Italy

SF, Stop Passing Out Drunk In Your Car!

Thrilling Tales Of Cheesemongering (With Wine) At Bar Bambino

If You Wanna Fly, You Gotta Buy: An Evening With Marco Caprai

Tonight on the SFFS Screen: Days and Clouds

Slow Food Nation Presents Civil Eats

Omnivore Presents A16

Nate Appleman and Shelley Lindgren of A16 (2355 Chestnut), will join their A16: Food Wine co-author, Kate Leahy at Omnivore Books (3885A Cesar Chavez) on Saturday, Jan. 17, from 3 to 4 p.m. Admission is free. But, more importantly, so are the nibbles that they'll offer, all taken from recipes in t ... More >>

Around Town: Cheese Wine Tasting and Bar Bambino

If you spend a few minutes talking to head cheesemonger Colin Shaff of Mission Italian spot Bar Bambino (2931 16th St. at South Van Ness), there's no doubt he takes cheese just as seriously as he takes wine, which makes the bar's upcoming Cheese Wine Tasting all the more alluring. After a successf ... More >>

Italian to a "T"

Zingari completes its classic theme with Tuscan touches

Savage Love

Zingari completes its classic theme with Tuscan touches

It’s Vegas, Baby!

Zingari completes its classic theme with Tuscan touches

Dancefloor Carnage from Italy

Zingari completes its classic theme with Tuscan touches

The Mother of Tears

Zingari completes its classic theme with Tuscan touches

Repertory Film Listings

Zingari completes its classic theme with Tuscan touches

Only in San Francisco

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

Repertory Film Listings

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

The Italian Job

Local imprint offers prog-rock masterworks from Italia's other Renaissance

Time to Eat

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

Reps Etc.

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

Sand Dabbing

Incredible Hulks

Best Trendy Dish

Sformato at A16

Best Cookie

Morena at Emporio Rulli Gran Caffe

Urban Explorer

Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

Reps Etc.

Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

Reps Etc.

Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

Mixing Business With Pleasure

Catch the Sex Worker Film and Video Festival before Ashcroft outlaws fun

Best Wine-Tasting Restaurant

Restaurant LuLu

Best Juice Harp Emporium

Lark in the Morning

Best Unusual Textiles

Satin Moon Fabrics

Best Gelato

Ciao Bella

Blue Cheer

Lapis

Hog Heaven

Lapis

Around the World in 1,000 Years

LuLu

Livin' La Dolce Vita

LuLu

Crazy Like a Fox

LuLu

Cheap Wines That Don't Suck: 2006 Falesco Vitiano Rosso

Not flabbyUmbria grows a lot of warm-climate grapes, so you might expect some flabby, low-acid wines from Italy's only landlocked region. But the influence of the Apennine Mountains ensures cool nighttime temps, which means more complex tannins (i.e., structure). Falesco Vitiano Rosso is a blend of ... More >>

Affordable Organic Prosecco Just Might Spark an Import Trend

Green sparkler.Italy's wine industry is no stranger to biodynamics. Hilberg-Pasquero and Cascina degli Ulivi, both from the Piedmont region, are leaders in the movement that grows grapes holistically and naturally, often with the influence of astronomy on planting and harvesting. But these wines are ... More >>

Duplicity

Green sparkler.Italy's wine industry is no stranger to biodynamics. Hilberg-Pasquero and Cascina degli Ulivi, both from the Piedmont region, are leaders in the movement that grows grapes holistically and naturally, often with the influence of astronomy on planting and harvesting. But these wines are ... More >>

They Really Are the World

Green sparkler.Italy's wine industry is no stranger to biodynamics. Hilberg-Pasquero and Cascina degli Ulivi, both from the Piedmont region, are leaders in the movement that grows grapes holistically and naturally, often with the influence of astronomy on planting and harvesting. But these wines are ... More >>

Family-Style Monday Menu at Bar Bambino to Explore the Cooking of Venice

Italy in SF/FlickrBar Bambino has been trying to attract customers on Monday nights with spcial prix-fixe menus.Incanto isn't the only restaurant in town cooking up affordable, easy-going concepts to try to attract diners to the traditionally slow nights at the beginning of the week. When the Missio ... More >>

Trademark invades a Eurocentric street with fresh American fare

Italy in SF/FlickrBar Bambino has been trying to attract customers on Monday nights with spcial prix-fixe menus.Incanto isn't the only restaurant in town cooking up affordable, easy-going concepts to try to attract diners to the traditionally slow nights at the beginning of the week. When the Missio ... More >>

The Maestro

For S.F. Opera's new music director, conducting is a lot like making love.

Oblivion

For S.F. Opera's new music director, conducting is a lot like making love.

World Cup Success Not a Mark of Superior National Character

'American spirit' on parade...​Yesterday's 91st-minute goal by Landon Donovan to transform the United States from hapless losers to potential World Cup champions was that rare sports moment that could just make you cry. And not tears of joy -- which are light and spontaneous -- but the tears of ma ... More >>

Caffe Pascucci: A Cure for San Francisco's Italophilia?

Caffe Pascucci's pistachio cappucino.​Devoted Italophiles, San Franciscans tend to think of Italy in its most pastoral guise, a country filled with artisans passionately crafting humble, exquisite food that sings with innate simplicity and good taste. Our idealization doesn't just apply to pasta, ... More >>

Eat More Hearts for Valentine's Day at Avedano's

​I wasn't the only person who consumed hearts in honor of/protest over Valentine's Day. Avedano's Meats, the sustainability-minded butcher shop in Bernal Heights, is making hearts the focus of its first event open to the public. The Lonely Hearts dinners take place in the butcher shop's private di ... More >>

U.S.A. Gets Silver in Cocktail Olympics

42BelowTeam Italy's Luca Sai, Alexander Frezzai, and Daniele Dalla Pola went all Cirque de Soleil clowny.​Team U.S.A.'s run at the 42Below Cocktail World Cup ended with a second place showing Sunday, netting a final score that was a mere half-percentage point shy of the winning Italian team. ... More >>

Bouncer: Hearing the End of the World at O'Neill's Irish Pub

42BelowTeam Italy's Luca Sai, Alexander Frezzai, and Daniele Dalla Pola went all Cirque de Soleil clowny.​Team U.S.A.'s run at the 42Below Cocktail World Cup ended with a second place showing Sunday, netting a final score that was a mere half-percentage point shy of the winning Italian team. ... More >>

Locanda: Handsome Italian-Meet-Californian Fare, Despite Small Flaws

42BelowTeam Italy's Luca Sai, Alexander Frezzai, and Daniele Dalla Pola went all Cirque de Soleil clowny.​Team U.S.A.'s run at the 42Below Cocktail World Cup ended with a second place showing Sunday, netting a final score that was a mere half-percentage point shy of the winning Italian team. ... More >>

Scotch and Cheese? Try It at Quince

​We've had a lot of cheese and a lot of Scotch, but we've never thought to try them together. That's because we lack the imagination of Quince general manager Katrina Parlato, who is running a bar special this week: a Scotch and cheese pairing flight.It's not cheap, at $36. But these are not cheap ... More >>

Baia Pasta Prepares to Go Public With Popup Dinners and a CSA

Andrew NilsenBaia Pasta's durum spinners.Since this spring, Baia Pasta has been producing thick-walled, golden "spinners" with thick walls and sandpaper-rough ridges and curled spelt ringlets that look as if they've been molded out of fresh clay. But sales have been limited to the Pop-Up General Sto ... More >>