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All Tomorrow's Portions: Top 7 Food Trends for 2013

There Will Be Good Food Tonight on the Divisadero Art Walk

If you're still looking for something to do this evening -- hard to imagine, we know, in this season of over-scheduling -- you could do worse than heading over to the Divisadero art walk tonight and eating some things. There will be Vietnamese food from Rice Paper Scissors at Mojo Bicycle Cafe; the ... More >>

Trendspotters Predict 2013 Will Be Year of Toast, Ancient Grains, Shared Pig Heads

​Local hospitality and restaurant consulting firm Andrew Freeman & Co.'s annual trendspotting food forecast has just come out, and it proclaims 2013 the year of toasted bread. My very first story for SF Weekly was on Josey Baker's toasts, so I'm feeling a little smug about that, but mostly sorry t ... More >>

The Coffee Shack: Your New Pathway to Frugality

If you're in the Financial District and looking for a cheap way to support your early morning caffeine craving or need for a mid-afternoon metabolic boost, consider venturing to the Hilton. That's right: The heiress-spawning luxury hotel chain has opened the Coffee Shack, a coffee truck on its front ... More >>

Toast of the Town: Josey Baker's Bread is Back

It may be hard to believe, but Josey Baker is an artisan of toast, that insert-bread-into-slot standby that even five-year-olds can handle. Every detail is lovingly attended to, from heating up the toaster to carefully spreading almond butter on every corner of the bread, and by the time he finishes ... More >>

Number 2: Steamed Sea Bass with Lime and Chile From Lers Ros

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Tom Silargorn has a flair for the dramatic. His soups are all served in ringed Mongolian hot pots, blue flames and sparks shooting up through the tube at their center; every day you order tom kha gai feels like July 4. ... More >>

Number 3: Koo's Spoonful of Happiness

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​ When Kiyoshi Hiyakawa opened his Inner Sunset sushi bar Koo in 2004, he hoped to escape the cutely termed, Americanized rolls of his former employer, Tokyo Gogo, and instead offer a more traditional se ... More >>

Four Barrel's Jeremy Tooker To Open New Coffee & Toast Spot

Josey BakerJosey Baker gets to work on the new coffee cart​It's looking like 2012 is going to be an impressive year for Divisadero. Already stacked with solid food, great stores, and a prime location, the street is a thrumming stretch of San Francisco. Bi-Rite Grocery opens a store in the space ne ... More >>

Jake's on Market Has a Chef, Jeremy Fox is in L.A., and the New Coffee Shop

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Chef news: The pending Jake's on Market just found itself a chef. Inside Scoop reports Erik Hopfinger (Circa, Waterfront, Long Bar) will focus on Americana dishes from scratch: from grinding the meat to a ... More >>

Tonight: Foodia is Olive Oil

These women love olive oil.​Foodia is Olive Oil Where: Press Club Wine Bar and Lounge, 20 Yerba Buena (at Market), 744-5000 When: Tonight, 5-8 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Foodia is not about to let you forget them. In case the recent Foodia is Chocolate tasting event has already faded fro ... More >>

Food Porn at SF Underground Market

It's cold and rainy. The only way to warm up is to get excited for the next SF Underground Market on Saturday, June 11, and the only way to do that is to check out the greatest hits from their past events. So: some of the hottest pics of the tastiest things to nosh on at SF Underground Market. Let's ... More >>

Josey Baker's Bread Comes to Bi-Rite

Jonathan KauffmanThis is Josey Baker's bread.​Josey Baker, the itinerant baker whose "community supported bread" SFoodie wrote about in February, has made a lot of changes since this winter. His weekly baking session in the wood-fired ovens at Pizzaiolo has moved from Tuesdays to Fridays, and on W ... More >>

Tonight: Final Meatpaper Event at SFMOMA

Meatpaper/FlickrRyan Ostler and Katharine Zacher.​Tonight: Final Meatpaper Event at SFMOMA Where: Rooftop Garden at SFMOMA, 151 Third St. (at Mission), 357-4000 When: Thurs., April 21, 6-8 p.m. Cost: Free with half-price museum entry; Tasting plates $5 (3 for $12) The rundown: It only started ... More >>

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 >>

Josey Baker, Itinerant Baker, and His Community-Supported Bread

Jonathan KauffmanJosey Baker's ginger-rosemary bread, baked in the Pizzaiolo ovens.​ A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Josey Baker's Yummy Bread Source: joseybakerbread.blogspot.comPrice: $5Toast-appropriateness: 5/10

Tonight: Tacos and Fire Rage at Amnesia

Slinging tacos and heat: Morgan Maki.​Tonight's the first of a monthly convergence of food and liquor and jams at Amnesia. Bi-Rite butcher and charcutier Morgan Maki comes bearing Tacos and Fire this evening at about 7 p.m., serving up the first part of that equation: a chorizo-like crumble of ... More >>