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James Beard Foundation

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    James Freeman, Blue Bottle Coffee Founder, Just Wrote the Book on Coffee

    Any good San Franciscan knows how to muse over a cup of coffee. We can't help but remembering fondly the coffee drinkers at Four Barrel who continued sipping obliviously as two burglars used this hipster hotspot as an attempted escape route last November. I've sat in many a coffee shop, eavesdr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    Casa Sanchez: Etching the Next Era at the Home of the Taco Tattoo

    Casa Sanchez has long been home of the "taco tattoo" story. If you get a tattoo of "Jimmy the Cornman" riding his corn on the cob rocket, you get free lunch for life. Pretty good deal, especially considering that Casa Sanchez brand tortilla chips and fresh salsa are now the highest selling chip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Food Trucks and Celebrity Chefs to Celebrate Asian Heritage

    Organizers of the 8th annual Asian Heritage Street Celebration, the largest gathering of Asian Pacific Americans in the country, promise the event will allow visitors from around the world to come together in the greatest cultural exchange humanity has yet come yup with: eating. A smorgasbord of f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Cindy Pawlycn's Newest Cookbook Promises a First Class Ticket Around the World

    Cindy Pawlcyn's latest cookbook, Cindy's Supper Club: Meals from Around the World to Share with Family and Friends, takes readers on a sophisticated and diverse culinary journey around the world. The book highlights menus from a weekly informal supper club that Cindy hosts at her restaurant in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Chris Cosentino's Cookbook Hits Bookstores

    The charismatic, culinary tornado and executive chef at Incanto with a James Beard Award nomination this year, Chris Cosentino has built his reputation as a loud, meat-fueled, barely unofficial offal spokesperson whose menus run rich with pork fat. His nose-to-tail crusade is showcased at his Boccal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    James Beard Finalists Announced Today: Here Are the Locals

    ​Today, the James Beard Foundation announces the finalists for both its restaurant, book, and journalism awards, often called the "Oscars" of the food world. (Semifinalists for the 2012 restaurant awards were announced on February 21). The foundation is tweeting out the results as we type, so SFoo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    James Beard Awards Announce Semifinalists: Bay Area's Well Represented, Obviously

    ​The day has come for the James Beard Foundation to announce the semifinalists for the 2012 Restaurant Awards. As SFoodie has written before, the finals can resemble the Oscars in that they're often career awards rather than a measure of how the nominees are performing at this very moment. Tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    At Bar Agricole, a Tequila Cocktail So Good It Doesn't Need a Name

    darindines.com​Bar Agricole took home the honors for Outstanding Restaurant Design at Monday night's James Beard Foundation Awards in New York, which makes this a fine time to toast the splendor of the SOMA spot. The tequila cocktail is so good it doesn't need a name other than Tequila Cocktai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Who's Got a Beard (Award)?

    ​Friday night was the first of the James Beard Foundation's two national awards galas this year. This one celebrated the media, with awards given out for television shows, print and online journalism, and cookbooks. There were upsets (Jonathan Gold only took home one one of the three awards he was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Ubuntu's Aaron London: Cooking Like Meat Doesn't Matter

    UbuntuJames Beard Rising Star Chef finalist Aaron London.​When Ubuntu opened in 2007, there was great fanfare across the land. Jeremy Fox was the undisputed king of vegetables, and the restaurant topped pretty much every Best Of list. Critics (literally?) crapped their pants over its amazingne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Bad Boys with Cocktail Shakers

    mikl-em/FlickrJorg Rupf, left, and Lance Winters.​Cocktails 101: St. George Spirits Where: Ferry Building Marketplace, CUESA Dacor Teaching Kitchen, 1 Ferry Building (at Embarcadero) When: Sat., March 5, 2-4 p.m. Cost: $50 The rundown: You might want to block out Saturday night for watchin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Little Dragon, All Shook Down Pop-Up, Big Lebowski Party, Debaser Sweethearts and More

    X-Ray Press plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There's plenty to do this weekend -- even a few things as enticing as the free party thrown tonight by this very blog, All Shook Down. (Hehe.) Here's our list of 10 things (or, um, ours plus nine) to do this weekend for less than the price of a bottl ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 28, 2010

    At Frances, sometimes less is less

    X-Ray Press plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There's plenty to do this weekend -- even a few things as enticing as the free party thrown tonight by this very blog, All Shook Down. (Hehe.) Here's our list of 10 things (or, um, ours plus nine) to do this weekend for less than the price of a bottl ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 27, 2009

    Virginity Lost at Gary Danko

    X-Ray Press plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There's plenty to do this weekend -- even a few things as enticing as the free party thrown tonight by this very blog, All Shook Down. (Hehe.) Here's our list of 10 things (or, um, ours plus nine) to do this weekend for less than the price of a bottl ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 9, 2003

    Eating With Lisa

    Our out-of-town visitor will eat anywhere, as long as it's really good

  • Dining

    April 3, 2002

    You'd Better Chop Around

    A preview of Pac Bell Park's new restaurant, the Acme Chophouse

  • Dining

    December 15, 1999

    Unalloyed Pleasure

    Gary Danko

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