Food and Cooking

Passover Dinners Not To Pass Over

For eight days every spring, Passover recalls the exodus of Jews from Egypt to freedom, while royally screwing over food choices of modern-day Jews and relegating their diets to flattened pieces of cardboard-tasting matzoh. Given the bevy of pastries, hipster-toasts and other tempting leavened goodi ... More >>

The Evolution of Mission Chinese Food's New York Counterpart

Not that we're a total Mission Chinese Food groupie or anything, but when the restaurant opened a second restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan last May, we were literally the first customer through the door. It opened with about 80% of the same menu items as what can be found in San Francis ... More >>

S.F. Resident Wins National Manischewitz Cooking Competition

It ain't the legendary Pillsbury Bake-Off, but San Francisco resident Josie Shapiro won the country's only kosher cooking competition, the Manischewitz Cook-Off Contest, which took place today in Manischewitz HQ in New Jersey. The winning recipe? "Faux pho," a soup made in under an hour with Manisch ... More >>

Cana: Cuban Food in the Mission Gets Buried Under Basic Mistakes

Chicken Soup's Good For the Soul at Shorty Goldstein's

A new deli in the Financial District is offering classic comfort food like pastrami sandwiches and chicken soup updated with local, seasonal ingredients, as per usual in S.F. The tagline at Shorty Goldstein's is "cure, brine, smoke, pickle," which refers to all the things that Michael Siegel and his ... More >>

City Attorney Dennis Herrera Calls for Stricter Federal Regulations on Energy Drinks

There is less waiting these days. Cross the country in six hours. Exchange correspondence within seconds. Buy the new Jordan's with a click from the couch. The few stretches of waiting -- 20 seconds on the elevator, three minutes at the taco truck, an hour at the DMV -- turn into stretches, via sm ... More >>

Scavenger Hunt and $3 Cookbooks at the Library's Big Book Sale

Looking for some vintage James Beard cookbooks or to read and learn the rules of hospitality from restaurant guru Danny Meyer? Consider stocking up on cookbooks at the upcoming 49th Annual Big Book Sale, which benefits San Francisco's public libraries and is held at the Festival Pavilion of Fort Mas ... More >>

Don't Fear Deli Board's Breakfast Sandwich

Bacon, sausage, fried eggs. At first glance, the description of Deli Board's BK sandwich ($11) doesn't exactly provoke visions of a sexy brunch. In fact, upon delivery to a rickety sidewalk table, this breakfast appears downright ghastly. A unification of yolk, melted American cheese and Board sauce ... More >>

Recent Openers

South: Charles Phan Expands His Empire

House of Pancakes: Chinese Restaurant in Parkside Specializes in Different Kind of Hotcake

Sign of Spring: Off the Grid Returns to Fort Mason

It's spring, everyone! And that means that Off the Grid is returning to its biggest location in town, Fort Mason. Starting March 22, Off the Grid will be at Fort Mason Center Friday nights with live music, 32 vendors (nearly half of them new this year), cocktails from Alembic and beers from Magnolia ... More >>

Charles Phan on His New Restaurant South, Now Open at SF JAZZ

Chef Charles Phan had one word when Randall Kline, the founder of SF JAZZ asked the Slanted Door chef to take over the café South at SF JAZZ's new permanent space on Franklin and Fell. "I said, 'No,'" Phan said. "A lot of people ask me to do a lot of things, and the first thing I say is, 'No.'" ... More >>

The Continuing Evolution of 24th Street: Centuries of Change

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Drink 2013: Sour Beer Gets Its Due

Drink 2013: Small Batch is the Second Coming of Local Wine

Celebrate Persian New Year at Zaré at Fly Trap

If you've ever had an interest in dining at the Mediterranean-Persian restaurant Zaré at Fly Trap, March 19 would be a great night to consider. That's when chef/owner Hoss Zaré is attempting what he calls the biggest meal he's ever done in his life in honor of Norooz, the Persian New Year and star ... More >>

Drink 2013: Cocktails Listings

Drink 2013: Wine Listings

Drink 2013: Beer Listings

Drink of the Week: The Viceroy at Cantina

Few spirits that have the potential to incite the kind of heated debate that pisco, the South American unaged grape based brandy, is capable of. Should you ever have the misfortune of asking a Chilean and a Peruvian about the origins of pisco, you would quickly find yourself with no answer and in th ... More >>

Roxy's Cafe: Overreaching Tasting Menus Still Hold Promise

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Fried Chicken Skin as an Appetizer: Too Much of a Good Thing?

The best part of fried chicken is the skin. It's so obvious it's not even worth arguing about. I'm sure there are people out there who swear by the juicy dark meat, and even weirdos who lust after the white meat, but everyone knows that the crispy, fatty, succulent skin is by far the most appealing ... More >>

Local Mission Eatery's Yaron Milgrom on His New Market Plans

With talk of a one-year ban on new restaurants along Valencia St., San Franciscans may be forced to take such drastic measures as buying and cooking their own food when they find themselves at a loss for a new restaurant to try around the corner. Grocery shopping may become a horrifying reality. Fo ... More >>

Recent Openers

The Mill: Simply Delicious Baked Goods

Lunch in the FiDi: Finding the Area's Best Midday Meals

Beer of the Week: Magnolia Brewery Quadlibet for Tenderfeet

The bad news is that SF Beer Week has come and gone. The good news? You're probably a lot less hungover. Wait, we still have another week of Strong Beer Month? Ok, scratch that last thing we said about fewer hangovers. The good news is that there's still gobs of delicious beer to consume throughout ... More >>

Two Tarts and a Stove Feeds Hungry Bears This Wednesday

Truck is a gay bar with a kitchen on Folsom and 15th streets that, in between bouts of naughtiness, hosts regular pop-ups -- among them, Truck Stop Café and Two Tarts and a Stove. As Truck is something of a dive whose sommelier was, um, fired a few weeks ago, the food had better pair well with Lagu ... More >>

Get a Sneak Peek of 20th Century Cafe at State Bird Provisions

Range's acclaimed pastry chef, Michelle Polzine, is converting a Hayes Valley laundromat across the street from Rich Table restaurant into a new Eastern European-influenced hideaway called the 20th Century Cafe. It's coming soon, but Polzine isn't ready to divulge how soon. "I don't want to say [an ... More >>

Single Woman Says Dump Valentine's Day and Instead Stuff Your Face at a Nearby Food Truck

If you are single, and starving, today is officially no longer Valentine's Day as you know it -- It's now National Food Truck Date Day. Jeanna Barrett, a frustrated online dater-turned-S.F.entrepreneur has rolled out this delicious idea that we all ignore today's lame American holiday forced on us ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Thursday Event Roundup

All right, Lothario, we already know what you're thinking. It's Valentine's Day and you want to woo that special someone while enjoying the bounty of SF Beer Week. It's your lucky day. The beer week schedule has more beer and chocolate pairing events than you can shake a long-stemmed rose at. But, w ... More >>

Belcampo Meat Co.: No Country for Vegetarians

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SF Beer Week: Tuesday Event Roundup

If it hasn't become obvious already, SF Beer Week isn't simply a celebration of San Francisco beer, or even Bay Area beer in general. While the calendar surely has a local focus (and rightly so), many breweries from throughout California, neighboring states, and even other countries have traveled ma ... More >>

Millennial Restaurant Habits Are Pretty Much What You'd Expect

Millennials are a hot topic these days -- they're either the worst or the best, depending on who you ask -- and the much-coveted 18-34 demographic's eating habits have been the examination of many think pieces as of late. Culintro has an interesting interview with Anne E. McBride, the director of so ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Our Three Favorite Mixology Parodies, in Honor of This Week's Review

In this week's review, I called out new Mission hot spot Trick Dog for coming dangerously close to being a parody of the worst kind of mixology bar (it isn't, by the way, because the food and drinks are almost uniformly awesome). This was very much on my mind during my visits, partially because the ... More >>

Cater The Best Super Bowl Party Ever

Even the most football-adverse people we known plan to cheer on the 49ers this Sunday for the Super Bowl, and if you don't want to go out to root for the home team, plenty of local restaurants are getting in on the catering game. Whether you're throwing your own party or want to show up at someone e ... More >>

New Albion: Historic Local Ale Comes Back to Life

Bay Area Ramen: Sampling Local Chefs' New Styles

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Carne Asada Tacos at El Tonayense

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: El Tonayense The Cuisine: Jalisco style Mexican food Specialty Items: The tacos Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunch time, a total 4 minutes from the end of the line to fo ... More >>

Shots Fired: Five Restaurant Websites That Make Us Feel Violent

SFoodie has previously fired warning shots to restaurants to get their act together when it comes to making a website. But it seems the industry hasn't listened, and now it's time to name names. These five restaurants may have perfectly adequate or even good food, but you'd never know it by the firs ... More >>

City Attorney Cracks Down on Restaurant Health Insurance Fraud

If you've ever wondered whether the health care surcharge on your restaurant bill is actually going toward funding health insurance for the restaurant's employees, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that the vast majority of S.F. restaurants are in compliance. The bad news is that a ha ... More >>

Grand Opening, Grand Closing: Bay Area Makes and Breaks Restaurants in Mere Months

Four months ago, we wrote about a brand new restaurant called Shanghai and how it was attempting to break the curse of a space that had previously been home to a five-month restaurant called Gingerfruit and a three-month restaurant with the most-appetizing name of Pudong. The chef came from the rece ... More >>

M.Y. China: High-End Cuisine Finds a Niche in a Busy Mall

Why American Craft Beer is Better Than Ever: A Brewer's Manifesto

When someone says "I don't like beer" my reaction is almost always the same: "Challenge accepted!" It's not that the so-called beer-hater doesn't like beer -- it's that they don't like any of the beers they've had up until now. Chances are, it's been a pretty narrow selection of what's out there. ... More >>

Beer of the Week: Boston Beer Company Revives Historic New Albion Ale

All right class, it's time for a history lesson. Can anybody tell me which brewery is acknowledged as the first modern microbrewery in the United States? If you answered New Albion Brewing Company, you get an A. Does somebody know where the brewery was located? Yes, right in our backyard in Sonoma! ... More >>