Iron Chef

Food Truck Bite of the Week: The Classic at Belly Burger

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Belly Burgers The Cuisine: Melting-pot American cuisine Specialty Items: Pork belly burgers Worth the Wait in Line? Good god, yes Ok, so I am cheating a little here. While ... More >>

Chris Cosentino on Winning Top Chef Masters and Helping Parkinson's Research

San Francisco-based chef Chris Cosentino of Incanto restaurant is the newly-crowned winner of Top Chef Masters Season 4. We predicted as much before the first episode even aired, but Cosentino tells SFoodie that he never felt like he had the competition in the bag as he discusses winning $282,000 fo ... 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 >>

The Donatella Project: All We Can Say for Sure after Watching Is That This Awful Show Exists

​Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: The Donatella Project, a new Dirk Balthazar novel by the Hugo-award winning author of the Sigma Protocol and the Prometheus Deception, on March 10 and 11 on the Cooking Channel. What's the Donatella Pr ... More >>

SF Weekly's 2012 DRINK Pits Bartender Against Bartender, So Everyone Wins

​DRINK, SF Weekly's annual celebration of all drinks boozy, returns in less than two weeks! On March 10, the paper will be bringing together local bartenders, local drinkers, and dozens of beer, wine, and spirits producers for an afternoon of what you are welcome to justify as culinary education. ... More >>

Q&A With Parallel 37's Ron Siegel, Part 2: In SF, "Casual" Food Ain't Really Casual

Courtesy of Parallel 37Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 at the Ritz-Carlton.​Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 in the Ritz-Carlton, has worked in three- and four-star restaurants for 20 years. In 1998, Siegel, then the chef at Charles Nob Hill, received international fame when he became the first Ame ... More >>

The 8 Sexiest Women on TV Cooking Shows

Last week SFoodie brought you the hot and hunky men of food television. Today, the companion post so hot it'll melt your listicle, their sultry female counterparts, the women you've watched tying up your meat, sizzling your pot, and making you run your Tivo in slow-mo. We give you the eight sexiest ... More >>

The 8 Sexiest Men on TV Cooking Shows

Producers of food TV don't just care if a guy can cook ― most stars of cooking shows these days have to be hot enough to make viewers' plasmas sweat. Behold, SFoodie's countdown of the eight sexiest male chefs currently taking up space on our DVRs, dudes with the power to sear our tenderloins with ... More >>

E-40 Continues Revenue Retrievin, Revisits His Past Hits

The long wait is over; the next two installments in the Revenue Retrievin series from Vallejo's own E-40 -- the sequels to last year's Day Shift and Night Shift -- are finally out. Just in time for you to finish your tax returns! You know Uncle Sam's doing some serious-ass revenue retrievin' this mo ... More >>

Atelier Crenn: Beautiful Food Falls Short

Top Chef: All-Stars, Week 10: Ironing Chef

Delfi Jingles/FlickrCookie Monster: "C" is for "kooky."​Last night's Top Chef: All-Stars began with Dale mouthing off. "I'm not like these new-school parents who are like 'we're all winners' ― f@ck that. That's bullshit, man! Who ever said losing is okay? In what country is that cool?" In ... More >>

At San Dong House, go for the hand-pulled noodles

Bar Adagio Opens After a Caesura, Cat Cora Queues Up to Make an SFO Entrance

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Carolyn A. at Eater SF reports that the Adagio Hotel, which shut down Cortez a while back, has replaced the restaurant with Bar Adagio (550 Geary, 775-5000, website). The pitch: More casual ... More >>

When You're Here, You're Family

Morimoto Napa Opens Today. Relive Some of the Iron Chef's Greatest TV Moments

Food NetworkMorimoto in his Iron Chef Japan fighting days.​Masaharu Morimoto debuts Morimoto Napa today, an event so momentous that Inside Scoop took the time and care to assemble a dossier on the topic and Eater SF has the pretty pictorial and menu. We instead would like to salute this newcom ... More >>

Morimoto Napa and The Sycamore Both Opening Earlier Than Planned

​The last 24 hours in rumor, innuendo, and straight-out facts about restaurant openings and closings in San Francisco.Paolo L. at Inside Scoop finds out that Morimoto Napa (610 Main, Napa, 707-252-1600, www.morimotonapa.com) is set to open as soon as next week. The pitch: Iron Chef Morimoto's res ... More >>

Coi's New Pastry Chef Savors the Unknown

StarChefsBill Corbett​Two weeks ago, Bill Corbett became executive pastry chef at Coi. He'll handle the same task at Bracina when it opens on the ground floor of the new Jack London Market on Oakland's waterfront this spring. Over the years, Corbett has hauled in some accolades (2007 Rising St ... More >>

Nate Appleman Is a Dick, But We're Sorry to See Him Bounced from The Next Iron Chef

Skanky Indian food did him in, even when douchey antics didn't.​If anyone who cares doesn't know by now, former pizzaiolo laureate of San Francisco Nate Appleman will not be the next Iron Chef, following Luce chef Dominique Crenn who ended up on the chopping block last week. To be fair, he was ... More >>

Sorry, Chris: Chefs vs. City = Massive Fail

Food NetworkChris (left), we love you, bro, but tell us there isn't going to be a Season Two.​We bow to no one in our love for chef Chris Cosentino. Incanto is on the short list of S.F. restaurants that (a) we unfailingly recommend to others, and (b) gladly spend our own money at. We're still ... More >>

Don't Try This at Home: Korean Black Garlic Probably Best Left to Professionals

Meredith BrodyCould you resist?Once a cutting-edge ingredient of starred chefs who frequented the haute cook shop Le Sanctuaire, Korean black garlic is a lot more accessible these days. Sure, chefs like James Syhabout of Commis are still creating platescapes with it, and it's made appearances on Top ... More >>

Local Educators Cook Up Experiments on 'Iron Science Teacher'

exo.net Iron Science Teacher fruit cake battle.With a crafty nod to TV's Iron Chef franchise, a local battle called Iron Science Teacher has a similar premise: Take a secret ingredient and use it to make something, in this case a science demo that will fly in an actual classroom. The secret i ... More >>

Thee Oh Sees: A little Help goes a long way

Butchery and Bacon-Spiked Bourbon: Bloodhound Pig Roast Turns Hacking into a Spectator Sport

One of the evening's victims, in mid-takedownLast night's pig roast at SOMA bar Bloodhound saw two superstars of the city's pig culture go head-to-head in a hack-off. Call it more a demonstration of competing butchery styles than an Iron Chef smackdown: Chicharrones king Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and ... More >>

Casting Call: Bobby Flay Wants The Bay Area's Best African-American Grillers

Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>

Orson Not Well

Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.

SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

Iron Chef America: Coming To Wii Near You

Meatpaper -- It's What's For Dinner!

SFoodie: Mario Batali Flips Me Off

SFoodie: Mario Batali Flips Me Off

Hard-Core Sushi

Sebo raises the bar for quality and variety

Burnt Chefs

Former admissions representatives at CCA say they preyed on students’ dreams of becoming celebrity chefs and glossed over the painful economic realities of the industry

Knives Out

Bewiched

A top chef expands his brand, and we follow

The Velvet Teen

Cum Laude

Animation Nation

Get your cartoon fix

Scary Affairs

A frightening array of the scariest parties on S.F.'s biggest holiday

A Tale of Two Cities

Different strokes for different folks this weekend

Chef Flower Power

The Hippy Gourmet serves up '60s philosophizing with his seafood Newberg

Bringing Back Bongo Bongo

Trader Vic's comes to Palo Alto

PeopleCards: Sell 'Em, Trade 'Em

Collect all 6 billion!

Fresh Eats

The Muscle Behind Masa's

STUFF: Dawn of the Dead

Sci Fi's brilliant good vs. evil is a corpse in search of a burial

Night Crawler

Eat, Drink, and Be Wary

Side Dish

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

Night & Day

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Night Crawler