Grains and Pasta

Heyday: Chez Panisse Alums Reinvent the Power Lunch

Heyday: Chez Panisse Alums Reinvent Power Lunch In the FiDi

The indecisive, the picky and the gluttonous can all make common cause at Heyday, a new spot in the Financial District where nearly everything is made from scratch daily. It's like Bi-Rite, but without the grocery aisles or the ice cream. Lunch options skew smallish, but at one for $6, two for $10 ... More >>

Check Out a Fresh Pasta Pop-Up Shop This Saturday

Mattarello, a local artisan pasta company named for the rolling pin that Italians use to roll pasta, will be holding a pasta shop pop-up this Saturday, April 6 at Biondivino from 3-6 p.m. The menu will include nests of fresh pasta like tagliatelle, pappardelle, whole-wheat fettuccine, parsley-garlic ... More >>

Curry Up Now Opens on Valencia With an Expanded Menu

It's inevitable that success would lead to brick-and-mortar spots, but the wildly popular food truck empire Curry Up Now has already opened a third location (and first in S.F.) in the right ventricle of the Gourmet Ghetto, on Valencia between 17th and 18th Streets. Having expanded on the four-wheel ... More >>

Number 16: Baia Pasta's Durum Pastas

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Fresh artisan pasta has been a staple of farmers markets and natural-foods stores since the 1980s, so you'd think the arrival of one more would be cause for, well, nothing. But Renato Sardo and Dario Barbone's Baia Pas ... More >>

Number 42: Perbacco's Agnolotti dal Plin

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​The best pasta dishes -- like Perbacco's agnolotti dal plin ("pinched" agnolotti), for instance -- embody numerous contradictions: the minimalist and the orgiastic, the peasant-like and the ethereal. Chef Staff ... More >>

Village Harvest Frozen Grains Are Quick, Healthy, and Don't Taste Like Ammonia

Tamara PalmerWild mushroom ragout with bacon and Village Harvest's farro and red rice blend.​We admit to a measure of skepticism of S.F.-based grain company Village Harvest's  new two-serving packs of frozen grains. Frozen, microwaveable rice is usually awful, and not just because it makes us ... More >>

Julie's Coffee & Tea Garden in Alameda is a Reason to Cross Two Bridges

​Although Alameda is almost literally smack dab in the middle of the San Francisco Bay Area, it's always been somewhat of a culinary wasteland*. However, lately there's a sea of promising restaurants opening, and some of the old classics are kicking it up a notch. One is Julie's Coffee and Tea ... More >>

Outerlands Brunch Is Worth the Trek

​You may not think that the depths of the Outer Sunset, steps away from Ocean Beach, would be a hotspot for weekend brunch -- but Outerlands is full of surprises. The small, cozy restaurant on 45th and Judah is so nondescript a passerby might not notice it -- that is, if it weren't for the crowd o ... More >>

Mattarello Pasta's Tagliatelle Comes to San Francisco

Alison Arbuthnot​ Sometimes you have to travel to find great food, sometimes it travels to find you. Case in point: Now you can find the exceptional strands of Mattarello Artisanal Handmade Pasta, previously available only at the Marin Farmers Market, in mainland San Francisco at Little Vine ... More >>

SPQR chef Matthew Accarrino's Farro Pasta with Salumi, Buttermilk Sauce, and Poppy Seeds

Alanna HaleSPQR's farro pasta with salumi.​Part 3 of SFoodie's interview with Matthew Accarrino, chef of SPQR. Part 1 and part 2 were published earlier this week. When asking Matthew Accarrino what his current favorite menu item might be, he responded by describing the pasta below without mis ... More >>

Learn Pasta Making from the Stars

Family Pasta Making Class Where: Ferry Building When: Sat., July 9, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $30/$15 for kids 12 and under The rundown: If you're anything like us, you went green when you heard about Sprouts Cooking Club, the star-studded summer camp for aspiring gastronomes aged 16 and under. Well, this ... More >>

Pho Vung Tau: Nice Space, Functional Noodles

Jonathan KauffmanBun with grilled pork and shrimp at Pho Vung Tau, $6.25.​ Last month, SF Weekly moved offices to within a mile of Chinatown, allowing me to embark on a new project: systematically visiting a different Chinatown restaurant each week, starting at Powell and Vallejo and moving sout ... More >>

A Sermon on Fair Trade, Disguised as a Pop-Up Brunch

Jesse HirschShake it: Ethan Terry.​The ever-present guys behind Stag Dining took a step backwards Saturday morning at the Wake Up the World brunch, letting the cause du jour take center stage. The meal, a benefit for Oakland-based Fair Trade USA, allowed guests a chance to hear about all the f ... More >>

At EAT and Vinyl, Pop-Up Restaurants Settle Down

Rice, Meet the BeDazzler

Carina OstLavash's zereshk polo comes with basmati rice studded with barberries and raisins, a bit of edible Persian bling.​In these days of diamond-encrusted smartphones, BeDazzled jeans, and even Vajazilling, who wants something that is un-bling'd? Not SFoodie. Take rice, which is otherwise ... More >>

New Cannabis Edibles Focusing on Flavor, Not Just the Buzz

Molly DeCoudreaux/Seventh HouseToasted quinoa chocolate treats from San Francisco's Seventh House. Yeah, they're literally toasted.​Medical marijuana has provided solace for Californians with chronic pain, nausea, lost appetite, and other problems due to injury and disease. But not everyone wa ... More >>

Cotogna Complements Parent Quince With Simple Italian Fare

Abbondanza

Joey & Eddie's brings the Bronx, and old-fashioned Italian-American cooking, to North Beach.

Our Cornucopia Runneth Over

There is plenty new at two of San Francisco's best takeout places

Take TWO

Hawthorne Lane gets a face-lift and shot of youth serum

World Cup

And very tasty sweets that your Midwestern grandma would cook

Mi Amor

Let him count the ways this unique Italian restaurant won his heart

Pasta Perfect

What to do when your signature dish is upstaged by a toque-wearing kitchen god

Phodown

New Saigon City, Turtle Tower, Vietnam II