Gary Danko

Stock in Trade: Pork-Mad in the Marina

San Francisco's Latest Food Critic: Whilst in SF

Whilst in SF is an incisive, GIF-driven Tumblr page that is open to public submission, but appears to have a unified wit. It's open to general critiques of the city, but much of the playful frustration expressed here relates to the local food scene. A choice selection of Hollywood hipster douchebag ... More >>

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 >>

City College's Culinary Arts Department Hosts Street Fair Food Party

What: "Wok On The Wild Side," a City College of San Francisco's culinary arts and hospitality studies department's fundraiser When: Fri., April 20, 5:30-8 p.m. Where: Statler Wing at City College of San Francisco Cost: $75 The Rundown: Like most educational institutions in California, CCSF's c ... More >>

Forget Skiing, It's Cheese This Weekend

​This weekend, it's Disneyland for cheese, expect instead of rides there are tours of cheese making facilities; instead of performances and plush, strolling characters there are cheese seminars, authors, and producers; and instead of crappy food at the end of long lines it's all cheese.  &nbs ... More >>

Ten Best San Francisco Restaurants Not on OpenTable

Jen SiskaYou want to get with Nojo's tempura? OpenTable won't hook you up.​ Five years ago, it would have been hard to imagine the lock that OpenTable now has on San Francisco restaurants. From the highest of the high end to mid-priced neighborhood places, the locally based online reservations com ... More >>

The Ritz Readies for Change, and Dumplings & Buns Pre-opening Bites

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The Ritz is puttin' on a new name. Inside Scoop reports The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton is set to shutter on Sept. 15, after it opened 20 years ago with Gary Danko at the helm. Chef Ron Siegel will st ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Deciphering the Wine List at Bar Tartine

Cotogna Opens, Gary Danko Spinoff Still on Track

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. In case you hadn't heard, Michael and Lindsay Tusk's Cotogna (490 Pacific, 775-8508) opens tonight.Even though the Bank of Scotland is foreclosing on Ghirardelli Square, leaving t ... More >>

Pop-up News: Marcel's Kitchen Closes, Yats Appears in North Beach

Less than a month after launching Marcel's Kitchen in the Mission club El Rincon, on Sept. 1, Marcel Neal (featured in the cooking vid above) tweeted that he was shutting the Creole popup down. Neal, who's trained at restaurants like Jardiniere and Gary Danko, says that his $6 po'boys and $8 fried ... More >>

Una Pizza Napoletana Tosses Out an Opening Date, the Washbag's Washed Up

​​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Oho! Jay B. at Grub Street interviewed pizzaiolo Anthony Mangieri and finds that the New York transplant now has a firm opening date for his Una Pizza Napoletana on Howard and Eighth St.: Sept. ... More >>

Summer Bean Salad at Naked Lunch

John BirdsallSummer beans, radishes, basil, and Manchego in red-wine vinaigrette ($5).​Friday, July 16, 2010 Almost a year after it opened in an unlikely slot between Enrico's pee-fragrant sidewalk terrace and the tourist-covered stairs on Kearny above Broadway, Naked Lunch is still putting o ... More >>

Willie's World: The wisdom of S.F.'s ex-mayor

The Loneliest Wine Bar

Doggy Bag: 'The Smelly Discharge of Unsellable Dairy'

​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Right: You thought a career in cheese was all the burnish of artisanal deliciousness, triple crèmes and bloomy rinds and the fromage cart at Gary Danko (Affidelice, anyone?). But Rainbow cheese guy Gordon Edgar of Gordonzola has news for you: Sooner or la ... More >>

San Francisco's Hottest Chef Dudes

Ever dated a chef? It can be a dysfunctional slog: enabling his 12-hour work days, waking up at 1 a.m. to a kitchen of his work buddies doing Fernet shots around the dinette, and living through the perennial reek of garlic on his fingers. But seriously? We'd put up with all of it -- every last blast ... More >>

Grub Street Truth-Squads Chang: New York Chefs Use Hella Figs

DDanzigFoie gras torchon with duck prosciutto and Black Mission figs at Gary Danko.​Bitter knows no bounds. Following the fallout over N.Y. chef David Chang's remark that "fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate," Grub Street's Adam Martin activated his iPhone ... More >>

Monday Night Food Parties at 111 Minna Merge Clubbing and Grazing

Thomas Hawk/FlickrThe crowd outside 111 Minna: Hungry for seasonal, locally sourced eating?​In a time of scarce investors, it sucks for chefs itchy to be out on their own. Or maybe it doesn't -- in this time of food carts and other work-arounds to the traditional brick and mortar, chefs are fi ... More >>

Dine About Town

Google's Favorite Places Awards: Strange-Looking and Subject to Graffiti

The Google award at Humphry Slocombe.On Wednesday, SFoodie's Meredith Brody reported on Google mapping out Alice Waters' favorite places in the Bay Area. That same day, the tech company dropped off exclamation point-looking statues in front of the chosen places of Waters as well as the selections fr ... More >>

Local Food Luminaries Reveal Their Trans-Fat-Fortified Guilty Pleasures

Ken W! via FlickrIn-N-Out is an off-night faveEver wonder what Gary Danko pigs out on when he's not, you know, piercing a ripe Livarot? Sfist asked what it calls local foodie royalty (including SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody) to name their favorite junk foods. Catch a whiff of the fake popcorn butt ... More >>

Virginity Lost at Gary Danko

Early Bird Special: Gary Danko

It had to happen -- SF Weekly food critic lost her virginity, and to a hunk of foie gras, no less. Brody experiences her gastro rite de passage at überluxe Gary Danko, which opened in 1999 and still has a way with a cheese cart. And in case you think a place not accustomed to skimping on the lobste ... More >>

Where to Take Mom

Ana MandaraGet ready: Special meals are about to be cooked up in SF restaurant kitchens on Sunday. If you don't feel like dining amongst obvious mother-worshippers, or paying the extra freight a prix-fixe carries (even a well-thought-out and well-prepared one), we find that taking the whole fa ... More >>

The Chronicle's 2009 Top 100: Who's Out, Who's In

To be continued ...

SFWeekly's 7-Day Dish

Bouncer Sees The Three Stages of Relationships at Pilsner Inn

Meredith Brody in the Palm of Palmetto on Union

Gary Danko's Final Feast Fantasy: Even Freakier Than Before

Gary Danko's Final Feast Fantasy: Even Freakier Than Before

Pure Food Porn: Gary Danko Does His Best Caligula In Last Supper

Pure Food Porn: Gary Danko Does His Best Caligula In Last Supper

Attachment Cooking

When a chef just can't let a certain dish go

The Raw and the Cooked

Curious George, of Aqua and Fifth Floor, opens his quirky new jewel box

Best Napa Restaurant

Market

Stormy Weather

Tonga Room

Best New Restaurant

Aziza

Shufflebored

High-powered comings and goings in the food biz

Made

Tales of extravagance and excess from the restaurant scene

Best New Restaurant

Elisabeth Daniel

Readers' Poll

Your choices for the Best of San Francisco 2001

On the Waterfront

Boulevard

Side Dish

The Name of the Rose

Tie One On

Danko, Dine, and various anniversaries

A Temple to High Living

Elisabeth Daniel

Side Dish

Mingling With the Famous

Unalloyed Pleasure

Gary Danko

Side Dish

Rub-a-Dub, Battle Figs, Party of Two, One Bite, and Snap, Crackle, Pop

Industry: Pheasant Fad