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Namu Gaji: Reincarnation Fits Nicely into New Mission Home

Fresh Eats: Food Find: Seoul Patch's Korean Fried Chicken Sando

Shuttered Namu Pops Back Up at Four Barrel

Kathy W.Namu's ramen.​What: Namu Pop-up Where: Four Barrel When: Fri., January 13 Cost: $25 The rundown: Namu left a hole in the Japanese-American-Korean food scene of San Francisco when it shut down on New Year's Eve. But don't worry, Japanese-American-Korean food lovers, Namu is back w ... More >>

Seoul Patch's Korean Fried Chicken Sando

​Four months after its debut, Seoul Patch, a lunchtime popup operating out of Rocketfish in Potrero Hill, continues to evolve. Chef Eric Ehler's been spinning out his original ideas -- all Korean-American culinary juxtapositions -- into new forms, bulking out the menu with new dishes (brussels spr ... More >>

"Everything Wants to Live": Hank Shaw on Hunting Animals for Food

huntfishguide.com/Flickr​"I have been dealing a lot of death these days," writes Hank Shaw, author of the blog "Hunter Angler Gardener Cook" and the recently published Hunt, Gather, Cook. "I've hunted five of the past eight days, and have killed birds on each trip. My larder is filling, and Holly ... More >>

San Francisco Bulls -- The Best Hockey Name Money Couldn't Buy

The right name at the right price. And they're passing the savings on to you! ​These days, San Francisco feels good about its 49ers. But, even during the darkest days of the team's long Babylonian captivity in the cellar, we could at least take pride that "49ers" is one of the cleverest and most g ... More >>

Red Wings: Korean Fried Chicken Done Right. Really Right

The right name at the right price. And they're passing the savings on to you! ​These days, San Francisco feels good about its 49ers. But, even during the darkest days of the team's long Babylonian captivity in the cellar, we could at least take pride that "49ers" is one of the cleverest and most g ... More >>

Dolores Park NIMBY Vows to Strike Again, This Time Against Chaac Mool

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Alexx C./YelpQuality of life destroyer: Chaac Mool's Luis Vazquez.​The Examiner's Ken Garcia catches word that La Cocina incubator business Chaac Mool will take over the nonprofit Dolores Park vendi ... More >>

Iowa Farmers vs. Animal Rights Activists, Restaurateur vs. Yelper

Farm Sanctuary/FlickrMove along, nothing to see here.​​ Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. No-shoot zones. Yesterday, HuffPo posted an article about an Iowa bill that that has been approved by both the state senat ... More >>

Sure, Chickens Get Sad ― Maybe Because We're Eating So Many of Them?

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Scientists just discovered that chickens show empathy. To science I say, NO DOY. But also: Way to come around, better late than never. I remember when I discovered that eating too fast gave me pain in the chest ... More >>

At Commonwealth, most of the experimental dishes are memorable

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Scientists just discovered that chickens show empathy. To science I say, NO DOY. But also: Way to come around, better late than never. I remember when I discovered that eating too fast gave me pain in the chest ... More >>

KFC's Double Down is Brilliant (And No, I'm Not Sticking That Thing in My Mouth)

BlueisCoool/FlickrEvil genius.​I hope whoever runs the marketing division of KFC gets a bonus to rival a hedge-fund director's this year. Because he or she is a genius for getting R&D to come up with the most disgusting sandwich ever invented. New York is all a-twitter about the Double Down, w ... More >>

SFoodie's 92: Chicken and Waffles from Brown Sugar Kitchen

J. BirdsallDeliciously bipolar.​As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.

Oroville Farm Offering Home-Delivered Pastured Eggs

CraigslistGet 'em before dogs and hawks poach the best layers.​K and F Chicken Farm's hard-charging Craigslist ads -- all capital letters, lots of exclamation points, and an overwhelmingly frantic tone -- are as funny as they are informative. Read one and you'll find out that the Oroville-base ... More >>

In Praise of Imposter Lobster in South City

T. PalmerNot lobster, but not half bad either.​Cruising the El and hankering for something cheap 'n fried, SFoodie made a guilty pleasure pit stop at Long John Silver's (1111 El Camino Real at Del Paso, South San Francisco) for some fish and chips and hush puppies. Inside the spot (which doubles a ... More >>

Yesterday's News Tomorrow! SFPD Release Tally For DUI Checkpoint -- Eventually.

The Colonel's chain of eateries remind us of ... DUI checkpoints​I got it from Agnes. She got it from Jim; we all agree it must have been him. ... Now she got it from Harry, who got it from Marie. And everybody knows that Marie got it from me. -- Tom Lehrer Thanks to the official tally of last Sa ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Chicken shit: Seriously? According to Slashfood's Sarah LeTrent (who got it from the New York Post) a former finance director at J. P. Morgan has reportedly spent the last few years trying to crack KFC's 11 secret herbs and spices. He may be clos ... More >>

Wallpaper. Calls It: Booty Tweet is the New Booty Call

Local producer/remixer/comedian Wallpaper. is on a roll. When he's not remixing KFC and Jay-Z, he's cracking wise with dance floor anthems like this one: "Booty Tweet (Is the New Booty Call)". It's pretty hard to resist Eric Frederic's smart ass lines: "Personal business on everyone's RSS feed" and ... More >>

Burned by Oprah Stunt, KFC Searches for Down-to-Earth Spokesperson

Guess who might get axed?After its grilled-chicken promo with Oprah got burned, KFC has decided to try out a new recipe: direct outreach to fans. In a campaign that launched yesterday, the fast-food chicken maker is searching for what it called the new face of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Sorry, Colonel: ... More >>

The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. They had to get it off their chests: It sucks being a Hooters girl, and not just because you're expected to pose with a dweeb in a Ruck Fules! tee. MenuPages reveals the lawsuit eight former tank-top-wearin' servers have brought against four loca ... More >>

Free KFC, Courtesy of Oprah!

Oh hell, free food is free food. We're not big fans of the Colonel. In truth, neither was the Colonel, once his patented recipe and method were bastardized by the fast-food conglomerate that jettisoned his name in favor of initials. (If you want to taste what Original Recipe was like back ... More >>

Waste Not: NorCal Waste Systems Changes Name to 'Recology' -- Because, Face It, It Sounds Better

Perhaps the term 'waste management' conjured up the wrong mental imagery?Just ask the famed escape artist Erich Weiss or handsome actor Bernard Schwartz -- sometimes it really does help to change your cumbersome moniker. That's more or less the explanation offered by "Recology" -- the recycling and ... More >>

Foie Gras Follies: San Francisco's Symbolic Resolution, Ignoring Lesson from Chicago

Spork Experiments With Sunday Brunch

Spork (1058 Valencia) is normally open for dinner only, but today it began experimenting with Sunday brunch. It's a cute little spot that used to be a dreaded KFC, the fast-food chain which introduced the spork to America, so chef/owner Bruce Binn chose his restaurant name as a tribute to that par ... More >>

Of Fast-Food Meals in a Bowl, Rice or Mashed Potato-Based, and Fried Chicken Musings...

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

Of Election Nights and Comfort Food

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

Patton Oswalt Spends a Summer Weekend at Cobb's

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

Local Kitchen & Wine Merchant: Bland Name for Bomb Food

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

Buckethead Scheduled to Melt Your Face on Valentine's Day

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

The General

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

Cutting-Edge Chronicle Breaks Story Of Revolutionary New "Spork" Utensil

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

Cutting-Edge Chronicle Breaks Story Of Revolutionary New "Spork" Utensil

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

Long Live the Colonel

By Meredith Brody Is it just us, or do most of the suggestions tossed around the boardroom - peas, coleslaw, melon balls, prunes, mints, little gifts, poppyseeds, curds and whey, lake trout -- in the Jack-in-the-Box commercial for its new Teriyaki Bowls sound more appetizing than the real deal: "y ... More >>

No Sign of the Colonel

Chic New American eatery takes no prisoners at erstwhile Mission fast-food joint

Kim Jong-Il, Jesus, Watson and Crick, SF Rabbi Langer: the Snitch presents the "Top Ten Most Jaw-Dropping Bobbleheads"

Chic New American eatery takes no prisoners at erstwhile Mission fast-food joint

Net Radio Royalty EXTRA -- UPDATES: David Byrne, Cover feature

Chic New American eatery takes no prisoners at erstwhile Mission fast-food joint

Hire Me!

Infiltrator has figured out how to solve the so-called unemployment problem

Best New Nightlife Trend

Infiltrator has figured out how to solve the so-called unemployment problem

Obsession Junction

Fishing with Morgan Spurlock, survivor of the 30-day McDonald's diet

Fright Flight

"We're going to the winner's circle or the hospital," declares one entrant

Amy Rigby

Til the Wheels Fall Off

Coop D'état

Chicken Run is finger lickin' good

Dog Bites

IKEA, Party of Five, heavenly coffee, and bumpin' Bernal Heights bus shelters

Rolling in His Grave

At least one San Francisco lawyer had a sense of humor

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

At least one San Francisco lawyer had a sense of humor

House of Tudor

At least one San Francisco lawyer had a sense of humor

The House of Tudor

At least one San Francisco lawyer had a sense of humor

Alice's Restaurant

Hot Chinese on real china

Sizzle, Fizzle

Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon is but a flash in the pan

Slap Shots

Michael Moore's Canadian Bacon is but a flash in the pan