Subject: Culinary Arts

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

  August 20, 2007

• Individual Cheese Soufflés

  September 7, 2007

• Where's The Love? Michael Bauer Screws It Up For All Of Us So-Called Food Writers

  September 11, 2007

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

  August 20, 2007

• Individual Cheese Soufflés

  September 7, 2007

• Where's The Love? Michael Bauer Screws It Up For All Of Us So-Called Food Writers

  September 11, 2007

• Molecular Gastronomy A Growing Bay Area Trend: Say What?

  November 27, 2007

• The Secrets of Salsa @ La Cocina (the Food, Not the Dance)

  June 25, 2008

• Top Chefs Tell Not Quite All

  August 26, 2008

• Bad Timing; Or, Once Is Unfortunate, but Twice Seems Bizarre

  By Meredith BrodyThe November issue of Oakland magazine is a food issue, bannered as "Food for Food Lovers," and one of the cover story banners reads "Seven Top Chefs Dish on the Restaurant Scene." The piece, "Articles of Faith," begins: "Never before has Oakland had the kind of thriving, upscale restaurant scene that today not only gives Oaklanders the sort of options they used to seek out predominantly in San Francisco and Berkeley but also attracts more and more diners from those outsider b

  December 9, 2008

• Macy's Hosts Two S.F. Battle of the Chefs

  The third annual Battle of the Chefs begins tomorrow night (Wednesday, February 11) at the Cellar in Macy's Union Square (170 O'Farrell) with a culinary showdown between executive chefs Hoss Zaré (Zaré at Fly Trap) and Jonnatan Leiva (Jack Falstaff) and continues on Wednesday, March 4, when Jennifer Biesty (Scala's Bistro/Top Chef) faces off against Dominique Crenn (Luce). Both will be hosted and narrated by pastry chef extraordinaire Marisa Churchill, a former Top Chef contestant herself.

  February 10, 2009

• 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

• Kung Food

  August 30, 1995

• More, Please

  January 14, 2009

• Orson Not Well

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

  July 23, 2008

• One Google Guy

  May 7, 2008

• It's a Classy Affair

  April 23, 2008

• Students file class-action lawsuit against California Culinary Academy

  October 10, 2007

• Burnt Chefs

  June 6, 2007

• The Cutting Edge

  August 2, 2006

• Steamy Sauté

  Cooks turn up the heat

  November 26, 2003

• Noblesse Oblige

  Charles Nob Hill

  December 4, 2002

• Gifts Without Malls

  Alternative Gift Giving

  November 20, 2002

• Best Restaurant

  May 15, 2002

• Heavy Hitters

  A new restaurant pinch-hits for Pac Bell Park's Twenty Four

  February 6, 2002

• Dinner and a Movie

  Stories of crime and passion weave in and out of a busy restaurant kitchen in Dinner Rush

  December 26, 2001

• A Temple to High Living

  Elisabeth Daniel

  December 13, 2000

• Side Dish

  October 25, 2000

• My Dinner With Attitude

  January 20, 1999

• Dish

  August 28, 1996

• 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

• 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 night out beyond the pink ghetto of the Castro, a four-pack of slightly splurgy, gay-friendly (though not necessarily gay-owned) restaurants. Leave your camo cargoes in the hotel room and dress up a litt

  June 16, 2009

• S.F. Chef Falkner Takes on 'Top Chef Masters' with Boar, Beef Jerky, and Extra-Credit Cookies

  S.F.'s own Elizabeth Falkner (pictured, second from left, with Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot Bowles, and Suzanne Tracht) competed in last night's episode of Bravo's Top Chef Masters. And while she didn't win (that honor went to Tracht), the Orson/Citizen Cake maven's dishes were certainly memorable.The episode's first Quickfire Challenge, taken from an early season of Top Chef, had the chefs hitting up vending machines to find ingredients to make an amuse-bouche. Falkner's creation: Braised

  June 18, 2009

• 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 "summer flavors": fresh stretched mozzarella and buttermilk panna cotta. The Delfina panna cotta -which Michael Bauer recently said he "can't forget"-- is a serving of culinary wonder: creamy, fresh, and d

  July 16, 2009

• Nate Appleman Celebrates 30th Birthday By Leaving A16 and SPQR

  Nate ApplemanNate Appleman was ebullient and accurate about his chances to win the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year ("a chef 30 years or younger who displays an impressive talent and who is likely to have a significant impact on the industry in years to come") when SFoodie talked to him a couple of months ago: "Being nominated three times, I just think it's my year." And he was happy to comment a few weeks later when we asked the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association-certified pizzaiolo h

  July 16, 2009

• Dine About Town

  July 29, 2009

• New Broken Record Chef Not So New

  James Moisey/Twitter James Moisey (left) It's been three weeks since the Frito pie hit the fan at the Broken Record (1166 Geneva at Edinburgh): chefs Ryan Ostler and Katharine Zacher got the hell out, citing burnout in interviews. And even though Tablehopper reported that a new chef would be reopening the kitchen July 18th, a fog heavier than any summer marine layer seemed to hang over the Excelsior. The BR was done.   Except it wasn't. This morning SFoodie had a phone chat with

  July 31, 2009

• Local Team Going Wok-to-Wok with Asian Chefs in Cook-Off

  Asian Chefs AssociationThe bronze-winning 2007 San Francisco team in Taipei.​The Taipei World Culinary Contest has again asked the San Francisco Asian Chefs Association to represent the U.S.A. in a grueling three-day culinary competition. From August 20 to August 23, the home team will go up against teams from China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and northern and southern Taiwan in a grand Asian food cook-off. It'll be the third time San Francisco is participating. In 2007, the lo

  August 7, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. SFoodie Pissy. Rant. Session.: Now that the weekend's events are over, let it be said: Could there be a better way to piss off editors than to name an even "SF Chefs. Food. Wine."? Though it clocks a mere four words, SF C.F.W. seems way too long, has too damn much punctuation, and just effs with any sense of language flow. Now that we got that off our chest, let us praise Stephanie Im of Bay Area Bites for coverage (in words and pics)

  August 10, 2009

• Preeti Mistry of 'Top Chef' Season Six: The SFoodie Interview

  Bravo TV​We were worried when local girl Preeti Mistry turned to her three colleagues last week during the first Quickfire Challenge of Top Chef Las Vegas -- a mise-en-place battle for which she'd have to open 15 clams before others on her team could move on to other tasks, including trimming a rib eye. Mistry said, "It's the same as an oyster, right? Clams?" Virgin clam-shucker Mistry, an executive chef at Bon Appétit Management Company who runs Charlie's Café at Google in Mountain Vi

  August 26, 2009

• S.F. Squad Snags Silver at Asian Culinary Battle in Taipei

  SF Asian Chefs AssociationTeam USA (in red) reacts to winning Silver.​In its third appearance at the Taipei World Culinary Contest, Team USA brought home Silver. The squad was composed of five chefs from S.F., all members of the San Francisco Asian Chefs Association: Philippe Striffeler of Hotel Nikko, Ty Mahler of Roy's, Scott Whitman of Sushi Ran, Arturo Moscoso from the Inn at Spanish Bay in Pebble Beach, and Damon Bartham of the California Culinary Academy. For the first time ever, the

  August 27, 2009

• Hot Chaat: Soul Cocina Brings India to Mission Street Food

  T. PalmerSoul Cocina's panuchos: Neither Indian nor on the MSF menu, but also hot.​Roger Feely, the culinary instructor/street food purveyor behind Soul Cocina, will once again collaborate with Mission Street Food this Thursday, September 10 at Lung Shan (2234 Mission at 18th St.). Feely told SFoodie that his "Soul Cocina Chaat" will be an Indian street food menu that will include small dishes such as bhel puri (puffed rice snack), poha, vadai (lentil fritters), and royal falooda kulfi (a dess

  September 8, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. The semiotics of yum: We once had an editor who enforced a ban on hated words: crispy, veggie, hipster, and foodie, a tag that necessarily shows up often on a site called SFoodie. At Bay Area Bites today, SFoodie contributor Andrew Simmons muses on foodie's connotations: an essential handle for a way of life, or buggy buzzword? Alice Waters famously hates foodie -- we figure she realizes its power to diminish, recognizes its suggestion of vapid

  September 8, 2009

• Fish & Farm's Chad Newton: The SFoodie Interview

  C. NewtonChad Newton: Wants Gordon to keep yelling.​Growing up in Mountain View, Chad Newton got a taste of restaurant glory via family trips to Stars, Jeremiah Tower's watershed Cali brasserie. "I used to always gravitate toward the regular menu, not the kid's menu," Newton said. He graduated from the Restaurant Management program at S.F. State, and in 2001 scored a front of the house job as food runner at Postrio during the reign of Steven and Mitchell Rosenthal (now the forces behind To

  September 15, 2009

• Local Heavies to Celebrate Cecilia Chiang, the Julia Child of Chinese Cooking

  Silent auction prizes include signed copies of Chiang's latest book.​Famed San Francisco restaurant owner, cooking teacher, and consultant Cecilia Chiang is being honored on her 90th birthday Friday with a banquet at Yank Sing Rincon Center (101 Spear at Mission). The eight-course menu was created by Chiang, whose Mandarin restaurant influenced generations of U.S. restaurateurs. Students Chiang has taught include Julia Child, James Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye. Since retiring from t

  September 16, 2009

• Sans Cart

  October 21, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Act Now and Get a Set of Steak Knives!

  ​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. This is just sad: Heston Blumenthal is one of the greatest chefs of his generation. His restaurant, The Fat Duck in Berkshire in England, has the stature of the French Laundry. In 2007 and 2009, the Good Food Guide named it the best restaurant in the U.K., and its owner has engineered weird-science dishes that've become the signature expressions of the age, like egg and bacon ice cream and ultra-low heat cooking. All the sadder that Blumenthal s

  October 22, 2009

• David Chang: S.F. Reaction to Fig-Gate 'Retardedly Stupid'

  timeoutnewyork/FlickrChang: A bad case of produce envy.​The day after publication of his book, the wonderful Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40), SFoodie spoke wiith New York chef David Chang. You know, the guy who stirred up a shit storm earlier this month with the comment that "fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate." In the aftermath, the NorCal Asia Society canceled an event with Chang scheduled for early November, when the chef will be in town to promote

  October 28, 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

• 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 one panelist teasingly called "drunk with Tony" when he dropped his now-famous diss on the city's food chops last month with Anthony Bourdain. Ar at least, that's how it went down here. Even before h

  November 5, 2009