Anthony Bourdain

Rice Paper Scissors Hijacks Whiz Burgers on New Year's Day

Rice Paper Scissors New Year's Day Brunch Where: Whiz Burgers, 700 S. Van Ness (at 18th St.), 824-5888 When: Tues., Jan. 1, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost: Menu items available à la carte ($3-12) The rundown: Not content to rest on their achievements of 2011 (which included props and screen time from ... More >>

Ume: Show Preview

Edibles: Burned Out on Sweets? Cheesy Popcorn is a Savory Solution

I'll admit, the whole drama that erupted between Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen this year fascinated me. If you're not as gossip-driven as I am, here's a summary: Bourdain called out his fellow Food Network star Deen when she came out as a diabetic, despite pitching recipes like the one where she ... More >>

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Tonight: Rice Paper Scissors Spars with Anthony Bourdain on the Travel Channel

​Anthony Bourdain loves to come to San Francisco on a travel show budget, make fun of its citizens for being snobby, weirdo hippies, and then declare he loves it here and eat all our food. It's his pattern. He was in fine form when he visited with The Layover, his new Travel Channel show where he ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Whines, Baby Dolphins are Adorable, and the World's Best Spaghetti Sauce!

​ ​• Anthony Bourdain is running his mouth again about how much he hates vegans because he can't stop because he loves press OH WAIT. ​• Matthew Herbert made a CD of pig noises in factory farms. It is hella super depressing. If you're a person with a heart or brain, be prepared to ... More >>

Identify Anthony Bourdain's Mystery Sandwich

via yfrog​So as we posted yesterday, No Reservations star Anthony Bourdain is in town, tasting some local fair, barhopping, and tweeting about it for our enjoyment. Yesterday, after finishing up a photo shoot, his No Reservations director of photography, Zach Zamboni, had the huge, delicious- ... More >>

Where in the World Is Anthony Bourdain? Swan Oyster Depot!

via FlickrAnthony Bourdain -- he's here.​Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain of No Reservations fame is visiting San Francisco, according to his Twitter feed. And where does a famous chef choose to eat his lunch? via yfrogSecret TV star seafood stew?​Bourdain just posted this photo on Twitt ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain at Zeitgeist, Bourbon & Bacon's Last Night, and Safeway Love

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Everyone's favorite chef who-will-eat-almost-anything, Anthony Bourdain, is slated to film an episode of No Reservations at Zeitgeist in a couple weeks. Mission Mission reports, via the Zeitgeist newslett ... More >>

Bottle Cap: First-ish Look

Photos by W. Blake Gray​Unlike most of the fooderati, we went to the second night of the soft opening of Bottle Cap, the new restaurant in the old Washington Square Bar & Grill space (1707 Powell St. at Union). The Chronicle has already written two stories, Yelp has seven reviews and count ... More >>

This Week's Review: Commonwealth and Its Price-per-Thrill Ratio

Credit TKThe prawns and hen at Commonwealth.​This week, I've written about Commonwealth, the collectively run restaurant that emerged out of Bar Tartine (or rather, a crew of its former cooks and servers) and Mission Street Food. I can't say that Jason Fox and Ian Muntzert's food is as reliably su ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Weeps for What?

John BirdsallNo. 7, pho bo tai nam, from My Father's Kitchen on Divis.​Our favorite morsel from the Web. CNN's Eatocracy concluded Nicole Dow's two-part Q and A with Anthony Bourdain today. Yesterday, the man-craggy TV host described returning to Lebanon (his No Reservations production crew h ... More >>

How to Write About Not-Delicious Food

danpberry/FlickrThere's an interesting story here, but it's not one most food writers want to tell.​One of the unshakable tenets of food writing, from Brillat-Savarin to Orangette, is that it has to celebrate the sublime. We food writers are supposed to ring Pavlov's bell with our words, sending r ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's Coming to Ferry Plaza Tomorrow. Leave Your Drugs at Home

poopscape/FlickrBring your slavish adoration.​Anthony Bourdain will be in the San Francisco Bay Area for one day only ― tomorrow. Leave your bags of weed and coke at home, please. The best way to catch sight of him? In the morning, at Book Passage in the Ferry Building. The event starts at 1 ... More >>

Ruth Reichl, Anthony Bourdain Ponder Identity of 'Ruth Bourdain'

Ruth Bourdain.​Who is "Ruth Bourdain," shadowy operator of the Twitter feed that's a mashup of Ruth Reichl and Anthony Bourdain? Nobody's saying (both Bourdain and Reichl claim it's not them), but Bourdain, for one, is a fan. He says he's both flattered and disturbed by it, and thinks the Ruth ... More >>

Foodlebrity-Studded Tasty Awards Show Airs This Weekend

TasteTV​January's inaugural Tasty Awards, created by local online/on-demand food network TasteTV to honor the best food and style programming on television and the Web, will have its broadcast debut. Award recipients, decided by the public as well as by a panel of "tastemakers" (this blogger i ... More >>

Food Boners and F-Bombs: Anthony Bourdain Hits Radio Airwaves Thursday

JuliesRawAmbition/FlickrEric Ripert (left) and Anthony Bourdain: Their "Turn and Burn" show drops Thursday.​Anthony Bourdain has authored best-selling books, and has the enviable job of slurping his way across the planet for his No Reservations TV show. (SFoodie readers will no doubt remember ... More >>

Sans Cart

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 So ... More >>

Street food fail: Ed Jew's tapioca prison bus

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 L ... More >>

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' f ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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' ... More >>

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 Co ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

'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 thei ... More >>

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 Bourd ... More >>

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 o ... More >>

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 an ... More >>

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 spo ... More >>

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 c ... More >>

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. I ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 fr ... More >>

That Story Was Delicious

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 al ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 politic ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Bourdain on Spain Will Drive Foodies Berserk

Forbes Ranks Top-Earning Celebrity Chefs

Pure, Unadulterated Bourdain Straight To The Jugular

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

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

Anthony Bourdain At The Commonwealth Club: The Likeable Asshole Cometh

Anthony Bourdain At The Commonwealth Club: The Likeable Asshole Cometh

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

Hungry for More

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

Tacos and Gimlets

Treating the author of Julie & Julia to a little taste of San Francisco