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October 4, 2012
Prime Your Palate for Litquake's Food Events
Every year, Litquake brings together a veritable orgy of events for writers and readers, and anyone whose soul is a little bit thirsty for some literary juice or a chance to worship at Dave Eggers' feet. This year there are some seriously stellar-sounding food events programmed into the lineup as we ... More >>
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December 16, 2011
Slow Food's $5 Challenge Made Alice Waters Cry
People are apparently quitting Slow Food USA over this.On Chow.com this week, former SFoodie editor John Birdsall came out with a shocker of a story. Slow Food USA is losing members, upsetting core supporters, and laying off staff, Birdsall reports. Why? Because it's changing its focus to address ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
The 10 Sweetest Things in San Francisco
Albert Law/porkbellystudioSan Francisco may be known as the capital of vegetable-loving, sustainability-obsessed dining, but that doesn't mean this town doesn't eat enough sugar to bake a scale model of AT&T Park out of red velvet cake. Today, we've decided to recap 10 of the sweets that sent ... More >>
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May 23, 2011
Announcing the East Bay Express's New Food Critic
The East Bay Express has just made the official announcement: They've hired a new restaurant critic, and it's none other than former SFoodie editor John Birdsall. Birdsall, who has lived in Oakland for a decade and was the paper's restaurant critic in 2006-07, will be returning to write a weekly ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Chef-Crushing on London, Discovering Anda Piroshki: This Week in Food Bloggery
Nick Vasilopoulos/StoqqGialina's Atomica. Highlights from the blog this week:1. Laura Beck eats at Ubuntu, faints, then interviews chef Aaron London as soon as she recovers. London reveals that he does indeed work 100 hours a week and strives to make every part of the artichoke edible, which is p ... More >>
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May 6, 2011
Cold Ice, Hot Tofu, and Fresh Croissants: This Week in Food Bloggery
John BirdsallStarter Bakery croissants.Highlights from the blog this week:1. SFoodie bloggers locate two dishes I've been curious about for a while: Luis Chong finds Taiwanese-style shaved ice in the Outer Sunset, just in time for a mini heat wave, and Sean Timberlake writes an SF92 post about th ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Starter Bakery: Ex-S.F. Baking Institute Teacher Rolls Out Perfect Pastries
John BirdsallKouign amann: flaky, salty, caramelized-sugar breakfast pastries from Starter Bakery.Further evidence that the Bay Area is deep into a renaissance of pastry brilliance: four-month-old Starter Bakery, which is producing amazing scones, Provencale kouign amann, and the finest crois ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
Kati Rolls, Three-Fingered Gamblers, and Holy Cannoli: This Week in Food Bloggery
Amanderson2/FlickrA kati-roll vendor in Kolkota.Five highlights from the blogs this week: 1. John Birdsall interviews Annamika Khanna from Kasa about the closing of her Marina branch, learns why she's doing weekly vegan dinners at the Corner if she eats dairy herself, and gets the sad news that ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Cookie Busts, Modern Pan Dulce, and Trick Muffins: This Week in Food Bloggery
joseybakerbread.blogspot.comWould you buy bread from this man? You should.Five highlights from the blog this week:1. We SFoodie staffers felt like we were running so many stories about local vendors launching their products at the Haight Street Whole Foods (examples: Azalina's kaya, Hapa SF's pin ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Turns Out Apocalyptic Korean Tacos Aren't Bad
John BirdsallDon't get this one, get the other one.What are the odds? What should park outside the immaculately tended offices of SF Weekly today but Pyongyang Express, the taco truck hired ― like a motorized cable car facilitating a bachelorette booze crawl ― to drive around the city. Oh ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
Another Cupcake Competition Is Headed to Town
John BirdsallIn this corner, Mission Minis.SF Cupcake Challenge Where: Mezzanine, 444 Jessie (at Mint Plaza), 625-8880 When: Sun., Mar. 6, 1-4 p.m. Cost: $40 The rundown: In a big nightclub accustomed to nocturnal events, civilian cupcake lovers will join a media panel (including yours tr ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Eat Grilled Cheese, Get Toasted
John BirdsallGrilled Cheese and Craft Beer Pairing Where: American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, 1 South Park (at Second St.), 243-0107 When: Sun., Feb. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $30 The rundown: AGCK is commemorating SF Beer Week with a sandwich and brew matchup, but unlike at stuffy wine pai ... More >>
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January 21, 2011
Food Truck Drama, Sushirritos, and Bacon Hot Dogs: This Week in Food Bloggery
greenkozi/FlickrBacon-wrapped hot dogs: Too illegit to quit.My favorite stories from the blog this week:1. Food truck drama episode no. 1: John Birdsall talked to the owners of Twirl and Dip, the ice cream truck, about how the city's paperwork-screwup got them kicked them out of a park space they ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
The Five Best Things We Had for Lunch in November
John BirdsallStar Stream's pork conserva sandwich with citrus-fennel salad, $7.50.Tuesday, November 30, 2010 Smothered antojitos, vegetable pop tarts, a couple of very good sandwiches, and nubbly falafel: Five memorable things we lunched on in November, reprised here in SFoodie's "Eat This" ... More >>
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November 22, 2010
Scream's Sorbet Sandwich
John BirdsallScream's coffee almond sorbet between molasses gingersnaps, $4.75.Monday, November 22, 2010 John BirdsallScream's Temescal retail shop ― two doors down from Bakesale Betty and its daily crush of fried chicken sandwich fanatics ― has come together slower than a major S ... More >>
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November 12, 2010
Crabs, 'Bangers, and Tobacky: This Week in Food Bloggery
Jonathan KauffmanDestination Bakery's Challah, $4.1. John Birdsall has been tracking the opening day of commercial Dungeness crab season, and reports that it will be Monday or Tuesday. It astonishes me that opening day isn't a bigger deal here. Perhaps the problem, as Birdsall suggests, is that t ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Buckwheat Crêpe from Crêperie Saint Germain
John BirdsallThe Number 3, cheese, ham, and egg, $6.95.Thursday, October 28, 2010 John BirdsallYou take a bite of the Number 3 (cheese, ham, and egg, $6.95) and your teeth squeak against the thickish slice of deli ham swathed in a double-fold of spongy-soft buckwheat crêpe. Crêperie ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Chicken Tacos from Gaby and Liz
John BirdsallFrom left, carnitas, chicken, and carne asada tacos, $1.75 each.Friday, October 8, 2010 John BirdsallSFoodie's roundup of O.G. trucks ends at the southeast corner of Jackson Park, with the whirr of the Acme brewery in your ears, and at 2:30 p.m. on a Thursday, kids from D ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Kitchenette's Short Rib Sandwich
John BirdsallSauerbraten-style short rib sandwich with braised cabbage, bronze fennel, and apple butter, $8.50.Thursday, October 7, 2010 A short rib sandwich minitrend is gripping the city, San Francisco! Maybe nobody's done it quite so good lately as Kitchenette. Off the loading dock Monday ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
The Summit's 28 Hour Short Rib Sandwich
John Birdsall28 hour short rib sandwich on house-baked weck, $8.50.Wednesday, October 6, 2010 Desi Danganan's week-old third place all-day hangout on Valencia aims to be, well, whatever you want it to be: morning coffee house, daytime port for essential FB updates, dinner place, dessert salo ... More >>
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September 30, 2010
Rice Ball Trio from Onigilly
John BirdsallLunch Set: chicken, eggplant, and hijiki onigiri, with daikon pickle and edamame, $7.Thursday, September 30, 2010 Young dudes Kan Hasegawa and Koji Kanematsu noted Americans' bottomless appetite for the rainbow roll, but wondered why onigiri ― seaweed-wrapped rice balls fused ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
The Five Best Things We Had for Lunch in September
John BirdsallHRD's burrito with kimchi fried rice, pork, and kiwi salsa, $5.75.Tuesday, September 28, 2010 Two sandwiches, a couple of tacos, fried chicken, and a burrito hefty enough for two meals: Five memorable things we lunched on in September, reprised here as SFoodie's "Eat This" honor ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
The Dagwood at Crown Burgers
John BirdsallThe Dagwood, a quarter-pound cheeseburger with hot link, ham, and egg, $7.50.Wednesday, September 22, 2010 John BirdsallThe back wall's a shrine to the doomed (Marilyn, Michael Jackson, Jesus) in framed, faded prints that look thrift-store campy, until you realize they pr ... More >>
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September 17, 2010
Tofu-Kimchi Tacos from TaKorea
John BirdsallFrom left, on the hood of a stranger's truck parked on Brannan, TaKorea's vegetarian, chicken, pork, and beef taco, $2 each.Friday, September 17, 2010 John BirdsallMr. Cho's Korean fusion truck flaunts a Kanye West bear clone in samurai armor and sunglasses, fronting a ta ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
Tofu Banh Mi from Ebbett's Good To Go
John Birdsall Shredded Hodo Soy Beanery tofu with pickled carrots, cucumbers, piquillo peppers, spicy pesto, and sriracha mayo, $8.Monday, September 13, 2010 John BirdsallLike Nancy Botwin, East Bay moms Suzanne Schafer and Shari Washburn wanted to do something that would guarantee th ... More >>
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September 10, 2010
More Food Trucks, More Korean-Mexican Fusion, and Other SFoodie Highlights From This Week
Kim Jong Grillin'/FacebookBest. Name. Ever.Highlights from the blog this week:1. The biggest SFoodie news of the week: SF Cart Project's Matt Cohen finally got Rec and Parks, the various permitting agencies, and the trucks together to launch two more "Off the Grid" street-food gatherings in the U ... More >>
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September 9, 2010
HRD Coffee Shop's Kimchi Burrito
John BirdsallBurrito with kimchi fried rice, pork, and kiwi salsa, $5.75.Thursday, September 9, 2010 John BirdsallThe guy shitting in Taber Alley breaks his concentration long enough to give you the death gaze, like, Dude, you do NOT want to be here. Meanwhile, the South Park workers ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
Fish and Chips at Citizen's Band
John BirdsallBeer-battered California rock cod, house-cut fries, and malt vinegar aioli, $9.Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Revising the diner canon is tricky business. Cut and paste the original with too many pristine ingredients using too polished a hand, and it yields something fatally remov ... More >>
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September 3, 2010
Lil Wayne, Paula Deen, and Iced Coffee: This Week in Food Bloggery
John BirdsallBecause we just like looking at photos of ramen (this bowl's from Hapa Ramen).This week's highlights from the blogs:1. Have you read the essay SFoodie editor John Birdsall wrote this week about how street food has exploded in San Francisco, and why? Because you should. 2. The biggest ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
Show Dogs' Indian-Style Fried Chicken
John BirdsallShow Dogs' fried chicken, served with house slaw and rosemary Yukon Gold potatoes ($12).Thursday, September 2, 2010 Brian B./YelpJust as they do at Foreign Cinema, Show Dogs' John Clark and Gayle Pirie take inspiration from a cookbook shelf of international influences. Wh ... More >>
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September 1, 2010
Humpday Hookup: SFoodie's Top Five Best Bites
John BirdsallB³'s burger ($10), with fried Petaluma egg ($1) and Manchego cheese ($3).Wednesday, September 1, 2010 This morning, we present five memorable things we've tasted over the past three weeks, our "Eat This" honor roll of recent finds, arrayed in no particular order: 1. Burger at ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Six Bites from Eat Real
John BirdsallPair of tacos al fresco from the Taco Guys.Monday, August 30, 2010 The weekend's Eat Real Festival has faded into the sting of a sunburned neck, a pair of stained jeans in the hamper, and the memory of six bites that made us taste twice: 1.Kurobuta pork and chile verde taco (l ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Carnitas Taco at El Rancho Grande
John BirdsallCarnitas (left, $2.55) and fish tacos ($3.55).Friday, August 27, 2010 John BirdsallMaybe the best thing about this month-old, hyper-yellow taqueria is that its carved out a place on an otherwise under-taco'd stretch of Divis. It's the kind of relentlessly well-lit place y ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Zero Zero's Panouzzo
John BirdsallPanouzzo with mortadella, prosciutto cotto, soppressata, and provolone ($11.95).Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Its origins in Gragnano, a city just outside Naples, shouldn't fool you. The panouzzo at Bruce Hill's Zero Zero ― which began serving lunch this week ― is, at heart, a ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
The B³ Burger
John BirdsallBurger ($10), with fried Petaluma egg ($1) and Manchego cheese ($3).Friday, August 20, 2010 ameer n./YelpThis is a damn good burger. Kevin Ahajanian, fitted with the Keller halo from time spent at Bouchon, has stacked up something with the bones of Cali quintessential. Th ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
The Eat Real Lit Fest: Writers on Street Food, Gardening, and Storytelling
Oakland's Eat Real Festival, the second of two back-to-back food festivals taking place over the next two weekends, isn't just about street food, though 80 carts and trucks will be in attendance. There are also urban homesteading demonstrations and competitions, a beer and wine garden, a farmers ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
The Crepe House's Florentine
John BirdsallThe Florentine, filled with cheddar, onions, spinach, and cottage cheese ($7.95).Wednesday, August 18, 2010 John BirdsallCrepes are the pleated Dockers of the café universe: not cool, but comfortable enough to make you overlook the fact, as long as nobody you know sees y ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
The Summit's Kinko's-Style Guerrilla Marketing
John BirdsallCalling all beanie-rocking, studded-belt-wearing art students.Looks like Desi Danganan is engaging in a bit of old-school guerrilla marketing, Kinko's style. Summit, the ex-Poleng proprietor's café, restaurant, and art gallery slated for 780 Valencia, is due in September. Yester ... More >>
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August 17, 2010
El Gallo Giro's Carnitas Tacos
John BirdsallCarnitas tacos ($1.50 each).Tuesday, August 17, 2010 John BirdsallIt may be named for a twirling rooster, but El Gallo Giro taco truck stays put outside the gates of Parque Ninos Unidos at Treat and 23rd Street. The vehicle's streetside mural looks like something from a k ... More >>
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August 12, 2010
Grilled Tri-Tip Sandwich from Town Hall BBQ
John BirdsallGrilled tri-tip sandwich ($9.50).Thursday, August 12, 2010 Maybe it's the relentlessly gray weather, but Town Hall BBQ ― the summer-long lunchtime cookout behind the Rosenthal brothers' kitchen ― seems drained of some of the tasty it had back in April, when the season began. ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Humpday Hookup: Our Top Five Best Bites
John BirdsallLittle burger with Tillamook cheddar, caramelized onions, and crispy wedged potatoes ($6).Wednesday, August 11, 2010 Behold,some of the most memorable things SFoodie has tasted recently, a sort of "Eat This" honor roll from the past two weeks, arrayed in no particular order: ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
Chicken Salad Sandwich at Café Divis
John Birdsall Maryland chicken salad sandwich on brioche bun ($6.50). Monday, August 9, 2010 Christian Cisclé was the opening chef and manager of Farmer Brown spin-off Little Skillet, and put the place on the city's list of gotta-eat venues last year. In February, he had a parting of the wa ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
Mijita's Chilaquiles
John BirdsallChilaquiles with refried beans ($6.75) and scrambled egg ($1.50).Friday, August 6, 2010 Maybe, like egg salad or doughnuts, chilaquiles are never really bad. What makes them good: attention to texture, plus, as a starting point, a tortilla base that strives for more than the gre ... More >>
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July 30, 2010
The Daily Sandwich at Goody Goodie
John BirdsallCherry sandwich with tarragon and Crescenza cheese ($5.50).Friday, July 30, 2010 John BirdsallGoody Goodie's Walk-up window on Folsom.This week, a month after throwing open the golden shutters on her retail bakery window on Folsom, Goody Goodie's Remi Hayashi started hawk ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
Green Coriander's Chicken Korma
John BirdsallChicken korma, vegetables cooked with coconut sauce, and brown rice ($13.95 as part of a three-course menu).Thursday, July 29, 2010 Paawan Kothari rolled out her lunchtime Indian pop-up two weeks ago, in what would seem like just about the most random Mission venue she could fin ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
El Tonayense's Tripitas Taco
John BirdsallCabeza taco (left) and tripitas taco ($1.75 each).Monday, July 26, 2010 The good news for maw haters: tripitas are not tripe. The bad news: They're bits from a pig's lower intestine, boiled and fried, the chitlins of American soul food. In Bay Area taco trucks, along with buche, ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
51st State's Fried Quail
John BirdsallCrispy cornmeal quail served with jalapeno cheddar cheese grits and spiced maple syrup ($9). Wednesday, July 21, 2010 Francesca Salcido, Nathan Smith, and Daniel Gutierrez conceived the taco-truck equivalent of high concept with 51st State, mapping out a seasonally changing menu ... More >>
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