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    June 30, 2011

    M&L Market Still Makes You Follow the Rules for a Pastrami Sandwich

    Jonathan KauffmanM&L Market's turkey-pastrami sandwich. This is a half sandwich ($4.20), by the way.​ Now that the SFoodie's 92 is over, I'm returning to a series about restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole. There are three constants about the line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Olivier's Butchery Throws Dogpatch a Bone

    xdebx//FlickrFrench cuts of meat without TSA hassles​"You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences. I mean, they got the same shit over there that we got here, but it's just...it's just there it's a little different." -Vincent Vega, Pulp FictionOpening next Thursda ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 25, 2011

    A Full List of the 92 Best Dishes in S.F. for Fresh Eats

    xdebx//FlickrFrench cuts of meat without TSA hassles​"You know what the funniest thing about Europe is? It's the little differences. I mean, they got the same shit over there that we got here, but it's just...it's just there it's a little different." -Vincent Vega, Pulp FictionOpening next Thursda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    S.F. Rising: Olive Ciabatta from Bakers of Paris

    Jonathan KauffmanBakers of Paris's olive ciabatta.​A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Olive Ciabatta Source: Bakers of Paris stand, Inner Sunset Sunday farmers' market (also at Upper Haight, Divisadero, and Fort Mason markets) Price ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Outside Lands Announces Local Food and Wine Lineup w/ Flour Water, Ritual Coffee, More

    Christopher VictorioBecause this will make you hungry.​ Outside Lands has always made an effort to bring in highlights of the local food and wine scene to festival goers. Every year the offerings get a little bigger, and this year's festival is no different. For its return to a three-day forma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    Beauty's Bagel Shop Begins Baking Montreal-Style Bagels

    Frank MilwardBlake Joffe of Beauty's Bagles​Blake Joffe's memories of childhood vacations aren't of beaches or landmarks. Instead, he reminisces about the Montreal bagels he scarfed during many visits to his dad's hometown. This fall, Joffe, who currently cooks at Pizzeria Delfina, and partne ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 27, 2011

    Fresh Eats: Recchiuti's Takes Caramels to the Third Power

    Frank MilwardBlake Joffe of Beauty's Bagles​Blake Joffe's memories of childhood vacations aren't of beaches or landmarks. Instead, he reminisces about the Montreal bagels he scarfed during many visits to his dad's hometown. This fall, Joffe, who currently cooks at Pizzeria Delfina, and partne ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 30, 2011

    Roundup: The Best New Barbecue in the Bay

    Frank MilwardBlake Joffe of Beauty's Bagles​Blake Joffe's memories of childhood vacations aren't of beaches or landmarks. Instead, he reminisces about the Montreal bagels he scarfed during many visits to his dad's hometown. This fall, Joffe, who currently cooks at Pizzeria Delfina, and partne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Online Bake Sale for Japan Now Enlisting Bloggers and Bidders

    The Tomato Tart​Sabrina Modelle says she was face down on the acupuncture table last week when she heard about the devastating Japanese quake. Modelle's currently on leave from her job at a nonprofit. "I think I was going through do-good withdrawal," she says. And since Modelle is also a food ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Getting Meat into Cocktails is Tricky but Doable

    There have been a few constants in humanity's aspirations: finding out if we're all alone in the universe, immortality, and successfully getting meat to work in a cocktail. The latter is remarkably delicate work. Go too far in the meat direction and it can get gross (and yes, for vegans and vegeta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Clean Cheese, Ginger Ale, and the Mighty Subway

    Madame Fromage/FlickrSally Jackson's amazing cheese, now lost to the world after an FDA crackdown.​A new daily column: Notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other miscellanea dredged up from the food media.1. Cheese makers under attack? San Francisco diners haven't felt the i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2011

    Charcutepaloozers: Brine It On

    Cathy Barrow/Mrs. Wheelbarrow's KitchenBeef, corning.​Who knew there was so much pent-up demand to cure meat at home? After Cathy Barrow and Kim Foster first launched the Charcutepalooza challenge, the number of bloggers ballooned into the dozens, and then the hundreds. By the time they closed ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 16, 2011

    Beast and the Hare: Meat as Art

    Cathy Barrow/Mrs. Wheelbarrow's KitchenBeef, corning.​Who knew there was so much pent-up demand to cure meat at home? After Cathy Barrow and Kim Foster first launched the Charcutepalooza challenge, the number of bloggers ballooned into the dozens, and then the hundreds. By the time they closed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Morgan Maki, aka Professor Meat, Breaks It Down

    Sean TimberlakeMorgan Maki stuffed 2,000 years of meat history into 2 hours.​Morgan Maki knows his meat. But Bi-Rite's butcher and charcutier is versed in more than mere technique; Maki is a meat historian, and the depths of his knowledge and passion read through in the finished product. At ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2011

    The New Cheese Lady

    Sean TimberlakeMorgan Maki stuffed 2,000 years of meat history into 2 hours.​Morgan Maki knows his meat. But Bi-Rite's butcher and charcutier is versed in more than mere technique; Maki is a meat historian, and the depths of his knowledge and passion read through in the finished product. At ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Beyond Banh Mi: San Francisco's Best East-West Sandwiches

    Alvin P./YelpHRD's Sloppy Jo-Jo, $5.75.​SFoodie could eat banh mi every day ― and has, at times ― but as we have traced that hallowed route between our offices and Larkin Street we've been distracted by more and more Asian-themed sandwiches. Here are our favorite of the past five months, in no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 11: Edible Holiday Box from Charles Chocolates

    Charles Chocolates​The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time. "This might be a little bit big to fit in one of the little squares of your advent calendar," jokes Charles Chocolates owner Chuck Siegel of his winter col ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    The Best New Cheeses of 2010

    Gordon EdgarKunik from Nettle Meadow: Goat, meet cow.​Guest cheese blogger Gordon Edgar is the buyer for Rainbow Grocery and the author of Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge, published by Chelsea Green. He blogs at Gordonzola.net. It shows the strength and popularity of the growing world of Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 7: Boccalone's Black Truffle Mortadella

    Lou BustamanteBits of black truffle add perfume to Boccalone's holiday-issue mortadella.​The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.The cold and rain of December always finds us fighting a losing battle against salty-fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 5: Panettone from Dianda's

    Jonathan KauffmanOne-pound panettone from Dianda's, $5.25. ​The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one treat at a time.SFoodie can't tell you how many loaves of imported Italian panettone we bought over the years before we admitted to ours ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 1, 2010

    Fresh Eats

    Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Taste Local Cheese for the Holidays (and a Good Cause)

    ​For obvious, if college-humor, reasons, our favorite of the twelve days of Christmas has always been the eight maids a-milking. Egg nog and Santa's glass of milk always have a place in the holiday celebrations, but why can't we include dairy in its more awesome and solid forms? The

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Interview with Anthony Mangieri

    Natalie Knight/Una Pizza NapoletanaAnthony Mangieri​Una Pizza Napoletana's owner, Anthony Mangieri, started making pizzas at the age of 15, then at the age of 19 started up a bakery in Red Bank, N.J., where he sold naturally leavened breads baked in a brick oven. "It was a total failure, but a gre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Pop! Desserts' Coffee Pudding

    John BirdsallA quartet of Pop! Desserts puddings, clockwise from top: chocolate, black sesame, matcha, and coffee, all $2.​Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Marielle Nuval's knife roll must've still been new when, months after graduating CCA, she got a job in the pastry department at Michael Mina. S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Baking from Tartine Bread, Part II: A New Starter

    This story does have a happy-ish ending.​ Part II of a two-part series on my weeks-long attempt to make the basic recipe from Chad Robertson's new cookbook, Tartine Bread.The worst part of seeing my first loaves fail, a disappointment after two weeks of cultivating a sourdough starter and a 24-hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Charles Chocolates Operates Virtual Goodie Factories for Online Game

    PlayFirst via SFGateThe chocolate-making game's been averaging 800,000 plays a month.​Want to make your own Charles Chocolates creations? There's a video game called Chocolatier: Sweet Society for that. Charles Chocolates has teamed up with social networking game company PlayFirst for this ven ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Buckwheat Crêpe from Crêperie Saint Germain

    John BirdsallThe Number 3, cheese, ham, and egg, $6.95.​Thursday, October 28, 2010 John Birdsall​You take a bite of the Number 3 (cheese, ham, and egg, $6.95) and your teeth squeak against the thickish slice of deli ham swathed in a double-fold of spongy-soft buckwheat crêpe. Crêperie ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Gather's Braised Mushroom Sandwich

    John BirdsallBraised mushroom sandiwch on grilled ciabatta with cashew-gypsy pepper "cheese," $9.​Monday, October 25, 2010 Where chefs fail with the portobello is in forcing a false equivalency. Stemless, it has the size and shape of a meat patty, but, well, a portobello isn't meat, though ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Feel the Burn

    Sean TimberlakeHot right now: Thai chiles.​Indian summer's come and gone, but it's not too late to capture a piece of the season's heat in a jar. Hot peppers are still lingering at the markets. Some of the more exotic varieties have passed, but common peppers like Thai chilies, pictured, are s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    How Safe Is Chicken Tartare? A Saga of Discovery

    CAKES A./FlickrChicken tartare at Ippuku: Just looking at this photo makes me crave it again.​In the week following simultaneous restaurant reviews in the Chronicle and SF Weekly of Ippuku, a Japanese restaurant in Berkeley, the Chronicle's comments sections filled with disgust over a dish that bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Marin Sun Farms' BLT

    John BirdsallMarin Sun Farms' BLT with house-cured bacon, $7.50.​Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Open since June, Marin Sun Farms' Oakland meat counter rehabs the notion of the butcher shop for an age that likes its strip steaks to come with a narrative. These days we like to picture where our meat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    DeLise Dessert Cafe: Tiny Treats and Giant Ice Cream Scoops

    Uncredited/YelpThe ice cream case at DeLise.​ For space reasons, the paragraph I wrote about Dennis and Eloise Leong's DeLise Dessert Cafe disappeared from this week's roundup of micropatisseries. The couple, former pastry chefs at Bong Su, opened a small cafe on Bay Street after the birth of thei ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 29, 2010

    Micropatisseries in S.F.: Our guide to the city's best pastry shops

    Uncredited/YelpThe ice cream case at DeLise.​ For space reasons, the paragraph I wrote about Dennis and Eloise Leong's DeLise Dessert Cafe disappeared from this week's roundup of micropatisseries. The couple, former pastry chefs at Bong Su, opened a small cafe on Bay Street after the birth of thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Meatloaf Sandwich from Fatted Calf on Fell

    Jonathan KauffmanFatted Calf's meatloaf sandwich, $9.50.​Friday, September 24, 2010The Hayes Valley outpost of Taylor Beotticher's Fatted Calf Charcuterie opened yesterday, all exposed concrete and oxblood tile, chrome cases and blond wood shelves. Over the lunch hour, customers steadily filed in, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2010

    Bleed Red Velvet

    Jonathan KauffmanFatted Calf's meatloaf sandwich, $9.50.​Friday, September 24, 2010The Hayes Valley outpost of Taylor Beotticher's Fatted Calf Charcuterie opened yesterday, all exposed concrete and oxblood tile, chrome cases and blond wood shelves. Over the lunch hour, customers steadily filed in, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Paladar vs. Chan Chan: The Cuban-on-Cuban Cubano

    Jonathan KauffmanPaladar's Cubano, $9.50.​Cuban sandwiches do come from Cuba, Paladar Cafe Cubano owner Rita Abraldes assured SFoodie the other day. (Though there, of course, they're not called "Cuban sandwiches" ― often they're referred to as "mixtos"). The Cuban sandwich has a long history in ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 1, 2010

    Fresh Eats: Tony's Coal Fired Pizza, Golden West's short rib sandwich

    Jonathan KauffmanPaladar's Cubano, $9.50.​Cuban sandwiches do come from Cuba, Paladar Cafe Cubano owner Rita Abraldes assured SFoodie the other day. (Though there, of course, they're not called "Cuban sandwiches" ― often they're referred to as "mixtos"). The Cuban sandwich has a long history in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Golden West's Barbecued Short Rib Sandwich

    Barbecued short rib sandwich ($8.50).​For the past few weeks, Golden West, sister to the Sentinel, has quietly been opening in the mornings. The tiny takeout window on Trinity and Sutter sells coffee (Mr. Espresso) and a few pastries; customers who crane their necks around the counterwoman can get ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Pearl's Kitchen: Jewish Street Food Represents

    Nina LaoPearl's Kitchen's Jon and Lauren Bowne.​In the fast moving, trend-bending world of San Francisco street food, is it possible that one of the most talked-about operations of 2010 was ideologically inspired by Jewish grandparents? In the case of Pearl's Kitchen, the nine-month-old corned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Humphry Slocombe Hosting Big Gay Ice Cream Truck for Bicoastal Fun

    Tamara PalmerHumphry Slocombe's Harvey Milk and Honey Graham Cracker ice cream.​SFoodie's Tamara Palmer, enlisted to edit NBC's local food blog Feast Bay Area (due to go live in September), offered up a rainbow scoop to NBC's New York Feast flagship yesterday ― an East-Coast-meets-West-Coast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Zero Zero's Bruce Hill, and Why Artisanal Pizza is Ubiquitous in San Francisco

    John BirdsallBruce Hill, going all "American Gothic" with the pizza shovel.​Yesterday, Zero Zero chef Bruce Hill took us on a Q-and-A spin around the custom wood-fired pizza oven he spent much of last week seasoning, to prepare for tomorrow's opening. In today's part two, Hill and Zero Zero ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Zero Zero's Bruce Hill and the Zen of Pizza Making

    John BirdsallBruce Hill and his all-important ember shovel.​If you thought San Francisco had reached pizza saturation, think again. On Wednesday, Bruce Hill's Neapolitan pizzeria Zero Zero will begin firing pies in the former Azie space at 826 Folsom (at Fourth St.). Hill's no pizza virgin. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    A National Tour of 10 Strange Musical Sandwiches

    ​Music celebrities continue to be a fertile source of inspiration for sandwich makers across the nation. Behold some incredibly strange examples of a growing art form; call it an iTunes eatlist. The star: Lady Gaga The sandwich: Fried cod sticks, avocado, roll The location: Hapa Ramen, San F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Vote for Your Favorite Street-Food Vendor to Score a Slot at Mission Festival

    FoodspottingThe top eight vote getters will be eligible for vending time at the SF Street Food Festival Aug. 21.​Last year's first-ever SF Street Food Festival blew up like perhaps nobody could have predicted, including organizer La Cocina. This year's plans call for just about everything to b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Bay Citizen, Built on Barely Paid Labor, Runs Story Glorifying Unpaid Labor

    Pick that damn arugula , intern!​The Bay Citizen, the nonprofit news organization launched with much fanfare May 26 by local investment banker Warren Hellman, has earned ample flack for its offer to pay $25 per story to local bloggers.But we learned today from the online newspaper that some employ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Biters, Vegan Sabotage: Just Another Day at Rainbow Grocery

    gordonzola/FlickrUs, we would've stuck our teeth into something tastier that Jack.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. The thing about Cheesemonger Gordon Edgar? The cheese buyer at Rainbow Grocery lets you live ― vicariously ― the weirdness of working at a place where, any bad shit happe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    What to Have for Lunch: Lunch Geek's Taiwanese Meatball Sandwich

    Taiwanese meatball sandwich ($7.95).​Lunch Geek opened a few weeks back with a menu of straightforward sandwiches with good ingredients and goody-two-shoes names: a ham and cheese sandwich called the "GPA 4.0," for example, or the chicken and mushroom "Bookworm." (Not to mention a pour-over setup ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 16, 2010

    Hibiscus: Caribbean that's unconventional but awfully good

    Taiwanese meatball sandwich ($7.95).​Lunch Geek opened a few weeks back with a menu of straightforward sandwiches with good ingredients and goody-two-shoes names: a ham and cheese sandwich called the "GPA 4.0," for example, or the chicken and mushroom "Bookworm." (Not to mention a pour-over setup ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 9, 2010

    Ready when you are: People who wait for brunch? Not us

    Taiwanese meatball sandwich ($7.95).​Lunch Geek opened a few weeks back with a menu of straightforward sandwiches with good ingredients and goody-two-shoes names: a ham and cheese sandwich called the "GPA 4.0," for example, or the chicken and mushroom "Bookworm." (Not to mention a pour-over setup ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Zanze's Cheesecake, Delicate as Ever

    Jonathan KauffmanZanze's cheesecake only looks solid.​ Today begins a new series of posts looking into restaurants and food producers that San Francisco has loved for so long that they've slipped into a media black hole. Sam and Joyce Zanze have been making cheesecakes on Ocean for 31 years. They ... More >>

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