Subject: Calistoga

• Torrey Kretschman’s Last Race: Man Killed at 49ers Game Inspires Friends and Family’s Good Deed From the Grave

  April 18, 2008

• Art Attack

  July 5, 1995

• Out, and Down and Out, in S.F.

  October 18, 1995

• Orange Crush

  November 1, 1995

• Road Trip: Up to Napa and Back Again, High and Low

  Fellow SFoodie blogger Tamara Palmer and I were headed up to the Culinary Institute of America's Napa Valley campus in St. Helena, aka Greystone, to attend a seminar on Japanese food.But the fertile springtime valley held a number of other temptations, and we were determined to sample as many as time and budget would allow.On the way up, we detoured to Yountville to give Tamara a glimpse of the (surprisingly modest) renowned French Laundry, and, after catching sight of Thomas Keller's Bouchon Ba

  March 25, 2009

• Meat Me at the Roasthouse

  Succulent steaks and sides create an epic dinner.

  May 28, 2008

• New College Out of Money: Teachers Unpaid, Not Teaching

  February 13, 2008

• Festivals and Fairs

  June 23, 2004

• Up, Up, Away

  June 25, 2003

• Creature Discomfort

  Laughing at Eric Bogosian's spoiled characters is almost too easy

  April 9, 2003

• A Tomb of One's Own

  A course that explains how to celebrate and dispose of a dead loved one at home seems creepy. And then interesting. And then as natural as death itself.

  December 11, 2002

• Guest List

  August 8, 2001

• Out of Santa Rosa

  The Safari West wildlife reserve is like a bit of Africa in the Bay Area

  June 20, 2001

• Packing 'Em In

  August 23, 2000

• Rage Against the Machine

  Tom Ammiano's mayoral bid: inside the campaign that has become a cause

  December 1, 1999

• Give Me Moa!

  January 28, 1998

• Slap Shots

  October 22, 1997

• Dish

  March 5, 1997

• Unspun

  December 11, 1996

• Slap Shots

  August 7, 1996

• New Kid on the Dock

  March 22, 1995

• Weeks Before its Relaunch, Lark Creek's Exec Chef Walks Out

  Holland-Toll: No longer on boardWeeks before a planned relaunch built around a casual, value-driven concept, the Larkspur restaurant formerly known as the Lark Creek Inn has lost its executive chef. In an email, Erica Holland-Toll didn't indicate why she stepped down, and told SFoodie her future plans are uncertain, but that leaving Lark Creek was a "tough decision," adding, "I loved Lark Creek and everyone was so supportive of me." As of this morning, Holland-Toll was still described on the Lar

  May 13, 2009

• Former Lark Creek Chef Now Behind the Stoves at Ducca

  Erica Holland-TollErica Holland-Toll has picked up the chef's clipboard at Ducca (50 Third St. at Mission), taking over from Richard Corbo. Holland-Toll's last gig was at Lark Creek Inn in Larkspur, which closed in April before a major overhaul (it opened earlier this month as the Tavern at Lark Creek). Holland-Toll joined Lark Creek as executive chef in August 2007. She previously worked under Jan Birnbaum at the now-defunct Catahoula in Calistoga, and in S.F. at Fifth Floor and Acme Chophous

  June 17, 2009

• Aunt Charlie and Uncle Newsom

  August 5, 2009

• Last Night: The Cannabis Cup at Cafe Cocomo

  Third Annual Cannabis CupJoseph SchellCafe CocomoTuesday, Nov. 10, 2009Better than: I don't remember.Imagine a place where everyone around you is smiling and laughing--where warm oozy chocolate waterfalls flow like water, and all the snacks are bite-sized. Oh yeah, and you're high. Really really high. For any medical marijuana card holders who attended San Francisco's 3rd Annual Cannabis Cup at Cafe Cocomo last night, that dream became a reality. From slick men in suits rolling in limos, Hummers

  November 11, 2009