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Celebrate Persian New Year at Zaré at Fly Trap

If you've ever had an interest in dining at the Mediterranean-Persian restaurant Zaré at Fly Trap, March 19 would be a great night to consider. That's when chef/owner Hoss Zaré is attempting what he calls the biggest meal he's ever done in his life in honor of Norooz, the Persian New Year and star ... More >>

Black Keys, Furthur, Kings of Leon to Headline BottleRock Festival in Napa

Since the Bay Area obviously doesn't have enough music festivals already, there's a new one coming -- to Napa, of all places. The inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley festival will run May 9 to 12 and has booked a huge slate of big-name pop-rock acts, including the Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Furthur, th ... More >>

Nancy Pelosi's Napa Valley Home Burglarized

Napa police are investigating a break-in at Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi's Napa Valley home that happened long before voters started heading to the polls on Tuesday. Thieves reportedly broke into the House Minority Leader's Napa Valley house on Monday afternoon, the day before she was reelected to Con ... More >>

Close Encounters with Ina Garten at the Ferry Building

The Barefoot Contessa herself, Ina Garten, made a smiley appearance at the Ferry Building yesterday while filming an episode for the Food Network. According to Eater, she was gathering ingredients for a Napa picnic. We spotted her sifting through radishes, giggling over cherry tomatoes, and apparent ... More >>

Fall Book Preview: 5 Local Food Titles to Anticipate

When it comes to food-centric books, the Bay Area is a publishing powerhouse, and this fall is no exception. Here are the titles we're most anticipating this season, presented in chronological order: The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes by James Freeman, Ca ... More >>

Kegged Cocktails: Drinking out of the Tap

As much as people like to complain about the eccentricities of the craft cocktail bar -- the cost, the obscure and geeky ingredients, the wait times -- I find it hard to tease out the inconveniences from the allure. The theatrics are there to entertain as much as deliver carefully made beverages. Do ... More >>

Labor Day Traffic Forecast: Your Roadtrip Won't Be That Congested

If ever there was a silver lining to high gas prices, this just might be it: No traffic. Well, okay, that might be hyperbolic, but we can at least assure you that this Labor Day Weekend the roads won't be any more clogged than what you've grown accustomed to in San Francisco. While San Francisco has ... More >>

LuLu in Packaged Form: White Truffle Honey Hits SFO

Restaurant LuLu is putting its

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Rolling Paper: A Guide to Strains of Medical Marijuana

SF Weekly Letters

Terminal 2: Foodie Culture Hits SFO Airport

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 >>

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 >>

California Nuts/Angry Shoppers: This Week in Food Bloggery

A photo from Lara Hata's Commonwealth slideshow.​A few of the highlights from the blog this week:1. Summer Tomato's Darya Pino debuts on SFoodie with a revelation that California macadamias exist -- in fact, you can find them in Scream's macadamia-vanilla sorbet. 2. On the frozen-foods tip, Tamara ... More >>

Growing Popcorn Shoots

Tamara Palmer​The Sprout People of San Francisco have an impressive online business selling everything you need to sprout seeds, beans, nuts, and grains, and a cool YouTube channel demonstrating just how easy it is to make these nutritious snacks. Geeking out on the site, we learned that popco ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Arepas on the Run

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Coda gives us all that jazz, and food too

Bite the Zeitgeist Next Week at Acme's Artisanal Wiener Tasting

J. Birdsall4505 Meats' Dogzilla-style hot dog: Cultural icon in a bun.​What is it about the hot dog -- traditional lunch of toddlers, work-boot wearers, and Costco shoppers -- that's turned all zeitgeisty? Sure, it's the curdled economy -- big duh. For the price of a turkey club, you can get a ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Taste, Slow Food Rocks, The Ant Show and Zombies on the Sunday Streets: Your Tuesday Morning Hangover

SF Weekly's Seven-Day Dish

Soup to Nuts

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

Notebooks From the Underground

This is the summer to put pen to paper

The Rich and Photographed

Got Hot Pot?

Dining's an adventure at S.F.'s only Muslim-style Chinese

Festivals and Fairs

Letters to the Editor

Week of May 1, 2002

Chopped Down

One gent commented,"It's barely noon and I'm already trashed."

Through the Hayes

Side Dish

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

Letters

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

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