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Usher Eats Vegan, Mickey D's Opens Veg Location, and Tater Tot Casserole Looks Lovely and Amazing!

​Guys, guys, guys--biggest news ever! R&B superstar Usher is eating vegan! And he wants the Biebs to go vegan too! I effing love Usher like whoa so I'm super pleased. Hopefully he will make the whole leap once he gets a little further into veganhood. And then JB will go vegan and make a line of ve ... More >>

Soup to Nuts: Crazy Food Taxes Penalize the Poor, Benefit the Rich

Why Is McDonald's Claiming to be Farm Fresh?

With all the shit-talking city supervisors have done about McDonald's and it's calorie-laden Happy Meal, just wait till they get a glimpse of the fast-food chain's latest marketing ploy -- a video touting its farm-to-table ethics! Yeah, this is a video Supervisor Eric Mar would digest:

SF Weekly Letters

The Melt and Umami Burger: The New (Improved?) Fast Food

Lara Hata​For all of the San Francisco foodistas who humblebrag about the number of years since they've stepped foot in a McDonald's, there are just as many who are on first-name basis with the cashiers at their local Popeye's. Chipotle -- a Colorado knockoff of a Mission taqueria -- just opened i ... More >>

McRib is McNasty, Lots of Weekend Fun, and Silk Nog is Baaaack!

​• Vegan R.D. Virginia Messina, put together a list of ten easy steps to help you go vegan. Read it in conjunction with Megan Rascal's 11 Tips for New Vegans, and you'll be vegan, or hate all vegans, in no time. And if you hate all vegans, screw you! And Happy Holidays! • Ecoterre has some cu ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Whines, Baby Dolphins are Adorable, and the World's Best Spaghetti Sauce!

​ ​• Anthony Bourdain is running his mouth again about how much he hates vegans because he can't stop because he loves press OH WAIT. ​• Matthew Herbert made a CD of pig noises in factory farms. It is hella super depressing. If you're a person with a heart or brain, be prepared to ... More >>

Fiveten Burger: Imagine McDonald's as a Food Truck

Photos by W. Blake GrayOrder a burger and fries together and this is what you get​I thought Fiveten Burger proprietor Roland Robles might be insulted when I compared his French fries to McDonald's. But he was pleased. "That's the idea," Robles said. "Can you think of a better French fry? Thos ... More >>

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The Defeat of Mickey D's, Caffeine Jitters, and Duck Eggs: This Week in Food Bloggery

Joseph SchellFrom this week's slideshow of the Peruvian Food Festival​Highlights from SFoodie this week:1. W. Blake Gray checks out Le Cordon Bleu, which claims to be San Francisco's first Vietnamese restaurant (opened in 1968). It's now owned by a Chinese-American woman who's never been to Vietna ... More >>

San Francisco Defeats McDonald's

Strange Cosmos.com​When San Francisco banned McDonald's Happy Meals last November, the rest of the country mocked us, and not just the conservative trolls who hate everything we stand for. We got mocked by Jon Stewart, which hits us where we live. Ex-mayor Gavin Newsom -- does anyone miss him ... More >>

Get Your Ass to Oakland for: Sacred Wheel's Grilled Cheese & PBR Tomato Soup

Laura BeckEat Me, Bitches!​Is there any combo more perfect than a grilled cheese and tomato soup? If there is, we don't want to see a picture of Gael Garcia Bernal naked and making out with a sandwich. Wait, what? Anyway, Sacred Wheel Cheese Shop in Oakland's Temescal district is mainly a plac ... More >>

Japan Relief Auction Stunts We'd Like to See

We'd buy that for a dollar...​As reported earlier on this page, our Board of Supervisors raised $11,000 for Japan -- and did so by doing what it would do anyway. David Chiu was going to ride his bike. Now he gets some company, and $250 goes to disaster relief. Eric Mar was going to go to the Acade ... More >>

No. 39: Sticky Chewy Chocolate Ice Cream at Swensen's

John BirdsallSticky chewy chocolate ice cream, $2.70 for a 4-ounce cup at Swensen's.​SFoodie's countdown of our 92 favorite things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition. I was a kid growing up down the Peninsula, spending summers with my grandpa at Bay Meadows, getting coached in ho ... More >>

Getting Meat into Cocktails is Tricky but Doable

There have been a few constants in humanity's aspirations: finding out if we're all alone in the universe, immortality, and successfully getting meat to work in a cocktail. The latter is remarkably delicate work. Go too far in the meat direction and it can get gross (and yes, for vegans and vegeta ... More >>

Bittman Blasts McDonald's, Old People Say No to Meat Loaf, Wholesome Bakery Rules!

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Mark Bittman writes a lot (and I mean a lot) about how fucked McDonald's oatmeal is and how basically, it's a reflection of how fucked the company is and how they don't give two shits about anything but getting ... More >>

Top 10 Awful Songs That Are Awesome for Karaoke

Not sure if you've noticed yet, but this fair city of ours is awash with karaoke. All the way from the traditional joints in Japantown to the dive bars of the Mission (Sunday afternoons in The 500 Club are particularly noteworthy), people are volunteering to sing for their fellow patrons like nothi ... More >>

Does Happy Meal Case Against McDonald's Stand a McFlurry's Chance in Hell?

Will California follow San Francisco in banning fast-food toy promos?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. SF Weekly news blog editor Joe Eskenazi looks at the class-action lawsuit filed in Sacramento yesterday against McDonald's. You know, the one that accuses the company of destroying Americ ... More >>

Worse Than Sarah Palin, 7-Eleven Sees the Light, and Cuddling Chickens

​SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • Paul McCartney's one-legged ex who everyone hates, Heather Mills, is turning out to be a kinda coo-coo-for-Cocoa-Puffs activist. In a good way. I think. Anyway, she owns a chain of vegan restaurants in England ... More >>

Unhappy Meals: How else can S.F. improve kids' health?

San Francisco Bans the Happy Meal -- With Veto-Proof Majority

Veto-proof majority! Robble robble. ​It seems the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has accomplished what the Hamburglar never could. They've made off with McDonald's fare. The supes today passed an ordinance that will require meals to meet nutritional guidelines if restaurants wish to include a ... More >>

Bevan Dufty Will Be Deciding Vote on Happy Meal Toy Ban Tomorrow

​From our sister blog, The Snitch, comes the latest update in the ongoing saga of the Happy Meal Toy Ban. For those not in the know, supervisor Eric Mar introduced a measure that, if approved, would prevent McDonald's locations in San Francisco from distributing toys with Happy Meals, with the rea ... More >>

How Long Does it Take a Happy Meal to Decay?

A screenshot of Sally Davies' Flickr page​ Photographer Sally Davies has tackled a question that many of us probably try not to think about: just how long does it take a McDonalds Happy Meal to decay, anyway?  The artist purchased a Happy Meal on April 10th, 2010 and left it on her coffee t ... More >>

List: How do the homeless cope without McDonald's dollar meals?

United Airlines Forgets Young Passenger, Force-Feeds Him McDonald's

First United gets everyone to refer to Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' as 'The United Airlines Song' ... and now this​United Airlines is facing a brewing Internet-driven PR disaster following a boy's horrible, horrible flight out of San Francisco.  Julien Reid, 9, has told his parents that he w ... More >>

Restaurant Name Changes: It's a Bad Month for the Little Guys

Just so's you know, Novamex: San Francisco hates you right now.​Yesterday, Mission Mission posted more details about the forced name change that Los Jarritos ― you know, the 22-year-old Mission restaurant with the colorful decor and great breakfasts ― has undergone. In March, the Bay Guardian ... More >>

Parada 22 Expected to Debut Later This Week

Jay Barmann/Grub Street San Francisco​A few weeks back, Jay Barmann of Grub Street San Francisco hipped us to the imminent opening of Parada 22 (1805 Haight at Shrader), a Puerto Rican restaurant helmed by chef Alex Jackson (Weird Fish/The Corner). At that point, the projected start date was t ... More >>

Move Over, Burger King Whopper Bar: Wendy's Strip Clubs and Other Fantasy Fast-Food Expansions

With the announcement that Burger King is readying Whopper Bar in Miami Beach, the chain's first beer-and-burger joint, we think it's time for BK's competitors to step up into the area of brand extension, too. We wonder what would happen if these ideas were floated at corporate meetings:8. Jack in t ... More >>

A McDonald's You'll Actually Miss

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation Evicts SF Booklovers' 'Institution' By Peter Jamison In a section of the Tenderloin just off Market Street and 5th, where check-cashing outfits and strip clubs give way to desolate, garbage-littered streets, is the kind of store that San Franciscans ... More >>

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Heklina, San Francisco's Beloved Drag Mega-Star, Covers Some Bases at the All Star Game (With Video!)

There's the Beef

Richard Linklater's ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good

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Vote Like This, Dammit!

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When you crave a big hunk of meat, Alfred's is the place (since 1928)

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