Gordon Ramsay

Viral Kitchen Nightmares: The Best of The Crazy Amy Meme

In case you missed it, Amy's Baking Company of Scottsdale, AZ became the most famous new restaurant of the week after Gordon Ramsay failed to help rehabilitate it on the television series Kitchen Nightmares and a subsequent Facebook flame war, later denied as hackery, placed the proprietors squarely ... More >>

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

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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 >>

Bobby Flay, if You Must Subject Us to 3 Days to Open, at Least Have the Decency to Scream and Rage

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, 3 Days to Open, a one-hour show about empires crumbling to dust, Fridays at 10 p.m. on the Food Network. In the past few years the Food Network's programming moved from the time-honored strategy of having people c ... More >>

Master Chef: An Exhaustive Breakdown of the Masters' Exquisite Forkplay

Each week, we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with food TV. This week, Master Chef, a one-hour show chronicling one home cook's descent into delusion and madness (Tali), Mondays at 9 p.m. on Fox. When I review food TV shows I usually watch them once, because of Mystery Diners, Trisha ... More >>

Worst Cooks in America: A Hater's Guide

​Each week (except last week) we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Worst Cooks in America, a one-hour documentary about Arizona, Sundays at 9 p.m. on the Food Network. The premise Imagine a competition in which the worst cooks in America -- let' ... More >>

Have Gordon Ramsay Yell at You on National Television!

You, too, can join G-Ra's exclusive club.​What: Masterchef Auditions Where: California Culinary Academy When: Sat., December 10, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: If you can make a mean lasagna, are attractive or have a "unique" "personality", and had parents who didn't love you enou ... More >>

5 Best Food-Themed Halloween Costumes

The time has come for San Franciscans to nail down their perfect ironic/disrespectful/tramp-ified Halloween costume. If you're tired of choosing between slutty cat and slutty bunny, we're here to help! Since this is a food blog, we're going to explore the five best food-related Halloween costumes, a ... More >>

La Oaxaqueña's Return, Gordon Ramsay Will Yell at More People, and Drinks at the W Hotel

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Back from the brink: While it looked as though La Oaxaqueña's brick-and-mortar was a goner, Eater SF shares it's readying for a comeback. Closed since August, the Mexican restaurant says it'll be back so ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Is on His Way, and So Is Ice Cream Bar and Latest Philz Coffee

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Arguably the angriest chef in the kitchen, Gordon Ramsay, is heading to the Bay Area for an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. His team is looking for diners to grab a seat in Fremont at the steak and seafoo ... More >>

Soup to Nuts Shut Down by Health Department

Soup to Nuts will not be back at Valencia and 21st streets.​Patrick Bostwick used to give out free soup to the homeless. Now, he's worried about paying his own rent after the Health Department sent an inspector to shut him down Tuesday. Bostwick had been operating Soup to Nuts since February ... More >>

It's All About Films and TV: Movies and Beer, Tartine's Video, and the BBC

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. What's better than popcorn and a movie? When there's also beer! Mission Mission shares the latest movie theater to follow the trend of serving alcohol alongside all the latest flicks is the Roxie Theater ... More >>

Streetcorner Soups in the Mission

Patrick Bostwick operates Soup to Nuts on Valencia Street​In his chef whites, standing on the corner of Valencia and 21st Streets in the Mission behind a crock pot of bubbling soup, Patrick Bostwick talks about his relationship with the neighborhood.It's mostly good for Bostwick, who started the S ... More >>

Unborn Babies Found with Bt, David Chang Picks iPads Over TVs

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Farming pays? According to an article in the Bay Citizen, despite a drought and a recession, California farmers earned record profits from 2007 to 2009, provoking an uptick in far ... More >>

Comparison of Michelin Stars and Health Inspections Fails to Rate

Paul C./YelpCoi scored a 90 ― but what does it mean?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Mission Loc@l looks at the health inspection scores of S.F.'s Michelin-starred restaurants, trying to find ... what? It lists the city's 15 single-star establishments ― everything from Acquerello to ... More >>

Kitchen Nightmares Now Accepting Nominations for Failing S.F. Restaurants

​SFoodie just received a note from the producers of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay's latest tough-love show. They're filming the next screamfest in Los Angeles, but if they can find a good makeover victim candidate up north, they'll send a crew.The casting-call pitch to restaurateurs: "Are you ... More >>

The Hidden Dining Room ― Could Benu Spark a New Trend?

Tamara PalmerCorey Lee and Richard Bloch.​During a special hard-hat tour of Benu, the future SOMA restaurant from former French Laundry chef de cuisine Corey Lee, we learned that Lee has plans to reinvent more than just food. He wants to change the overall dining experience, too. Working with ... More >>

Are Restaurant Patrons Actually Guests? Or Do Chefs Serve at Our Pleasure?

mattapictures/FlickrDo diners at The Slanted Door, say, have a right to demand what goes on with the staff?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. 86ed: At Diner's Journal today, the New York Times' Ron Lieber describes his Saturday night at a TriBeCa eatery, Restaurant Marc Forgione, from which ... More >>

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MasterChef is Holding a Casting Call in S.F. This Weekend. Exotic Dancers Need Not Apply

Leslie Kelly/seriouseats.comAt Seattle's casting call, not everyone got the memo.​Think you have what it takes to become the Adam Lambert of the amateur chef scene? The Gordon Ramsay reality show MasterChef is holding casting calls at Sur La Table in Union Square Sunday. MasterChef bills itsel ... More >>

The Crazy Eight: 2009's Most Scandalous Moments in Celebrity Food Gossip

Andrew CrowleyBrit celeb chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant allegedly poisoned 500 people in 2009.​Murders! Poisonings! Runaway grooms! The year in celebrity food gossip reads like a script for The Young and the Restless. Behold these crazy eight moments: 8. A household name in his native UK, che ... More >>

Il Cane Rosso's Lauren Kiino: The SFoodie Interview

Kiino, working the Cane Rosso lunch line.​We confess: We have no clue what the hell environmental geologists do. But if studying to be one means you walk away with an acute understanding of stuff like terroir, and how foods grow, then it was the perfect education for Lauren Kiino. The 37-year- ... More >>

Flour Water Pizza Chef Jon Darsky: The SFoodie Interview

Before he was a pizzaiolo, Darsky scouted talent for the KC Royals.​Go ahead, call Jon Darsky a pizzaiolo, though the Flour Water pizza maker really prefers "dough guy" instead. Since opening last May in the Mission (2401 Harrison at 20th St.), the restaurant has stayed smoking hot, and Dars ... More >>

Fish & Farm's Chad Newton: The SFoodie Interview

C. NewtonChad Newton: Wants Gordon to keep yelling.​Growing up in Mountain View, Chad Newton got a taste of restaurant glory via family trips to Stars, Jeremiah Tower's watershed Cali brasserie. "I used to always gravitate toward the regular menu, not the kid's menu," Newton said. He graduated ... More >>

Bay Area Chefs Up For Beard Awards: A Remarkably Collegial Bunch

Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu i ... More >>

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