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January 9, 2008Morning Buzz: A Foodie Day Planner
Tuesday, June 2, 2009 Let's do lunch: Express your devotion to a cult favorite while it's still light outside: SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody says bust out a little worship for the vegetarian samusa soup and ginger salad at Burma Superstar (309 Clement at Fourth Ave, 387-2147). Drink therapy: Always struggled with math? Mars Bar and Restaurant (798 Brannan at Seventh St., 621-6277) makes it easy to calculate your tab with Double Deuce Tuesday: $2 Tecates and $2 carnitas tacos till
June 2, 2009This is Your Brain on Vegetables
September 19, 2008Photos: Snow! In Berkeley!
Photos by Meredith Brody The news outlets have been falling all over themselves in the last few days, sending hapless reporters up Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tamalpais, in order to send us footage of snow atop these usually green mountains. But hey! Those are the highest mountains in the area (that's why they call them Mount). Even more amazing, to our jaded eyes, was the sight of snow in the Berkeley hills (note: hills), covering Tilden Park and even, at lower altitudes, the Grizzly Peak Stables, tu
December 18, 2008Exhibit A: Bad Biofuel
By Meredith Brody On first reading, this bright idea seems heaven-sent for combining two New Year's resolutions: contributing to a greener planet by using less gasoline, and, hey, dropping a few pounds while you're at it. Alas, this Beverly Hills (where else?) liposuction doctor's simple plan - using the fat he sucked out of his patients' bodies to fuel his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator (nice gas-sucking choices, by the way, doc!), turned out to be illegal. Not if Dr. Cr
December 28, 2008Exhibit B: Good Biofuel or "Dump Your Used Holiday Grease Responsibly - For Free!"
By Meredith Brody If you fried up a whole lot of latkes (potato pancakes) or sufganyot (doughnuts) for Hanukkah, or sautéed sweet potatoes in oil or fried tamales in lard for Christmas, or maybe the turkey frier you hauled out for Thanksgiving is still lurking in the garage, full of congealed fat (lovely thought). PLEASE don't dump the grease down the drain. Starting Saturday, December 27, and running through Tuesday, December 30, you can bring your used cooking oil to the Costco warehouse
December 28, 2008Corner Spots, Shrooming on Ice Cream, and Undying Foie: The Week in SFoodie
Our kind of shrooming involves ice cream•Our first lady of lunching Meredith Brody found tasty delights at an inconspicuous new Mission District eatery named simply the Corner. It's on an actual corner, go figure.•Chocolate-maker Michael Recchiuti launched his new Taste Project, serving such unlikely treats as mushroom ice cream sandwiches.•Once again, our attentions turned to foie gras as bulk retail giant Costco pondered a ban.•Plus: City walking on carbs 'n caffeine, meditational tea,
May 29, 2009Morning Buzz: A Foodie Day Planner
Friday, June 5, 2009 Let's do lunch: It's carb-wallow Friday! You've been good all week, picking at salads. Now take SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody's advice and load up on the spaghetti and meatballs and ginger cake at Park Chow (1240 Ninth Ave. at Lincoln, 665-9912). Drink therapy: The Giants are outta town -- time to reclaim the ballpark from cargo-shorted suburban dweebs. Represent at Acme Chophouse (24 Willie Mays Plaza at Third St., 644-0240) for $5 happy-hour noshes, $3 drafts, and $4
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January 22, 2003Morning Buzz: A Foodie Day Planner
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 Let's do lunch: Explore northern China by way of the Outer Sunset: SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody says seek out the lamb with chives and onion pancake at Old Mandarin Islamic (3132 Vicente at 42nd Ave., 564-3481). Drink therapy: Insulate yourself from the fog's chill (with enough green left over to score a burrito on the way home): One-buck beers tonight at The Abbey Tavern (4100 Geary at Fifth Ave., 221-7767), all night. Drink in a whiff of New Orleans at backwoo
May 26, 2009Mall Eats, Dirty Music, and Home Cooking: A Foodie Day Planner
Friday, June 12, 2009 Let's do lunch: Ah, the joys of hanging out at the mall -- only instead of giant pretzels and pizza dripping orange grease, grab something delicious: SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody says seek out the fresh spring rolls and caramelized chicken claypot at Out the Door (Concourse Level, Westfield San Francisco Centre, 865 Market at Fifth St., 541-9913). Drink therapy: Get $1 off all drinks during Friday happy hour at Skylark Bar (3089 16th St. at Valencia, 621-9294), 5
June 12, 2009Sandwich Day, Mojito Nights, and a SOMA Classic: A Foodie Day Planner
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Let's do lunch: Pal's Take Away (2751 24th St. at Hampshire, 203-4911) can single-handedly rekindle your love for the sandwich, says our food critic Meredith Brody. A good place to start: today's slow-roasted pork with balsamic Knoll Farm figs, Gorgonzola, and house-pickled shallots. Drink therapy: It's Cuban music night at Café Cocomo (650 Indiana at 19th St., 824-6910), and with all-night mojito specials, you'll be partying like Havana 1958, only without the reek of
June 30, 2009New Ferry Plaza Thursday Street-Food Market Off to a Delicious Start
Meredith Brody Laiola spinoff Tacolicious was serving up tacos inspired by the street. Today saw the kick-off for Ferry Plaza's Thursday street-food market. In the Ferry Building's North Arcade, five carts offered fare made from market-fresh ingredients. We were first in line to taste the results. Meredith Brody Chipotle chicken and short-rib tacos from Tacolicious.Roli Roti (rotisserie meats, featuring a bistecca arrosta, a juicy roast beef sandwich for $5.50) and Cap'n Mik
July 2, 2009Fish Tacos, Green Wine, and a Mouthful of Smoke: A Foodie Day Planner
Tuesday, July 7, 2009 Let's do lunch: Check out the Tuesday farmers' market at Ferry Plaza, then get in line with the tourists and business types, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, for the fish tacos and a chocolate mint chip milkshake at Taylor's Automatic Refresher (One Ferry Building at The Embarcadero, 318-3423). Drink therapy: Meeting up for a first date? Make a good impression in a place that's cozy, eco-conscious, and more than a little brainy: Sip "green" wines (including hap
July 7, 2009Early Bird Special: The Tipsy Pig
Jen SiskaThe mac 'n' cheese most definitely did not suck.You've been to that party, the one where you feel uncomfortably dickish. Everybody else is hammered and sweaty, screaming into their phones and busting cheesy moves to Lady Gaga, while you're, well, wondering if anyone'd notice if you booked. That's how Weekly food maven Meredith Brody felt on her second visit to The Tipsy Pig (2231 Chestnut at Pierce), the Marina comfort-food phenom that calls itself a "gastrotavern" (you know, like gastr
July 7, 2009Local Flavor: Outerlands' Soups and Sandwiches Cut Through the Summer Fog
Meredith Brody The Outer Sunset cafe offers relief from summer's chill. Though you can see the Pacific from Outerlands' corner, and the interior is lovingly assembled from driftwood, there's a bit of Vermont lurking about the place. The rustic Outer Sunset café -- which opened in February -- is run by people flinty enough to get up very early to bake lévain bread, lattice-topped blueberry-nectarine pies, organic brownies, and prepare daily-changing hearty soups. That excellent lÃ
July 8, 2009Be the Change You Wish to Eat: The Week in SFoodie
shunafish/FlickrAppleman: armed with new challenges.• It was a week all about moving on, starting with Meredith Brody's Hot Meal report on Five, the luxe-y Berkeley hotel eatery that marks the re-appearance of beloved S.F. chef Scott Howard. She's dreaming about a return. • Mary Ladd tracked another re-appearance: After breaking hearts for departing the Mission, Suriya Thai surfaced in SOMA. Hey Valencia Street: see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya. • Tamara Palmer took a late-night stroll throu
July 17, 2009Lunch Counter Redux, Bargain Clubby, and Late-Night Scarfing: A Foodie Day Planner
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Let's do lunch: Restore your faith in lunch counter classics -- grab a B.A.L.T. (basil, avocado, lettuce, and tomato sandwich) and an order of apricot crisp, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, at The Sentinel (37 New Montgomery at Sevenson, 284-9960). Drink therapy: Hang out at the grand circular bar, grok the clubby ambience, and save a little: $5 classic cocktail hour (including wines by the glass and beers) at Orson (508 Fourth St. at Brannan, 777-1508), 5-7
July 21, 2009Early Bird Special: Flour Water
Jen SiskaThey'll make you forget the wait.Like children of the corn, San Franciscans have lined up practically since day one at Flour Water (2401 Harrison at 20th St.), the Mission's newest locus of blistery thin-crust grandeur, juxtaposing clunky schoolhouse chic with graceful cooking. Call the restaurant's acolytes children of the locally grown silver corn, cut off the cob and scattered over heirloom tomato salads. In this week's restaurant review, SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody discovers t
July 21, 2009Hot Meal: Il Cane Rosso
Meredith Brody The menu flaunts the farms and ranches where ingredients were sourced.Last week, chef Daniel Patterson (Coi) and Lauren Kiino (formerly of Delfina) opened Il Cane Rosso (One Ferry Building at The Embarcadero), the little rotisserie-sandwich shop of our dreams. Kiino's red dog inspired the name, but the food, according to Il Cane Rosso's Web site, takes inspiration from "the small, family run stores that have fed southern Italy for generations." The menu changes daily, and l
July 21, 2009Show Dogs Unleashes Upscale Wieners on the Tenderloin
Meredith BrodyA lamb merguez sausage (left) and the 4505 dog.The irony of passing two long soup kitchen lines to sample upscale hot dogs at the new Show Dogs sausage emporium in the Tenderloin didn't escape us. But owners Gayle Pirie and John Clark's Foreign Cinema has had a singularly salubrious effect on revitalizng its swath of the Mission, and this stretch of Market Street is in dire need of destinations far beyond restaurants. Besides, Show Dogs is convenient for grabbing a haute dog befor
July 21, 2009Don't Try This at Home: Korean Black Garlic Probably Best Left to Professionals
Meredith BrodyCould you resist?Once a cutting-edge ingredient of starred chefs who frequented the haute cook shop Le Sanctuaire, Korean black garlic is a lot more accessible these days. Sure, chefs like James Syhabout of Commis are still creating platescapes with it, and it's made appearances on Top Chef and Iron Chef. We spotted some recently at Berkeley Bowl (2020 Oregon at Adeline, Berkeley), offered as a checkstand impulse buy. Who wouldn't be intrigued by the sign for the brand called Bla
July 22, 2009Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Rumor maven: In her Scoop column for the Yummy Letter, GraceAnn Walden writes about Nate Appleman like he's a superplayer in a class with A-Rod and Mark Sanford. Last week the Chron broke the story that the inked, stocky chef was booking from A16 and SPQR. In classic gossip-rag style, Walden drops a sentence that's hard to interpret, except that it reeks of easy sleaze. After lobbing the bomblet that Appleman's wife and son have retreated to
July 22, 2009City of Burgers: Best-O-Burger's Sloppy Bob
Meredith Brody Deliciously retro. We've gone on record as being big fans of Best-O-Burger's satisfying slideresque burgers and crisp onion strings (inaccurately named Ring-Os). But the tiny spot on Belden Place (493 Pine at Kearny) didn't make it into heavy rotation on account of its utter lack of seating. You could perch on the planters across the street on Pine or otherwise just go wander off somewhere, while all that off-limits seating from the other restaurants crowding Belden
July 23, 2009Local Flavor: Two Tastes of Venice at Da Flora
Meredith Brody Hunters' special: duck livers alla veneziana. Da Flora (701 Columbus at Filbert) has one of the coziest, most charming dining rooms in the city: deep-red walls with interesting art, big windows topped with old ship models, lighting from a Murano glass chandelier and hanging Fortuny lanterns. It's a fantasy of a Venetian ostaria. Owner Flora Gaspar and executive chef Jen McMahon have perfected two must-order dishes that are just as charming: sweet potato gnocchi in she
July 24, 2009Eating Away the Blahs: The Week in SFoodie
Meredith BrodyWhy stop at one? • We ate like 15-year-olds with a thyroid condition this week -- call it consolation for the relentlessly shitty weather, the kind that drizzles just enough moisture onto the filthy hood of your Sentra to make it seem permanently flocked with grime. Meredith Brody kicked things off at the Ferry Building with a mouthful of rotisserie. • Tamara Palmer made herself feel better for missing this weekend's Gilroy Garlic Festival by acquiring some seriously reek
July 24, 2009Market Report: Earth Island Expands into Former PlayStation Store, Adds Vendors
Meredith BrodyCupcake maker Kingdom of Cake is one of 10 new vendors.On Monday last week, the Earth Island Farmers' Market in the Metreon (101 Fourth St. at Mission) expanded into the former Sony PlayStation store on Fourth Street, adding more than 10 new vendors. The market opened in mid-May with some two dozen prepared food stalls and produce sellers in the space on Mission that once housed the Discovery Channel Store. "The PlayStation space was always part of our plans," organizer Ma
July 30, 2009Eating Russian, Drinking Vertical, and Making Karaoke Bearable: A Foodie Day Planner
Friday, August 7, 2009 Let's do lunch: It's counterintuitive, right? On a summer Friday, you're probably thinking sunny picnic, not frozen steppes. But, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, head to Russian tearoom Katia's (600 Fifth Ave. at Balboa) for the eggplant caviar and mushroom and onion blinchiki. Drink therapy: Nah, it's Friday -- everyone and his mom will beat you to the comfy seats under the windows. Still, with $5 wells and other happy hour specials, you could do wors
August 7, 2009Cooling Off in the Sunset, Finding Dodgy Glam in the Mission, and Going Euro in SOMA: A Foodie Day Planner
Thursday, August 13, 2009 Let's do lunch: Who knows, might even be hot in the Sunset today. SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody says cool off with vegetable tempura and cold zaru soba at Hotei (1290 Ninth Ave. at Irving). Drink therapy: No DJs tonight, but who cares? Console yourself with $4 well drinks and an ambience that's part louche, part glam: Bruno's (2389 Mission at 19th St.), 7-9 p.m. It's got glittery black chandeliers and a whiff of Euro voguishness. Take it all in while t
August 13, 2009Big Inside, the Anti-Chevys, and Garret Cool: A Foodie Day Planner
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 Let's do lunch: It's worn and tiny, but the handmade dumplings make you feel huge inside. SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody recommends the Shanghai soup dumplings, scallion pancake, and cucumber salad at Kingdom of Dumplings, 1713 Taraval (at 27th Ave.), 566-6143. Drink therapy: It's a lot classier than a Chevys, you don't have to deal with quesadilla-eating 7-year-olds, and happy-hour prices make it strip-mall cheap. Score complimentary botanas and $
August 18, 2009Eat Real Fest, Day Two: Cupcakes, Adios to Eeyore, and Butchery
M. Brody The Good to Go market at Jack London Square.SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody risked sunburn and serious bloating at the three-day Eat Real Festival in Oakland this weekend. Behold the second of Brody's three reports on the street-food orgy. Saturday was hot again, but not as muggy as Friday, and we headed down to Jack London Square and the Eat Real celebration of street food ("putting the food back in fast") hungry, and with our pockets stuffed with fresh cabbage (in o
August 31, 2009Moist Hunks, Juicy Roll: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 Good enough for us: SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody recently called the pulled lamb sandwich here "absolutely superb: moist hunks of meat, juices imbuing its crusty roll, with an unexpectedly delicious dipping side of watermelon vinegar." Get your own at Wexler's, 568 Sacramento (at Montgomery), 983-0102.
September 1, 2009Eat Real Fest, Day Three: Long Lines and Separation Anxiety
M. Brody The sign from SweetFace Bakery said it all.SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody risked sunburn and serious bloating at the three-day Eat Real Festival in Oakland this weekend. This is her third and final report. On the last day of Eat Real, the Oakland festival celebrating street food and sustainable agriculture, the weather joined the party. Sunday was sunny, but a breeze off the bay kept things cooler than muggy Friday or baking Saturday, thereby increasing the crowds. D
September 1, 2009Garlic Oasis: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Thursday, September 3, 2009 We're not saying the greatest virtue of this place is its location in a food wasteland, but we can confidently say it's the finest Chinese restaurant on its block. SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody suggests the hot smoked ham with string beans and spicy garlic chicken at Henry's Hunan, 924 Sansome (at Vallejo), 956-7727.
September 3, 2009Early Bird Special: Outerlands
M. BrodySexy, right?An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. When this year's food obit is filed (something tells us we'll be the ones writing it), expect some ponderous post-mort on 2009 having been the Year of the Sandwich. Foams and 12-course degustations may seems as quaint as cotillions in this first year of the Great Recession, but stuff bracketed between bread is charged with as much unlikely sex appeal as a neckbeard and a pair of dirty Vans. Turns out S.F. diner
September 8, 2009The Most Important Meal of the Day, No Matter When: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Thursday, September 10, 2009 No, a Marlboro and a Diet Coke don't technically count as breakfast, even if they're the first things you sucked down this morning. Get a proper midday do-over, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, with a spinach, onion, mushroom and hot sausage hash brown sandwich at Art's Café, 747 Irving (at Eighth Ave.), 665-7440.
September 10, 2009Throwing Your Gastric Juices a Bone: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Monday, September 14, 2009 So maybe you spent the weekend masticating maple bars, pepperoni slices, and curly fries -- a sound strategy for squeegeeing away alcohol and its effects -- but give your grease-drenched duodenum a break, for chrissake. Take SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody's advice and absorb a few nutrients from the sliced pork, mustard greens, and salt-egg soup and yeung qi dze (shrimp-stuffed eggplant) at Ton Kiang, 5821 Geary (at 22nd Ave.), 752-4440.
September 14, 2009Making Peace with the Cuban Sandwich: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 If you've been scarred by one of those hot dog and boiled ham-filled torta Cubanas you got from a taco truck, you owe it to yourself to do some reparative therapy. SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody suggests the Cuban sandwich (pork confit, Zoe's Black Forest ham, Swiss cheese, mustard, pickle) at Arlequin Café, 384 Hayes (at Gough), 626-1211.
September 16, 2009Finding the 'You' in Duck Fat Fries: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Thursday, September 17, 2009 It's going to be a full morning. By the time noon rolls around, you'll have survived the perilously lurching N-Judah, more than one douchey meeting, and several chirpy office chats. Lunch, then, should be about hedonism -- unapologetically. Work on your You time, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, with an Explosive Caesar salad (it's chile-spiked) and side of duck fat French fries with béarnaise at Orson, 508 Fourth St. (at Bryant), 777-1508.
September 17, 2009Excavating Mortadella: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Friday, October 2, 2009 Yeah, we like the sandwiches at Boccalone Salumeria, too. But stopping there is like downloading a Scissor Sisters CD and thinking you're done, without ever tasting vintage Bowie or Sir Elton in the days when, you know, he was fun. Get schooled in the antecedents of the current panino explosion with SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody's pick of a salami piccante, mortadella, and provolone sandwich at Molinari's Delicatessen, 373 Columbus (at Vallejo), 421-2
October 2, 2009Sanctioning Flavor with Iranian Eats: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 So maybe the most exotic thing you've lunched on lately is Russian dressing. Inch into the realm of the little known with the Iranian delights of soup-e adas (lentil soup) and kookoo sabzi (fresh herb quiche with walnuts and barberries), SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody's suggestions for Lavash, 511 Irving (at Sixth Ave.), 664-5555.
October 6, 2009A Taste of Crustaceans to Come: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Monday, October 19, 2009 The start of local Dungeness season is still a month away, but that doesn't mean you have to sulk, crab-less. Get a foretaste in the crab cakes with lemon mayo and shoestring fries, with a Little Gems and escarole Caesar with anchovy croutons, SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody's recommendations at Nettie's Crab Shack, 2032 Union (at Buchanan), 409-0300.
October 19, 2009The Outer Limits of Soup and Grilled Cheese: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 It's not easy to turn soup and grilled cheese into anything other than homey, especially when homey is usually way more than enough. But the guys at this Outer Sunset café in the city's fog-shrouded outback have a knack of steering homespun into cheese-gilded transcendence. SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody suggests grabbing the daily soup and grilled cheese at Outerlands, 4001 Judah (at 45th Ave.), 661-6140. But you'll have to call to find out today's par
October 21, 2009Saying Yes to the Unknown: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Thursday, October 22, 2009 Maybe the best cooking is impromptu, like a soul-detailing drunk tweet. Or maybe it's only menu-writing that benefits from some last-minute inventorying of the best stuff to show up with the produce truck. Now, we can't tell you exactly what'll be on offer today, but, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, whatever the kitchen is making, you'll want: Bar Jules, 609 Hayes (at Laguna), 621-5482. By the way, yesterday's menu listed sunchoke and potato soup, an
October 22, 2009O.G. Italian, Pac Heights-Style: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Monday, October 26, 2009 What the hell is a "vivande"? It was an Italian takeaway food shop in the Middle Ages, long before restaurants existed. Carlo Middione's Fillmore Street food shop has been around almost since the Dark Ages -- well, since 1981, which is plenty dark for us. Get an O.G. taste of Upper Fillmore in SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody's pick of Boscaiola, a sauté of fennel sausage, potato, peppers, and mushrooms with white wine, at Vivande, 2125 Fillmore (at Sacramen
October 26, 2009Saving for the Carnage to Come: A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Thursday, October 29, 2009 Don't squander your meat karma on deli turkey -- save it for flesh that's seriously evil, like pork belly or beef cheeks. Meantime, bank your PETA credits as SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody suggests, with a roasted eggplant sandwich on focaccia with Asiago, sun-dried tomatoes, basil, and arugula, followed by a slice of pear galette: Greens to Go, Fort Mason, Building A, 771-6330.
October 29, 2009That Meat-in-the-Teeth Feelin': A SFoodie Lunch Planner
Friday, October 30, 2009 What, there's like a law that says you can't get a jump on weekend brunch? SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody suggests showing up for the New England flannel corn beef hash with a green onion cheese biscuit at cash-only Kate's Kitchen, 471 Haight (at Fillmore), 626-3984. And who knows, the act of picking corn beef fibers out of your teeth afterwards just might feel so altogether Saturday, you may end up blowing off work for the rest of the afternoon.
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