's a day later than promised (we been busy with stuff, what can we say?), but behold the five winners in our No Reservations viewing party contest: Blair Bodie, Marcie Chin, Charlie Chou, Dabney Gough, and Justin Lanz. To refresh: In advance of the broadcast next Monday of the S.F. episode of No Reservations on Travel Channel, we asked you all to write why you're a rabid Anthony Bourdain follower. Like geekily quoting Kitchen Confidential in the office, going out of your way to eat obscu

  August 5, 2009

• 'No Reservations' Contest Winner Number Two: An Ode to Diversity and Premium Cable

  mangoandtabasco/FlickrBourdain: Fan of violent cable programming?​Here's another winning entry in our No Reservations viewing party contest, part of our shameless flogging of the San Francisco episode of the show, which airs Monday, August 10. We asked rabid Anthony Bourdain fans to rip their souls open for us in mini essays. This one's from Marcie Chin, who, we're guessing, took a couple of sociology classes in college and likes to snuggle up with premium cable in front of the flatscree

  August 6, 2009

• Reader Wins 'No Reservations' Contest with a Poem of Exquisite Emotion

  poopscope/FlickrYeah, it's like that.​For his (winning) tribute to Anthony Bourdain, Charlie Chou went all Wordsworth on our asses, penning eight lines of verse crammed with majesty and pathos: We are all but slaves of food and Bourdain Digesting away between interludes Without food and Bourdain the mind is wholly screwed We are all but slaves of food There is food for romance There is food for the fools Enjoy, eat fast, food never lasts, rewind and preview Can't wait to be rescued by wat

  August 6, 2009

• Awesomely OCD: Yet Another 'No Reservations' Contest Winner

  Rigged/FlickrA fan shows Bourdain his Tony tattoo.​Behold the fourth winning entry in our No Reservations viewing party contest, part of our daily wind-up to Monday's airing of the local episode of Anthony Bourdain's food-steeped travel show. As you recall, we begged would-be Tony groupies to expose their obsessions in mini essays. Like a DVR whose contents never get erased, Blair Bodie's piece is clogged with references to actual episodes. (Blair: Please tell us you have a really good me

  August 7, 2009

• Final Winner of Our 'No Reservations' Contest Wants to Give You a Big, Greasy Hug

  Melanie Dunea, from "My Last Supper"So disturbingly wrong.​Behold the fifth and final winning entry in SFoodie's No Reservations viewing party contest. In case you shed brain cells over the weekend, a referesher: We asked groupies of Anthony Bourdain's Travel Channel food show to tell us why they love Tony. the five winners will meet us out tonight for the broadcast of the San Francisco episode, to mingle with a very inside group of S.F. foodies (we swore we wouldn't say more). Winners f

  August 10, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. SFoodie Pissy. Rant. Session.: Now that the weekend's events are over, let it be said: Could there be a better way to piss off editors than to name an even "SF Chefs. Food. Wine."? Though it clocks a mere four words, SF C.F.W. seems way too long, has too damn much punctuation, and just effs with any sense of language flow. Now that we got that off our chest, let us praise Stephanie Im of Bay Area Bites for coverage (in words and pics)

  August 10, 2009

• At Bloodhound Last Night, Nervous Chefs Watch Themselves in 'No Reservations'

  Joseph Schell Incanto's Chris Cosentino (left) and Sebo's Michael Black react to the broadcast. A handful of chefs and others who appeared in the San Francisco episode of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations gathered at Bloodhound in SOMA last night to watch the broadcast. Incanto chef Chris Cosentino had organized the viewing party -- the show included a scene of Bourdain slurping an all-offal menu during one of Incanto's annual Head to Tail dinners, at a table with Boulevard chef de cuisi

  August 11, 2009

• How Did Tony End Up with the 'Gross' Torta He Scarfed at That's It? Um, Guilty

  Charlie D./YelpOverrun by skeptical foodies?​That's It Market (2699 Mission at 23rd St.) seemed to be the one spot in the San Francisco episode of No Reservations unknown to most local foodies. Until now, that is. Since the episode aired on Monday, more folks are making their way to That's It's than ever before. In a phone call with SFoodie today, That's It confirmed that torta-maker Alicia has begun serving food two hours earlier than usual -- she fired up her griddle at noon today instea

  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, would have to admit that. But we still eat it, most of us, and not just because we're numb, or willfully cruel. It's that a slab of tri-tip has the ghost of the creature's animating spark still in it. Her

  August 12, 2009

• Seven 'Fear Factor'-Worthy Dishes (and the Restaurants That Serve Them)

  Looking to get adventurous with your food choices or just gross out your date? We've compiled a list of some of the freakiest foods available, along with the restaurants (and festivals) that serve them. Warning: Don't read this before dinner.​1. Fried Goat HeadAvailable at Shangri-La Kabab and BBQ Palace in New York City, this dish looks surprisingly innocent. Aside from goat brains, Shangri-La serves up more enticing dishes like gundruk sandeko (Nepalese-style dried spinach) and and c-momo (f

  August 14, 2009

• Turning Away from Sloppy, Bar Stool Camping, and Freaky Monday: A Foodie Day Planner

  ​Monday, August 17, 2009 Let's do lunch: Grossed out by the hot dog-sloppy torta Cubana Anthony Bourdain mashed into his face last week on No Reservations? Go classic, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, with a hot pressed Cubano (pork, ham, Swiss cheese, mustard, and mayo) and fried sweet plaintains at Paladar Café Cubano, 329 Kearny (at Pine), 398-4899. Drink therapy: So you're even forgoing car camping at Clear Lake in this suckiest of economies. Console yourself with happy

  August 17, 2009

• Listen to SFoodie Editor John Birdsall Talk Street Food on KQED

  J. Birdsall Yup, even Spencer on the Go's Laurent Katgely called in.​Check out the MP3 archive (embedded below) of SFoodie editor John Birdsall (uh, that'd be me) on the KQED radio chat show Forum this morning. The topic? Pavement cuisine, otherwise know as street food. The in-studio discussion with host Dave Iverson included Anya Fernald, organizer of next week's sprawling Eat Real Festival in Oakland. There were calls-ins, too: Sexy Soup Lady, Crème Brulee Man, Eric Hill of the East

  August 21, 2009

• DVR Alert: 'Man v. Food' Host Devours San Francisco (Kind of)

  photomato/Flickr Watch Adam Richman stuff himself here. It may not have foodies buzzing the way Anthony Bourdain's visit last spring did, but fellow Travel Channel glutton Adam Richman visits San Francisco tonight to overeat on Man v. Food. Richman feasts on gut-bomb sandwiches at Yelpers' fave Ike's Place (3506 16th St. at Valencia), loses himself in the Mission-Style Super Burrito at Taqueria la Cumbre (515 Valencia at 16th St.), and, for dessert, there's the $34.95 Kitchen Sink at the

  August 26, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​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

  September 1, 2009

• Delicious small plates from the Philippines, Vietnam, and China star at Poleng Lounge

  September 2, 2009

• Street food fail: Ed Jew's tapioca prison bus

  September 9, 2009

• Sorry, Chris: Chefs vs. City = Massive Fail

  Food NetworkChris (left), we love you, bro, but tell us there isn't going to be a Season Two.​We bow to no one in our love for chef Chris Cosentino. Incanto is on the short list of S.F. restaurants that (a) we unfailingly recommend to others, and (b) gladly spend our own money at. We're still dreaming about a perfect Cucina Povera meal there earlier this year, with an add-on of calves' brains cooked with Douglas fir fronds and pine oil. Pure genius. And we can never enter the Ferry Buildin

  October 8, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Talking Shit About S.F. Chefs

  ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Come here and say that: On Saturday, Grub Street New York reported on an Extreme Tag Team talk with Anthony Bourdain and David Chang from the New York Wine & Food Festival. Grub Street called it Ten Things Anthony Bourdain and David Chang Hate. You know Chang: The chefpreneur of, like, five Manhattan restaurants under the Momofuku franchise: Noodle Bar, Ssam Bar, Milk Bar, Ko. Grub Street's distillation went like this: Cupcakes: "I hate fuckin' cupcake

  October 12, 2009

• Bay Links: OxyContin, Muni Videos, & David Chang

  Is Trauma flatlining?​Can Trauma be resuscitated? [SF Citizen]OxyContin is the drug du jour. [City Insider]Muni bus drives on sidewalk, conks out fire hydrant. Video of the aftermath! [SFAppeal]Western Addition vs NOPA: Sticker Wars Edition. [SFist]Food fight! Anthony Bourdain weighs in on Asia Society's decision to cancel David Chang appearance. [Eater]Who says people don't write letters anymore?!?! [Sweet Melissa]Van Ness Muni waterfall! (Every bit as beautiful as it sounds.) [Burrito Justic

  October 20, 2009

• Sans Cart

  October 21, 2009