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Foodies Unleash For "Kitchen Confidential" Storytelling Series

What: Porch Light Storytelling Series: "Kitchen Confidential" When: Mon. April 16, 8-10 p.m. Where: Verdi Club Cost: $15 The rundown: Co-founders Beth Lisick and Arlinne Klatte's monthly story telling series features speakers sharing their experiences with the food industry this month. S ... More >>

Man Beats Wife's Facebook Friend to Death With Baseball Bat

For some users, "defriending" someone on Facebook isn't satisfying enough. A jealous Taiwanese man beat his wife's Facebook friend to death after the two were busted leaving flirty posts on the social networking site. According to the China Post, the woman, Chen, wrote on her Facebook page: "I want ... More >>

Number 34: Chorizo from Fatted Calf Charcuterie

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​In the Bay Area, "chorizo" usually refers to the fresh, spicy Mexican sausage that fills tacos and tortas in the Mission. The occasional bit of Spanish-style chorizo that turns up in paella is often little more than ... More >>

Local's Corner Readies, Criolla Kitchen Goes Dark, and the Pizza Pimp Truck

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Eater SF first caught wind of Local's Corner's impending opening late last week, and now the blog confirms that the restaurant from the team behind Local: Mission Eatery is slated to start daytime s ... More >>

Facebook Study Proves We are Just a Bunch of Bored Pricks

​Researchers in Illinois have revealed the not-so-staggering news that the more time you spend interacting on Facebook, the bigger the asshole you truly are. According to the The Guardian, researchers at Western Illinois University studied the Facebook habits of some 300 people between the ages of ... More >>

Mission Bowling Club and Noe Valley Wine Merchants Near, and Food Truck News

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Invest in some bowling shoes, because the second restaurant-bowling alley to open in S.F. -- in less than a month -- will start setting up the pins this Monday. Inside Scoop shares some details about A ... More >>

Number 50: Cafe Zitouna's Kufta Tajine

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Does it sound like a paradox to say that Cafe Zitouna's kufta tajine is spicy and comforting at the same time? Perhaps. Among the soups, pepper-lashed couscous dishes, and mild, sweet-inflected Moroccan stews on the ... More >>

North America's Best Food Writing Gig Now Taking Applications

​The city of Richmond, B.C. -- a suburb of Vancouver, Canada's balmiest city -- has just put out a call for what may be the best food-writing job on the continent. Michelin inspector? Nothing so secretive. Small-producer Champagne taster? No, far more varied. Richmond's tourism bureau has jus ... More >>

Who's Serving Foie Gras? Palio d'Asti, Le Charm, and BayWolf

​Counting down the meals before July 1, when California's foie gras ban takes effect. At Palio d'Asti, which weathered its first anti-foie protest on Valentine's Day, chef Daniel Scherotter serves an appetizer of hazelnut-encrusted seared Sonoma foie gras with balsamic glazed cippolini onions an ... More >>

You're Not a Cyberstalker -- Here's How to Be

​I have read all this stuff about stalkers regarding Facebook. If someone makes you a Facebook friend they are offering you an invitation to view their activity on this social network. I'm not really a big Facebook person but I got an account so friends from the past can find me. I usually go to F ... More >>

News Sites Can't Rely on Advertising

​I'm not about to pretend that I know how to solve the economic dilemma that the news business finds itself in. I've been studying the matter, and writing about it off and on, for 16 years, and, like everyone, I really don't know. Maybe it will be nonprofits. Maybe paywalls. Maybe micropayments wi ... More >>

Facebook Just Keeps Getting Worse

​Over the years, whenever Facebook has made changes, people have inevitably complained --  on Facebook -- about the changes Facebook made to Facebook. "I'm leaving Facebook," those people would declare, on Facebook. Of course, few of them ever actually left Facebook. Until recently, I have ... More >>

Facebook vs. Nursing Moms: Bay Area Breastfeeders Protest Deleted Photos

​You don't want to piss-off nursing mothers, who are already sleep-deprived. But Facebook is braving a fight with breastfeeding women who are joining a worldwide protest this morning, calling on the Bay Area company to stop deleting their nursing photos on Facebook. As we write, Bay Area mothers a ... More >>

Get a Free Tour of the Fox Theater and Celebrate Its Third Anniversary This Friday

It's kind of a big week for Oakland's Fox Theater: Tonight, Wilco plays its last in a series of three Bay Area concerts -- which, if it's anything like Sunday's show at the Warfield, should be incredible. Then, on Friday, there's a big party at the Fox in honor of the third anniversary of theater's ... More >>

Anonymous Attempts to "Bring Down" Facebook

A day without Wikipedia was one thing, but can you imagine your life without Facebook? That's one way to test your allegiance to Anonymous, the online hacktivist group, best known locally for revealing personal information of BART police officers. The group is asking you to set aside your social-net ... More >>

Cafe Gratitude Is Not Going Anywhere and A Sushi Robot at U-Sushi

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Cafe Gratitude won't be closing all of their Northern California locations after all. The "series of aggressive lawsuits" they attributed to the cause of their impending closures, announced via Facebook i ... More >>

Why You Should Fake It on Facebook

​I went out on a first date with a girl who is also a recently added Facebook friend. During dinner she kept bringing up things I had already read about on FB, but I lied and pretended like I didn't know because that's creepy, right? At what point am I allowed to admit I FB stalk her? A month? Lon ... More >>

Bouncer Talks Occupy with The Man at Sutter Station

Bouncer Finds That Even The Man Supports Occupy (Well, Sorta)

​From this week's Bouncer column: I like bars for the same reason I like Facebook: I can come face-to-face (literally and metaphorically) with people who have different opinions than I do. When I was growing up in the middle of Illinois, liberals were hard to come by, so I couldn't wait to h ... More >>

State Bird Provisions and La Boulange to Open and Leticia's to Close Before 2012

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Pending Openers: State Bird Provision is slated to swoop in just before the end of the year. Tablehopper says the small bites restaurant from the husband-and-wife team of Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinsk ... More >>

Wine of the Week: Mercury Rising Bordeaux-Style Tastes Pricier Than it Costs

"Exceptional value-per-dollar ratio" is how Cinnabar, or at least their publicist, promotes their wines. Based on our tasting of their 2008 California Mercury Rising "Bordeaux-style" wine, we see substance in the statement. ​ We taste wines blind-ish. We don't brown bag and mix them up to confus ... More >>

Mark Zuckerberg's Kill Displayed, i-Skewers, and Stroganoff's Russian and Thai Food

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. All Things D​ There's a large, looming bison head mounted to the wall of a Facebook conference room, and while Refinery 29 couldn't confirm the buffalo (in the picture from All Things D) was indeed ... More >>

India Wants Facebook to Prescreen User Content

​Sometimes it's hard to refrain from going libertarian. Okay, not really, but whenever governments try to pass or enforce absolutely clueless, sledgehammer-blunt laws governing the Internet, it's a challenge not to simply give up hope that enough politicians will ever understand the basic concepts ... More >>

Facebook's Cheesy Ads: Do They Make it Worth $100 Billion?

​A couple of weeks ago, Business Insider, the puerile gossip 'n' lies site run by disgraced, bubble-era Internet-stock analyst Henry Blodget, informed us that a "source close to Facebook employees" said in an e-mail to the site that the company would go public within weeks. The article's author, N ... More >>

Cafe Gratitude To Close All Bay Area Locations and Gracias Madre

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The big news of the day is the all-edifying-vegan-menu restaurant that is Cafe Gratutide is closing up all seven of its Northern California locations and the owners' other S.F. restaurant, Gracias Madre. ... More >>

How To Deal With Break-Ups Gracefully In the Digital Age

​ Anna, Your previous advice regarding approaching ladies the right way online landed me a really fun date that turned into about 15 more, but now that we've had an argument or two I'm thinking maybe I should start over. How can I tell when it's time to break up when you're not even really "datin ... More >>

Facebook Fumbles Its Way Toward a Phone

​Facebook is building a phone, the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital is reporting this week in a series of posts. Facebook basically has to do it if it wants to stay in competition with Apple and Google as the go-to online destination -- or platform, or "ecosystem." Lots of people make Fa ... More >>

The Perils of Policing Facebook Pages

​First it was the Islamic extremists. Now it's Mark Zuckerberg who is repressing Salman Rushdie. On Monday, Rushdie took to Twitter to complain that not only had Facebook shut down his page, apparently thinking it wasn't really his, but that the company then told him he couldn't use the name und ... More >>

Charlie Palmer's Coming, Pot Pantry Moves, and The Melt's Second Location is Open

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Last week we spotted a liquor license for Charlie Palmer's restaurant group in the window of the Crescent Hotel. Now, Inside Scoop confirms Palmer will create a new concept in the space, with a restauran ... More >>

What Exactly Is a Tech Company?

​Fast Company has published what might be the best, clearest look at the how the contours of the tech landscape are shaping themselves, and how that landscape has come to be dominated by four companies. I was alerted to the article via a tweet by Chronicle tech reporter Casey Newton who characte ... More >>

Cedar Hill and Super Duper Open This Week, So Long Spot Bagel, and La Cocina Success Stories

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. BBQ and burgers in the Marina: Urban Daddy rounds up the news of a brisket and ribs place, Cedar Hill, soft opening this Thursday. The Texas-styled joint even shipped its smoker in from the Lone Star stat ... More >>

Facebook Page Dedicated to 'Fix the Richmond'

​San Francisco, a competitive news market that has been home to a number of pioneering media enterprises, has also led the way in one journalistic sub-genre: Nagging government over the pace of infrastructure repairs. The now-defunct "Chronicle Watch" feature of the San Francisco Chronicle was per ... More >>

Best Wine Bar Ever: Wine & Spirits' Top 100 Tasting Event

What: Wine & Spirits Magazine's Eighth Annual Top 100 Wines Tasting Event Where: City View at Metreon, 101 4th St. When: Wed., October 12, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $105 The rundown: There are lots of different kinds of lushes social drinkers but perhaps my most favorite are the winos. They are jus ... More >>

Facebook's Newest Blight: The Ticker

​Recently, to check to see whether my keyboard was working, I randomly slapped some keys. I happened to have Facebook open at the time and I ended up entering what I typed -- "jmjyttyj"-- into its people search. I got three hits. There is no member named jmjyttyj, but Facebook helpfully pointed me ... More >>

Now You Need to Have Facebook to Sign Up For Spotify

​ Last week's Facebook f8 conference meant a windfall of new users for Spotify, after it teamed with Facebook to allow users to share their music listening. But the increased cooperation also comes at what some call a heavy cost: Starting today, newcomers to Spotify need have to have a Facebo ... More >>

See Who Unfriended You on Facebook with New Timeline

Are you sure you want to know who doesn't want to be your friend?​Warning: this will probably cause some bruised feelings. Maybe even a case of Facebook depression.Ever curious about who decided you weren't worth the hassle on Facebook? For those willing to spend a few minutes, you can quickly see ... More >>

The Meat Industry Lies, Banana Cream Pie Rules, & You Better Work (for Vegan Cheese)!

​ • The National Pork Producers Council is still denying that it's at all responsible for antibiotic resistance in humans. In related news, Olestra wants you to know it's only responsible for solid shits and Joe Camel says, "Smoke if you got 'em!" iStockLeave me in the ocean or I'll eat your ... More >>

Facebook Unveils Partnerships with Music Services, New Social Listening Features

​ Facebook wants to publicize your music listening. The Palo Alto social networking giant unveiled a host of new features at its f8 development conference today in San Francisco -- among them, new ways to tell your friends what you're listening to and check out what they're listening to.

The Killers, Jane's Addiction, and Snoop Dogg Are Playing a "Secret Show" for the Gods of Tech Tonight

​After hearing rumors all day, it appears this is finally actually confirmed: Snoop Dogg, Jane's Addiction, Kaskade, and the Killers are playing a "secret" show after today's Facebook conference, hosted by Napster founder Sean Parker, according to SFist. So after spending the day hearing abou ... More >>

Etiquette for Today's San Franciscan: Using Groupons and Tipping Mixologists

Groupon seems to bring out the T. rex diner whose arms are too short to reach his wallet.​Today, we're launching SF Etiquette, a weekly column in which I field your questions about dining out in 21st-century Bay Area restaurants. My somewhat specious qualifications: A) I go out to eat, professiona ... More >>

California Asks Facebook to Close Down Prisoners' Accounts

Would you be his Facebook friend?​Prison is just that place where you have tons of time to kill (no pun intended) and not that many friends. So it makes sense that inmates in California prisons are finding creative ways to access Facebook and other social-networking sites. However, the state has c ... More >>

Sanford Wallace, Facebook Spam King, Surrendered to FBI

Spam King​Sanford "Spamford" Wallace, the notorious social-networking spammer, self surrendered to FBI agents today, nearly a month after he was indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple counts of electronic mail fraud. The 43-year-old Wallace spam artist appeared in federal court today where h ... More >>

Are Facebook Birthdays the Root of All Evil?

Your "friends" don't know shit about you​Facebook's birthday reminders have become an invaluable tool for the socially inattentive among us. If you're a person who has trouble remembering your son's birthday -- even when it's the same day as your own -- the periodic reminders that crop up beside y ... More >>

Watch This Now: OK Go Takes Over Your Browser

​It's no secret -- OK Go is really good at making music videos. Ever since these Chicago-via-L.A. rockers hit the gym in the coolest fashion we've ever seen, they've has killed it with bizarre but joyous video concepts, all of them done in a single continuous shot. Well, to borrow the cliche, ... More >>

Free Tacos and Tequila!

​Camarena Taco Truck Launch Party Where: SOMArts (8th and Brannan Streets) When: Friday, July 22 7-10 p.m. Cost: Free! (but you have to register) UPDATE: The event is completely booked by SFoodie readers, but see the link on the next page to learn how to follow the truck's future appearance ... More >>

Whisk on Wheels, New Argentine Food Truck

Photos by Luis Chong​SFoodie was eager to check out Whisk On Wheels, a 2-month-old food truck operated by an Argentine chef. So far, Argentine food trucks like Tanguito and El Porteno have enjoyed great success in the city, though the East Bay's Primo's Parrilla food truck called it quits e ... More >>