Culinary Arts

Sharpen Your Knife Skills at S.F. Cooking School's New Winter Classes

Last fall saw the opening of the San Francisco Cooking School, a new culinary education center in the Civic Center that offers professional degrees as well as classes for amateurs taught by some of the best chefs in the city. Today the school released the new lineup of winter "hands-on" classes for ... More >>

Become a Master Pizzaiolo at SF Cooking School's Pizza-Making Classes

All through December, SFoodie is bringing you local gift ideas for the food obsessives in your life. Pizza is beloved by nearly everyone. Yet achieving perfect pie in the home kitchen may not seem so easy -- there's flour to consider, along with cooking time, and let's not forget the sauce options. ... More >>

Class Alert! Master Twinkies, Chai and Cereal

The Pastry Shop: Favorite Childhood Junk Foods Where: Cavallo Point, 601 Murray Circle (at Fort Baker), Sausalito, 339-4700 When: Wed., Sept. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $55 adults/$25 children (plus tax) (reserve by calling 888.651.2003) The rundown: Cavallo Point, otherwise known as the Lodge at th ... More >>

San Francisco Cooking School: Culinary Lessons for the Rest of Us

Q&A With Mary Risley of Tante Marie's Cooking School, Part 1

​Mary Risley's resume is as impressive as it is long. She founded Tante Marie's Cooking School in 1979; started the nonprofit organization Food Runners in 1987; was named Bon Appetit's "cooking teacher of the year" in 1988; and authored a cookbook in 2003. However, Risley might be better known the ... More >>

Dan Jablow's Meat Awakening

Alex HochmanDan Jablow of Jablow's Meats​What does a Bronx raised, ex-finance professional who goes to cooking school but then figures out that he hates working in a restaurant kitchen do with his future? Well, if you're Dan Jablow you start a smoked meats pop-up of course. Jablow, who trained ... More >>

Jonathan Kauffman Named SF Weekly's New Food Critic and SFoodie Blogger

Donncha@ In Photos.org/FlickrBreak out the Cantonese seafood.​SF Weekly has a new staff food writer. Former Bay Area food critic Jonathan Kauffman is leaving sister publication Seattle Weekly to become our full-time restaurant critic and SFoodie blogger. As staff writer for the East Bay Expre ... More >>

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 a ... More >>

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 res ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 cre ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 SFoo ... More >>

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 fo ... More >>

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 Hot ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 to ... More >>

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 a ... More >>

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 b ... 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 >>

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 co ... More >>

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 memora ... 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 >>

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 doi ... 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 >>

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 Jen ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Top Chefs Tell Not Quite All

Orson Not Well

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

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

One Google Guy

Molecular Gastronomy A Growing Bay Area Trend: Say What?

Students file class-action lawsuit against California Culinary Academy

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

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

Individual Cheese Soufflés

Individual Cheese Soufflés

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

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

Burnt Chefs

Former admissions representatives at CCA say they preyed on students’ dreams of becoming celebrity chefs and glossed over the painful economic realities of the industry

The Cutting Edge

Steamy Sauté

Cooks turn up the heat

Noblesse Oblige

Charles Nob Hill

Gifts Without Malls

Alternative Gift Giving

Best Restaurant

Fifth Floor

Heavy Hitters

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

Dinner and a Movie

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

A Temple to High Living

Elisabeth Daniel

Dish

Kung Food

Director Tsui Hark brings martial arts into the kitchen in The Chinese Feast