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Bottle Rock: Napa Festival's Attempt To Combine Food, Wine, and Music Falls Short

It seems like a good idea on paper: Throw a music festival in wine country where guests can go wine-tasting and sample some of the region's best restaurants in between musical acts. That was the focus of Bottle Rock, a new festival thrown in a park in downtown Napa that combines stadium-filling rock ... More >>

V2: Take the T-Line for Amazing Africa Fries

Venturing to Visitacion Valley for Africa Fries

The T train can feel like that red brick road that Dorothy never followed out of Munchkinland. Beyond the Dogpatch, where does it go? It doesn't lead you to sleepytime in a field of opiates, but if you follow it to V2 in Visitacion Valley, a burger and Africa fries might put you in a most delightf ... More >>

Comprehensive Guide to the Best Poutine in San Francisco

As fall settles in on San Francisco, it brings changes at the farmers' market, restaurant menus, and the type of weather-related bitching done by city residents. With each successive fall, one food item seems to be rearing its greasy head on more and more menus: poutine. Every year, this Quebecois p ... More >>

Le Truc in a Delicious Collaboration with Alameda's Rock Wall Winery

The East Bay is the Rodney Dangerfield of the San Francisco Bay Area; it gets no respect from people in San Francisco, the people of the Peninsula, the people of the South Bay, and even people who live in the East Bay. Of course that doesn't mean it doesn't have something to bring to the table. In f ... More >>

Basil Strawberry Shortcake, Animal Hugs, and the Nanny Cooks Vegan!

​Guys, I don't care what you say, I love Fran Drescher. The Nanny is a quality program. That's why I'm very pleased to hear she's gone vegan! Diet-wise at least. Below, check out good Fran making hummus. I'm hoping this is the beginning of her own vegan cooking show! Genius idea, right? I know.

Bay Area Suburb Livermore Stakes Its Claim to Indie Cool With the Front Porch Music Fest

Somewhere between the hipster meccas of Brooklyn and S.F./Oakland lies Livermore, a quiet town of roughly 80,000 adjacent to the mild East Bay suburbs of Dublin and Pleasanton. While home to a number of nice wineries, including the venerable Wente, and even an In-N-Out burger, Livermore hasn't quite ... More >>

K.Flay's Smart-Aleck Rhymes Could be the Bay's Next Big Export

A Smart Aleck with Rhymes

Meet K.Flay, the Stanford grad who might be the Bay's next big female rapper

Tim Lincecum Gets Fat, Stops Binging on In-N-Out Burgers

​Last year, Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum confessed to reporters that, despite his lanky appearance, he tends to feast on In-N-Out with serious regularity. And he doesn't just order the combo meal. Lincecum -- at 168 pounds -- would down three double-doubles, two fries, and a chocolate-strawberry sh ... More >>

Clairvoyant Cafe Owner, Casey's Pizza and Bomb Truck Roll Out

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. A clairvoyant, match-making cafe owner? Maybe sitcom writers have run out ideas. Inside Scoop shares a Craigslist casting call for a local pilot in which a female café owner uses special powers to help s ... More >>

Fiveten Burger: Imagine McDonald's as a Food Truck

Photos by W. Blake GrayOrder a burger and fries together and this is what you get​I thought Fiveten Burger proprietor Roland Robles might be insulted when I compared his French fries to McDonald's. But he was pleased. "That's the idea," Robles said. "Can you think of a better French fry? Thos ... More >>

S.F.'s First Pizza Truck, an Artisan Soda Stand, and Pride Parade's Top Chef

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The mobile food report: Casey's Pizza, which started as makeshift stand, will get a set of wheels by the end of August. Eater SF reports that Casey Crynes' will be the first pizza truck on the S.F. scene ... More >>

Gloating 101: What Banners to Fly Over Dodgers Stadium Tonight

Joe EskenaziDon't stop believing (or rubbing their face in it).​It's been four months and 29 days since millions of Giants fans and players paraded through the Orange and Black-decked arteries of San Francisco, dangling red thongs, airing Prop 19-related grievances, spraying champagne, and rag ... More >>

Tim Lincecum's In-N-Out Binge

The breakfast of champions...​We can't decide. Does Tim Lincecum's new look more closely resemble Iggy Pop or the Christopher Walken "The Continental" character from Saturday Night Live? Consider it food for thought. Speaking of food and thought, we think Lincecum's professed favorite food order a ... More >>

OTG McCoppin, Greek Fest: Valencia Street Serves Up Street-Food Contrasts

Alex HochmanThe inaugural OTG McCoppin brought out a mostly under-30 crowd.​Two blocks separated a pair of very different food gatherings in the Mission Saturday. We always thought of McCoppin Hub, a small section of pavement next to the Central Freeway on-ramp, as a prime spot to score black ... More >>

Roam's Caramelized Pineapple Soda

Jonathan KauffmanCaramelized pineapple soda, $2.49.​The beef burgers at Roam Artisan Burger are just fine ― in terms of thickness and quality, the median between In-N-Out and your average $12 bistro burger, with bonus points for grass-feddiness ― but the caramelized pineapple soda is fantastic ... More >>

Q & A w/ Rogue Wave

​From their recent album release Permalight and a supporting tour to shooting music videos in the Salton Sea, the dudes of the Bay Area's very own Rogue Wave are pretty busy to say the least. As a solid staple on the indie music agenda, their fifth album doesn't cease to disappoint with familiar ... More >>

Wes Anderson's comeback: Gen Y's anointed auteur returns

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 ... More >>

Navigating the Pretty Good at Namu

justinsfpics/FlickrLook away, sheep lovers: Namu's lamb chops with Thai basil pesto.​We figured we should have ordered Namu's recently floated Korean fried chicken when we saw a platter of it drop on a nearby table. But just as we were second-guessing our selections, a heavyset British guy pre ... More >>

Chronicle's Rapid Weight Loss: New Paper Is Inch Thinner Than Old

Yes, today's new Chronicle is more than an inch thinner than its prior incarnation Of all the many complaints leveled against the San Francisco Chronicle, "It's too darn wrinkly" never came up with us. And still, there was the Chron proudly announcing the dawn of its "wrinkle-free era" today with pa ... 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 >>

Insulin Alert: Free Doughnut Day Tomorrow at Krispy Kreme

The first one is free; the second'll cost yaTomorrow is National Doughnut Day. Mark the occasion by grabbing a free sinker at Krispy Kreme (1575 Sullivan at Washington, Daly City), which is open 24 hours. Bonus gluttony points and undying respect to anyone who pairs this outing with a swing pa ... More >>

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Bewiched

A top chef expands his brand, and we follow

Letters to the Editor

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Disturbing the Peace

The local conversation between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian activists is getting less civil every day. And Lee Kaplan's tactics aren't helping.

Defense Begins at the Table

Cheap eats worth repeating — and not

The 5 and Whine

To appreciate L.A. properly, do you have to take Interstate 5 to get there? Maybe. Just maybe.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 8, 2004

The Cost of Cool

If you're really in-the-know, you order the mysterious Item No. 24 at Little Paris

This Train Is Your Train

There's a romance to railroad travel, especially when the destination is a special, spirited mountain town called Truckee.

Vlad the Mad

The hardest-working angry young russian comic in town

Do You Want to Touch My Monkey?

The new Marina restaurant with the very strange name

Food for Thought

For those with strong stomachs, a reading by the author of Fast Food Nation