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Top 5 Best Breakfast Sandwiches in San Francisco

The Magic of Making Food Look Good on Television

Here's a fun video -- well, more of an ad/promo reel -- showing how German advertising company The Marmalade creates special effects for food television commercials. The shots involve a special high-speed camera and fake food props (we want to see more of the studio that creates fake food, by the wa ... More >>

Feds Intercept 60 Pounds of Ecstasy Bound for San Francisco

Federal authorities intercepted on Thursday when they intercepted more than 60 pounds of MDMA -- better known to the average college kid as Ecstasy -- as it was making its way to San Francisco. Given that MDMA sells for $50 to $100 per gram, that's some $1.3 million worth of pills that won't be pass ... More >>

Nabe Is The Latest Hot Pot One-Stop

Nabe (1325 Ninth Ave) opened on December 21 in the Inner Sunset, near the intersection of Ninth Avenue and Irving Streets, known to some local residents as "the food court." There are already plenty of ways to satisfy hunger in this zone, but this is already a promising newcomer, offering several ki ... More >>

Morrissey, Mike Vick, and a Very Happy Piggy!

​ Hey pals, do you ever say to yourself, "What am I going to do with all this cookie butter?!" Boy do I have the solution: Make these salted chocolate cookie butter cups! They are out of control. I love salt and chocolate together and cookie butter is just bananas so these have a lot going for t ... More >>

Bacon-Flavored Coffee, Toothpaste, Candy Canes, and 33 More Ridiculous Bacon Products

It wasn't Baconalia that broke us. It wasn't even Burger King's bacon sundae. But yesterday we finally reached the end of our patience with this country's bacon obsession, when we learned that a disgusting-sounding bacon-flavored coffee took home top honors and $10,000 at a Seattle's Best Coffee-spo ... More >>

The Four Dearly Departed Classic SF Eateries We Miss Most

Many restaurants come and go in San Francisco, while some stay for hundreds of years. Since there's no shortage of good food around these parts, it is the personalities of the defunct places that can stir up the most nostalgia. We don't ever remember a Doggie Diner (1949-1986) wiener as being the be ... More >>

Cruel Summer: Further Excerpts from a 1993 Diary

Boston Transplant Chews His Way Through Mission Street -- Literally

​Dave MP is new to San Francisco but it hasn't taken him much time to note the stretch of Mission between Cortland and Cesar Chavez is sadly underrated, especially in the food department. As Bernalwood points out today, Dave MP has pledged to chomp his way through the strip, investig-eating the ov ... More >>

Boston Eater Chews His Way Down Mission Street

Man v. Food, the outer Mission editionCross-posted on The Snitch.​Dave MP is new to San Francisco but it hasn't taken him much time to note the stretch of Mission between Cortland and Cesar Chavez is sadly underrated, especially in the food department. As Bernalwood points out today, Dav ... More >>

Remembrance of Things Dreary: Welcome Back to 1993

Downton Abbey Recap: Season 2, Episode 5

Welcome back to Downton Abbey, where we are no longer at war! Well, kind of. World War One is over, but the shit is still on at Downton. The soapiness increased roughly a thousandfold, as we saw the return of the heir who drowned on the Titanic (Or did he? Or did we?), and the theft of Mr. Carson by ... More >>

This Whole 'Food Desert' Thing? Maybe That's Not the Problem

apdesign / ShutterstockActually, it's not quite like this.​For the past decade or so, there's been a big push to identify "food deserts" -- low-income neighborhoods and even cities that don't have ready access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Plant markets in those deserts, the thinking has gone, a ... More >>

Law & Disorder: "The Examiner" Punches Crooks in the Junk

Filthy Fast Food Playgrounds, Michelle Obama Eats a Burger (Gasp!)

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Dirty fast food slides. The Chicago Tribune/LA Times profile an Arizona woman who is evaluating the playgrounds at fast food restaurants by taking video of the filth and sending s ... More >>

Seeds of Death, Chickens of Death, and Terminal (2) Food Prices

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The week in killer foods. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the source of the European E. coli outbreak that killed 48 people may have been found: Egyptian fenugreek se ... More >>

Peanut Butter Wolf on His History with 45s, and Why the Vinyl Comeback is Overhyped

Leader of the Pack​ Bay Area native Chris Manak, aka Peanut Butter Wolf, is best known for his distinctive production style of jazz, hip-hop, and funk-soul beats. Starting out his career in the early 90's with the late emcee Charizma, the then-teenage duo found instant success but never chose to c ... More >>

Burger King Finds New Way to Make You Fat

Burger KingThe Jalapeño and Cheddar BK Stuffed Steakhouse burger: digusting or brilliant?​It didn't take long for the creative geniuses behind fast-food marketing to come up with a new way to make you fat in the New Year. Earlier this week we noticed a new menu item at our local Burger King, ... More >>

For Epiphany or a Secular Pig-Out, It's La Victoria's Rosca de Reyes

La VictoriaRosca de reyes: Score the baby Jesus and you have to host a tamale party.​As a college student abroad (Scotland, near Glasgow) visiting an American friend in France (Bordeaux), I was totally charmed by the ritual of the galette des rois, the kings' cake. You ate it on or around Jan. ... More >>

McDonald's Sued Over Happy Meal Toys

You've been served​A Sacramento mother yesterday filed a class-action suit against McDonald's in San Francisco Superior Court, claiming the fast-food chain engages "in the unfair, unlawful, deceptive and fraudulent practice of promoting and advertising McDonald's Happy Meal products to very young ... More >>

King Khan & BBQ Show Score Short Film About Love, Awww

Modern Love from Cassandra Edes on Vimeo.Don't worry, this only seems like a Burger King promo. The girl in this short film wisely keeps her fast food dude options open. Most importantly, dig the soundtrack by King Khan & BBQ Show.Follow us @SFAllShookDown.

Peking Duck Worth Leaving Town For

Please don't call it "quack." ​The idea of San Franciscans skipping town for the singular purpose of eating Chinese food is a little silly ― like Canadians driving to Phoenix to go skiing. From Shanghai soup dumplings to Islamic hot pots, this city's offerings stretch far beyond the battered ... More >>

Move Over, Burger King Whopper Bar: Wendy's Strip Clubs and Other Fantasy Fast-Food Expansions

With the announcement that Burger King is readying Whopper Bar in Miami Beach, the chain's first beer-and-burger joint, we think it's time for BK's competitors to step up into the area of brand extension, too. We wonder what would happen if these ideas were floated at corporate meetings:8. Jack in t ... More >>

Bay Links: Compost, Global Warming, & Unicycles

Dude don't compost.​Burger King, Subway  flout S.F.'s composting laws. [SF Appeal]Ghostbusters in the Mission! [Misison Mission]City technology: There are some glitches in the system. [Sweet Melissa]Irony Alert: Chevron Towers decorated with symbol of Global Warming. [SF Citizen]So, there's s ... More >>

City Attorney Releases List of Restaurant Workers with Tainted Safety Certificates

jwrb/FlickrWorkers at Burger King will have to re-certify.​The San Francisco City Attorney's office has released a list of workers whose food safety certification are invalid as the result of a scandal involving questionable testing and certification procedures by two or three Department of Pu ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. You mean the answer isn't "pop"?: Maybe you were flashing on the first time you heard "Billie Jean," or remembering how, for the life of you, you couldn't imagine what Macaulay Culkin might have been doing on those Neverland sleepovers. Mission M ... More >>

Out of the Wild

Iso Rabins' foraged food is the toast of San Francisco's gourmet set. Health inspectors and environmentalists aren't so thrilled.

Urban Forager: Or, Risking Death to Accomplish a Collector's Double Hat Trick

By Meredith Brody Last Sunday night, I was floating out from the Pacific Film Archive on the wings of satisfied cinephilia after indulging in my latest guilty pleasure - seeing one of the over-the-top, melodramatic, kitschy, wildly sexual movies of Teuvo Tulio, a Finnish auteur of the Thirties and ... More >>

Thursday Club Spotlight: Hold It at SF Underground

Fried Ice Cream in a Big Cup? The Future is Now!

The Year of Living the Fantasy

How to chase your dream job this year

The Cutting Edge

Slugfest

Slither is silly and gross, but it might worm its way into your heart

Danger Doom

The Mouse and the Mask

Best New Bar

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on March 16, 2005

New Found Glory

Catalyst (Drive-Thru)

Pinheads and Vidiots

Walking the floor with the arcade obsessed

Best Underground Loft Party

41 Powell (at Market), no phone

Food for Thought

For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation

Third Base

Letters

Savage Love

Stage

Riff Raff

Unspun

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Off-Base (Part II)

The most vituperative battle ever fought over the Presidio pits a handful of activists (and a certain weekly newspaper) against a local coalition of environmentalists, business, and the majority of elected officials. Is the congressional compromise to es

It's All in the Game

Fillmore rapper J.T. the Bigga Figga and his Get Low Records