Axis cafe was packed Tuesday night, with attendees of this month's Ask a Scientist lecture jockeying for spaces to crouch between plastic seats and late-late-comers peering over the shoulders of the simply late comers. One woman, an out of towner who had wondered into the cafe simply to wait for her daughter to get off of work nearby, asked what the reason was for the crowd. That can be summed up in one word: BigfootInterest in the mythical beast, who first crept into a generation's subcon
wallyg/FlickrBarbecue's a reliably toasty topic, a hallowed strain of American Southern cookery known for endless regional variations and no shortage of strident expert-y opinions about them. Even here in San Francisco, debates rage on.
This week, Chronicle reviewer-in-chief Michael Bauer made no bones about championing Wexler's, a smoke-centric restaurant that opened in June an old converted Financial District firehouse. He predicted purists would "cringe" at the buzzed newcomer's attemp
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