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Baconalia is Back at Denny's With Ad Campaign That Will Never Go Viral

Baconalia is back at Denny's, and a fun game is to imagine the meeting that the Denny's creative team held in order to come up with the advertising campaign. You can just picture some suit in thick-framed glasses going "What are kids into these days? FailBlog videos? Memes? Let's get some of those i ... More >>

Bouncer Finds a Fishy Paradise at Pacific Catch

Denny's Waitress Claims Manager Told Her to Pray Away Sexual Harassment

Yeah, pray you don't get a heart attack ​We've accepted that, while only an hour east of us, San Joaquin Valley does things differently -- much differently. And while San Francisco might be the laughing stock of the nation (hi, Supervisor Eric Mar), at least we're sensible enough not to believe r ... More >>

ABC Bakery Cafe: All About the Hoi Nam Chicken

Jonathan KauffmanABC Bakery's Hoi Nam chicken.​Rice Plate Journal is a yearlong project to canvas Chinatown, block by block, discovering the good, the bad, and the hopelessly mediocre. Maximum entrée price: $10. If you're looking for someone to blame for Chinatown's profusion of mediocre cha cha ... More >>

Heaven's Dog Bartenders Have Fun with Cocktails

Bartender Chris Lane.​For many years you went to a bar to get drunk with cocktails made with recipes designed to completely mask the taste of liquor. People didn't want to taste it; they just wanted to feel it. From there we transitioned to a revival of the craft that, at its peak, successful ... More >>

Top 10 Fattiest Chain Breakfasts

​Go to any breakfast chain out there and you'll probably find a meal with more fat in it than you're supposed to eat all day. You can't just order eggs anymore; your meal also comes with pancakes, hash browns, ham, sausage, bacon, and is topped off with cheese and gravy. Before each chain ca ... More >>

Eating Well at Denny's, Eating Pasta in S.F., Parsing Gwyneth's Cookbook

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Healthful chain meals take off. I've scoffed off the "healthy" options on the menus of chain restaurants as the dietetics equivalent of greenwashing. But USA Today just reported t ... More >>

Party On! Federal Bureacrats to Get Higher Per Diem When Traveling to S.F.

What does it look like ... he's working​Federal bureaucrats traveling to San Francisco will be getting a little extra cash to wine and dine themselves.Feds will soon be allowed to spend $221 a day on food, drink, and hotels -- money that's coming from taxpayers, according to the General Services A ... More >>

Bouncer Finds Solace in the Sameness of the Cheesecake Factory

How Chris Daly saved San Francisco from a bad America's Cup deal

Marty and Kelli Christensen Reunite - Marty Opts To Stay Homeless (VIDEO)

Found at last.​Kelli Christensen's long hunt to reconnect with her homeless father ended at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday when she walked up to a Muni bus shelter in front of a Market Street 7-Eleven store downtown. There, sat a man in an orange baseball cap with his head down. Her cousin, Caine, who drove ... More >>

BART Eyes Later Hours

Will delightful behavior be taking place on BART at later hours? ​Any East or South Bay tippler who misses the last BART train is familiar with the drill: Pay heavily for a cab; attempt to navigate the transbay bus system; or find a Denny's to sleep and order coffee in until 4 a.m. That all may ch ... More >>

S.F. Man Threatens to 'Sell' Woman. SoCal Man Does Worse.

​We've heard stories before of people reporting their exes to immigration officials, but a couple of psycho tales in the news today one-upped that revenge tactic.In San Francisco, a person reported to police that a 25-year-old female Hispanic friend sent out a desperate text message that she was b ... More >>

Is Denny's Free Grand Slam Breakfast Really Worth Your Time?

​As anyone who watched the Super Bowl knows, Denny's is offering free Grand Slam breakfasts today from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. We thought it made sense to revisit John Stuart Mill's concept of opportunity cost -- use this handy chart to figure out whether Denny's "free" is actually worth your while.Read ... More >>

Pickups Amnesia: Verizon Droid Launch at Bimbo's 365 Club

View more photos in "Silversun Pickups & Metric @ Verizon Droid Launch."Indie rock music met tech at last Friday's Verizon Droid Launch at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco, where Canadian Band Metric and Silverlake band Silversun Pickups played to celebrate the launch of Verizon Droid, an iPhon ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Short-Stack Manifesto

Photos by Mavis/Flickr​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Grease junky: We missed it when it appeared back in September. But Counter Intelligence, Johnny Waldman's clipped guide to city diners at The Bold Italic, is worth a scroll -- especially his ketchup-smudged manifesto up top. Take his ... More >>

Cougars Ahoy! Women On the Prowl For Younger Men are Headed to San Francisco.

Daniel C. BrittDrool Brittania: British cougars Rita Sangha (left), 39, and Bea Cameron, 45, make nice to the camera during August's "National Cougar Convention" ​Do people complain to Rich Gosse about the use of the term "cougar" -- previously applied to a 1970s-era muscle car and, of course, a b ... More >>

Back to school, samurai-style

Misdeeds

An investor finds that he has been swindled, and that the schemer was aided by a mortgage industry lacking oversight.

'Appetizing' TV Programming Coming Soon, To a Fast Food Restaurant Near You

'unappetizing' programming...Isn't it frustrating when mouth-watering fast food advertisements come on TV but your ass is too wedged into the sofa to get up and do something about it? Well, now you'll be able to watch those ads from within the fast food restaurant, which means it will only requi ... More >>

Isolation drills at Celia's

Denny's Proves It Knows How to Market Itself. San Franciscans Prove They Can't Do Math

Perhaps time = money ... but not when free crap food is involved. A few years ago at a San Francisco Giants game, I caught a Ryan Kleso home run ball in the left field bleachers at Pac Bell Park. And, a full three seconds after I established possession of the ball, a short, wiry man leapt onto my ... More >>

Free Grand Slam Breakfast Tomorrow at Denny's

As announced during yesterday's Super Bowl, Denny's is offering a free Grand Slam breakfast tomorrow (February 3) from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m., available at all locations. Since the Denny's in Japantown left the chain last year and became the dubiously named New Danny's (1700 Post), I wondered if there w ... More >>

Chronicle Editor Ward Bushee Loves the Oldies

By Will HarperListening to Chronicle editor Ward Bushee on KQED's Forum made me nostalgic for Phil Bronstein. The former Mr. Sharon Stone had his faults, but what I liked about him was that he was more than a newspaper editor--he was a showman. Remember when Bronstein donned scuba gear to save a yo ... More >>

Plain White T's Love the White Stuff

Miami Music Editor Braves Denny's Allnighter

SFoodie: Attention Low-Carb Freaks - Chicken Caesar Springrolls

SFoodie: Attention Low-Carb Freaks - Chicken Caesar Springrolls

Strokes hair and suburban boozing

The Manly Men of God

No women allowed into the Promise Keepers, but that didn't stop Infiltrator from getting on the Prayer Team

Five Best 24-Hour Restaurants

Mad About It

Costner and Allen are the upside to The Upside of Anger

Mystic Chords of Memory

Mystic Chords of Memory

That Zincing Feeling

Le Zinc

California Classic

JoAnn's Cafe

Say Cheesecake

The Cheesecake Factory

Charity Begins @ Home

A young software engineer has a plan to teach Silicon Valley to change its tightfisted ways

Out of Sight, Out of Minds

Local Republicans band together for safety

Beats, Rhymes, and Laughs

A failed record deal hasn't dampened the Mountain Brothers' sense of humor

The Progeny of Citizen Wong

Inner Sunset Wholesome

Runaway Train

Tricia Sullivan fled her Southern Oregon hometown and the confines of her family in April. Arriving in San Francisco, she melded with the street community of young castoffs, misfits, and rebels. Phoning home, she lied and told her dad she was in New Yor