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"No": Out-Advertising a Dictatorship

Work Downtown? You Have an Hour to Order Lunch from Pal's Takeaway or Green Chile Kitchen

Get out of your FiDi lunch rut with LuckyBolt, a new startup that picks up meals from restaurants all over town via bike courier and delivers them to a pickup spot at Market and Beale. Past restaurants featured have included Ike's Place, Nopalito, Lucca Delicatessan, Pica Pica, and more -- today you ... More >>

Top Sommelier Tips with Gabriele Originario of La Mar

Sommeliers spend all day with wine, and are a great resource for new finds. They're the "friend on the inside" that can help you suss out the best values on their wine lists. With that in mind, we've come up with a short suite of questions that we're posing to some of our favorite area sommeliers to ... More >>

Belcampo Meats and Blue Bottle Coffee's Inaugural "Meat Up"

​What: Belcampo Meats and Blue Bottle Coffee's Inaugural "Meat Up"Where: Blue Bottle's roaster in Jack London Square, 300 Webster St., Oakland When: Thursday, March 15th from noon to 2:30 Cost: Belcampo's Beef Chile Verde will run you nine bonesThe Rundown: New kid on the, ahem ... More >>

The Window @ Coffee Bar Announces a Month's Worth of Popups

​Last month, SFoodie mentioned that Coffee Bar was looking for popup vendors who wanted to sell food out of a window on the site of its forthcoming cafe. According to Nathan Downs, events coordinator for Coffee Bar, the Window's March schedule is now posted online -- and it looks packed.  Sta ... More >>

Q&A: Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister on Touring with Megadeth and His Forthcoming Solo Album

Rightfully worshipped by headbangers and punks alike, Motörhead and its iconic founder, bassist and principle songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, have been grinding out their influential brand of balls-out rock for nearly four decades. Founded after Lemmy was fired from British space-rock outfit Hawk ... More >>

When Fritos Were Meant for the Dinner Table

​In honor of the Super Bowl, which has become an excuse for junk-food decadence unrivaled since Roman times -- we're going to eat 1.25 billion wings this Sunday! Have you heard of this thing called the meat stadium? -- this week the Smithsonian's food blog traced the history of the Frito pie, all ... More >>

Who Makes This Meatball?

Tamara Palmer​We invite you to have a ball on this Monday by trying to guess who serves up this rather hefty bowl. Name the San Francisco restaurant in the comments below if you haven't already fallen asleep at your desk at the mere sight of this image. Cheers to Antonia, who we were unable ... More >>

Fall Arts: We Made Nato Green Fill Out a Questionnaire

Steak, Pies, Raider Fans, and Burritos

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Steak and pie: The kitschy Palace Family Steak House (3047 Mission at Capp) we mentioned earlier, the one that has its own theme song, is set to open next week, according to Bernalwood. Meanwhile, Blackbo ... More >>

Soul Shakedown: Show Preview

Pop-Up Wine Special: Only for SFoodie Readers

Cameron Hughes, the man, and Cameron Hughes, the wines​Planning to write about pairing wine with roast chicken, I went back through months of tasting notes looking for the right Chardonnay: Great flavor, great price. It turned out to be a Chilean Chardonnay imported by San Francisco negociant ... More >>

Who Makes This Soup?

Tamara Palmer​Thankfully, it doesn't look like soup weather this week, but there's always room for this tempting and restorative bowl. Can you figure out what kind of soup this is, plus the San Francisco restaurant where SFoodie snapped this picture? Offer a guess for both in the comments belo ... More >>

Best Practices for Eating a Burrito in San Francisco

​John Birdsall​ A happy man once said, "The best burrito in the city is the one you are eating." He said it while cradling a ruptured super whose mass had burst through its tinfoil housing and was flowing, lavalike, down his forearms and plopping onto the sidewalk. We caught sight of let ... More >>

Chile Lindo Organizes Rally to Protest Lawyer in ADA Lawsuits

Robert GrahamChile Lindo's Paula Tejeda.​Paula Tejeda, Chile Lindo's embattled "Girl from Empanada," is among local merchants calling for a small business rally and press conference to highlight what they deem unfair targeting by disability lawyer Thomas Frankovich, who currently has more than ... More >>

Chile Lindo Reopens. Only Now, Nobody Gets to Go Inside

Nicholas F./YelpOwner Paula Tejeda will bring your empanadas out to you on the sidewalk.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. SF Weekly staff writer Lauren Smiley files the latest report in what's been a miserable couple of weeks for Chile Lindo's Paula Tejeda, the empanada maker who closed he ... More >>

Chile Lindo Closes After Landlord Slapped with ADA Violation

Paula Tejeda is hitting the streets once again​At our siister news blog, The Snitch, Lauren Smiley finds that Mission empanada shop Chile Lindo has closed, after the building's landlord has been dinged for failure to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which Smiley reported last week. ... More >>

When Following the Chile Lindo Saga, Don't Forget How Important the ADA Is

​Lauren Smiley's coverage of Chile Lindo's closing in the face of an acrimonious lawsuit regarding wheelchair access makes me prickle in discomfort, torn between feeling for owner Paula Tejada and worrying that readers will excoriate the defendant, glossing over the importance of the Americans wit ... More >>

Disabled Man Suing Restaurant Returns For Empanadas

Paula Tejeda doesn't take kindly to customers who sue her, then return for more food​ The wheelchair-using man who is suing the landlord of 16th Street empanada destination Chile Lindo for disabled access violations returned this week -- to buy some meat pies. He ended up getting them served with ... More >>

Disabled Proxy Suing Landlord of Chile Lindo, Other Mission Mom and Pops

Nicholas F./YelpThe owner of Chile Lindo says the place is designed for takeout.​The wheelchair-using man who is suing the landlord of Chile Lindo, Paula Tejeda's empanada shop on 16th Street, for disabled-access violations returned this week ― to buy some meat pies. Litigious diner Craig Yates ... More >>

A Resource Guide to Pie in the Bay Area

Tamara PalmerChile Pies' green chile apple cheddar pie.​It's been declared pie season at SFoodie HQ, although we certainly don't mind celebrating it all year round. There seems to be a new enthusiasm for pie in the air right now. Even Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer recently wondered ... More >>

Support the Troops ― Send Them French Army Rations

Our favorite morsels from the Web. Baby killers, freedom fighters: Don's ask us to figure out the morality of soldiering. What we do know is that armies run on their stomachs, and that stomachs from different armies have different expectations about how to fill them. For this Memorial Day, we thoug ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch: Green Chile Kitchen's Christmas Burrito (in May)

Jonathan KauffmanIf you want a star on that, you'll have to bring your own.​ Weds., May 19, 2010nchoz/Flickr​No matter how ginormous, no matter how loosely wrapped, there is only one circumstance under which San Francisco etiquette permits a diner to eat her burrito with knife and fork: when it ... More >>

Foodzie Test Kitchen Puts Our Chile Crunch Dependency on Ice

FoodzieEZ Gaspacho Granita with Chile Colonial's Chile Crunch.​We bumped into Chile Colonial's Chile Crunch at the Fancy Food Show earlier this year, where it was one of the most memorable local products we found. We've barely stopped eating it since. At the show, Chile Colonial proprietor Sus ... More >>

Who Makes These Cookie Buns?

Tamara Palmer​Goodness gracious, great cookie buns are on the plate for this week's edition of our restaurant guessing game. What spot serves these and what's inside the buns? Take a shot at it in the comments below. Last week, SFoodie reader Kenyon correctly identified our Mystery Spot, Nopa ... More >>

'Where Can I Get Tex-Mex Food?'

Houston PressBeef Enchiladas From Larry's (in Houston): Real Tex-Mex​This week's reader question comes from E.T., who moved to the Bay Area from Houston a few years ago:I totally have a question, but after three and a half years of asking it, I'm beginning to suspect that the answer is "no." Is th ... More >>

Fresh Eats for the week of April 7-13, 2010

Street Work

The Two-Pie Meal: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

Thurs., Mar. 25 T. PalmerDouble-pie action: Don't judge us, just try it.​Dessert first is always a good rule of thumb, but if you stop into Chile Pies (& Ice Cream), the Green Chile Kitchen offshoot that opened its doors in the old GCK space yesterday, there's one (and only one) savory item t ... More >>

Chile Pies and Ice Cream ― Treats with the Flavor of New Mexico

J. KauffmanThe pie shop is opening in the former home of Green Chile Kitchen.​Wednesday looks likely for the launch of Chile Pies and Ice Cream, a place devoted to, well, pie and ice cream. The owner? Trevor Logan, the guy behind Green Chile Kitchen. In fact, Chile Pies and Ice Cream's 20-seat ... More >>

SFoodie's 92: Brioche Bread Pudding from Tartine Bakery

J. BirdsallThrowback to a milkier time.​As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.

Today's South Park Street-Food Lunch Hosts BBC Radio's 'Americana'

J. BirdsallBBC mics will be on hand to pick up Lumpia Cart's sizzle.​Head on over to South Park today for lunch beginning at 11:30 a.m. to nosh amongst some of the usual street-food cart options, including Wholesome Bakery, Adobo Hobo, Gumbo Cart, Chile Lindo, and Lumpia Cart. Bonus for media ... More >>

Five New Local Foods You're Gonna Want in Your Mouth Right Now

Besides eating and drinking everything in sight, our chief mission at the Fancy Food Show was to forage for compelling new products and companies from the Bay Area. And it was a success; keep your eyes out for these five new standouts, all available now:T. PalmerKari's Malva Pudding: Ready for Recch ... More >>

Resilient Empanada Maker Launches New Shop on 16th Street

L. ChongChile Lindo's beef-filled empanada de pino.​News of the many year-end restaurant closures made us sad, so we're glad to find a business that is able to set sail, sort of speak. Chile Lindo is the storefront kitchen of popular street-food vendor Paula Tejeda, a.k.a The Girl from Empana ... More >>

Top 10 Onstage Gaffes of 2009

We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

Local Flavor: Calabacitas from Green Chile Kitchen

T. PalmerA taste of New Mexico by the Bay.​Satisfy your jones for the food of New Mexico at Green Chile Kitchen (601 Baker at Fulton). There, every day is Christmas (the name for the combo of the restaurant's red and green chile sauces).It's advisable to go with an empty stomach. You'll need a big ... More >>

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Southern Exposure

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Dance Dance Revolution

You might find "Footloose" a funny name, but its dance festival is impressive

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Funny Business

Week 2 of the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival

Obsessive Pursuit

Years after her brother was murdered in Chile's "dirty war," a diminutive former professor went after the killer

Homage to Patagonia

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