If California is now a role model for Britain -- well, God Save the QueenIn the faded English coastal resort town of Blackpool, there's a restaurant three blocks off the shore called West Coast Rock that specializes in California cuisine as a blinkered Brit might imagine.
When my wife and I visited a few years ago the house specialty consisted of a platter of tacos and chicken wings that tasted as if they'd been in the freezer since the time William the Conquerer.
According to the British
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The chef had a hunch something was upNate Appleman's certification by the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association as a pizzaiolo (one of a very few practicing the art in the US) paid off big time when A16's romana pie was named one of the 25 best in the US by GQ's Alan Richman.
"It made me very happy," Appleman told SFoodie, "especially because he told us he didn't like anchovies -- whole anchovies -- on pizzas, or whole olives. When he was here he had three or four p
Tony's Pizza NapoletanaA pizza oven in Naples.The pizza gods were smiling over North Beach this weekend. On Saturday, Bay Area favorite pizza guy Tony Gemignani opened Tony's Pizza Napoletana (1570 Stockton at Union). Die-hard fans know Gemignani and his pie-making skills from his Pyzano's outpost in Castro Valley and frequent media appearances (hello, Food Network!) and public events. Being a nine-time world pizza champ gives the enthusiastic Gemignani true pizza cred: When he puts on a show of
Taste the boot.We like the family-style Italian fare at the Bronx-styled Joey & Eddie's (1652 Stockton at Filbert) in North Beach. No surprise, really, since we've loved other restaurants launched by co-owner and executive chef Joseph Manzare, especially Globe.
Anyway, we just learned that Joey & Eddie's is starting special regional Italian menus on Tuesday nights. Tonight's -- the first -- features the cooking of Lazio, home province to Roma, and includes spaghetti carbonara ($10), porc
Little-known fact: MacGyver's first name was 'Angus'A home-plundering technique befitting he of the leather jacket, duct tape, and blond mullet was reported in San Francisco last week. A witness watched an enterprising miscreant in the 700 block of Naples eye a box behind a locked gate. The alleged thief then grabbed a nearby tree branch and board, crafted a "teeter-totter" and used it to catapult the box over the gate and into his evil genius arms. The master criminal's method of thievery wa
acchen/FlickrAre you serious? Proofing boxes made from American wood?Tuesday, November 10, 2009
To hell with your all-purpose unbleached: Tony Gemignani serves up pies for fetishists. Take the Margherita: that's San Felice flour in the dough, which rises in wood boxes likewise imported from Naples. San Marzano DOP tomatoes, olive oil from Campania -- and Tony's makes only 73 of these babies a day, no matter how hard you beg. Add an antipasto of Italian-style meatballs, and you've got a l
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