Mendocino

Feds Might Stop Trying to Seize Marijuana Grow Records

While real casualties abound, by and large the U.S. Justice Department's crackdown on California's medical marijuana industry has been half-hearted. True, about one-third of San Francisco's licensed medical marijuana dispensaries were shut down from 2011 to 2012. But more are open now, and the fed ... More >>

Feds Admit There's No Proof Mexican Drug Cartels Link to California Marijuana Grows

A while back, a medical cannabis grower told us this story: Needing help on his pot farm, a young entrepreneur drove down Cesar Chavez Avenue, convinced some day laborers to become season-long laborers, and headed north. All went well until the helicopters overhead turned into boots on the ground, a ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Know Your Sparkling Wine

The end of the year brings many things: family, parties, and lots of sparkling wine. While we love cocktails, it's this time of year we simply give in to any and all excuses for bubbly. It's like wine that got bedazzled. While our mental image of sparkling wine mostly stays fixed on Champagne, the ... More >>

Mendocino Beer, Wine & Mushroom Festival Starts Today

Mendocino Beer, Wine & Mushroom Festival Where: Locations throughout Mendocino County (check here for full festival schedule) When: Nov. 2-11 Cost: Varies, but many events are free The rundown: If you're considering a road trip up to Mendocino County, consider going in the next week and a half dur ... More >>

Happy Hour: Cheap Beer and a Moroccan Lamb Sandwich at L'Acajou

Life in SOMA rocks -- until the munchies come along and an existential crisis ensues. Leave the Sartre at home, but bring the French influence to L'acajou. This hip-but-cozy bakery/café is our go-to Gaul for breakfast; where else do home-baked chocolate-orange croissants ($2.50) or cinnamon mornin ... More >>

Pancakes Are for Dinner at State Bird Provisions

Since it opened last December, State Bird Provisions has gotten a lot of acclaim and attention for dishes like the signature fried quail (the California state bird, hence the name) and for serving many dishes dim sum-style, with passed trays and carts. When it opened, an early favorite was the sourd ... More >>

Sommelier Q & A with Urban Tavern's Steve Kleinfeld

Steve Kleinfeld C.S., General Manager of Urban Tavern, has built a wine list focused on wines with a sustainable focus to serve his mix of local and hotel guests. We have five questions for Sommeliers, and we hit him with them -- and then we can't resist dishing a bit below about his answers. Stev ... More >>

Drink: Wild Spirits: Small-Batch Bay Area Distillers Take Big Risks

The Wild Kitchen Pops Up for Several Dinners Before Hiatus

The Wild Kitchen, the pop-up that makes San Franciscans' pants pop up, is back for several nights of dinner service before going on hiatus. Iso Rabins, the foraging mastermind behind it all, is teaming up with co-chef Thomas Martinez, formerly of Bar Tartine and Mission Beach, to create a menu that' ... More >>

Medical Marijuana License Fees That Saved Cops' Jobs at Risk in Mendocino

​The one-of-a-kind cooperation between medical marijuana growers and the Mendocino County Sheriff's Department -- which legitimized cannabis cultivation in the eyes of the law and saved the jobs of deputies facing layoffs -- is at risk, pending the outcome of a court case.Since 2010, Mendocino Cou ... More >>

Wine Clubs Are the Coffin Nails of Rock 'n' Roll

Remember the good old days, when wine clubs were exclusively the pastime of pretentious assholes/your parents? Those days are over: Rolling Stone magazine just announced its own scheme to sell bottles of fermented grape juice to baby boomers with nothing better to blow their pension checks on. So w ... More >>

White Hills: Show Preview

Hey Food Activists: Can We Get a Ban on GMOs and BGH?

PCC Farmland Trust​California's food activists are on the verge of gaining a ban on the import of shark fins. And starting next July, sale of foie gras in this state will be illegal. We care about animal welfare here; we passed a law regulating the size of chickens' cages. But perhaps becaus ... More >>

Rolling Paper: Looking at the Current State of Safe Access

Bouncer Holds Forth at the Wal-Mart of S.F. Breweries

Bouncer Visits Gordon Biersch, the Wal-Mart of S.F. Breweries

​From this week's Bouncer column: All bars are great. Every last one of them, even the nightclubs that advertise on the sides of Muni buses. I have my favorites, of course, and I never miss the ones in hotels or airports. That's why Gordon Biersch on the Embarcadero is my one-stop shop for a ... More >>

Surveying Stout Beer Jelly and Biodynamic Wine at Taste of Mendocino

Sean TimberlakeBlack Dog Farm's jams and preserves range from the mundane to the quirky.​Monday's Taste of Mendocino event brought some of the best nibbles and sips from the county to Fort Mason to sample. Under the expansive roof of the Festival Pavilion, long rows of booths offered up tempti ... More >>

Saturday: Mendocino Seduces You With Its Exceptional Food and Booze

This will be you at Taste of Mendocino.​Taste of Mendocino Where: Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center When: Mon., June 13, 5-8 p.m. Cost: $35 in advance, $45 onsite, enter discount code of "alice" or "KGO" to save $14.75 on online admission fee. The rundown: Experience the "Mendo vibe" ... More >>

Blowing Smoke: Obama Promises One Thing, Does Another on Medical Marijuana

The Most Coveted Job in San Francisco: Tending Bud

You will need to smoke a joint after bud tending....it's a stressful jobIt may not be the best job in San Francisco: starting pay is $15 an hour, it's part-time, and job security? The federal government could lock you up at any moment. On the other hand, at most locations it includes health benefits ... More >>

Cotogna Complements Parent Quince With Simple Italian Fare

A Guide to Mostly Free Events During SF WhiskyWeek

thirstycactus/FlickrWhiskyWeek events celebrate everybody's favorite brown spirit.​If you can't make it to Friday's WhiskyFest or simply can't wait, there's a multitude of special events breaking out over the next five days in bars and retail shops all over the Bay Area. Here are a few of our ... More >>

What to Drink at This Weekend's Eat Real Festival

Eat Real FestivalBeer is clearly the star of the three-day Oakland festival.​SFoodie has already passed along tips for navigating this weekend's Eat Real Festival (which kicks off this afternoon across the Bay in Jack London Square), but don't think we'd forget to break down some of the drinki ... More >>

The High Road

Growers who cashed in on illegal pot now welcome legalization and taxation.

Chill on the Hills — and in the Bay

Find summer adventures on land, at sea, or in the air.

Track of the Day: Carlton Melton Gets Stony in the Dome

​I spent the holidays getting my rural hippie on, traveling from the Oregon mountains for Christmas and then down to Big Sur for New Years. So it was only fitting that when forced to return to reality, I'd spend my final night of freedom from the 9 to 5 leaving the planet behind completely. I'm ta ... More >>

Local Dungeness Hits Restaurants Today. Here's Where to Score a Taste

Gothiron/FlickrLocal commercial Dungeness season opened yesterday.​For some San Franciscans, today is like Christmas Day, the Fourth of July, and 4/20, all rolled into one. The day the first local Dungeness hits restaurant menus justifies sick calls and leisurely lunches, not to mention the ki ... More >>

Next Week's Wild Kitchen Prix Fixe to Feature Ex-Winterland Pastry Chef

If the wild foods trend gets any wilder, diners themselves will end up spearing wild boars at the table, perhaps even risking life and limb to subdue their own maniac morels as well. Blessedly, the Wild Kitchen adheres to a less terrifying vision of wild-ness: according to a press release, "wild me ... More >>

Music Fest Road Trip: Mendocino's Invisible Ocean

Little Wings​Summer's the time to hit the road for a little R&R: rest & relaxation (& rock & roll). Big Sur and the Brookdale Lodge are going off down south, but there's also a beachy festival coming up further north, featuring a number of Bay Area acts. On September 5 & 6 ... More >>

Chronic City: Marijuana Moratorium -- How To Ignore The Voters And The Law

Dispensary moratorium: Latest political fad?​One by one, across California, the lights are winking out.In city after city, town after town, patients who had dared hope they would at last have safe access to the medicine recommended by their physicians are having those hopes dashed  by politic ... More >>

Guaranteed Good Eating and Drinking at Outside Lands

​While one of the main headliners might be up in the air for this year's Outside Lands music fest (August 28-30 in Golden Gate Park) at this point, promoters can assure that good quality food vendors have already been secured. "A Taste of the Bay Area" definitely sounds like more than funnel c ... More >>

Chronic City: Big Marijuana Headache For Mendocino District Attorney

mendonews.wordpress.comMendocino grow room: Puff, puff, pass? Not so fastIt's not easy being a district attorney, especially in a mostly pot-friendly place like Mendocino County. Whatever law enforcement priorities you follow, it's guaranteed you're going to piss off one group while pleasing another ... More >>

If you go:

Cross the Golden Gate Bridge, exit Highway 1/Shoreline Highway, and head north. Don't forget to pack a book.

A literary road trip up the Mendonoma coast

SF Wine Events, Feb. 13-22

Bust out the bubbly, Saturday's Valentine's Day!

Up in Smoke, For Real: State Bums Out Millions of Stoners

Ready to Rumble

It's the 100-year anniversary of the 1906 earthquake. Are you a fan of all the hoopla? Take our quiz and see.

Some of My Best Friends Are Records

SF Weekly writers pick their favorite Bay Area records of all time

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

The Filth and the Fury

The Hemlock gets down and dirty

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Best Microbrew

White Hawk Original IPA, Mendocino Brewing Co.

House of Tudor

Sci-fi filk singers, a still-flying Byrd, and the infectious Dengue Fever

Home Plates

Does Pac Bell Park need another nearby restaurant?

Best Sporting Goods Store

REI

The Homespun Hipster

Johnfrank

Style Over Substance

OakTown Cafe

Best Musical Museum Where You Can Touch (and Buy)

Lark in the Morning

Glow for It

Firefly is a study in cool, even though its complex offerings aren't always in harmony

Slap Shots