Subject: Hubert Keller

• Famed Chef Cooks Up Beats, Not Eats, at Ruby Skye

  June 26, 2008

• Vittles du Video

  Throughout my television-viewing life there have been certain programs that I've obsessed over, planned my schedule around, discussed with my fellow zealots over water cooler and barstool and, in short, made a point to watch without fail, but nowadays there's only one show I can't live without, Top Chef, a reality show on Bravo. On Top Chef, a dozen or so line cooks, restaurant owners, caterers and cuisiniers from across the country gather in some food-obsessed metropolis (San Francisco, New Yor

  February 11, 2009

• The Cutting Edge

  August 2, 2006

• Summer Listings

  June 28, 2006

• Best Vegetarian (Expensive)

  May 11, 2005

• Best French Restaurant

  May 19, 2004

• Viva Las Vegas

  Finding a good meal in the desert outpost is no longer a long shot, but S.F. still wins the bet

  March 10, 2004

• The Weight-Conscious Gourmet

  Local chefs reveal how they -- and you -- can eat out often and well, without tipping the scales

  January 21, 2004

• Half-Baked

  January 1, 2003

• Martha Stewart's Dining

  September 27, 2000

• Most Romantic Restaurant

  May 17, 2000

• Side Dish

  March 31, 1999

• Hubert Keller Wins First Top Chef Masters Episode with Dorm-Room Mac and Cheese

  On last night's premiere of Top Chef Masters, Hubert Keller, executive chef/owner of Fleur de Lys (777 Sutter at Taylor) charmed a gaggle of Girl Scouts and a mess of college students and whipped up the winning meal: Cold Scottish salmon, hardy carrot and petit pea soup with cinnamon croutons, and creamy mac and cheese with prawns, mushrooms, and fresh herbs (recipes are here). His victory scored $10,000 for the Bay Area chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Keller will compete against the w

  June 11, 2009

• Glitz, Glamour, and the Girl Fight That Almost Was: Who We Saw at SF Chefs.Food.Wine

  M. Ladd Circa's Erik Hopfinger, bearing tasty lamb chops. At the opening reception for SF Chefs.Food.Wine in Union Square last night, several attendees were giggling over reports that horns had trumpeted the appearance of Mayor Gavin Newsom minutes earlier. SFoodie spotted Michael Bauer and other Chronicle food and wine staffers chatting up Newsom near the BIG tent's front entrance on Powell Street. Time for a glass of Domaine Chandon, to kick things off, yes?   While the festive

  August 7, 2009

• 'Top Chef' Postmort: Mattin Gets Drunk and Cocky, Then Cocks up His Velouté

  ModelMayhemMaybe he should've stuck with modeling. Or not.​S.F.'s own Mattin Noblia, chef-proprietor of Iluna Basque, did not cover himself with glory (or even the tricoleur) in last night's French-themed episode of Top Chef. The escargot Quickfire challenge pleased him: "I feel good," he said. "I'm from France, you know. Escargot is my whole youth!" Yet his dish, fava bean crostini with escargot sautéed in anise and the piment d'Espelette he told us reminds him of his mom, failed to el

  September 10, 2009

• Should S.F. Be Taking to the Barricades to Demand RN74's Super-Posh Burger?

  Paul TrapaniRN74: Sworn enemy of democracy?​Tom Robbins once wrote: "Columbus discovered America, Jefferson invented it, Lincoln unified it, Goldwyn mythologized it, and Kroc Big Mac'd it. It could have been an omniscient computer that provided this land with its prevailing ambiance, it might have been an irresistible new weapons system, a political revolution, an art movement, or some gene-altering drug. Isn't it just a little bit wonderful that it was a hamburger?" In September's burger-

  October 19, 2009

• Don't Believe the Hype: Hubert Keller's Burger Bar is Just Another Pricey Chain. Really Pricey

  M. BrodySliders and a shake: The Cheesecake Factory with black truffles?​Sliders and a shake: Is this the Cheesecake Factory with black truffles?​We blush to admit that we got caught up in the hype swirling around Hubert Keller's new Burger Bar. We showed up for a late-night snack on Saturday, its second day of operation, despite having visited the Fleur de Lys chef's Las Vegas Burger Bar shortly after it opened in Mandalay Bay in 2004 and leaving slightly less than, how you say, blo

  October 19, 2009

• Burger Bar Sort of Sucks, But the Dessert Burgers are Adorable

  M. BrodyThe chocolate ganache burger -- the bun's a hole-less doughnut.​We still think the best thing about Hubert Keller's Burger Bar in Macy's (170 O'Farrell at Geary) are the sweeping views over Union Square. But, credit where credit is due, the two dessert burgers on the menu are cute, especially the chocolate ganache version, an exact simulacrum of a cheeseburger, down to the translucent sheet of jellied passion fruit doubling for American cheese. And at $5.75, they're bargains. M. B

  October 28, 2009