Subject: Cooking Shows

• SFoodie: Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen, No Reservations Analyzed

  August 20, 2007

• Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending

  August 21, 2007

• Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

  October 30, 2007

• SFoodie: Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen, No Reservations Analyzed

  August 20, 2007

• Rory, JAG-off, and Amy: the Surprise 'Next Food Network Star, Season Three' Ending

  August 21, 2007

• Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

  October 30, 2007

• Coolio In The Kitchen: 'It's Time To Cook Biatch!'

  February 13, 2008

• Attention Faux-Hawks: Top Chef Casting Call

  April 21, 2008

• Scoop! Rachael Ray to Air Show on East Bay – In Seven or Eight Months!

  August 3, 2008

• 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 Chef, a reality show on Bravo. On Top Chef, a dozen or so line cooks, restaurant owners, caterers and cuisiniers from across the country gather in some food-obsessed metropolis (San Francisco, New Yor

  February 11, 2009

• Casting Call: Bobby Flay Wants The Bay Area's Best African-American Grillers

  Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and recipes) to slay the taste buds of the veteran TV host, restaurateur and Iron Chef Flay. The deadline to submit a three-minute video pitching yourself for the program is March 2. Rock Shrimp is also looki

  February 11, 2009

• Orson Not Well

  Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.

  July 23, 2008

• Knives Out

  May 9, 2007

• I'd Like to Thank the Ground Beef

  April 25, 2007

• Bewiched

  A top chef expands his brand, and we follow

  November 29, 2006

• A Tale of Two Cities

  Different strokes for different folks this weekend

  June 4, 2003

• Best Place to Sauté on a Saturday Morning

  May 23, 2001

• Night Crawler

  Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

  February 9, 2000

• Night Crawler

  April 29, 1998

• Upcoming Great American Food and Music Fest Features Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Marshall Crenshaw, Little Feat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- and an Astounding Array of Eats

  There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling technique. Local-boy-made-good Guy Fieri, the most successful winner of the Food Network's The Next Food Network Star, will also appear onstage.Food booths offering quintessential American delights have

  April 27, 2009

• 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 on this Earth," New York author and food blogger Ed Levine -- a festival organizer -- told SFoodie. Levine said he'd heard the event called "the Super Bowl of food," a description that seemed to expr

  June 8, 2009

• 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 doing an crab cake demo late Saturday. "I'm just going to play it as it goes -- I think it'll be interesting and fun for people," said Oakes. She acknowledged that the lineup, which includes Bobby Flay a

  June 12, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this Saturday. Commenters? Not so much. Dr Fred sniffed Why would you go? Food Network is not about cooking and their stars are not chefs. DaTruff had a full-on hissy fit, food-nerd style: French foie gras

  June 12, 2009

• Season Six of 'Next Food Network Star' to Hold Open-Call Auditions Here

  Kim in Cajun Country/FlickrNo, this isn't the real Guy Fieri, just a wannabe like you.Admit it: You bust out your Guy Fieri moves in front of the full-length when nobody's home. In July, you'll have a chance to do it where it counts -- in front of a Food Network casting agent. On July 26 at the W Hotel (181 Third St. at Howard), The Next Food Network Star is hosting open-call casting auditions for Season Six (scheduled to air next summer). What do you need, besides Paula Deen-like incandescenc

  June 22, 2009

• Ideas for Replacing TyFlo's Still-Missing Fork

  Food NetworkWe're pretty sure it's been eating at you in those quiet moments, like when you wake up at 3 a.m. and just can't drift off to sleep again: Tyler Florence's ginormous fork is still missing from the sign of his Mill Valley tchotchke emporium. Fans of the Marin native and incandescent Food Network star haven't been passively despairing. Wag Michelle Madison posted several suggestions on Food Network Humor: massive spork, mudflap babes, even a skewered Andrew Zimmern. Our suggestion? Ho

  June 25, 2009

• TiVo Alert: Bi-Rite Creamery on 'The Best Thing I Ever Ate'

  Bi-Rite Creamery's Banana Split.If you think the line is bad now, just wait! Bi-Rite Creamery (3692 18th at Dolores) takes a star turn on tomorrow night's "Sugar Rush" episode of Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate."Sugar Rush" airs on Tuesday, July 7 at 9:30 p.m.; Wednesday, July 8 at 12:30 a.m.; and Saturday, July 18 at 6 p.m. on the Food Network.

  July 6, 2009

• Sorry, Chris: Chefs vs. City = Massive Fail

  Food NetworkChris (left), we love you, bro, but tell us there isn't going to be a Season Two.​We bow to no one in our love for chef Chris Cosentino. Incanto is on the short list of S.F. restaurants that (a) we unfailingly recommend to others, and (b) gladly spend our own money at. We're still dreaming about a perfect Cucina Povera meal there earlier this year, with an add-on of calves' brains cooked with Douglas fir fronds and pine oil. Pure genius. And we can never enter the Ferry Buildin

  October 8, 2009

• 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 at Aqua. She later moved to Aqua's sister eatery, Charles Nob Hill, to work alongside Ron Siegel, eventually moving up to executive chef. Perello: Not feeling S.F.'s raging pig cult.​It was at

  October 29, 2009