Italian Food and Cooking

SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Liguria Bakery's Pizza Focaccia

Il Cane Rosso's Rich, Surprising Pancetta

Alan Scherstuhl​ The current iteration of San Francisco-style pancetta seems at times a cheap ploy by the fancier restaurants in town at making good old American bacon an elegant side dish for the peaking trend of dignified brunches. It's too often straight slabs of seasoned pork that bear a s ... More >>

L'Osteria del Forno Still Does Things on the Right Scale

Jonathan KauffmanThe Lunatico: Not sure why it's crazy, but it's good...​Part of a series about restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole.When Wally Tettamanti and Susanna Borgatti opened L'Osteria del Forno in the early 1990s, it was a curiosity. A restaura ... More >>

Sweet Beat: Italian Gelato (in Some Very Un-Italian Flavors) at Marco Polo

Randy F./YelpDurian (left) and mango gelati.​A gelato craving might make you think of heading straight to North Beach this weekend, but Marco Polo Italian Ice Cream in Parkside provides authentic, homemade gelato with an array of unique flavors, minus the trek across town. The tiny, no-frills ... More >>

You Will Never, Ever Weary of Pizza: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

​Tuesday, September 15, 2009 You thought pizza would've been over - oh - about the time you ordered your last Cosmo. But no, you're well onto rye whiskey, but pizza is only proliferating, like Chinese mitten crabs in the Delta. Might as well eat one (a pizza, doofus, not a mitten crab) made a ... More >>

54 Mint offers boldly flavored fare at a charming downtown location

​Tuesday, September 15, 2009 You thought pizza would've been over - oh - about the time you ordered your last Cosmo. But no, you're well onto rye whiskey, but pizza is only proliferating, like Chinese mitten crabs in the Delta. Might as well eat one (a pizza, doofus, not a mitten crab) made a ... More >>

Early Bird Special: 54 Mint

Jen Siska54 Mint's caprese salad.​An early taste of SF Weekly's Wednesday food review. This may be a city whose obsession with thin-crust shows no sign of cooling, but newcomer 54 Mint (16 Mint at Jessie) isn't exactly willing to pander. No, the still-new Italian restaurant in Mint Plaza's s ... More >>

Local Flavor: Two Tastes of Venice at Da Flora

Meredith Brody Hunters' special: duck livers alla veneziana. Da Flora (701 Columbus at Filbert) has one of the coziest, most charming dining rooms in the city: deep-red walls with interesting art, big windows topped with old ship models, lighting from a Murano glass chandelier and hangin ... More >>

Beretta: Cocktails, pizza, and a wall of noise on Valencia

Meredith Brody Hunters' special: duck livers alla veneziana. Da Flora (701 Columbus at Filbert) has one of the coziest, most charming dining rooms in the city: deep-red walls with interesting art, big windows topped with old ship models, lighting from a Murano glass chandelier and hangin ... More >>

Sheer Poetry

Simple but good Italian food is tucked away in a second-story room.

Oliveto's Whole Hog Dinners

Yep, the whole hog: belly, head, trotter, skin, ears, liver, heart, brain, tripe, kidneys, lard, blood, and spleen.

Comfort drinking at Buca di Beppo

Yep, the whole hog: belly, head, trotter, skin, ears, liver, heart, brain, tripe, kidneys, lard, blood, and spleen.

Pasta Party

Yep, the whole hog: belly, head, trotter, skin, ears, liver, heart, brain, tripe, kidneys, lard, blood, and spleen.

Sophisticated Country in the Tenderloin

Spain meets France in a tavern setting.

A Pair to Bet On

A terrific lunch leads to an even better dinner.

Abbondanza

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

Festa di Mozzarella Fresca Coming in September

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

When Tourists Hit the Beach

You can do worse than Panta Rei's swinging decor and homemade pasta, but you can also do better.

Unforgettable,That's What You Are

The best dishes of 2007 — it was a very good year

As the Romans Do

A16's spinoff stays true to the spirit of Rome's cuisine

Puccini and Pinetti's Touristy Location Trumps Its Cuisine

A16's spinoff stays true to the spirit of Rome's cuisine

One by Day, Another by Night

Two meals yield different experiences at new downtown Venetian-style restaurant

Flowering in the Mission

Unusual Ligurian dishes and fabulous desserts await the food-obsessed at Farina

Baby, Te Amo

Adorable new Italian cafe and wine bar in the Mission already draws many fans

Closer Than Italy

Lucky Glen Park gets a new neighborhood hangout

Only in San Francisco

The sole Istrian restaurant on the West Coast is hiding in plain sight

Mi Amor

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

Presents and Future

The food is as important as the wine list at the excellent Cav Wine Bar & Kitchen

Instant Italian

Perbacco gets it right straight out of the gate

Aix Marks the Spot

Really good eating at a friendly neighborhood bistro

Horse Race

Palio d'Asti to win, place, and show

Fork U

Everyone's a critic on KQED's restaurant show Check, Please!

An Ideal Meal

Assemble your own from a buffet of the year's best dishes

Time to Eat

Lingering over several courses at Zuppa feels like a vacation in Italy

Bravo Italia

An authentic restaurant that you'd be happy to find in Italy, much less on Union Street

Hungry for More

Two new East Bay restaurants have foodies talking with their mouths full

Five Best Pizza Parlors

Two new East Bay restaurants have foodies talking with their mouths full

Pasta Nostalgia

An homage to vanished S.F. restaurants like Vanessi's and the Blue Fox

Big Surprise

Tracking down a cookie leads us to a marvelous and unexpected dinner

Falling in Love, Slowly

It took a number of visits over many months before our critic tumbled for Quince

Tricolore, Twice

Two Italian trattorias -- one very Roman, one not very Umbrian

Best Italian Restaurant

Delfina

City of Light

The loveliness of Paris evoked in a Cal-Med restaurant-cum-wine bar

Take a Trip

Rustic Italian dishes and an interesting wine list beguile at the Marina's new A16

La Dolce Vita

Handsome waiters, cheesy Euro disco, tasty gnocchi -- Pazzia takes us back to Tuscany

Piece 'a Pizza

The crunchy crust at the venerable Tommaso's still delights us

Cinema Synergy

Combining moviegoing with appropriate meals increases our pleasure

Like Mamma Used to Make

Viewing The Restaurant gets our critic hungry for old-fashioned red-sauce Italian

Best Gnocchi

Da Flora

That's Amore

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