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Bearded In The Bay: Nominees Announced

Bearded In The Bay: Locals Snag Four James Beard Awards

Sine Coi Non

The gifted Daniel Patterson opens a dazzling show on Broadway

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Outstanding in the Field Announces 2010 Dates

Cheryl Bower/FlickrStart saving up.​Outstanding in the Field stages al fresco dinners at organic farms around the country, touring from site to site in a 57-year-old bus that probably runs on spring onion fumes and goat cheese whey. Now in its 11th year, Jim Denevan's operation has been across ... More >>

David Kinch, Nicole Plue Win Beard Awards, and Everyone (After)Parties Hard

plucchesi/FlickrFrench Laundry's Timothy Hollingsworth.​Last night capped two days of galas, as San Francisco chefs and food writers traveled to New York for the James Beard Foundation Awards, which were presented Sunday and Monday nights. According to the vigorous Tweeting, the afterparty hopping ... More >>

Hapa SF's Pulutan Pop-Up: Filipino with a California Twist

John BirdsallSinigang: The tamarind-spiked vegetable broth was unexpectedly flowery.​Something extraordinary happened Saturday night on 24th Street. At La Victoria, Hapa SF's William Pilz took a dozen Filipino dishes and translated them into Northern California's culinary vernacular. It was ... More >>

Why Do We Suddenly Want to Eat Dirt?

Suzi Edwards/FlickrPotato, parsnip, and roasted chicory "dirt" on a Manresa platescape.​Our favorite morsel from the Web. The Atlantic's Tejal Rao scratches around in the curious growing fascination with dirt as an ingredient in cooking. Both dirt ― as in a sauce at Spain's Restaurante Arza ... More >>

A Celebrity Chef Roundup, Moms Fight Back Against Foodie Culture

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. All About the Celebrity Chefs. This week has brought a number of (actually) interesting interviews with big chefs. For instance, Eater National interviewed David Kinch about the sta ... More >>

Bar Tartine: Under New Chef Nick Balla, a Turn Toward Cal-Hungarian

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. All About the Celebrity Chefs. This week has brought a number of (actually) interesting interviews with big chefs. For instance, Eater National interviewed David Kinch about the sta ... More >>