Bill Corbett

For the Birds

Arlequin Cafe Threatens Lil Debbie With Deliciousness

Arlequin Cafe, the sister spot to neighboring Absinthe Brasserie and Bar, boasts a lovely outdoor seating area and a solid assortment of cookies, including luscious takes on snickerdoodles, pecan chocolate chip, and sour cherry chocolate varieties. The oatmeal cream pie sandwich cookie was created w ... More >>

John Hodgman Explains the Beauty of the Internet

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Mijita May Head East, Chef Pop-ups, More Burgers, and Kink.com's New Bar

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. If opening a Mexican restaurant, head east. Inside Scoop reports, via Bloomberg news, that chef Traci Des Jardins is looking at New York, Boston, and Washington D.C., as possible expansion cities for her ... More >>

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Plum Announces an Opening Date (Soon), La Rondalla Resurfaces (Later)

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.At Inside Scoop, Paolo L. reports that Daniel Patterson's Plum (2214 Broadway, 510-444-7586, www.plumoakland.com) is opening next Wednesday -- and has just started taking reservation ... More >>

Patterson-Kinch Collaboration Like Some Monster Hip Hop Mashup

Manresa's David Kinch and Coi's Daniel Patterson are uniting for a splashy dinner Feb. 8 at Coi (373 Broadway at Montgomery). Guests will nibble seven courses ($195 for the spread), with proceeds to benefit the training of the next U.S. Bocuse d'Or representative hoping to slice, dice, and reduce in ... More >>

Coi's New Pastry Chef Savors the Unknown

StarChefsBill Corbett​Two weeks ago, Bill Corbett became executive pastry chef at Coi. He'll handle the same task at Bracina when it opens on the ground floor of the new Jack London Market on Oakland's waterfront this spring. Over the years, Corbett has hauled in some accolades (2007 Rising St ... More >>

Whast To Do? Tuesday's Pick: The State of Pastry in SF

​The State of Pastry in SF @ Commonwealth Club We all owe an apology to restaurant pastry chefs: Once their turn arrives, too many of us have already spent our appetites, or saved just enough to accept a spoonful of poached pear from a four-way-shared brown butter panna cotta. It's sad -- these ... More >>

Commonwealth Club's Inforum Division Investigates 'The State of Pastry in SF'

sadsnaps/FlickrCitizen Cake's cookie plate.​Inforum, the division of the Commonwealth Club "by and for people in their 20s and 30s," is presenting a program that (adult) children of all ages can appreciate. Moderated by Jessica Battilana of 7x7, "The State of Pastry in SF" will bring together mave ... More >>

Room for Dessert

For Chefs in S.F., Making a Root Beer Float Involves More Than Popping a Can

eyjensen/FlickrSpecial enough for a birthday: The root beer float (with cookies) at Michael Mina.​Even if you knew that today is National Root Beer Float Day -- a fact we learned from Three Olives Vodka, which just released a root beer-flavored vodka to a nation happily unaware of what it's be ... More >>

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