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Napa

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    Boxing Room Does New Orleans Brunch Due Diligence

    ​Traditional Sunday brunch in New Orleans is something special, from the white tablecloths and Eggs Sardou to classic cocktails and live jazz. But the Boxing Room, Hayes Valley's lively Cajun/Creole restaurant, isn't trying to imitate any of that with its recently added brunch menu. Turns out, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Burma Superstar's New Location and The Ice Cream Bar Readies to Open

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. With an hour-and-half average wait time (on a Tuesday!) at the original Burma Superstar on Clement, we can't say we're surprised the owners are looking to open their fourth (second in the City) location. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    The Grill Replaces Hot Pot, and Pours from Chateau Montelena and the Hidden Vine

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Ben Kellgren​This weekend we noticed the sign went up for Coriya Hot Pot City's replacement: The Grill (852 Clement at 10th Ave.). No word yet on an opening date -- or if you'll still be able to coo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2011

    San Francisco's Table Scraps Make Healthier Wines

    Allan Henderson via Flickr ... tastes like fine wine ​San Francisco residents may have groaned when the city passed mandatory composting laws in 2009, but now they might be sighing in relaxation as they sip wines grown on soil enriched with their city-mandated table scraps. A record amount of San ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Q&A with Bar Bambino Chef Lizzie Binder: Part 2

    Photos by Alanna Hale​This is part two of SFoodie's conversation with Bar Bambino executive chef Lizzie Binder. Part one is here. What would you say are the main ingredients of the kind of food that you're doing now? Things like vinegar and beets as I mentioned before, as well as stone fruit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2011

    The Less You Spend, the More Interesting Fifth Floor's Wines Are

    Amy Goldberger in the Fifth Floor wine room​There might be no better sign of where San Francisco's fine dining scene is in 2011 than the wine list at Fifth Floor. It's a pricey hotel restaurant, reviewed today by our restaurant critic Jonathan Kauffman. Yet the list is currently managed by wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Bar Tartine Wine List: If It's Porn, It's European Porn

    Alex Fox​This week we ran our first wine list review to accompany Jonathan Kauffman's restaurant review in the print edition of SF Weekly. Jonathan likes to offer people a little extra flavor on the web, so I decided to do that too by dropping by Bar Tartine on a Friday morning to taste wine w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Mark Lugo Arrested in Picasso Theft

    Busted!​Update: police arrested a New Jersey man on suspicion of stealing a valuable Picasso original drawing. Read updated details after the jump. Original story: Police say they have arrested the man who they believe ripped an original Picasso drawing from the wall of a Union Square art gallery ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    Busted!​Update: police arrested a New Jersey man on suspicion of stealing a valuable Picasso original drawing. Read updated details after the jump. Original story: Police say they have arrested the man who they believe ripped an original Picasso drawing from the wall of a Union Square art gallery ... More >>

  • Dining

    June 8, 2011

    Terminal 2: Foodie Culture Hits SFO Airport

    Busted!​Update: police arrested a New Jersey man on suspicion of stealing a valuable Picasso original drawing. Read updated details after the jump. Original story: Police say they have arrested the man who they believe ripped an original Picasso drawing from the wall of a Union Square art gallery ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    Reviewing S.F. Airport's Terminal 2: Photographic Evidence

    A bowl of warm potato chips at Cat Cora.​What with travelers spending more time waiting in airports, and airplane food disappearing (a mixed blessing?), it makes sense that SFO's new Terminal 2 has more food vendors than gates. For this week's full-length review, I took advantage of a couple of sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    A Field Guide to Sustainable and Delicious Dry Farmed Wines

    Whole lotta irrigation goin' on in Napa.​Irrigation is plainly a function of the modern world. Though the ancient Romans built spectacular gravity-driven aqueducts, drip irrigation for agriculture was not invented until the late 1960s in Israel, and only in the 1970s did water-bearing pipes a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    No. 3: Sichuan Pickles at Mission Chinese Food

    Albert Law/porkbellystudioMission Chinese Food's mixed pickles, $3.​SFoodie's countdown of our 92 favorite things to eat and drink in San Francisco, 2011 edition.The longer Danny Bowien and Anthony Myint's restaurant sticks around, the farther afield it spins, growing wilder and more elaborate wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Terminal Comfort: SFO's New T2 Dazzles with Food Choices

    Luis ChongRottisserie chickens from Tyler Florence: one of many upscale food options at SFO's new Terminal 2, which opened Thursday.​SFO's brand new Terminal 2 (T2) became operational Thursday morning at 5 a.m. It's the most food-centered, modern, and eco-friendly airport terminal ever built. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    Groupon Google Ads Pulls a Bait And Switch, Lawsuit Says

    Bait and switch​Groupon is being accused of defrauding consumers by purchasing advertisements on Google for services the company did not offer, according to a federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco. A Google search for "San Francisco Tours" on Feb. 24, for example, purportedly returned the followi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Greenburger's Fires Up the Grill, San Jose Rounds Up the Trucks

    ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. SJ Eats/FacebookTreatbot.​Nice. Haighteration takes a good, long look at Greenburger's, which opened yesterday at 518 Haight (at Filmore), in the old Bistro St. Germain space. The pitc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Will 2011 Be the Year of the Artisan Caramel?

    Tamara Palmer​Between our recent discovery of vegan agave nectar caramels from Napa's OCD Sweets and bumping into San Anselmo's CC Made caramels, a new family-run business from cousins Cassandra Chen and Emily Hou, at Bi-Rite Market, we're sensing a surge in the caramel category by local candy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Watch Sic Alps Grainy, Disorienting New Video for 'Do You Want to Give $$?'

    He wanted to give.​Now here's a video that fits well with the accompanying song -- we can't get a clear grip on either. Sic Alps new album Napa Asylum (out tomorrow) is a bewildering, dirty, vaguely depressing slog, and we mean that in a good way! So the video for its first single, "Do You Wa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    In Praise of Local Ice Cream Sandwiches

    Tamara PalmerNamu's ice cream sandwich contains a lashing of Korean chili paste in the chocolate.​If you haven't noticed, it's been pretty darned hot outside this week, and glorious ice cream sandwich season is definitely here. We've been scarfing down many flavor-forward versions of this conf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Roam's Caramelized Pineapple Soda

    Jonathan KauffmanCaramelized pineapple soda, $2.49.​The beef burgers at Roam Artisan Burger are just fine ― in terms of thickness and quality, the median between In-N-Out and your average $12 bistro burger, with bonus points for grass-feddiness ― but the caramelized pineapple soda is fantastic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Morimoto Napa Opens Today. Relive Some of the Iron Chef's Greatest TV Moments

    Food NetworkMorimoto in his Iron Chef Japan fighting days.​Masaharu Morimoto debuts Morimoto Napa today, an event so momentous that Inside Scoop took the time and care to assemble a dossier on the topic and Eater SF has the pretty pictorial and menu. We instead would like to salute this newcom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Morimoto Napa and The Sycamore Both Opening Earlier Than Planned

    ​The last 24 hours in rumor, innuendo, and straight-out facts about restaurant openings and closings in San Francisco.Paolo L. at Inside Scoop finds out that Morimoto Napa (610 Main, Napa, 707-252-1600, www.morimotonapa.com) is set to open as soon as next week. The pitch: Iron Chef Morimoto's res ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 7, 2010

    Arepas on the Run

    A South American sandwich full of flavor, or just plain full.

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    You'll Have to Act Fast to Get In on Hot CUESA Action in May

    ​CUESA has an awfully lively schedule of events planned for next month, some of which have already sold out; others are well on their way towards reaching capacity. As of this posting, there are just three tickets left for the Fatted Calf Extravaganza on May 16, a field trip to Fatted Calf an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Starchefs.com Names Its 2010 Rising Stars

    SPQR's Matthew Accarrino is on the rise.​Starchefs.com just named the 14 winners of its 2010 "Rising Stars" Awards for the San Francisco Bay Area. The touring awards, which recognize chefs, bartenders (unfortunately titled "mixologists"), and restaurateurs under the age of 40, is always an interes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Another Display of Butchery and Upscale Eats, This Time in Napa

    J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.​Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Napa Vegetarian Restaurant Ubuntu Likely to Serve Meat at Special Tuesday Night Dinners

    Food Snob/FlickrUbuntu: Will the temple of pristine vegeterianism be serving up pork belly?​Ubuntu owner Sandy Lawrence told SFoodie that, as early as next month, the Napa vegetarian restaurant is launching a series of Tuesday night dinners that'll feature appearances by what she called some o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    Bay Area Chefs Up For Beard Awards: A Remarkably Collegial Bunch

    Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Michael Bauer Watch: What's He Got Against Oliveto?

    Drop Oliveto to make room for the House of Prime Rib? Seriously?

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2009

    James Beard Award Nominations Announced

    Bay Area Takes All Five Nominations for Best Chef in Pacific Region; Boulevard and A 16's Nate Appleman Among Locals Competing For Top PrizesThe prestigious James Beard Awards, given by the James Beard Foundation and often referred to as the Oscars of the restaurant and food media industries, announ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    Cheap V-Day Date Possibilities

    Om RecordsDJ Heather Okay, here's the situation: you're broke and tomorrow is Valentine's Day. That cozy lil' Napa bed & breakfast your mate ooh'd and ah'd over? Not in the budget. Dinner at Postrio? Maybe when the economy improves. A dozen long-stemmed roses, champagne, and Godiva chocolates? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Seasonality Synopsis

    After reading an item about a local produce wheel in the San Francisco MenuPages blog, but not wanting to shell out the $12.95 to actually purchase one, we have the fortune to learn what exactly is in season here in San Francisco right now straight from the weekly e-newsletter of CUESA. In their wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Salad Daze: Julia's Kitchen at Copia's Fig Salad

    After reading an item about a local produce wheel in the San Francisco MenuPages blog, but not wanting to shell out the $12.95 to actually purchase one, we have the fortune to learn what exactly is in season here in San Francisco right now straight from the weekly e-newsletter of CUESA. In their wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2008

    SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

    After reading an item about a local produce wheel in the San Francisco MenuPages blog, but not wanting to shell out the $12.95 to actually purchase one, we have the fortune to learn what exactly is in season here in San Francisco right now straight from the weekly e-newsletter of CUESA. In their wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2008

    SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

    After reading an item about a local produce wheel in the San Francisco MenuPages blog, but not wanting to shell out the $12.95 to actually purchase one, we have the fortune to learn what exactly is in season here in San Francisco right now straight from the weekly e-newsletter of CUESA. In their wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2007

    Napa Wine Tour Operator Unmaksed As Highway 101 Bandit

    After reading an item about a local produce wheel in the San Francisco MenuPages blog, but not wanting to shell out the $12.95 to actually purchase one, we have the fortune to learn what exactly is in season here in San Francisco right now straight from the weekly e-newsletter of CUESA. In their wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2007

    Racial DNA Profiling Catches Killers: Commence Hand-Wringing

    After reading an item about a local produce wheel in the San Francisco MenuPages blog, but not wanting to shell out the $12.95 to actually purchase one, we have the fortune to learn what exactly is in season here in San Francisco right now straight from the weekly e-newsletter of CUESA. In their wor ... More >>

  • News

    September 5, 2007

    Soup to Nuts

    A new photography exhibition at MOAD peeks into grocery bags from around the world

  • News

    December 6, 2006

    The Rich and Photographed

    A new photography exhibition at MOAD peeks into grocery bags from around the world

  • Summer Guide

    June 23, 2004

    Festivals and Fairs

    A new photography exhibition at MOAD peeks into grocery bags from around the world

  • Dining

    April 11, 2001

    Through the Hayes

    A new photography exhibition at MOAD peeks into grocery bags from around the world

  • Dining

    December 27, 2000

    Tomorrow Never Dies

    Dot

  • Dining

    June 21, 2000

    Side Dish

    Beachfront Bayou; Just Hangin'; That's Entertainment; Encore

  • News

    February 9, 2000

    Letters

    Censorship Begins at Home, Aww! Dog Bites Blushes, Nursing Home Neglect, On the SFUSD Chain Gang, Informed Faith, Rave Purity

  • Dining

    October 6, 1999

    Side Dish

    Cool Light Show, A Votre Sante, Late Harvest in the Valley, Butt Ugly Open and Shut, Go for the Gold, and Ciao

  • Dining

    September 29, 1999

    Side Dish

    The Cuisinart for You, the Calphalon for Me, Musical Chairs, Shrooming, Debutante Dish, and Down But Not Out

  • Dining

    August 4, 1999

    Side Dish

    The Cuisinart for You, the Calphalon for Me, Musical Chairs, Shrooming, Debutante Dish, and Down But Not Out

  • News

    September 11, 1996

    N-E-G-L-E-C-T

    The Cuisinart for You, the Calphalon for Me, Musical Chairs, Shrooming, Debutante Dish, and Down But Not Out

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