Daniel Patterson

Fruit and Vegetable Leathers Transform Into Fine Dining Treat

"I've made a lot of school lunches lately," Coi chef Daniel Patterson smiled sweetly as he dropped a plate on our table the other night. On it were squares of Tomme Dolce cheese from Petaluma's Andante Dairy covered by slices of apple and sheets of assorted fruit and vegetable leathers, a fine dinin ... More >>

James Beard Finalists Announced Today: Here Are the Locals

​Today, the James Beard Foundation announces the finalists for both its restaurant, book, and journalism awards, often called the "Oscars" of the food world. (Semifinalists for the 2012 restaurant awards were announced on February 21). The foundation is tweeting out the results as we type, so SFoo ... More >>

Bouche: Young Chef's Menu Intrigues While His Methods Confuse

Haven: Big Portions, Bold Flavors Have Mass Appeal

Haven: New California Cuisine Gets Super-Sized

​I've been a restaurant critic for more than a decade now, and I can't say I've ever had the chance to review the same chef twice in one year -- at two different restaurants. In fact, I probably would have avoided it if the chef hadn't been Kim Alter, whose food I enjoyed so much when she was cook ... More >>

James Beard Awards Announce Semifinalists: Bay Area's Well Represented, Obviously

​The day has come for the James Beard Foundation to announce the semifinalists for the 2012 Restaurant Awards. As SFoodie has written before, the finals can resemble the Oscars in that they're often career awards rather than a measure of how the nominees are performing at this very moment. Tha ... More >>

Rene Redzepi Comes to Forage in the Bay Area

Enah Manson/FlickrDaniel Patterson, left, and Rene Redzepi.​The "I ate at El Bulli" essay named the food-writer's cliché of the past decade has been supplanted by the endlessly repeated "I foraged with Rene Redzepi" article. The media has annointed Redzepi, the chef of Noma in Copenhagen, this de ... More >>

Oakland's Plum Bar Ups the Cocktail Ante

​With the opening of Plum Bar, the new project adjoining Daniel Patterson's Plum Restaurant, Oakland has upped the cocktail ante. The bar itself is the focus of the narrow space. The walls are tiled with pages from poetry books, and votive candles hang from the ceiling; the atmosphere is some ... More >>

Daniel Patterson on Copenhagen's MAD Foodcamp: International Glamor, Hyperlocal Foods

Daniel Patterson.​Daniel Patterson, chef-owner of Coi, is freshly back from last week's MAD Foodcamp in Copenhagen, at which he presented a history of beets. The two-day symposium was organized by René Redzepi, chef of Noma, which has been celebrated for its intricate experimentation of nati ... More >>

SOMA's New Addition, To the Races, and Daniel Patterson Updates

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. New neighbors: LiveSOMA shares that the spaceLittle Joe's left in late June at 85 Fifth St. (at Mission) will become SOMA Restaurant and Bar. The interior looks near completion and the awnings are hung, b ... More >>

Shutdowns, History's Bar, Heart of Dixie, and Kim Alter's New Kitchen

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The Health Department is on a roll this week -- a steamroller, that is. On Wednesday we shared the news that the Mission soup stand that serves free bowls to the homeless, Soup to Nuts, was shut down. Now ... More >>

Mijita May Head East, Chef Pop-ups, More Burgers, and Kink.com's New Bar

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. If opening a Mexican restaurant, head east. Inside Scoop reports, via Bloomberg news, that chef Traci Des Jardins is looking at New York, Boston, and Washington D.C., as possible expansion cities for her ... More >>

Daniel Patterson Pushes a Food Cart, Ritual Adds Buzz to Proxy

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Tasting Table spots what appears to be the Bay Area's humblest-looking lunch cart, but with the fanciest of pedigrees: Porky's from Daniel Patterson. Decorated with pigs, the Uptown Oakland cart serves o ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Plum: Daniel Patterson's intricate and affordable cuisine

This Week's Review: Plum, Where Devices and Ideals Go Hand in Hand

Lara HataSquid with smoked lentil puree at Plum.​I had a funny little off-the-record exchange with Daniel Patterson a few weeks ago, in which I asked him if he wanted to update his 2005 essay on how straightjacket California cuisine had become. His response was, essentially, that he'd said all he' ... More >>

Wrap Delight Goes Mexican-Vietnamese, Pudong to Bring Vietnamese-French to the Castro

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Inside Scoop's Paolo L. learns that a pair of Shanghai 1930 staffers are planning to open Pudong (2029 Market) in the former Mecca space. The pitch: Shanghainese food with French accents.Humin ... More >>

Plum Announces an Opening Date (Soon), La Rondalla Resurfaces (Later)

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.At Inside Scoop, Paolo L. reports that Daniel Patterson's Plum (2214 Broadway, 510-444-7586, www.plumoakland.com) is opening next Wednesday -- and has just started taking reservation ... More >>

Daniel Patterson Talks Storytelling and Food, Zings New York Chefs

​As a prelude to Le Fooding's upcoming New York vs. San Francisco "showdown," The New York Times' T magazine asked David Chang and Daniel Patterson to talk about West Coast vs. East Coast food. Patterson, first up, started by yawning at the question, then asking a different one: What makes a regio ... More >>

Jeremy Fox Abandons Plum, Bumzy's Opens

​​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Breaking news from Paolo L. at the Inside Scoop: Jeremy Fox (you know, the chef from Ubuntu) has abandoned his plans to be the opening chef for Plum, the new Oakland restaurant from Daniel ... More >>

Papito Esta Abriendo, Viva Goa Lives!, Plum Ripens

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.At Inside Scoop, Paolo L. reports that Papito (317 Connecticut, 695-0147, www.papitosf.com) should finally open on Friday for dinner. And although Papito comes from Chez Papa owner Jocelyn Bu ... More >>

Big-Ticket Summer: S.F.'s Pricey New Restaurants

​Everyone who writes about food in San Francisco has spent the past year talking about how the city's restaurant scene is downscaling. Evidence: The proliferation of street carts and food trucks, pizza and burgers, and sandwiches of every shade and stripe, not to mention the migration of chefs to ... More >>

Zaytoon Opens, House of Shields Kicks Out the Bands

​The last 24 hours in rumor, innuendo, and straight-out facts about restaurant openings and closings in San Francisco.Mission Loc@l reports a few facts: That Zaytoon Mediterranean Wraps (1136 Valencia, www.zaytoonsf.com) opened yesterday. That babaghanoush flowed like ... that babaghanoush flowed ... More >>

Why Are There Still Health Care 'Surcharges' on Restaurant Tabs?

​I was at dinner with friends at Little Star last weekend, and we were splitting the check. "Looks like the health care surcharge here is 50 cents a person," said one of them, fingering the bill, and suddenly my mood flashed from cheese-stuffed and content to angry. It's been almost three years s ... More >>

Daniel Patterson to Open Plum in Oakland's Uptown Neighborhood

fOtOdOjO/FlickrDaniel Patterson.​His Bracina project in Jack London Square might be on hold, but it looks like chef Daniel Patterson isn't letting that stop him from opening in Oakland. The Coi/Il Cane Rosso chef/owner has plans to open a small restaurant named Plum in Franklin Square at the e ... More >>

Patterson-Kinch Collaboration Like Some Monster Hip Hop Mashup

Manresa's David Kinch and Coi's Daniel Patterson are uniting for a splashy dinner Feb. 8 at Coi (373 Broadway at Montgomery). Guests will nibble seven courses ($195 for the spread), with proceeds to benefit the training of the next U.S. Bocuse d'Or representative hoping to slice, dice, and reduce in ... More >>

SFoodie's 92: Porchetta Sandwich from Il Cane Rosso

J. Birdsall​As a windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here, a different one each day. Tweet your own nominations ― extra points for pics ― to @SFoodie. Number 88: Spit-Roasted Porchetta Sandwich from Il Cane ... More >>

Il Cane Rosso: Proof that locally sourced eating hasn't gone too far

Early Bird Special: Il Cane Rosso

J. BirdsallMarin Sun Farms beef sugo over creamy polenta.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. If Manhattan ramen king David Chang taught us anything, it's this: Northern California's ingredient-centric cooking vernacular can seem like gibberish to outsiders. If you'd beg ... More >>

Daniel Patterson: S.F. is Killing the Upscale Neighborhood Restaurant

fOtOdOjO/Flickr​We started out seeking to challenge the current meme that Oakland is the new locus of Bay Area chef talent. (In the East Bay Express, Carolyn Jung even called it America's next great dining destination.) We thought, sure, a handful of chefs are opening second restaurants in O-T ... More >>

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 ... More >>

Cane Rosso is Expanding Its Family-Style Sunday Suppers to Every Night

muirwood/FlickrThe three-course menus will change nightly.​Starting next month, Il Cane Rosso (One Ferry Building #41 at the Embarcadero) is expanding its two-month-old Sunday Supper concept to seven nights. The evening meals will take Cane Rosso's signature spit-roasted pastured meats out of ... More >>

Doggy Bag: The Chang-Pim Bitch Fight

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Pim the avenger: Holy crap! The David Chang shit storm is causing some observers to pull the really long blades out of their knife rolls. Hot Food Porn pulls out a blog post from Opinionated About Dining that describes Chez Pim's discovery of the evil Chan ... More >>

Coi's Daniel Patterson Referees a Cookbook Smackdown. Guess Who the Loser Is?

Look hard -- see the ginormous "L" on his forehead?​Food52, a new food networking Web site from ex-New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser, has plans to publish a cookbook of its contributor's recipes. In the meantime, it's hosting a curious Tournament of Cookbooks. Bracketed just like a spor ... 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 >>

Chicken Soup for the Soul

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. The hard questions: Took us a couple of days, but we finally digested Hot Food Porn's thoughts about a four-way we had on Twitter: Porn, Chez Pim, SFoodie, and -- showing up for the money tweets -- Daniel Patterson. Just like, you know, a ... More >>

Dine About Town

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 >>

Anthony Bourdain's Hunger for More Inevitably Leads Him to S.F.

media.newsobserver.comWhere do you go for entrails, chiles, and bacony goodness after you've been to Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and Colombia? Why, San Francisco, of course!Famed tough-guy foodie Anthony Bourdain is in these parts right now, it's rumored, sampling our finest and weirdest cuisine for his Tr ... More >>

When Tourists Hit the Beach

You can do worse than Panta Rei's swinging decor and homemade pasta, but you can also do better.

SF Weekly's Seven Day Dish

Chef Daniel Serves Syd Barrett Raw at the Rock-It

Chef Daniel Serves Syd Barrett Raw at the Rock-It

Omnivorous

In 2006, San Francisco is still a marvelous place to eat (stop the presses!)

Sine Coi Non

The gifted Daniel Patterson opens a dazzling show on Broadway

Con-Fusion

A change in philosophy between two visits to Frisson gives us a shiver

Best New Restaurant

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A Temple to High Living

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