Michael Mina

State Bird and Other Bay Area Greats Win James Beard Foundation Awards

When Nicole Krasinski and Stuart Brioza, the couple behind San Francisco's popular State Bird Provisions, entered the packed media room at last night's James Beard Foundation Awards at Lincoln Center in New York, they were quickly devoured by a hungry press corps like some tiny little quail. And wit ... More >>

Tango & Stache: Boozy Tacos Inspired by the Bar

Roxy's Cafe: Overreaching Tasting Menus Still Hold Promise

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Rum Pork Tacos at Tango & Stache

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Tango & Stache The Cuisine: Cocktail-influenced Mexican comfort food Specialty Items: Anything with the duck or bacon fat masa Worth the Wait in Line? At 9 p.m., a total 5 ... More >>

La Paulée: Try Great Burgundy on a Budget -- or Drop Four Grand on It

​Wether you have $4,000 or $95 to spend on your Burgundy education, La Paulée has an option for you. You probably can't go further toward an extreme Burgundy education and experience than through a ticket ($4,000) to La Paulée de San Francisco's Legends Dinner at the Napa Valley Reserve. ... More >>

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

The Year in Food 2010: Big-Ticket Dining Surges

Lara Hata/SF WeeklyProspect: High-end dining in San Francisco is not in danger.​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food.Back in January, people were talking about the San Francisco restaurant scene as if it were flagging fast. The fretting was fueled by t ... More >>

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Pop! Desserts' Coffee Pudding

John BirdsallA quartet of Pop! Desserts puddings, clockwise from top: chocolate, black sesame, matcha, and coffee, all $2.​Tuesday, November 23, 2010 Marielle Nuval's knife roll must've still been new when, months after graduating CCA, she got a job in the pastry department at Michael Mina. S ... More >>

New Restaurants

Recent Openers

Hungry for New Restaurants? Check Your Twitter Feed

There's a certain kick we all get from discovering the next big thing before someone else does. In Silicon Valley, if you're launching a company, you offer potential users the opportunity to sneak a peak at a product or service in exchange for volunteer beta testing and general patronage. It's a po ... More >>

Coi's New Pastry Chef Savors the Unknown

StarChefsBill Corbett​Two weeks ago, Bill Corbett became executive pastry chef at Coi. He'll handle the same task at Bracina when it opens on the ground floor of the new Jack London Market on Oakland's waterfront this spring. Over the years, Corbett has hauled in some accolades (2007 Rising St ... More >>

The High and Low Life

New Year's Eve options abound for both champagne and beer budgets.

Upscale Street-Food Lunch Cart Ready to Roll

Carte415 plans to roll out weekdays in the atrium lobby of 101 Second St.​After weeks of bureaucratic delays, Carte415 -- chef Joshua Skenes' upscale street-food lunch cart -- finally has a roll-out date: tomorrow. Skenes told SFoodie late yesterday he'd just gotten the green light to begin se ... More >>

High-End Downtown Food Cart Faces One Last Street Bump

Joshua Skenes: Ready to go.The owner of a long-planned high-end FiDi lunch cart told SFoodie his launch date is in lawyers' hands. Chef Joshua Skenes had hoped to roll out Carte 415 by early May. But several delays -- including custom fabrication in Canada of the cart itself -- left Skenes' rollout ... More >>

The Myth of Fernet

The saga of Fernet, and its cultlike popularity, says a lot about San Francisco

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