Anthony Myint

Alanna Hale Photographs Mission Chinese Food From the Inside Out

Alanna HalePreparing for battle.​Photographer Alanna Hale, who's been filing SFoodie's "Behind the Menu" series of chef portraits, is working on another project: a profile every day, which she posts on her Tumblr, alannahale.tumblr.com. Most of them are insiders' shots of  Mission Chinese Foo ... More >>

Don't Worry About the Future of the Cookbook

Is this the future of cookbooks? (Cross your fingers.)​Yesterday, the New York edition of Grub Street published a great essay by Hugh Merwin on the bright future of cookbooks, even as more and more readers are switching to e-readers and bookstores are flailing. Cookbook sales are still strong, an ... More >>

Announcing the 2011 SF Weekly Web Awards!

​We're very excited to announce nominations for the 2011 SF Weekly Web Awards are now open. We're asking you -- the very smart, very savvy, and very awesome readers of SF Weekly -- to help us find the best San Francisco has to offer online. Whether that's the Twitter feed you can't stop check ... More >>

Announcing the 2011 SF Weekly Web Awards!

​We're very excited to announce nominations for the 2011 SF Weekly Web Awards are now open. We're asking you -- the very smart, very savvy, and very awesome readers of SF Weekly -- to help us find the best San Francisco has to offer online. Whether that's the Twitter feed you can't stop check ... More >>

Announcing the 2011 SF Weekly Web Awards!

​We're very excited to announce nominations for the 2011 SF Weekly Web Awards are now open. We're asking you -- the very smart, very savvy, and very awesome readers of SF Weekly -- to help us find the best San Francisco has to offer online. Whether that's the Twitter feed you can't stop check ... More >>

Mission Street Food Is Back (for One Night)

​Mission Street Food popup Where: Cookhouse, 253 Columbus (at Broadway) When: Wednesday, Aug. 10, 6:30 p.m. Cost: $65 (includes Mission Street Food book and dinner) If you're like us and you miss Mission Street Food, there's a chance to revisit its hectic glory next week. MSF founder Anthony ... More >>

The Defeat of Mickey D's, Caffeine Jitters, and Duck Eggs: This Week in Food Bloggery

Joseph SchellFrom this week's slideshow of the Peruvian Food Festival​Highlights from SFoodie this week:1. W. Blake Gray checks out Le Cordon Bleu, which claims to be San Francisco's first Vietnamese restaurant (opened in 1968). It's now owned by a Chinese-American woman who's never been to Vietna ... More >>

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Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

The Top Five San Francisco Dishes of 2010

Ten 2010 Restaurant Closures That Hurt

joebeone/FlickrWas Le Cheval too big to fail? Apparently not, thanks to an adversarial landlord.​With the great scything-down of 2008 well past us, San Francisco's restaurant industry sent up hundreds of blooms, some of them quite brilliant. Yet competition, normal restaurant-world pressures, and ... More >>

Someone Besides Us Takes Notice of Danny Bowien

Alex HochmanBowien in the dumpling station at Mission Chinese Food.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Chow senior editor Lessley Anderson files a feature-length profile of Mission Chinese Food's lovable Danny Bowien, the chef with a personal style as quirky as his food vision. Actually, as ... More >>

Interview with Commonwealth's Jason Fox

Eric WolfingerJason Fox.​I never got to taste Jason Fox's food when he was chef at Bar Tartine -- he cooked there during my four-year stint in Seattle. Commonwealth, which Fox and his partners opened this summer, was my first encounter with his food. Before Bar Tartine, Fox had been chef de cusine ... More >>

Mission Chinese Food offers a Matrix mind-twister of a meal

Commonwealth Opens with Polished Cooking and a Deep Sense of Confidence

John BirdsallCommonwealth's potato gnocchi with corn, maitake, and Parmesan.​What can you tell from dinner at a restaurant before it opens? Last Saturday at Commonwealth ― the Mission restaurant co-launched by Anthony Myint, ex-impresario of Mission Street Food, that formally opens tonight â ... More >>

Mission Burger/Mission Street Food's Danny Bowien: The SFoodie Interview, Part 1

Danny Bowien.​Show up at Mission Burger ― the daytime food counter at Duc Loi Supermarket ― and you might not know that the guy cooking your fat slab of a burger is one of the city's smartest young chefs. Along with Mission Burger founder Anthony Myint, 27-year-old Danny Bowien is the guy ... More >>

Don't Forget: Commonwealth Club's Look at S.F. Street Food is This Thursday

markevnic72/FlickrIt was the summer of love for S.F.'s food carts.​A reminder: SFoodie's Tamara Palmer is moderating a panel of high- and low-end contributors to S.F.'s street food scene this Thursday at the Commonwealth Club's The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart. Speakers range from ... More >>

Kitchenette to Star at Mission Street Food

Say adios to the loading dock, at least for one nightOne of the biggest food stories in a year destined to be remembered for depressing restaurant closures is Kitchenette, which (in case you just blew in from Fresno) serves up amazing weekday lunches from a loading dock in Dogpatch. Brace yourselves ... More >>