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Taste Testing Chipotle's New Patrón Silver Margarita

Chipotle has always offered margaritas, but they've recently ditched the pre-made mix in favor of freshly made drinks and stepping up the liquor offerings. Now customers can wash down their burrito bowl with a $6.95 margarita made with Patrón Silver tequila, triple sec, fresh lime and lemon juices, ... More >>

Carl Icahn's Move on Netflix Spells Trouble

The last thing Netflix needs right now is Carl Icahn, but there he is, his dour puss looming above Los Gatos as he buys up shares in the company and makes noises about how he thinks it should be run. The trouble is that he has no idea about how it should be run, and all he cares about is pulling in ... More >>

Love Apple Farms Offers Workshops for Kitchen and Garden -- and a Great Day Away

Love Apple Farms is a biodynamic farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains that has become our default brain image of an idyllic garden ever since we visited last year. Renowned fine restaurant Manresa in nearby Los Gatos is the lucky beneficiary of much of the focus of operations, serving its produce exclus ... More >>

James Beard Awards Announce Semifinalists: Bay Area's Well Represented, Obviously

​The day has come for the James Beard Foundation to announce the semifinalists for the 2012 Restaurant Awards. As SFoodie has written before, the finals can resemble the Oscars in that they're often career awards rather than a measure of how the nominees are performing at this very moment. Tha ... More >>

Colette Phelps, Teacher Accused of Sexually Abusing a Student, Is "Deeply Embarrassed"

Colette Phelps​UPDATE: School officials respond to the arrest of teacher. Read after jump.It was enough to hear about the Hummer mom who was busted having sex with her 14-year-old daughter's boyfriends. But now readers will have to stomach another disturbing and truly jaw-dropping case where a "we ... More >>

Tonight's Dredg Show at Great American Music Hall Canceled

Dredg: Not talking much at dinner tonight.​ Update: The canceled Dredg show is now just a free show by opener the Trophy Fire. Anyone can come, no ticket required. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show is at 8. Bad news: Due to the sudden and last-minute loss of singer Gavin Hayes' voice, tonig ... More >>

Snapdragon Baking Co.'s Black Sesame Toffee

Jonathan KauffmanSnapdragon's black sesame toffee, $5 for 4 ounces. ​ Hway-ling Hsu wasn't trained as a pastry chef, so when she started making brittle last fall, she researched it the way most of us do: She downloaded a bunch of recipes off the Internet, then watched YouTube demos to learn the me ... More >>

Diamond Lil Makes a Public Appearance, Manresa Bulks Out

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Only two small tidbits for you today: Item the first: Eater says the bustaurant named Diamond Lil will be making two rare public appearances this week: It parks outside Spencer and Daniels (1 ... More >>

Not So Silent Night: Which One Of These Local Bands Should Share a Stage with the Smashing Pumpkins?

Caleb KuhlThey are IAMEMPIRE.​Live 105 recently announced a shortlist of local bands vying to perform at Not So Silent Night, the radio station's annual holiday concert, alongside the Smashing Pumpkins, the Black Keys, Phoenix, and some other band no one cares about. Ever since the announcement, o ... More >>

Four More Movies About Tech Moguls That We Want to See

​Thanks to The Social Network, tech is hot! And sexy -- meow. And whenever anything is hot and sexy, Hollywood mauls it until it's bleeding and dying from liver failure in an El Segundo psych ward. But that's a few years off! Right now tech movies are getting a little of the "ol' treatment," if yo ... More >>

Sara Cole, Suburban Mother of Four, Arrested for Sex With Minor

Sara Cole and her children. The mother of four is accused of having sex with a minor.​A suburban mother of four towheaded boys has been arrested on charges of unlawful sex with a minor. Sara Cole, 47, of Los Gatos, was yesterday booked into Santa Clara County jail on three counts after a two-month ... More >>

Friday's Pick: Cannons & Clouds, Winfred E. Eye, and By Sunlight

​Cannons & CloudsWinfred E. EyeBy SunlightBottom of the Hill10 p.m., $10Sometimes it's good to hit the ground running, and sometimes that just means you're about to bite off more than you can chew. Cannons & Clouds founders Zachary Blizzard and Joshua Kane realized the latter after doing t ... More >>

Sons and Daughters is creative and cutting-edge

Interview with Teague Moriarty and Matt McNamara of Sons and Daughters

FacebookMatt McNamara (left) and Teague Moriarty, before the opening of Sons and Daughters.​Before filing my review this week of Sons and Daughters, I spoke to co-chefs Teague Moriarty and Matt McNamara. I was curious about how they picked up their knowledge of the foams, gels, powders, emulsions, ... More >>

Woman Who Died on Third and Stevenson ID'd -- Fell from 18th Floor of Hotel

The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office has identified the woman who fatally plunged from the Westin Hotel in SOMA yesterday. Grace Autio, 50, of Los Gatos, either leaped or fell from an 18th-floor fire escape.

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ The Genie

​SF native The Genie spent three years in the subways of Montreal creating his "scratch guitar" style before bringing it back to SF to perfect it. Working with nothing but a couple of loop pedals, a guitar, and occasionally an iPod, Genie makes a hybrid of original music and covers. He produces l ... More >>

Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

SFoodie's weekly look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist. CraigslistMighty good eatin'.​• A farmer in Meridian has water-buffalo meat for sale. He's charging $8 a pound for vacuum-packed cuts. The animals' mozzarella di bufala-making days, apparently, were over. • Six Cucko ... More >>

Fish & Farm's Chad Newton: The SFoodie Interview

C. NewtonChad Newton: Wants Gordon to keep yelling.​Growing up in Mountain View, Chad Newton got a taste of restaurant glory via family trips to Stars, Jeremiah Tower's watershed Cali brasserie. "I used to always gravitate toward the regular menu, not the kid's menu," Newton said. He graduated ... More >>

Cured Meats, Smelly Cheeses, and Liqueur: The Secrets to a Long Life

shawnzam/FlickrThis is good for you, dammit.​We don't always read the obituaries, but for some reason we were perusing the death notices in the Chron today. We were heartened to read about Mima Hardwicke, formerly of Los Gatos, who made it to 100, attributing "her longevity and spirit to bacon ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. It's Food Porn Friday (like you need to look at more online porn). Bunrab chronicles a lunch at Scott Howard's Five in Berkeley. We haven't seen such an aggregation of fried things since our last bucket of Extra Crispy. Dude: Eat a celery stick ... More >>

Mark Your Calendar: CUESA Moveable Feast Fundraiser Set for Aziza in July

chez pim via FlickrSyhabout: Prix-fixe collaboratorPeople line up for Jesse Kuhn's Little Gem lettuces at the Ferry Plaza farmers' market on Saturdays and at the Marin farmers' market in San Rafael on Sundays. At his 10-acre Petaluma farm, Marin Roots, he also grows baby vegetables -- carrots, beets ... More >>

How the Bay Area Fared at James Beard Restaurant Awards

Douglas Keane Douglas Keane of Cyrus Surprise Winner for Best Chef, Pacific, and Nate Appleman's Third Time is Charm as He Wins Best Rising Star ChefAt last night's James Beard Awards, in something of an upset, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg won Best Chef, Pacific, over fellow nominees Jeremy ... More >>

Sexy Dishes Week Specials

Today through Friday is TasteTV's "Sexy Dishes Week" in the Bay Area, a celebration of the release of the book Sexy Dishes that contains profiles of hot local chefs and their recipes. Several establishments are offering specials based on or inspired by their chef's recipe(s) in the book. Announced s ... More >>

Bay Area Chefs Up For Beard Awards: A Remarkably Collegial Bunch

Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu i ... More >>

James Beard Award Nominations Announced

Bay Area Takes All Five Nominations for Best Chef in Pacific Region; Boulevard and A 16's Nate Appleman Among Locals Competing For Top PrizesThe prestigious James Beard Awards, given by the James Beard Foundation and often referred to as the Oscars of the restaurant and food media industries, announ ... More >>

TiVo Alert: David Kinch of Manresa vs. Bobby Flay on Iron Chef

David KinchHey, locavores! Even if you haven't been able to afford the multistarred (even the difficult-to-please Michelin gave it two stars), tres cher ( three courses $75, four courses $95, tasting menu $155, with two optional wine pairings for each, the cheaper called "appropriate", the better ca ... More >>

California Has a Budget -- and Abel Maldonado Gets his 'Date With Brad Pitt'

In exchange for his vote, Sen. Abel Maldonado required the political equivalent of a date with this manWhen we last spoke with Assemblyman Tom Ammiano on Monday, he predicted a budget by that day or Wednesday at the latest. So, he was off by seven hours -- legislators obtained the Republican vote th ... More >>

Ammiano: State Budget Possible Today

The financial crisis has helped Tom Ammiano craft one of his best one-liners yetReached in his Sacramento office during a rare down moment, Assemblyman Tom Ammiano told SF Weekly he's hopeful the "Financial Armageddon" Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned about (apparently lifting liberally from his ol ... More >>

Bay Area Bites from the Fancy Food Show: Silver Moon Desserts

Silver Moon Desserts infuses liqueur into its line of ice cream and sorbet flavors. We were knocked out by the Pomegranate Martini and Mango Mimosa. Both were light, delicate, and full of flavor, without overpowering the palate with alcohol. Silver Moon is served by various Bay Area restaurants. The ... More >>

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