Chris Cosentino, Top Chef Masters winner and owner of San Francisco restaurant Incanto and salumeria Boccalone, appeared on Good Morning America this morning. While he's still largely known for whole animal cooking and specializing in offal, we've often said that this man has an under-appreciated wa ... More >>
James Oseland Book Luncheon Where: Camino, 3917 Grand (at Boulevard Way), Oakland; (510) 547-5035 When: Sat., Nov. 10, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Cost: $50 (not including tax and tip); make reservations by calling the restaurant. The rundown: Saveur's James Oseland, who recently moonlighted as a judge o ... More >>
Tout Sweet opened on September 8 on the third floor of Macy's in Union Square, the brainchild of Top Chef Just Desserts Season 1 winner Yigit Pura and his longtime employers at Taste Catering. Cook E. Monster knew she was on to something when the woman at the counter squealed in solidarity after se ... More >>
Welcome to Cosentino Watch, where we recap the moves of San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino as he competes in Top Chef Masters. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Finally, we're at the finale, and we know what we came here to do. Chris Cosentino and Kerry Heffernan have swiftly eliminated their competition ov ... More >>
The Barefoot Contessa herself, Ina Garten, made a smiley appearance at the Ferry Building yesterday while filming an episode for the Food Network. According to Eater, she was gathering ingredients for a Napa picnic. We spotted her sifting through radishes, giggling over cherry tomatoes, and apparent ... More >>
Last week we published an installment of Michael Leaverton's darkly funny Food on TV column criticizing Bobby Flay for not behaving badly enough in his new restaurant fix-it show, 3 Days to Open: Also, Bobby Flay's mild and tempered personality forgets to scream and rage at the owner of the chicken ... More >>
Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Master Chef, a one-hour show chronicling one home cook's descent into delusion and madness (Tali), Mondays at 9 p.m. on Fox. When I review food TV shows I usually watch them once, because of Mystery Diners, Trisha ... More >>
CNET editor and video host Sharon Vaknin writes and films useful tutorials on topics such as maximizing mobile devices and navigating social media platforms at work, but at home she's dreaming up creations like honey roasted peanut crusted chicken skewers and cheesecake-stuffed strawberries for her ... More >>
Macy's Great American Chefs Tour San Francisco Stop with Chef Rick BaylessWhere: Macy's Union Square at 170 O'Farrell Street in the Cellar Demo Kitchen When: Demo #1: Saturday, June 2 from noon to 1:30 p.m. (For tickets, visit here.)Demo #2: Saturday, June 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. (For tickets, click h ... More >>
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Meat Men , a half-hour show about three male strippers in a Taco Bell, Mondays at 11 p.m. on the Food Network Meat is all-encompassing, all-embracing. Panoptic. When marbled cuts enter the picture all talk of ramps, o ... More >>
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: The Donatella Project, a new Dirk Balthazar novel by the Hugo-award winning author of the Sigma Protocol and the Prometheus Deception, on March 10 and 11 on the Cooking Channel. What's the Donatella Pr ... More >>
Big news in the food world: Food Network exec Bruce Seidel is jumping ship for YouTube's new food channel. Considering that the internet seems like it might be here to stay, it's probably not a terrible idea. While Bruce is most likely pondering YouTube's food channel future, we'd like to humbly ... More >>
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Fat Chef, a one-hour show about steamed vegetables, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In another effort to put even more distance between itself and food preparation so skilled it demands to be pu ... More >>
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Ice Brigade, Fridays at 4 a.m. (fuck!) on the Food Network. Ice Brigade is a show about ice carving, and if I didn't like ice carving so much all of a sudden I might have some pretty terrible things t ... More >>
Bama Glama: One part cupcakes, one part "Break Stuff"Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Bama Glama, a half-hour show not about food, Fridays at 4 a.m. (yes!) on the Food Network. With Bama Glama, the Food Network pivots from food-ce ... More >>
Food Network has no images from this show available, so here's some trophies from the strip-mall bar ofsadness Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Mystery Diners, a half-hour show you will never see again, on the Food Network or anywh ... More >>
Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Chef Hunter, a one-hour show that does not take place on a private island, Thursdays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In Chef Hunter, unemployed chefs show up at the door of an important restaurant (like ... More >>
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef Elizabeth Falkner (Citizen Cake and Orson) will flambé, sauté, and chop her way through the Food Network's Next Iron Chef: Super Chef. Eater SF reports the battle starts Oct. 30. And while that's g ... More >>
Suvir Saran Serves up Street Food (and Then Talks About It) When: Sunday, August 28, noon to 3 p.m. Where: Fort Mason Center Cost: $150 for the whole conference Two facts you may not have known about Top Chef alumnus Suvir Saran: he loves street food, and he doesn't really hate meat. "I'm f ... More >>
We were unsure of how we'd manage without Hugh(nibrow) on Top Chef Masters and for the first episode without him, we were tweezed in two. Luckily, we still managed to stay tuned. For the Quickfire, the cheftestants had to have their cooking station divided and work with a mystery teammate ... More >>
Last night's Top Chef Masters was for the crickets -- well, bug eaters. The Quickfire Challenge was to make a five-star dish using bugs and wild plants. Looking at the worms, nightcrawlers, and scorpions, the cheftestants were creepy-crawly freaked out. (The captioning under Alex read, "I can't ... More >>
SF CHEFS/FlickrDo not fuck with Des Jardins.We are still suffering from a bit of Top Chef overload, but the new season of Top Chef Masters with new host, format, and judges brought us right back into the world of cheftestants, Quickfires, and knife packings. We tuned in last night for the Sea ... More >>
BravoTVTop Chef's boys' club...We are still in it, and the real season finale for Top Chef: All-Stars is still not even upon us. Let the torture stop and the recap begin! Last night's Quickfire Challenge was the Quickfire of all Quickfires. The cheftestants each got to assign a Top Chef Quic ... More >>
SanFranAnnie/FlickrPack up your knives: Not even Padma can save this series from sucking.The Bahamas, Eric Ripert, the promise of Padma in a bikini: What could bad about the finale of Top Chef: All-Stars? Well, everything. Last night's show was the most boring episode to date. Things began ... More >>
Benjamin Seto/Cooking with the Single GuyThe Taste Catering pastry chef topped Morgan the dick and Danielle the face contortionist to take it all.The final challenge in last night's Top Chef: Just Desserts finale was to create a progressive four-course dessert tasting. The twist arrived with ... More >>
We've become blasé about the endless string of set-pieces chefs build for shows like Food Network Challenge. Fondant-wrapped Disney-themed fright cakes, cupcake towers inspired by Manolo Blahnik heels, sugar glass-molded landscapes with wonky Venetian masks and chocolate fountains that never gus ... More >>
rocor/FlickrFiercer than Game One at AT&T Park, it was Dessert Wars!Everybody knows the Giants aced Game One of the World Series, but in last night's other competition news, Dessert Wars were on . Top Chef: Just Desserts rolled out a collection of challenge favorites, beginning with the Pastr ... More >>
Bitchin Kitchen/FacebookNadia G's Bitchin Kitchen cooking show reecently debuted in the U.S. We had the pleasure of meeting a very bitchin' gal last week. Nadia G had just arrived in town from Montreal for BlogHer Food, where she was speaking on a panel called Be Your Own Food Network. You mi ... More >>
Bravo TVPretty boy swag: Taste Catering's Yigit Pura.Following Kevin asking "I am?" seconds after being told he was Season 7's Top Chef last night, thereby restoring some reality-show dignity to New Jersey (it's taken a beating from the Housewives and Jersey Shore kids) something oh-so-sweet ... More >>
John BirdsallThe owner of Spencer on the Go suggests the Food Network show suffered from casting that was, well, lame.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Food Gal Carolyn Jung takes the PR call and schedules interview time with Laurent Katgely, the chef and owner of Chez Spencer and Spencer ... More >>
T. PalmerBoitano filming an episode of his Food Network series at Precita Park.Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy recently interviewed Bay Area Olympic and World Figure Skating gold medalist Brian Boitano about his street-food adventures, wine preferences, and Food Network series What Would Bria ... More >>
Triple Threat Djs from Vinroc on Vimeo.Bay Area mixing gods Apollo, Vinroc, and Shortkut ― collectively known as the Triple Threat DJs ― are so good at what they do, they inspired the creation of a namesake burrito at Papalote. It's a bundle of delight that in turn inspired an episode of the tel ... More >>
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 ... More >>
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 S ... More >>
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 >>
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