Subject: David Chang

• Straight From The Chef's Mouth: Waiters, Go Fuck Yourselves

  November 26, 2007

• The Year Of Eating Dangerously: Best Food Post Of The Year

  December 28, 2007

• Ubuntu's Fox Shakes Ass for Hammered Chefs

  peter_rJeremy Fox: Worked ItConfine seriously kickass chefs in a tight space, add cocktails and the superheated buzz around the James Beard Awards and what do you get? Two words: Stripper pole. Ubuntu chef and Beard nominee Jeremy Fox admitted to SFoodie this morning that things got so off the chain last night in Manhattan superchef David Chang's party bus on the way to the awards ceremony, that Fox found himself doing a couple of turns on the stripper pole. "Something compelled me," Fox said in

  May 5, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Talking Shit About S.F. Chefs

  ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Come here and say that: On Saturday, Grub Street New York reported on an Extreme Tag Team talk with Anthony Bourdain and David Chang from the New York Wine & Food Festival. Grub Street called it Ten Things Anthony Bourdain and David Chang Hate. You know Chang: The chefpreneur of, like, five Manhattan restaurants under the Momofuku franchise: Noodle Bar, Ssam Bar, Milk Bar, Ko. Grub Street's distillation went like this: Cupcakes: "I hate fuckin' cupcake

  October 12, 2009

• NorCal Asia Society Eighty-Sixes David Chang After New York Chef's Diss of S.F. Restaurants

  NYC Wine & Food FestivalBlame it on the ah-ah-ah-alcohol.​A spokesman for the Asia Society confirmed that the organization canceled an event with New York superchef David Chang for Nov. 9, after Chang made disparaging remarks about chefs in San Francisco. "Regrettably, it's true," said Robert Bullock, program director for the Northern California chapter of the Asia Society. Chang -- chef/owner of the Momofuku family of Manhattan restaurants, including Ko and Noodle Bar -- made the remarks

  October 19, 2009

• The 2010 S.F. Michelin Guide Dropped Today -- If You Care

  Today saw the official release of Michelin's San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country Restaurants Guide 2010, the fourth edition of the local star search. Michelin director Jean-Luc Naret told SFoodie 10 inspectors did the field work for this year's Nor Cal guide -- the same inspectors who do table research for the New York guide, to make sure the famous star rating achieves a kind of bi-coastal consistency. For those who care, Michelin ratings always raise eyebrows, if only slightly. eprouveze/F

  October 20, 2009

• 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 Chang's basement, wherein he makes fun of Daniel Patterson. We're totally not joking. Throw in David Kinch, and what you get is a nasty tangle of accusations that'd make a grow house full of paranoid twea

  October 20, 2009

• Bay Links: OxyContin, Muni Videos, & David Chang

  Is Trauma flatlining?​Can Trauma be resuscitated? [SF Citizen]OxyContin is the drug du jour. [City Insider]Muni bus drives on sidewalk, conks out fire hydrant. Video of the aftermath! [SFAppeal]Western Addition vs NOPA: Sticker Wars Edition. [SFist]Food fight! Anthony Bourdain weighs in on Asia Society's decision to cancel David Chang appearance. [Eater]Who says people don't write letters anymore?!?! [Sweet Melissa]Van Ness Muni waterfall! (Every bit as beautiful as it sounds.) [Burrito Justic

  October 20, 2009

• Grub Street Truth-Squads Chang: New York Chefs Use Hella Figs

  DDanzigFoie gras torchon with duck prosciutto and Black Mission figs at Gary Danko.​Bitter knows no bounds. Following the fallout over N.Y. chef David Chang's remark that "fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate," Grub Street's Adam Martin activated his iPhone's calculator and got busy running the percentages. Hi conclusion? "Figs appear on more plates in New York than they do in San Francisco." Read the raw data here. Of course, as a Grub Street reader po

  October 21, 2009

• Expect Plenty of Flogging When David Chang Comes to Town, But It'll All Be of the Book Variety

  ​Nobody ever said New York chef David Chang didn't have huevos, and we're not talking the slow-poached kind that show up in the ramen at Noodle Bar. Chang's thoughts about San Francisco chefs may have raised a crap storm in certain quarters locally, but that isn't stopping the master of Momofuku from dropping down at SFO early next month -- after, that is, a mini slog through national media. Chang's Beard-worthy cookbook and memoir, Momofuku (Clarkson Potter, $40) drops next Tuesday, same

  October 23, 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

• For Bookish Foodies, It's a Busy Week of Author Appearances

  It's a big week for bookish San Francisco foodies interested in sustainable farming, vegetarianism, and foraging. • Tomorrow, Wendell Berry -- writer, farmer, and godfather of the organic farming movement -- appears at Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness at McAllister) in conversation with Michael Pollan for a City Arts and Lectures event. The utterings of both are often quoted (Berry: "Eating is an agricultural act"; Pollan: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Perhaps tomorrow's talk will yiel

  November 3, 2009

• Chez Pim Blogger Flogs Her Book Tonight in the Marina

  Proto food blogger and reported David Chang foe Pim Techamuanvivit will read and sign copies of her book The Foodie Handbook: The (Almost) Definitive Guide to Gastronomy (Chronicle Books, $24.95) starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Marina location of Books Inc. (2251 Chestnut Street at Pierce). Pim promises on her blog, Chez Pim, "a reading and more recipes from my new book .... You might even win a few jars of my jam!" We double hot-dog dare you to ask Pim about her own personal David Chang sh

  November 3, 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

• 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-Town. And despite Commis, could the East Bay city we love for taco trucks and Lao food ever really challenge San Francisco's fine-dining dominance? We turned to Daniel Patterson, Coi chef and owner, Ca

  November 6, 2009