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Bay Area Chefs Up For Beard Awards: A Remarkably Collegial Bunch

Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu i ... More >>

How the Bay Area Fared at James Beard Restaurant Awards

Douglas Keane Douglas Keane of Cyrus Surprise Winner for Best Chef, Pacific, and Nate Appleman's Third Time is Charm as He Wins Best Rising Star ChefAt last night's James Beard Awards, in something of an upset, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg won Best Chef, Pacific, over fellow nominees Jeremy ... More >>

Queer Food Capital: Four Restaurants That Just Feel Like Us

Today, SFoodie launches Queer Food Capital, a daily countdown to Pride on June 28. We'll be taking a look at the city's LGBT dining, wine, and bar culture, featuring interviews with prominent out chefs and other foodies, guides, even notes on history. First up? For out-of-towners seeking a nig ... More >>

Saturday Freebie: Delfina Panna Cotta at Macy's

After that scoop of Ben & Jerry's this Saturday, foodies can flock over to the Union Square Macy's (170 O'Farrell at TK) cellar for another freebie. At 2 p.m., Delfina Executive Chef (& ahem! James Beard Award winner) Craig Stoll and Pastry Chef Koa Duncan will demo and offer tastes of "summ ... More >>

Street Food Fest Auction Could Get You Face Time with Local Chefs

Elaine Baker/FlickrNopa's Laurence Jossel: This could be your kitchen, 'cept with a cheaper fridge.​Two weeks ago we reported on the coalescing list of silent auction items for the San Francisco Street Food Festival happening this Saturday. Since then there've been glittery additions, includin ... 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 >>

Il Cane Rosso's Lauren Kiino: The SFoodie Interview

Kiino, working the Cane Rosso lunch line.​We confess: We have no clue what the hell environmental geologists do. But if studying to be one means you walk away with an acute understanding of stuff like terroir, and how foods grow, then it was the perfect education for Lauren Kiino. The 37-year- ... More >>

Hakka Restaurant: Inexpensive Chinese done right

Kiino, working the Cane Rosso lunch line.​We confess: We have no clue what the hell environmental geologists do. But if studying to be one means you walk away with an acute understanding of stuff like terroir, and how foods grow, then it was the perfect education for Lauren Kiino. The 37-year- ... More >>

Annie Stoll Isn't Talking About Delfina Expansion Rumors

FacebookCraig and Annie Stoll.​In a polite but brusque voice, Annie Stoll had only a brief message to pass along: "We're not talking about that," said the Delfina co-owner (with husband Craig), regarding expansion rumors. Excitement surged through local food blogs this morning, following All ... More >>

Ramblas to Close in May; Delfina's Roman Spin-Off Taking Over Site

Jim L./YelpThe Valencia Street tapas bar has had a rough couple of years.​Annie Stoll might have kept mum, but Sara Deseran got the confirmation for 7x7: Craig Stoll's Roman-inspired Locanda (a working name) is expected to open late spring or early summer in the Valencia space that's now Rambl ... More >>

18th Street Block Party Brings the Hog to Dolores

Brett L./FlickrSpit-roasting pig at the last 18th Street Block Party in 2008.​Delfina's Craig Stoll, Bi-Rite's Sam Mogannam, and other Mission business owners organized a huge party two summers ago that took over 18th Street and spilled into Dolores Park. The free event was swarmed by people w ... More >>

Crunk's Not Dead, the Haberdash, Kelley Stoltz, Godwaffle Noise Pancakes and More

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

Saturday: Cocktail Gladiators Do Battle at Drink

Lou BustamanteRachel Ford.​Tomorrow night at SF Weekly's Drink party at the Fairmont, there'll be an epic battle between bartenders, live on stage, with Combier liqueur as the main ingredient. Tastes of the competitors' cocktails will be provided to attendees, along with all the spirits being ... More >>

Glimpsing Locanda Through a Cocktail Glass

LocandaBrian MacGregor.​Locanda Cocktail Preview at Blackbird Where: Blackbird, 2124 Market (at Church), 503-0630 When: Sun., Mar. 27, 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Cost: $9 per cocktail The rundown: Anticipation for the Delfina sibling Locanda (expected sometime this spring) is building as fast as a con ... More >>

Bi-Rite, Frances, Slanted Door, and Delfina All Cook for Mission High

Allan Ferguson/FlickrSite of the Mission's biggest-ever popup resturant.​Two years ago, when Mission High School had some of the lowest California Standards Test scores in the state, Principal Eric Guthertz promised the students that if they raised their scores, he'd get a tattoo of the school mas ... More >>

A Food-Truck Backlash in Los Angeles, Who Wants a Menu-Definition App?

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. The backlash begins.  The L.A. Times has a great article looking at the state of the city's new-wave food truck scene two and a half years after Kogi launched. (Just to get th ... More >>