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Jen Siska

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    San Francisco's 10 Best Wine Lists

    San Francisco is one of the best places in the world to drink young wines, particularly those with attitude, from many different places. Sommeliers here are passionate and their wine lists reflect it. We don't have many older wines on lists because restaurants turn over so quickly that they don't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Ten Best San Francisco Restaurants Not on OpenTable

    Jen SiskaYou want to get with Nojo's tempura? OpenTable won't hook you up.​ Five years ago, it would have been hard to imagine the lock that OpenTable now has on San Francisco restaurants. From the highest of the high end to mid-priced neighborhood places, the locally based online reservations com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Welcome, Carlos Beltran! Here Are S.F.'s Best Puerto Rican Restaurants

    Keith Allison via Flickr​First off, Carlos, welcome to San Francisco. We're happy to have you. Now that you're here, we have to make a confession. San Francisco is no New York -- in terms of quantity, S.F. simply can't produce the never-ending list of Puerto Rican restaurants you probably too ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2010

    The Year in Food 2010: Big-Ticket Dining Surges

    Lara Hata/SF WeeklyProspect: High-end dining in San Francisco is not in danger.​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food.Back in January, people were talking about the San Francisco restaurant scene as if it were flagging fast. The fretting was fueled by t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2010

    Bruno's Chefs Reunite for Bar BQ Tartine Dinners

    Jen SiskaThe brisket from Bruno's, back when Ryan Ostler was smoking beef there.​Last week, Tablehopper announced that Ryan Ostler was going to be doing a guest chef stint at Bar Tartine, throwing a three- or four-course barbecue dinner on August 23 with his partner, Kat Zacher, who is now Bar Tar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Reports on the Death of Fusion Are Greatly Exaggerated: A Response to Michael Bauer

    Jen SiskaNamu's gamja fries: Fusion, dude. Pure fusion.​My first response on reading Michael Bauer's post today, "What happened to fusion cuisine?" was a pleasant, if slightly embarrassed, sigh of nostalgia, the kind that escapes when you're rustling through a drawer and come across an old prom ph ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Little Skillet Chef Out Earlier Than Planned

    Jen SiskaCiscle had planned to depart the SOMA takeaway at the end of the month.​Looks like Christian Ciscle's departure from Little Skillet is going to be a little earlier than originally planned ― like, now. Ciscle just tweeted the following: "Unemployed by littleskillet a little earlier t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    How to Make Nacatamales, the Other Hot Pocket

    Jen SiskaAdelita's nacatamal, exposed.​Not only did this week's review give me an excuse to eat queso frito over and over again ― even reading the words "fried cheese" makes the heart of any native Midwesterner swell ― it meant walking around the Mission sampling nacatamales. And then losing y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 31, 2009

    What 2009 Tasted Like in San Francisco: SFoodie's Countdown of the Top 10 Alternative Food Trends

    Steve Rhodes/Flickr​Just 'cuz it's New Year's, when lists are as common as iPhone inboxes packed with morning-after sexts from guys whose names draw a total blank, here it is: our convenient summary of SFoodie's countdown of 2009 alternative foodie trends in San Francisco. It was a year marked ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Feasting Out: New American BBQ for New Year's Eve at Wexler's

    Jen Siska​Where: Wexler's 568 Sacramento (at Leidesdorff), 983-0102 When: Thurs., Dec. 31 Time: 5-11 p.m. The deal: Five-course prix fixe includes warm sunchoke velouté with vanilla-scented olive oil and sunchoke "bacon"; barbecue-cured Loch Duart salmon with crispy potato cake and apple-r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    Kimchi Clearance: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

    Jen SiskaMuguboka's array of banchan: Better than a BOGO.​Wednesday, December 16, 2009 By now -- a week and change before the 25th -- your debit card has been worked harder than a chihuahua's squeaky toy. That's why the bargain lunch specials at Muguboka seem extra-delicious these days. Take ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Do Not Piss Off the Lunch Gods: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

    Jen SiskaNo sense tempting fate.​Friday, November 13, 2009 We're not saying we didn't pull on our lucky undies this morning, but still: Friday the 13th doesn't necessarily freak us out. Then again, there's no sense giving fate an excuse to kick your ass by mindlessly scarfing a sandwich, or p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Ironside

    Jen SiskaIronside's cuban sandwich​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Point your finger at the jobless rate or the housing bubble's bust: We're living through a moment of intense repurposing. And while we may not be at the point of sock darning, we're seriously digging ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Have You Noticed? S.F. Bars and Restaurants Are Sporting Major Wood

    Jen SiskaStarbelly: Epic lumber fetish​What does say about this particular moment in S.F. that the current cliché of restaurant design is wood? Horizontal planks, vertical boards, new wood, reclaimed lumber. Sanded and varnished or -- more often -- left gray and raw, bristling like three-day ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Starbelly

    An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Jen Siska​It's merely the latest eatery to embody the übercasual, thin-crust pie, salumi sandwich, and beer ethos of the moment, the way Beretta, its restaurant sib, embodied the artisanal cocktail spirit of mid-2008. Crown the owners ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Aicha

    Jen SiskaAicha's kefta tagine (right).​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Little Aicha (1303 Polk at Bush) showed up in Polk Gulch last June, in the space where De Afghanan Kabob House once ruled. SF Weekly restaurant critic showed up, too, working her way through a ser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Wexler's

    Jen SiskaMore downtown than down-home?​An early taste of SF Weekly's Wednesday food review. Forget the kind of barbecue you find yourself licking off your forearm an hour after lunch, the kind you feel no remorse in toothpicking from your molars on a crowded bus in plain view. Wexler's (568 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Mercury Lounge

    Jen Siska The honey-walnut prawns at Mercury Lounge. An early taste of SF Weekly's Wednesday food review.  A bridge-and-tunnel bar in SOMA is probably the last place you'd expect to taste well-made food, but that's just what SF Weekly food critic found this week at Mercury Lounge (1582 F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Early Bird Special: S.F.'s Street-Food Scene

    Jen SiskaCreme Brulee Guy in Linda Street: Stafford likes his culinary showbiz.​We've hogged major bandwidth in blog posts about the city's underground, Twitter-stoked street-food scene, treating the phenomenon more as news than the subject of serious parsing from the POV of gastronomy. In tom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Flour Water

    Jen SiskaThey'll make you forget the wait.Like children of the corn, San Franciscans have lined up practically since day one at Flour Water (2401 Harrison at 20th St.), the Mission's newest locus of blistery thin-crust grandeur, juxtaposing clunky schoolhouse chic with graceful cooking. Call the r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Early Bird Special: The Tipsy Pig

    Jen SiskaThe mac 'n' cheese most definitely did not suck.You've been to that party, the one where you feel uncomfortably dickish. Everybody else is hammered and sweaty, screaming into their phones and busting cheesy moves to Lady Gaga, while you're, well, wondering if anyone'd notice if you booked. ... More >>

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    June 30, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Little Skillet

    Jen SiskaAh, summer, when a young man's fancy turns to chicken 'n' waffles. What is it about the Harlem classic -- an inter-meal mashup of homely comforts -- that's poised for revival? In the Tenderloin, Gussie's Chicken and Waffles is due to drop any day now. And halfway between AT&T and South Park ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Bund Shanghai

    Jen SiskaNote to aspiring restaurateurs: The fiercest Chinese eateries are in diaspora neighborhoods, places like the Outer Richmond or northern Peninsula, where second- and third-generation Asian Americans actually live. Seems like nobody told the owners of Bund Shanghai (640 Jackson at Kearny), a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Early Bird Special: The Broken Record

    Jen SiskaHoodies and ball caps allowedIf you've ever wondered what the hell a gastropub is, get the ultimate schooling by reading SF Weekly food critic Matthew Stafford's review of the Broken Record (1166 Geneva at Edinburgh) in the Excelsior. Think bar food done by serious chefs who actually love t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Gary Danko

    It had to happen -- SF Weekly food critic lost her virginity, and to a hunk of foie gras, no less. Brody experiences her gastro rite de passage at überluxe Gary Danko, which opened in 1999 and still has a way with a cheese cart. And in case you think a place not accustomed to skimping on the lobste ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Nopalito

    Jen SiskaFebruary's launch of Nopalito, the regional Mexican spin-off of Laurence Jossel's swarming Nopa, was the city's most fervently-awaited restaurant event so far this year (just sayin', Michael Mina). SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody braved the crowds to sample fungus antojitos, sturgeon t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Early Bird Special: Contigo

    Jen SiskaContigoAfter scarfing pork-belly bocaditos and octopus salad at Contigo in Noe Valley, SF Weekly food critic Matthew Stafford gets all dreamy thinking about the vacay he took in Barcelona. Stafford thinks chef-owner Brett Emerson gets all the details right in this local simulacrum of the Ca ... More >>

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