Bruce Hill

Chefs Unite Dinner at Prospect Raises $42,000 for Japan Relief

Prospect/FacebookThe six-course fundraiser brought in $42,000 for efforts to rebuild Japan's hard-hit Sendai region.​Sunday's Chefs United benefit dinner at Prospect raised $42,000 for Japanese earthquake and tsunami relief, Prospect chef Ravi Kapur tells SFoodie. Some 120 guests paid $300 eac ... More >>

Casey's Pizza Spins New York Thin Crust on S.F. Streets

Casey's PizzaCasey Crynes, right, with his brother Christian, on a street in the Mission. Kai Kronfeld of @NoshThis is in the background.​In his review of Zero Zero, Chronicle critic Michael Bauer seemed to know he'd hyped too far when he busted out the French Laundry in reference to Bruce Hil ... More >>

Is Zero Zero a destination, or just a pizzeria?

This Week's Review: Zero Zero

Lara Hata​The anti-pizza sentiment in the media is almost as extreme as the public furor for it. While the foodistas may yawn, or moan, about the appearance of yet another upscale pizzeria, Zero Zero ― the subject of this week's review ― was packed when I went for dinner and packed again when ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Tony's Coal Fired Pizza, Golden West's short rib sandwich

Zero Zero's Panouzzo

John BirdsallPanouzzo with mortadella, prosciutto cotto, soppressata, and provolone ($11.95).​Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Its origins in Gragnano, a city just outside Naples, shouldn't fool you. The panouzzo at Bruce Hill's Zero Zero ― which began serving lunch this week ― is, at heart, a ... More >>

Zero Zero Does Lunch, Schweet Boks Keeps Its Lid Shut

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Eater SF reports that the Emeryville Trader Vic's (9 Anchor Drive), which closed in late April to remodel, is set to reopen on Sept. 23. Its 632 Facebook friends will be overjoyed. Per I ... More >>

The Taco Guys: Longtime Line Cooks Take Fine-Dining Chops Mobile

The Taco Guys/FacebookThe Taco Guys: Justin Close (left) and Jason Hoffman.​This may be San Francisco's Summer of Truck, sure. But 2010 has seen the birth of another street trend: The restaurant chef gone mobile. This Friday at Off the Grid, San Francisco will get a taste of the newest resta ... More >>

This Week in Food Bloggery

peter_r/FlickrBruce Hill's margherita, coming to a neighborhood slightly nearer you.​Highlights from the blogs this week:1. The imminent arrival of yet another wave of pizzerias ― Zero Zero, Ragazza, Una Pizza Napoletana, Antica Pizzeria Napoletana, not to mention something from ex-Flour Water ... More >>

Zero Zero's Bruce Hill, and Why Artisanal Pizza is Ubiquitous in San Francisco

John BirdsallBruce Hill, going all "American Gothic" with the pizza shovel.​Yesterday, Zero Zero chef Bruce Hill took us on a Q-and-A spin around the custom wood-fired pizza oven he spent much of last week seasoning, to prepare for tomorrow's opening. In today's part two, Hill and Zero Zero ch ... More >>

Zero Zero's Bruce Hill and the Zen of Pizza Making

John BirdsallBruce Hill and his all-important ember shovel.​If you thought San Francisco had reached pizza saturation, think again. On Wednesday, Bruce Hill's Neapolitan pizzeria Zero Zero will begin firing pies in the former Azie space at 826 Folsom (at Fourth St.). Hill's no pizza virgin. ... More >>

L'Acajou Is Spotted, Two Ovens Converge, Tamarindo Does Tequila

​The last 24 hours in rumor, innuendo, and straight-out facts about restaurant openings and closings in San Francisco.Andrew on Haighteration discovers that neighborhood new(ish)comer Clay Oven (500 Haight) has bought out longtime neighborhood favorite Indian Oven (233 Fillmore). There is conste ... More >>

Big-Ticket Summer: S.F.'s Pricey New Restaurants

​Everyone who writes about food in San Francisco has spent the past year talking about how the city's restaurant scene is downscaling. Evidence: The proliferation of street carts and food trucks, pizza and burgers, and sandwiches of every shade and stripe, not to mention the migration of chefs to ... More >>

Reports on the Death of Fusion Are Greatly Exaggerated: A Response to Michael Bauer

Jen SiskaNamu's gamja fries: Fusion, dude. Pure fusion.​My first response on reading Michael Bauer's post today, "What happened to fusion cuisine?" was a pleasant, if slightly embarrassed, sigh of nostalgia, the kind that escapes when you're rustling through a drawer and come across an old prom ph ... More >>

Shrimp Cocktail at Bix Benefits Threatened Gulf Fishermen

​A regular feature in which SFoodie calls a local chef to ask what he or she is putting on the menu that night, and what inspired its creation. Bix Restaurant's chef de cuisine Erik Lowe was the executive sous-chef at Ame before joining chef Bruce Hill at North Beach's longstanding supperclub, a ... More >>

Red Delicious: Here Comes Strawberry Week

Trickier than they lookWith strawberry season here, the creators of Heirloom Tomato Week and Dungeness Crab Week are gearing up for Strawberry Week, and they've brought friends -- lots of friends. Forty-four local chefs and 57 restaurants will participate in a week of berry-inspired revelry with sig ... More >>

WTF?: Cool Stuff We Found at the Market

Go easy Scored: Fillmore Saturday Farmers' Market Source: Xiong Farm, Fresno Wiry, curly pea tendrils come from the same plants peas are plucked from, says Christine Farren, events manager at CUESA, the nonprofit that runs the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. If you're lucky, the shoots will have edible ... More >>

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