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Food Truck Bite of the Week: The Classic at Belly Burger

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Belly Burgers The Cuisine: Melting-pot American cuisine Specialty Items: Pork belly burgers Worth the Wait in Line? Good god, yes Ok, so I am cheating a little here. While ... More >>

Wednesday: Learn Chef Secrets From Blogger and New Cookbook Author Adam Roberts

Food blogger Adam Roberts, otherwise known as the Amateur Gourmet, has just released a new cookbook and is coming to S.F. this week to celebrate it. To write Secrets of the Best Chefs, Roberts traveled around the country visiting the kitchens of big-name chefs, learned to cook from them, and collect ... More >>

Close Encounters with Ina Garten at the Ferry Building

The Barefoot Contessa herself, Ina Garten, made a smiley appearance at the Ferry Building yesterday while filming an episode for the Food Network. According to Eater, she was gathering ingredients for a Napa picnic. We spotted her sifting through radishes, giggling over cherry tomatoes, and apparent ... More >>

See Food: A Guide to Local Culinary Television

The successes of the Food Network and the Top Chef franchise have opened the doors for more food-related television both locally and nationally. Fortunately, with the assistance of DVRs and the fact that certain stations screen full episodes online, gone are the days when you'd have to wait until th ... More >>

Virtual Robert Irvine is Coming to Rescue Your ChefVille Restaurant From Disaster

Robert Irvine, the Food Network's answer to shouty chef Gordon Ramsay, will be making a two-week virtual appearance starting today in Zynga's new Facebook game, ChefVille. According to the press release, "Irvine will face his biggest challenge yet as he helps ChefVille players enhance their in-game ... More >>

Get a Free Cupcake Today at New Sift Cupcake & Dessert Bar

As we teased back in June, North Bay sweet shop Sift Cupcake & Dessert Bar has had its sights set on expanding in San Francisco. The first S.F. store is open today (Aug. 22) near the busy corner of California and Fillmore Streets in the former Dumplings and Buns space. Sift is the type of place tha ... More >>

DJ Chucky Brown on Teaching the Art of DJing and His Collection of 25,000 Records

With a record-collecting father and a Studio 54-era disco queen mother, DJ Chucky Brown had a musically rich childhood. Originally an NYC native, he frequented fixtures of the early '90s dance scene such as the Paladium and Danceteria, and began his DJ career by leveraging the vast collection of vin ... More >>

Top Chef Masters: Cosentino Watch, Episode 3

Welcome to Cosentino Watch, where we recap the moves of San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino as he competes in Top Chef Masters. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Episode 3 is called "What Would Brian Boitano Eat," a play on the Olympic figure skating champ's Food Network series, What Would Brian Boitano Make ... More >>

Plaj: New Nordic Makes Itself at Home in California

Macy's Great American Chefs Tour for Meals on Wheels Rolls into Town this Saturday

Macy's Great American Chefs Tour San Francisco Stop with Chef Rick BaylessWhere: Macy's Union Square at 170 O'Farrell Street in the Cellar Demo Kitchen When: Demo #1: Saturday, June 2 from noon to 1:30 p.m. (For tickets, visit here.)Demo #2: Saturday, June 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. (For tickets, click h ... More >>

Edibles: Burned Out on Sweets? Cheesy Popcorn is a Savory Solution

I'll admit, the whole drama that erupted between Anthony Bourdain and Paula Deen this year fascinated me. If you're not as gossip-driven as I am, here's a summary: Bourdain called out his fellow Food Network star Deen when she came out as a diabetic, despite pitching recipes like the one where she ... More >>

Chris Cosentino's Cookbook Hits Bookstores

The charismatic, culinary tornado and executive chef at Incanto with a James Beard Award nomination this year, Chris Cosentino has built his reputation as a loud, meat-fueled, barely unofficial offal spokesperson whose menus run rich with pork fat. His nose-to-tail crusade is showcased at his Boccal ... More >>

Dumb Food Show Easter Unwrapped Is as Adorable as a Baby with a Peep Stuck to Her Head

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

The Donatella Project: All We Can Say for Sure after Watching Is That This Awful Show Exists

​Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: The Donatella Project, a new Dirk Balthazar novel by the Hugo-award winning author of the Sigma Protocol and the Prometheus Deception, on March 10 and 11 on the Cooking Channel. What's the Donatella Pr ... More >>

Help Rescued Chickens, Wild Horses Under Attack From Terrible Humans, & Butternut Mac 'n' Cheese Bites!

​ Hey guys, let's start this week off with some sad news because that's how I do it: This is my last Week in Vegan! I'm moving on to different pastures (not killing myself, just a new job) and I wanted to say, writing with you as been among the most rewarding experiences in my life, and ALSO, Me ... More >>

Q&A With Parallel 37's Ron Siegel, Part 2: In SF, "Casual" Food Ain't Really Casual

Courtesy of Parallel 37Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 at the Ritz-Carlton.​Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 in the Ritz-Carlton, has worked in three- and four-star restaurants for 20 years. In 1998, Siegel, then the chef at Charles Nob Hill, received international fame when he became the first Ame ... More >>

This Thanksgiving, Learn Mary Risley's Beautifully Profane Way to Cook Turkey

In a wonderful instructional that has garnered over 10,000 views in the past two days, San Francisco's Mary Risley cuts out all the crap you've ever heard about making turkey for Thanksgiving. After decades of experience on the topic, the proprietor of Tante Marie's Cooking School and head of the n ... More >>

"Easy Chinese: San Francisco" Uses Our Town Like a Blank Screen

Cooking ChannelChing-He Huang in the studio kitchen​The Cooking Channel's "Easy Chinese: San Francisco" was an exciting concept to me: an entire 14-episode series, premiering tomorrow, based on the great Chinese food we have here. Wouldn't you like to know how to make Golden Gate Bakery's cus ... More >>

Studio Gourmet: New Local Web TV Show Interviews 1300 on Fillmore Chef David Lawrence

Carina OstDavid Lawrence shares a laugh with Studio Gourmet host Brad Lev​Inside the Actor's Studio meets the Food Network is how we would describe the new web-based show called Studio Gourmet SF. The concept is that a local chef with a good story will do a cooking demo, an in-depth interview ... More >>

Tyler Florence, Celebrity Chef, Sued for "Bailing" on Business Partners

An unsavory deal ​Here is something for celebrity Chef Tyler Florence to chew on. His ex-business partners filed a lawsuit yesterday, accusing Florence of pushing them out of a deal to open an upscale restaurant in downtown San Francisco. According to the lawsuit, Florence, who has appeared on The ... More >>

Alice Waters Launches Twitter Page, Hints at Big Announcement

Alice Waters/Twitter​Hey, look who's tweeting ― Alice Waters. Well, not technically (she hasn't published anything yet), though Alice did create a Twitter page yesterday afternoon, says David Prior, director of communications for the Chez Panisse Foundation. Alice's chicken and rooster avata ... More >>

Sure, Chickens Get Sad ― Maybe Because We're Eating So Many of Them?

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Scientists just discovered that chickens show empathy. To science I say, NO DOY. But also: Way to come around, better late than never. I remember when I discovered that eating too fast gave me pain in the chest ... More >>

Predictions for San Francisco 2011

The Year in Food: Vegan Goes Mainstream

Jun BelenLunch plate at Oakland's No Worries, featuring afritada (right) made from soy "chicken."​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. In 2010 vegan food exploded ― all over our faces, deliciously. Sorry, that image is gross, but really: It was ... More >>

How S.F. Fared on Last Night's Cupcake Wars

Food NetworkThe home team: Brandon Arnovick of Mission Minis.​Having to watch Cupcake Wars made me roll my eyes as much as when my date last night said that he was noticing that cupcakes were a big deal. Ugh, please: That is so 2000 and late. The trend is as over as the FroYo yo-yo. Basical ... More >>

Prop. 8 TV Parties? Sounds Like a Plan.

Perfect spread for a C-SPAN party​So, the revolution will not be televised. But the revolutionary gay marriage trial will be. The 9th District Court of Appeals hearing of the Proposition 8 trial will be broadcast live on C-SPAN -- mark your calendars for 10 a.m. on Dec. 6. Will there be Super Bowl ... More >>

San Francisco on $36.82 a Day

Feeding four hungry Spring Break-ers on Pittsburgh-style sandwiches and Singaporean street food