Emeryville

New Tumblr Reviews Restaurant Bathrooms Along With Food

In the hypersaturated world of Bay Area food blogs and restaurant reviews, it can be hard to find a new angle. But some enterprising local has started a new type of restaurant review Tumblr, Table and Throne, which reviews restaurant bathrooms as well as the restaurants themselves, thus combining ... More >>

T.I. Previews His New Album Trouble Man in San Francisco

When T.I. took a seat on a couch at S.F.'s Studio Trilogy last night to show guests the short film that accompanies his forthcoming album Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head (due Dec. 18), he had no idea that he was sitting underneath a photograph of Marvin Gaye, whose own album of the same name was part ... More >>

Get Ethiopian Food Delivered to Your Door

We recently offered five good reasons to love Good Eggs, a new local company that facilitates the pickup or delivery of food from local artisans. Now we've got one more to add to what will surely be a growing list: Eji's, a caterer of traditional Ethiopian cuisine. Eji Atlaw grew up in Addis Ababa, ... More >>

Paula Deen's Death Food, Beet Sweets, and Sandos: This Week in Food Bloggery

CT Young/SF Weekly Flickr PoolThe Saloon on Grant.​Highlights from the blog this week: 1. In his review of Bobby Deen's new television show, Not My Momma's Cooking, food TV reviewer Michael Leaverton keeps calling Paula Deen's cooking death-food. Not three days later, Paula Deen is finally going ... More >>

At Prizefighter, Oaxacan Standoffs Always End Deliciously

Lou BustamanteThe Oaxacan Standoff--a bar value meal​A shot and a beer isn't an obvious pairing to highlight bartender creativity in a cocktail menu (and no we're never ever, ever going to count a drink where a shot glass gets dropped into a pint of beer), but the Oaxacan Standoff ($6) at Prizefi ... More >>

Raw Cookies Are Heating Up, But You've Got to Like Coconut

When we first heard of this week's surprise announcement of the pending closure of most of the Northern California locations of Café Gratitude, a vegetarian restaurant that also sells raw food products to specialty grocers, we were concerned for the cookies. Without their raw lemon coconut and rasp ... More >>

FBI to Announce Development in Case of Daniel Andreas San Diego, Vegan Bay Area Bomber

Doesn't like meat​Authorities say they have some big development in the unresolved case of Daniel Andreas San Diego, the vegan animal liberationist who is wanted for the 2003 bombings of a biotechnology firm and a nutrition and cosmetics company in the Bay Area. FBI officials told reporters that S ... More >>

Finding a Kouign Amann in San Francisco: Your Weekend Assignment

Jonathan KauffmanStarter Bakery's kouign amann.​ There is only one San Francisco location, to date, where you can buy Starter Bakery's pastries. One. SFoodie wrote about the new Emeryville bakery in May, founded by former San Francisco Baking Institute professor Brian Wood and Jamie Hansen. But up ... More >>

Consolidation Takes Hold in Deal-a-Day Coupon Biz

mycodetrip.comNobody can touch Groupon, but smaller companies are being swallowed up.​Three Knocks, who's there? Nobody, according to the company's website. After barely seven months, this Emeryville-based Groupon-type business has bowed out. Groupon-style promotions have been controversial ... More >>

Rudy's Probably Can't Fail in Uptown, Criolla Kitchen Looks to the South

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Inside Scoop reports Emeryville's popular Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe, co-owned by Green Day's Mike Dirnt, is expanding to Uptown in Oakland. The diner is set to open adjacent to (where else?) the Fox. With a ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Midwestern Smash Burgers Shine, Food Trucks Get Pushback

Pollo Campero Gets Burned, Charles Chocolates Appears to Melt

​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. SFoodie thought Fridays were supposed to be about Charlie Sheen-grade fun. But local food news late last week had us longing for Monday already. Inside Scoop got Friday off to a hopeful start, t ... More >>

Jon's Street Eats Wraps It Up This Week

Tamara PalmerJon's Street Eats' Jon Kosorek, who got his start at the CIA at Greystone, is returning to the Napa Valley.​A pioneer of the Emeryville food cart scene is heading for the exit. Jon Kosorek says Saturday is the last night for Jon's Street Eats, a cart that since August 2009 has ser ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Provolone-Olive Rolls at Arizmendi

Jonathan KauffmanArizmendi's provolone-olive bread, available as a braided loaf and a roll.​SF Rising is SFoodie's weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Provolone-Olive Bread and RollsSource: Arizmendi Bakery, 1331 Ninth Ave. (at Judah), ... More >>

Ex-Gather Sous Chef Rolls Out Boffo Cart

Tamara Palmer​We spotted Boffo Cart at the weekly farmers' market at Emeryville's City Hall (Thu., noon-7 p.m.). The tent, named after a 1940s superlative, was selling salads, piadini, panini, and calzones. We ordered the latter ($6) and received something the size of a kid's softball mitt stu ... More >>

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Skylite Snowballs, a Taste of Baltimore in the East Bay

Tracey Taylor​Berkeleyside reports on the Labor Day weekend debut of the Skylite Snowballs truck, which parked in front of Berkeley's Star Grocery on Sunday and hit up Oakland's Lake Merritt on Monday with Baltimore's answer to syrup-drenched shaved ice. Though the name is a nod to an artific ... More >>

Exotic Erotic Ball Heads to Richmond, Abandoning Cow Palace

May I have this dance?​The San Francisco peninsula might be home to some of the world's most avid sexual recreation, but this year it will be bidding a fond adieu to one of its kinkiest confabs. The 31st annual Exotic Erotic Ball & Expo is moving from the Cow Palace to the East Bay, where it w ... More >>

Frozen Dessert Ladies Twirl and Dip Made Their Street-Food Debut Yesterday

Tamara PalmerTwirl and Dip's Siri Skelton hoists a strawberry tart fruitsicle. Peep the strawberry silhouette.​Twirl and Dip made its public debut yesterday on a lovely Emeryville afternoon, carting as a guest of Korean tacos-n-more truck Seoul on Wheels. Meg Hilgartner and Siri Skelton are th ... More >>

Meaty Nostalgia, Argentinean Style

Jason C./YelpJavier Sandes.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. It's a week old, but Cyrus Farivar's interview with Javier Sandes, Emeryville street vendor of Argentinian asado, is still fresh as, um, newly mixed chimichurri. Mobile memories: Last month, Sandes debuted Primo's Parrilla ― ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Charles Chocolates Set to Open in San Francisco, Shut Down in Emeryville

feralbeagle/FlickrCharles' Emeryville factory and retail shop is set to close Feb. 15.​Charles Chocolates owner Chuck Siegel told SFoodie that, provided the gods continue to smile upon him, he'll open his new retail space in San Francisco Centre (845 Market at Fourth St.) this Saturday, Feb. 6. Th ... More >>

Heron's Head Park Stone Sculptures To Become Travelling Exhibit

​When we last visited impromptu sculptor Porfirio Vazquez, the Andy Goldsworthy of Heron's Head Park was sulking because his three-month old artistic career seemed to be nearly over.Last week, however, Vazquez complained because it seemed as if his artwork construction would never end."Do you thin ... More >>

Auction, Raffle, and Pizzaiolo Party Raise More Than $15,000 for Soul Food Farm

Soul Food FarmA fire in early Sept. wiped out acres of pasture.​An auction and raffle to benefit a post-blaze Soul Food Farm wrapped up over the weekend. Organizer Bonnie Powell estimated some 250 people showed up at Pizzaiolo in Oakland to hear the winning bidders announced. Soul Food Farm's ... More >>

Gloomy Bloom’s brings out the cynic

Street Food Alert: Liba Falafel Truck Rolls Into San Francisco Next Week

Luis C./YelpLillian peering out of her Liba Falafel Truck: She's on a mission to change minds.​It was the Netherlands -- not Israel -- that provided Gail Lillian with her falafel epiphany. "Falafel was an idea I'd been poring over for many years in my head," she told SFoodie. "But after I took ... More >>

Want Butter on Those 664 Calories? Theater Chain Displays Snack Counts

M. Brody Snacking by the numbers: Useful information? We don't usually stop at the concession stand when we go to the movies, preferring to sneak in our own treats, which cost less and taste better. (Show us the theater that offers seasonal fruit, BLTs, or Thornton red wine truffles at reason ... More >>

Beautifull - and Pricey - in Laurel Village

A new take-out and eat-in shop called Beautifull (3401 California at Laurel, 728-9080) opened last Thursday in Laurel Village. The space recently housed a Cuban coffeehouse (Cafe Lo Cubano), and before that a beloved neighborhood greasy spoon called Miz Brown's Feed Bag. We dropped in to put th ... More >>

Free Arty Party Friday in Emeryville Celebrates Warhol

The Bay Area Andy Warhol appreciation spreads across the bridge this weekend, when Amoeba Records hosts a Factory Party  in Emeryville (1343 Powell St.). The event sounds pretty sweet (especially because it's free, and all ages), boasting two Velvet Underground cover bands, live art making (scr ... More >>

Videogame Sales are Through the Roof -- and Game Designers Are Getting Canned Left and Right

Bang! Gotcha! Yer fired!As more and more Americans find themselves sitting at home in their tattered bathrobes at 3 p.m. on working days, videogame sales have gone through the roof. Last year, Americans spent $22 billion on games -- a 23 percent jump from the prior year. Now, here's the funny part: ... More >>

Bar None: Or, This'll Make You Thirsty

By Meredith Brody Olivier Schwaner-Albright's funny and useful article about the many new philosophies that have sprung up around the new cocktail revival, titled Let 100 (OK, 8) Bartending Philosophies Bloom would be a fun read even if it didn't highlight several San Francisco and Bay Area drinker ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Top Chef

Bones of Contention -- Bay Area Indian Gravesites Web Extra

Letters to the Editor

Week of 1-24-2007

Mixtape Shmixtape

Wherein we review Yay Area mixtapes of the day

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, February 8, 2006

Disney, Reanimated

The merger between Disney and the Bay Area's Pixar will likely redraw the lines of the animation world, for better or for worse. Find out where you stand!

Fishing on the Dock of the Bay

Too many fishermen are still unaware of the dangers of consuming San Francisco Bay seafood

Best Hip Hop Label

Quannum Projects

Best Muni Solution

NextBus

BeatBox

Sound Kills You: Monolake and Deadbeat get freaky on a 10-plus-channel system

Themselves

The No Music (Anticon)

Noise Reduction

Ven Voisey is on a mission to get you to shut up and listen

Guide Me

Bay Area publishers tell us where to go

Gift Wrapped

The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage, a coffee-table book from Mistress Midori

Through a Different Lens

We don't need more pretty pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge. So why is one of the country's finest documentary photographers taking hundreds of them?

Best Flaming Bowl of Liquor

The Scorpion

Here's Looking at You

Dinner (or Not) and a Show

The House of Tudor