Chris Cosentino

Bay Area Products Push Boundaries at Fancy Food Show

Our three days spent wandering the aisles at the Fancy Food Show yielded the observation of an awful lot of convenience food and packaging and a lot of the same items we've seen on display there for the past five years. But amidst all that mainstream sameness was a strong pocket of companies actuall ... More >>

Top Five Local Chefs to Follow on Instagram

The photo-sharing social network Instagram has just widened its addicting potential by making member profiles visible on the Internet instead of only via mobile apps. This means that we can enjoy widescreen food porn from some of San Francisco's leading tech-savvy chefs. These are the top five who c ... More >>

Chris Cosentino on Winning Top Chef Masters and Helping Parkinson's Research

San Francisco-based chef Chris Cosentino of Incanto restaurant is the newly-crowned winner of Top Chef Masters Season 4. We predicted as much before the first episode even aired, but Cosentino tells SFoodie that he never felt like he had the competition in the bag as he discusses winning $282,000 fo ... More >>

SF Chefs: Picks and Advice for Navigating This Week's Sprawl of Events

SF Chefs, the annual food/wine/spirits festival presented by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, will be held in various San Francisco locations from July 30 to August 5. We've filled our tummies and worn out our shoes at this well-produced celebration since its inception in 2009. It was huge th ... More >>

What Does Selling Out Mean for a Chef?

​It is beyond debate that Rocco DiSpirito has sold out, but what about Mario Batali? Thomas Keller? Chris Cosentino? When you get some TV time or film an American Express ad, are you destroying your credibility -- and with whom? Yesterday, on Chow.com, Hapa Ramen's Richie Nakano wrote about growi ... More >>

James Beard Awards Announce Semifinalists: Bay Area's Well Represented, Obviously

​The day has come for the James Beard Foundation to announce the semifinalists for the 2012 Restaurant Awards. As SFoodie has written before, the finals can resemble the Oscars in that they're often career awards rather than a measure of how the nominees are performing at this very moment. Tha ... More >>

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 >>

This Week's Review: Hearts on Fire!

Caitlin Kuhwald​Making heart the subject of my Valentine's Day review may be a stunt, but eating heart meat isn't. Whether it comes from a chicken, duck, pig, lamb, or cow, heart is an amazing cut: smooth and yet not slippery-gushy, lean and robust. Heart meat readily takes to fire, smoke, chiles, ... More >>

Mariquita Mondays Shows Chris Cosentino's Way with Veggies

askmissa.com​Mariquita Mondays Where: Incanto, 1550 Church (at Duncan) When: Monday nights through Mar. 14 Cost: $29 The rundown: Did you know the offal king has a special way with produce, too? Incanto chef Chris Cosentino has kickstarted a playful collaboration with Mariquita Farm, one o ... More >>

SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 7: Boccalone's Black Truffle Mortadella

Lou BustamanteBits of black truffle add perfume to Boccalone's holiday-issue mortadella.​The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.The cold and rain of December always finds us fighting a losing battle against salty-fa ... More >>

S.F. Street Food the Focus of Andrew Zimmern's Appetite for Life

MSNAndrew Zimmern interning for the Crème Brûlée Cart.​Food personality Andrew Zimmern's take as intern for the Crème Brûlée Cart one afternoon back in August at Precita Park has now surfaced as part of the first episode of the new season of Appetite for Life, his Web series on street fo ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern Returning to S.F. for More Bizarre Foods

sidereel.com​Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, was shooting street food antics in the area last month, and now it appears he's headed back for more next month. A source revealed that Bizarre Foods producers are currently scouting possible local activities, and Zimmern's T ... More >>

Vandals tag Incanto restaurant with swastika

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Anthony Bourdain's Coming to Ferry Plaza Tomorrow. Leave Your Drugs at Home

poopscape/FlickrBring your slavish adoration.​Anthony Bourdain will be in the San Francisco Bay Area for one day only ― tomorrow. Leave your bags of weed and coke at home, please. The best way to catch sight of him? In the morning, at Book Passage in the Ferry Building. The event starts at 1 ... More >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Food Bloggery

A few of my favorite morsels from the blog and beyond this week:J. Kauffman​1. Two refrains have been stuck in my head for the past few days. The first: the chorus from the Replacements' "Alex Chilton" (RIP). The second: the phrase "Frito pie." Chile Pies, about to open in the Western Addition, is ... More >>

Barbacco: Sluggish service can stall an otherwise delightful meal

2009 Alt Foodie Trend No. 7: Twitter Ruled

Now till Dec. 31, SFoodie is counting down the city's top alternative food and restaurant trends of 2009 -- the ones you won't be reading about in the Chron. See also: No. 8: Sportin' Wood; No. 9: Street-Food Busts; No. 10: Porn Star Chefs ​S.F. Alt Foodie Trend No. 8: Tweet, Tweet It wasn't ... More >>

Feasting Out: Swim with the Fishes Christmas Eve at Incanto

Laura S./Yelp​Where: Incanto 1550 Church (at Duncan), 641-4500 When: Thurs., Dec. 24 Time: 5:30-9 p.m. The Deal: Chef Chris Cosentino won't know exactly what's on his three-course Feast of the Seven Fishes menu till he can assess what's available, but here's a preliminary version: mixed seafoo ... More >>

In Town Last Night, David Chang and Local Chefs Ponder S.F.'s 'Monotone' Restaurant Culture

David Chang (right) with Chris Cosentino before last night's discussion at Cafe Du Nord.​If there's a takeaway lesson from fig-gate, it might be this: Don't drink on stage. At a 7x7-sponsored panel discussion at Café Du Nord last night, N.Y. chef David Chang took heat for having being what ... More >>

Another Display of Butchery and Upscale Eats, This Time in Napa

J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.​Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Ca ... More >>

For Bookish Foodies, It's a Busy Week of Author Appearances

It's a big week for bookish San Francisco foodies interested in sustainable farming, vegetarianism, and foraging. • Tomorrow, Wendell Berry -- writer, farmer, and godfather of the organic farming movement -- appears at Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness at McAllister) in conversation with Michael Polla ... More >>

Melissa Perello of the Castro's Long-Awaited Frances: The SFoodie Interview

Melissa Perello was born in Nutley, N.J., lived in Houston, and went to cooking school in upstate New York, but San Francisco is where the 32-year-old chef formed her restaurant bones. She arrived here fresh from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., to gig with mentor Michael Mina a ... More >>

Expect Plenty of Flogging When David Chang Comes to Town, But It'll All Be of the Book Variety

​Nobody ever said New York chef David Chang didn't have huevos, and we're not talking the slow-poached kind that show up in the ramen at Noodle Bar. Chang's thoughts about San Francisco chefs may have raised a crap storm in certain quarters locally, but that isn't stopping the master of Momofu ... More >>

Feast With a Chef Dream Team (and Support CUESA) at Sunday Supper

cuesa.org​Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), the non-profit organization responsible for the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and its associated educational programming, will host its largest annual fundraiser in October. Attendees of this year's "Sunday Supper" will sit i ... More >>

Seven 'Fear Factor'-Worthy Dishes (and the Restaurants That Serve Them)

Looking to get adventurous with your food choices or just gross out your date? We've compiled a list of some of the freakiest foods available, along with the restaurants (and festivals) that serve them. Warning: Don't read this before dinner.​1. Fried Goat HeadAvailable at Shangri-La Kabab and BBQ ... More >>

Incanto's Cocina Povera Series Set to Take on the Cooking of Puglia

phxpma/FlickrAre you feeling like a fresh and tasty Southern Italian mini-vacation -- via dinner -- is in order? Incanto (1550 Church at Duncan) is continuing its summer-long Cucina Povera prix-fixe dinner series on Sunday and Monday nights (it features the peasant food of a different Italian region ... More >>

Boulevard Chef Calls Lineup for Tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest 'Interesting'

bernardus/FlickrNancy Oakes: Fearing a throwdown?Nancy Oakes told SFoodie she's not sure what to expect at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest, the sprawling Shoreline event that brings together Food Network personalities, local chefs, and rock bands. The chef and owner of Boulevard is doi ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. You can't have da mango: On NPR's Morning Edition, local writer Sandip Roy waxes eloquent about Indian mangoes -- a Bush-era nukes agreement with India freed them up for import. One variety is the Alphonso, known in India as the King of Mangoes. ... More >>

Shoreline Food Fest is an Odd Assemblage of TV Stars, Local Chefs, and Aging Rockers

The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere ... More >>

Membership Has Its Privileges: Free Crab Cookbook

If you have a Visa Signature rewards card, Visa, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, and almost 50 Bay Area restaurants have cooked up a little present for you: a nice little pamphlet of crab recipes, titled SF Chefs. Food. Wine.: Dungeness Crab. Inside you'll find recipes from A (Angel Hair Cra ... More >>

Sicilian Mattanza Dinner At Incanto

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