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May 25, 2012
Town's End Brunch: Sweet Beginnings by the Bay
Town's End Restaurant & Bakery, as its name suggests, is tucked into a corner just off the Embarcadero steps away from the San Francisco Bay. It makes for good people watching, as the city's lively inhabitants pour into AT&T Park, cars zoom over the Bay Bridge and you play tourist for a day, ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
Drink of the Week: Golden Gate 75th Celebration in Cocktails
With the official 75th Anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge this weekend, the festivities will also come in cocktail form.* At Aurea inside the Stanford Court Hotel on Nob Hill, they're serving the St. Charles Punch ($12, Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac, Fonsecca Terra Bella Organic Rub ... More >>
Dining
May 23, 2012
Namu Gaji: Reincarnation Fits Nicely into New Mission Home
With the official 75th Anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge this weekend, the festivities will also come in cocktail form.* At Aurea inside the Stanford Court Hotel on Nob Hill, they're serving the St. Charles Punch ($12, Pierre Ferrand Ambre Cognac, Fonsecca Terra Bella Organic Rub ... More >>
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May 22, 2012
1058 Hoagies: What's A Nice Jewish Boy Like Adam Mesnick Doing Making Italian Hoagies?
Adam Mesnick is quick to distinguish the offerings at his new venture, 1058 Hoagies, from his SOMA sandwich mecca, Deli Board. "Deli Board is my baby. Everything is perfect down to the wrapper. With hoagies, I can be a little sloppier. If a customer orders a hoagie and picks it up four hours later, ... More >>
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May 21, 2012
The Blue Fig Brings Restaurant Brunch Fare to the Coffee Shop
The Blue Fig is cheerfully quiet on a Sunday morning. About half of the tables are full, with patrons reading books and working on laptops -- never more than two to a party. The intimacy is palpable and begs not to be disturbed. Even the staff move busily behind the counter in a slow, content way th ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2012
Cocktails at Grand Café: Classics Meet French Charm
With bar superstar power in place at Jasper's, Startlight Room, and the Fifth Floor, Kimpton Hotel group seems to be determined to improve the quality of cocktails for visitors and locals alike. Now, Kristin Almy is at the Grand Café, where she's revamped the menu to serve what she describes as "co ... More >>
Dining
May 16, 2012
BOSF 2012: How to Choose a Chinatown Restaurant
With bar superstar power in place at Jasper's, Startlight Room, and the Fifth Floor, Kimpton Hotel group seems to be determined to improve the quality of cocktails for visitors and locals alike. Now, Kristin Almy is at the Grand Café, where she's revamped the menu to serve what she describes as "co ... More >>
Dining
May 16, 2012
SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Sunrise Deli's Falafel
With bar superstar power in place at Jasper's, Startlight Room, and the Fifth Floor, Kimpton Hotel group seems to be determined to improve the quality of cocktails for visitors and locals alike. Now, Kristin Almy is at the Grand Café, where she's revamped the menu to serve what she describes as "co ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Eats Fills Cozy Brunch Niche in the Richmond
Come Sunday morning, most San Franciscans head to the Mission for a fix of bottomless Bloody Marys and breakfast sandwiches stacked with house-cured salumi and local cheese. But Eats, located in a cute corner of the Inner Richmond, reminds us that the brunch "scene" in this city is more varied than ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2012
Number 2: Steamed Sea Bass with Lime and Chile From Lers Ros
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Tom Silargorn has a flair for the dramatic. His soups are all served in ringed Mongolian hot pots, blue flames and sparks shooting up through the tube at their center; every day you order tom kha gai feels like July 4. ... More >>
Dining
May 9, 2012
Penthouse Steakhouse: Near-Fine Dining Among the Dancers
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Tom Silargorn has a flair for the dramatic. His soups are all served in ringed Mongolian hot pots, blue flames and sparks shooting up through the tube at their center; every day you order tom kha gai feels like July 4. ... More >>
Dining
May 9, 2012
Recent Openers
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Tom Silargorn has a flair for the dramatic. His soups are all served in ringed Mongolian hot pots, blue flames and sparks shooting up through the tube at their center; every day you order tom kha gai feels like July 4. ... More >>
Dining
May 9, 2012
SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Liguria Bakery's Pizza Focaccia
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Tom Silargorn has a flair for the dramatic. His soups are all served in ringed Mongolian hot pots, blue flames and sparks shooting up through the tube at their center; every day you order tom kha gai feels like July 4. ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
Sunrise Deli Hits the Road
The Sunrise Deli food truck hit the road yesterday, serving up what has often been lauded as the best falafel in the Bay Area to eager diners on San Francisco State University campus. Serving Middle Eastern food to San Franciscans since 1984, the Sunrise Deli has expanded from its four brick an ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2012
Top Sommelier Tips with Gabriele Originario of La Mar
Sommeliers spend all day with wine, and are a great resource for new finds. They're the "friend on the inside" that can help you suss out the best values on their wine lists. With that in mind, we've come up with a short suite of questions that we're posing to some of our favorite area sommeliers to ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Our Ultimate Mash-Up Mother's Day Meal in San Francisco
Like Valentine's Day and Easter before it, Mother's Day can be a particularly annoying holiday for us food blogger worker bees. The endless pap of press releases touting how kind the restaurant industry wants to pretend to be on the holiday -- free roses for the moms! Free champagne tipples for that ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Number 7: Hakka Restaurant's Stuffed Tofu
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Look over the large parties dining at Hakka Restaurant and you'll see any number of Hakka and Cantonese feast-day dishes: chicken stuffed with sticky rice, pork belly with preserved vegetable, fried crab with salted eg ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
See The Tower of Pork and Other Delights at Chris Cosentino's Los Angeles Eatery PIGG
While Southern California's Umami Burger opened its first Bay Area location in San Francisco in 2011 and has signed a lease on a second spot in Oakland, it has also developed a new and broader concept called Umamicatessen, which debuted in downtown Los Angeles in March. The showpiece of the Umami Re ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2012
Number 8: Taqueria La Alteña's Al Pastor Burrito
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition For as many taquerias and taco trucks in San Francisco serve "al pastor" -- shepherd-style pork -- Taqueria La Alteña is one of only a few of them make al pastor the traditional way: on a spit. If you think the vertic ... More >>
Music
May 2, 2012
Bouncer Finds the Dark Side of Mission Bowling Club
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition For as many taquerias and taco trucks in San Francisco serve "al pastor" -- shepherd-style pork -- Taqueria La Alteña is one of only a few of them make al pastor the traditional way: on a spit. If you think the vertic ... More >>
Dining
May 2, 2012
Recent Openers
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition For as many taquerias and taco trucks in San Francisco serve "al pastor" -- shepherd-style pork -- Taqueria La Alteña is one of only a few of them make al pastor the traditional way: on a spit. If you think the vertic ... More >>
Dining
May 2, 2012
SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Delfina's Trippa alla Fiorentina
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition For as many taquerias and taco trucks in San Francisco serve "al pastor" -- shepherd-style pork -- Taqueria La Alteña is one of only a few of them make al pastor the traditional way: on a spit. If you think the vertic ... More >>
Dining
May 2, 2012
Mozzeria: A Neighborhood Pizzeria That Gets Past Barriers
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition For as many taquerias and taco trucks in San Francisco serve "al pastor" -- shepherd-style pork -- Taqueria La Alteña is one of only a few of them make al pastor the traditional way: on a spit. If you think the vertic ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Cupcake Wars: The Problem With a Cupcake Show Is That It's a Cupcake Show
Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Cupcake Wars, an hour-long show about one thing, over and over, until death comes, Sundays at 8 p.m. on the Food Network. Cupcake Wars has been on the air just two years, but they're already finishing up their fif ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Number 9: Liguria Bakery's Pizza Focaccia
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Everyone in San Francisco, it seems, has his or her favorite kind of focaccia from Liguria Bakery. Some will defend to their death the honor of the rectangles dimpled with green onions, others the loaves thickly speckl ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2012
Number 10: Boxing Room's Dirty Rice
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Boxing Room's chef, Justin Simoneaux, brings a California sensibility to traditional Cajun dishes -- fried oyster salad with arugula and fennel, gulf flounder with tasso and green garlic -- but for his dirty rice, h ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
Number 11: Wing Wings' Chicken Salad Biscuit
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition "I make the chicken salad biscuit to offer a non-fried, boneless option that can appeal to pretty much everyone," says Wing Wings owner Christian Ciscle of the sleeper on his menu. It's a three-buck item, list ... More >>
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April 27, 2012
Number 12: Pamonhas de Sal from Pamonhas
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition There are only a few places in the United States where you can find pamonhas (pah-MONE-yahs), Brazilian fresh corn tamales, and one of them happens to be a little green-walled cafe in Daly City named after its signatur ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Tune In: Citizen's Band Brings Chic Brunch to All-American Diner
It's possible to live blocks away from Citizen's Band and never know it exists, an anomaly in a dining-obsessed city. The unassuming storefront is easy to overlook on its corner of 8th and Folsom, smushed up against the much flashier Pinkie's Bakery, with which Citizen's Band shares its indoor space ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2012
Jasmine Smith Introduces Strong Cheese To San Francisco
A child of northern Wisconsin, Jasmine Smith grew up on a steady diet of processed cheese and Milwaukee's Best. "We used to get this cheese spread every year for Christmas that as a kid I liked but I now realize it was terrible!" Smith told us. With her new venture Strong Cheese Provision ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Number 13: Gobi Aloo Kati Rolls from the Kasa Indian Truck
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Kolkota's version of a New York slice, kati rolls were designed to eat on the street. Originally a meat skewer wrapped in a paratha (flaky flatbread), the rolls have evolved in numerous directions over the years ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Interview With Original Joe's John Duggan: How to Build a Phoenix
John Duggan, who owns Original Joe's with his sister Elena, are the grandchildren of the 75-year-old restaurant's founder, Ante (Tony) Rodin. The Duggans managed a feat practically unheard of in the restaurant business. After Original Joe's original Taylor Street location suffered a major fire in 20 ... More >>
Dining
April 25, 2012
Five-Dollar Delicious: Duc Loi's Vietnamese Sandwiches
John Duggan, who owns Original Joe's with his sister Elena, are the grandchildren of the 75-year-old restaurant's founder, Ante (Tony) Rodin. The Duggans managed a feat practically unheard of in the restaurant business. After Original Joe's original Taylor Street location suffered a major fire in 20 ... More >>
News
April 25, 2012
Not Lying with the Fishes: TwoXSea's Fresh-Caught Seafood Takes on S.F.
John Duggan, who owns Original Joe's with his sister Elena, are the grandchildren of the 75-year-old restaurant's founder, Ante (Tony) Rodin. The Duggans managed a feat practically unheard of in the restaurant business. After Original Joe's original Taylor Street location suffered a major fire in 20 ... More >>
Dining
April 25, 2012
Recent Openers
John Duggan, who owns Original Joe's with his sister Elena, are the grandchildren of the 75-year-old restaurant's founder, Ante (Tony) Rodin. The Duggans managed a feat practically unheard of in the restaurant business. After Original Joe's original Taylor Street location suffered a major fire in 20 ... More >>
Dining
April 25, 2012
Original Joe's: Take a Nostalgic Tour of S.F. Culinary History
John Duggan, who owns Original Joe's with his sister Elena, are the grandchildren of the 75-year-old restaurant's founder, Ante (Tony) Rodin. The Duggans managed a feat practically unheard of in the restaurant business. After Original Joe's original Taylor Street location suffered a major fire in 20 ... More >>
Dining
April 25, 2012
SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Saha's Vegan Kibbeh
John Duggan, who owns Original Joe's with his sister Elena, are the grandchildren of the 75-year-old restaurant's founder, Ante (Tony) Rodin. The Duggans managed a feat practically unheard of in the restaurant business. After Original Joe's original Taylor Street location suffered a major fire in 20 ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2012
The New Original Joe's: Nostalgia Without Kitsch
The food scene in this city moves so fast that restaurants more than five years old seem ancient and, three months after they've closed, are mostly forgotten. But the 75-year-old Original Joe's -- the subject of this week's full-length restaurant review in the Weekly -- was closed for five years aft ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
Number 14: Delfina's Trippa alla Fiorentina
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Trippa alla fiorentina is not a pretty dish. There are no elegant curls of hand-made pasta to photograph. A tuft of baby greens placed on top would only look like a boutonniere pinned to the chest of an orangutan. But ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
Number 15: Leatherneck Steakhouse's Truffled Tater Tots
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Along with properly seared New York strips and a beautiful sea bass with chorizo and saffron-tomato butter sauce, Paul Lozito serves what must be the best steakhouse snack in San Francisco: truffled tater tots. The na ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
Prather Ranch Bids Adieu to Weekday Breakfast
Prather Ranch American Eatery has changed its hours, eliminating its week-day breakfast menu. Now open Monday through Friday 10am to 6pm and Saturday and Sunday from 8am to 4pm. Chef Erica Holland-Toll assures SFoodie that despite what the time shift may implicate, the new eatery is doing great. "W ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2012
Mixed Milk Cheeses: The Tasty Joys of Combining Goat and Cow
Often, cheese makers blend milk from different animals to create flavors a single milk can't provide. La Tur, a three milk cheese (sheep, cow and goat) from Caseficio dell'Alta Langa in Italy, is an exceptional example. But sheep- and goat-milk cheese producers blend milk for a functional re ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
SF Weekly Food Critic Jonathan Kauffman Is Moving On
Here's some bittersweet news for anyone who has vicariously savored the San Francisco meals Jonathan Kauffman captures in the exacting, inventive prose of his weekly review column. After two years of serving as SF Weekly's lead food critic and writer, Kauffman is moving on to a new gig as the S.F. e ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2012
Number 17: Auntie April's Fried Catfish
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition The subtitle to April Spears' Bayview restaurant is "Chicken & Waffles," but her signature dish is overshadowed by "Grandad's Fisher's catfish." If it seems like the easiest thing in the world to fry catfish proper ... More >>
Dining
April 18, 2012
SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Asparagus and Egg Sandwich
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition The subtitle to April Spears' Bayview restaurant is "Chicken & Waffles," but her signature dish is overshadowed by "Grandad's Fisher's catfish." If it seems like the easiest thing in the world to fry catfish proper ... More >>
Dining
April 18, 2012
Recent Openers
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition The subtitle to April Spears' Bayview restaurant is "Chicken & Waffles," but her signature dish is overshadowed by "Grandad's Fisher's catfish." If it seems like the easiest thing in the world to fry catfish proper ... More >>
Dining
April 18, 2012
The Bird Is the Word: Surveying the Bay Area's Peruvian Rotisseries
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition The subtitle to April Spears' Bayview restaurant is "Chicken & Waffles," but her signature dish is overshadowed by "Grandad's Fisher's catfish." If it seems like the easiest thing in the world to fry catfish proper ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2012
Duc Loi Kitchen's Excellent $5 Vietnamese Sandwiches
One-month-old Duc Loi Kitchen seems destined to become the Saigon Sandwiches of the Mission. Last time SFoodie visited this food counter inside Duc Loi Supermarket, we were the last customer of the temporary outpost of Mission Burger back in 2010. Duc Loi delivers on both quantity and quality, ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2012
Bi Rite Bars: A Taste Tour of the Newest Bars
We love Bi-Rite Creamery and their signature Salted Caramel ice cream, and we love Michael Mischer and his designer chocolate bars with their creative inclusions, so how could we not be excited about their love child, the new Bi-Rite Creamery chocolate bars? After Bi-Rite private-label chocolate lo ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
Number 20: Vegan Kibbeh at Saha Arabic Fusion
SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition Though more than a third of the dishes on its menus include meat, Saha -- Mohamed and Marmee Aboghanem's style-y Tenderloin restaurant -- has achieved cult status for devoting a huge chunk of its menu to vegan dishes. A ... More >>
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