Nancy Silverton

San Francisco Baking Institute Seeks Signatures for Survival

Eater brings the unfortunate word that San Francisco Baking Institute, which has trained many local professionals and armed them with the skills to open their own businesses, may have to remain closed while it is mired in state red tape to get their application for license renewal approved. The rene ... More >>

Oakland's Camino Restaurant Hosts Mozza Cookbook Dinner

​Nancy Silverton's Los Angeles Italian restaurants -- Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza, co-owned by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich -- have earned a cult-like following, which might inspire Silverton to stay guarded about their food's secrets. But instead, she's opening the restaurant's recipe ... More >>

Disco Volante Spins into Oakland, Meadowood Calendars 12 Days of Eating

​ ​The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Courtesy of Inside Scoop's Paolo L., we learn of Disco Volante (347 14th St., Oakland), from Kevin Cook, Damon Gallagher, and Tim Tolle. The pitch: California local-seasonal food from former ... More >>

Early Favorites in Foodbuzz's Project Food Blog

Jun Belen/Jun-BlogSmell the memories: Jun-Blog's pork adobo.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Foodbuzz is pitting blogger on blogger in Project Food Blog, a series of 10 challenges designed to test contestants' skills: cooking, photography, writing. There are 1,889 blog-testants for the ch ... More >>

The Ultimate Foodie Earthquake Kit

Haiti's tragic earthquake has forced many of us in the Bay Area to remember that we aren't immune to the wrath of plate tectonics. One of the most important ― and sadly, most neglected ― parts of earthquake preparedness is the food-filled disaster kit. Besides packing a few cans of soup and some ... More >>

San Francisco's Home to 12 Percent of the Nation's Best Pizzas, Says GQ's Alan Richman

Our first reaction when we saw that Alan Richman anointed three local restaurants as serving one of America's 25 best pizzas in GQ -- Pizzeria Delfina, Gialina Pizzeria, and A16 -- was pride in our hometown: Cool! That's 12 percent of the best pies around! Richman boasts of visiting 10 dif ... More >>

The Doggie Bag

Our favorite food blog posts of the day: Staying regular: How about a long, cool drink of dietary fiber? Nothing like getting hammered and scrubbing your colon. Cheers to The Ethicurean for showing us how. Commander-in-chickpea: Ever wonder what Obama and Hilary Clinton would look like sculpted en ... More >>

Beretta: Cocktails, pizza, and a wall of noise on Valencia

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Tales of extravagance and excess from the restaurant scene