Cindy Pawlcyn

Bottle Rock: Napa Festival's Attempt To Combine Food, Wine, and Music Falls Short

It seems like a good idea on paper: Throw a music festival in wine country where guests can go wine-tasting and sample some of the region's best restaurants in between musical acts. That was the focus of Bottle Rock, a new festival thrown in a park in downtown Napa that combines stadium-filling rock ... More >>

Class Alert! Master Mexican Food With Cindy Pawlcyn and More

Dieciseis: Mole & Chile En Nogada Where: La Cocina, 2948 Folsom (at 25th), 824-2729 When: Wed., Sept. 12, 6:30-9 p.m. Cost: $65 (purchase in advance via Eventbrite) The rundown: Chef Isabel Caudillo (El Buen Comer) and salt specialist Adriana Lahl (Sal De Vida) lead a hands-on class designed to he ... More >>

Cindy Pawlycn's Newest Cookbook Promises a First Class Ticket Around the World

Cindy Pawlcyn's latest cookbook, Cindy's Supper Club: Meals from Around the World to Share with Family and Friends, takes readers on a sophisticated and diverse culinary journey around the world. The book highlights menus from a weekly informal supper club that Cindy hosts at her restaurant in ... More >>

Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce Local Chefs' Names

Carolyn Jung/Food GalTim LOO-yim of The Attic.​Nothing is more humiliating than name-checking some chef you supposedly have a deep personal bond with ― or have cooked under ― and getting his or her name wrong. There are chefs SFoodie has been writing about for years we refer to by first name r ... More >>

Fog City Diner: Still a Charmer, but Far from the Forefront

Thomas Hawk/Flickr​The second installment in a new series of posts looking into restaurants and food producers that San Francisco has loved for so long that they've slipped into a media black hole.

Napa Chef Cooks Up Menudo on 'Top Chef Masters' Street Food Challenge

aceshowbiz.comNo, not this Menudo.Last night, Napa chef/restaurant owner Cindy Pawlcyn (Mustards Grill, Cindy's Backstreet Kitchen, Go Fish) was the third Bay Area contestant on the Bravo TV series Top Chef Masters, and she had to face an offal game. Competing against Rick Bayless, Wilo Benet, and L ... More >>

Hubert Keller Wins First Top Chef Masters Episode with Dorm-Room Mac and Cheese

On last night's premiere of Top Chef Masters, Hubert Keller, executive chef/owner of Fleur de Lys (777 Sutter at Taylor) charmed a gaggle of Girl Scouts and a mess of college students and whipped up the winning meal: Cold Scottish salmon, hardy carrot and petit pea soup with cinnamon croutons, and ... More >>

Vittles du Video

Throughout my television-viewing life there have been certain programs that I've obsessed over, planned my schedule around, discussed with my fellow zealots over water cooler and barstool and, in short, made a point to watch without fail, but nowadays there's only one show I can't live without, Top ... More >>

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