Louisiana

The Eyes Have It

You Ain't Got No Alibi

Jump in -- Water Is Fine

Wading Into the Vietnamese-Cajun Crawfish Boil, San Francisco Style

Linda C./YelpRaiding the bag at Red Crawfish.​Maybe there's nothing more apt for facing down Independence Day than a sprawling, itchy-fingered session at some Vietnamese-Cajun crawfish joint. They're among the most indelibly American of eateries in this most densely hyphenated of societies, th ... More >>

Tasty's New Jack('s) Corn Stew: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallSpicy corn maque choux from Tasty's Creole and Cajun Kitchen.​Thurs., March 11, 2010 Did something shady go down between Jack's and ex-kitchen tenant Yats? After a spoonful of spicy corn maque choux, our tongue throbbing like a hammered thumb on Cartoon Network, we stopped caring. ... More >>

Yats Making Plans to Open a Soup Kiosk in the Financial District

T. Palmer​Thanks to a tip from Eater, we learned that New Orleans food specialist Yats' New Orleans Original Po' Boys started serving lunch last Friday at Annie's Bistro (2819 California at Divisadero). Trading under the name Creole Soups and Such, Louisiana specialties such as gumbo and alligator ... More >>

The "No Sex" Sign Guy: What Happened to Subtlety?

​Just feet from a gay pride flag flapping in the breeze, Owen Dias squats on the fire hydrant five days a week like Dorothy landed in Oz. In a city renowned for free love, the first topless club, and a mayor beloved despite his adulterous sex scandal, a man with a "No Unlawful Sex" sign is mostly ... More >>

Bar cuisine at the Broken Record

​Just feet from a gay pride flag flapping in the breeze, Owen Dias squats on the fire hydrant five days a week like Dorothy landed in Oz. In a city renowned for free love, the first topless club, and a mayor beloved despite his adulterous sex scandal, a man with a "No Unlawful Sex" sign is mostly ... More >>

Oyster Lovers Unite

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/12

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Oops: Pentagon Accidentally Sent Taiwan Nuclear Material. Again.

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Howard Wiley Gains Inspiration from an Unlikely Locale: Angola Prison

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Disaster Shots

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Don't Let Go of the Potato

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

Five Best Pizza Parlors

This Valentines weekend may be your best chance to eat oysters for years to come.

The Opposite of Sex

Despite attitude and humor, it's just another bland musical

Just for Me

How a breakfast and lunch place became a habit

Land of Dreams

We don't care if the members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band are old. They're still cool.

Just Like Old Times

We can't believe how inexpensive the good food is at Watercress

The Rio Frisco

Brazilians of dancers

Like Mamma Used to Make

Viewing The Restaurant gets our critic hungry for old-fashioned red-sauce Italian

Best Sweet Potato Pie

Delancey Street Restaurant

Gale Farce

Kevin isn't the only thing Spacey in this overlong death-penalty drama

House of Tudor

American Mullet, blues radical John Sinclair, and Nik Phelps' animation bounty

Swamp Thing

The Graves Brothers Deluxe emerges from the bogs of the South, dripping with strange fictions and mysterious rock

Seconds, Anyone?

Talkin' turkey with "The Man Who Ate Everything," food critic Jeffrey Steingarten

Park Yourself

Chenery Park

The War on Raves

Forget terrorists; let's fight the dancers

That Voodoo

Le Krewe

Five Best Places to Celebrate the Sunset

Le Krewe

House Of Tudor

Devil-Ettes fund-raiser; Love Psychedelico; "Sound Effects: The Magic of Foley"

Say Cheesecake

The Cheesecake Factory

Hear This

Olu Dara

Dolce Far Niente

Absinthe; David's; Ella's; Garden Court; Liberty Cafe

The Apples in Stereo

Discovery of the World Inside the Moone
(SpinArt)

Side Dish

Red Rover, Red Rover; Wine Country Grows in the City; Wick, Wick, Whack; Every Positive Has a Negative

Around the World in 1,000 Years

LuLu

House Of Tudor

Taboo: The Art of Tiki, "Smashing 1980s," Hellacopters, Dance-Along Nutcracker, Sixteen Horsepower

Jamba Liar

One of California's best Cajun chefs goes on the lam after a Bay Area con game is busted

Night & Day

One of California's best Cajun chefs goes on the lam after a Bay Area con game is busted

Blame It on the Bossa Nova

One of California's best Cajun chefs goes on the lam after a Bay Area con game is busted

Laissez Ferret

State allows ferret underground to weasel way around law

Chasing History

For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

Night Crawler

For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

House of Tudor

For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

The House of Tudor

For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

Stage

For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

Night+Day

For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

The Sound and the Fury

Eating to the beat at Eleven

Mississippi Riverdance

Eating to the beat at Eleven