There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling technique. Local-boy-made-good Guy Fieri, the most successful winner of the Food Network's The Next Food Network Star, will also appear onstage.Food booths offering quintessential American delights have
The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere on this Earth," New York author and food blogger Ed Levine -- a festival organizer -- told SFoodie. Levine said he'd heard the event called "the Super Bowl of food," a description that seemed to expr
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 doing an crab cake demo late Saturday. "I'm just going to play it as it goes -- I think it'll be interesting and fun for people," said Oakes. She acknowledged that the lineup, which includes Bobby Flay a
shaunandjenny/FlickrLong lines and disorganization left festival attendees frustrated.Calling it "the first pancake," an organizer of Saturday's Great American Food and Music Fest published a lengthy apology Sunday for the event, which featured hours-long food lines and angry attendees demanding refunds. Ed Levine posted the mea culpa at his blog, Serious Eats, for the debacle at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View.
"This has been my dream for nearly two decades," Levine wrote. "I still be
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If you actually got food, there was reason to celebrate.(View our full slideshow of the event)We won't sugarcoat it: Saturday's Great American Food and Music Fest was riddled with major problems, from the almost immediate failure of a cashless wristband debit system for purchases to hours of impenetrable lines for food during much of the day. While it would be unfair to call it a universally bad experience, it was an event that roused a huge chorus of disgruntled voices, ran
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You asked for it: Grub Street New York published its Grub Report earlier this week. Think of it as a Twitpic of the state of the nation's restaurants, captured, collectively, by about a dozen critics. Anthony Bourdain, Jonathan Gold, Gael Greene, Ed Levine, Alan Richman -- some majorly serious bros. Among them is Michael Nagrant of the online mag Hungry. Now, while answers to some mighty predictable questions (When and how will fine dining rebound
zipfly/FlickrWho are we to disagree with Ed Levine, for chrissake?We're not sure why we turned down Delfina for this. Dinner was a thoughtful treat, extended impulsively out of sympathy for a rough 24 hours culminating in 10 excruciating minutes with the most alarmingly awful customer service professional the Apple Store on Stockton has likely ever produced. Delfina was offered, but we took Gialina (2842 Diamond at Kern) instead, anticipating new pleasures in an acclaimed restaurant we'd
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