Lori Baker

SFoodie's 50 Favorites: Baker & Banker's Blueberry Muffin

Number 49: Baker & Banker Bakery's Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffin

​ SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​There is no glory to the muffin. After cornflakes and milk, it's the most prosaic breakfast imaginable, the kind of thing you buy flats of from Costco for your office retreat or grab at the SFO Peet's on the way t ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Baker & Banker Bakery: Tasty Take-and-Bake Cookie Dough

​ SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​There is no glory to the muffin. After cornflakes and milk, it's the most prosaic breakfast imaginable, the kind of thing you buy flats of from Costco for your office retreat or grab at the SFO Peet's on the way t ... More >>

Baker & Banker Bakery's Bake-at-Home Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

​Baker & Banker Bakery, neighbor to Lori Baker and Jeff Banker's restaurant, packs a lot of potency into a small retail space. Recognizing the addictive power of its cookies, B&BB now offers frozen dough to go in two varieties: ginger and brown-butter chocolate chip. For $10, you can bake ... More >>

Studio Gourmet is Inside the Actors Studio for Chefs, and You Can Be in the Audience!

Studio Gourmet's FaceBook page1300 Fillmore's chef David Lawrence at Studio Gourmet.​Brad Lev founded Studio Gourmet while still living in Atlanta, Georgia. He owned a catering business, which was headquartered in a 5,000 square foot space, perfect for special events. He started hosting specia ... More >>

Baker and Banker Bakery Celebrate First Anniversary By Giving You Free Cake

This Saturday, Oct. 8, Baker and Banker is making a large sheet birthday cake to celebrate their bakery's first anniversary, and giving everyone who visits the bakery a free (FREE!) slice. It's a Guinness chocolate cake with Bailey's buttercream frosting, and I can't imagine it'll be there for long, ... More >>

Lori Baker's Fudge Frosting, in 140 Characters or Less

​Lolia S./Yelp​Since our attention span for following recipes (or anything, really) has only shortened since we ran our Twitter-Size Recipes column a couple years ago, we thought it might be time to resurrect our challenge to local chefs to distill one of their recipes into 140 character ... More >>

One Love Bake Sale Yields Big Haul for City Clinic

Gil Riego Jr.Thanks to you guys, we made nearly $1,300 for a good cause.​Sunday's One Love bake sale at La Victoria is now no more than a memory, a cake box or two we forgot to compost (sorry, Jaime!), and a huge pile of cash. That's right: Thanks to the generosity of the 12 pastry shops who d ... More >>

Micropatisseries in S.F.: Our guide to the city's best pastry shops

Gil Riego Jr.Thanks to you guys, we made nearly $1,300 for a good cause.​Sunday's One Love bake sale at La Victoria is now no more than a memory, a cake box or two we forgot to compost (sorry, Jaime!), and a huge pile of cash. That's right: Thanks to the generosity of the 12 pastry shops who d ... More >>

S.F. Rising: Sweet Potato Bread from Baker and Banker Bakery

Jonathan KauffmanBaker and Banker Bakery's sweet potato loaf.​A weekly survey of bread in San Francisco ― the baked and the fried, the artisan and the novelty.Sweet Potato Loaf Source: Baker & Banker Bakery 1701 Octavia (at Bush), 351-2500; open Weds.-Sun., 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Price: $7.50 Toa ... More >>

Baker and Banker Bakery's Focaccia Pizza

John BirdsallFocaccia pizza ($4.50).​Friday, August 13, 2010 Focaccia pizza: You brace yourself for something dense or dry, seeping oil, capped with rubbery cheese. Not at the hands of Lori Baker. At Baker and Banker Bakery ― the restaurant's two-week-old pastry shop annex ― focaccia pizz ... More >>

Baker and Banker, Perbacco, Farina, La Ciccia Pair Up for La Cocina Benefit

La Ciccia's stewed baby octopus.​We know: What with this weekend's SFChefs kickoff, next weekend's SF Street Food Festival (and conference), Outside Lands, Eat Real, Bar Agricole ― the Big Gay Ice Cream party, for chrissake ― it's hard to think of fitting in anything else. So we won't yet ... More >>

Baker and Banker: Don't say Californian

La Ciccia's stewed baby octopus.​We know: What with this weekend's SFChefs kickoff, next weekend's SF Street Food Festival (and conference), Outside Lands, Eat Real, Bar Agricole ― the Big Gay Ice Cream party, for chrissake ― it's hard to think of fitting in anything else. So we won't yet ... More >>

Kauffman in Eat: The Evolution of California Cuisine

Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshJeff Banker​SF Weekly food critic Jonathan Kauffman files a review disguised as a delicious think piece about Pac Heights fringe restaurant Baker & Banker. Kauffman finds Jeff Banker and Lori Baker's two-month-old restaurant emblematic of how far the notion of Califor ... More >>

While It Lasts, Free Birthday Cake at Humphry Slocombe Today

Laughing Squid/FlickrAnd a pinch to grow an inch.​Guess whose birthday it is? No, not Jesus. Boundary-pushing ice creamery Humphry Slocombe is 1 year old. To celebrate, the Mission District shop at 2790 Harrison (at 24th St.) is handing out free slices of birthday cake today starting at noon a ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Livin' Large -- on Liver Crostini

Doesn't it just seem to ooze money?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Beer goggles: You'd think 401(k)s hadn't been drained drier than a kegger at frat rush, the city was at full employment (the paid, legal kind), and we were all eating out to avoid the hassle of loading our dishwashers. It ... More >>

Sweet Beat: Lori's Bacon Peanut Brittle

From the bacon marshmallows at Perbacco (230 California) to the maple bacon donuts at Dynamo (2760 24th St.), bacon continues to be a favorite ingredient to play with for experimental chefs of all stripes. And just when we think we couldn't handle another bite of the stuff, California Culinary Ac ... More >>

Home Is Where the Corn Bread Is

Even in a new Marina location, you can go Home again