Subject: Nate Appleman

• Saturday: The Cuisine of Campania

  September 25, 2008

• Everything's Coming Up Meat!

  Carnivores can study, taste, and feast on all things fleshy.

  February 13, 2009

• More, Please

  January 14, 2009

• Upcoming Great American Food and Music Fest Features Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Marshall Crenshaw, Little Feat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- and an Astounding Array of Eats

  There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling technique. Local-boy-made-good Guy Fieri, the most successful winner of the Food Network's The Next Food Network Star, will also appear onstage.Food booths offering quintessential American delights have

  April 27, 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 in Napa, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg, Loretta Keller of Coco500 in San Francisco, David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, and Daniel Patterson of Coi in San Francisco. Conversations with a

  May 1, 2009

• How the Bay Area Fared at James Beard Restaurant Awards

  Douglas Keane Douglas Keane of Cyrus Surprise Winner for Best Chef, Pacific, and Nate Appleman's Third Time is Charm as He Wins Best Rising Star ChefAt last night's James Beard Awards, in something of an upset, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg won Best Chef, Pacific, over fellow nominees Jeremy Fox (Ubuntu, Napa), Loretta Keller (Coco 500, San Francisco), David Kinch (Manresa, Los Gatos), and Daniel Patterson (Coi, San Francisco). Most of the nominees, all of whom we spoke to last week, thou

  May 5, 2009

• They're Taking Reservations at SPQR -- for Mother's Day Only!

  If you've been longing to try the cooking of chef Nate Appleman (maybe even more so now that he's been anointed 2009's Rising Star Chef by the recent James Beard Awards), but have been reluctant because of SPQR's no reservations policy, why not try them for brunch on Mother's Day? (Mothers welcome, but not necessary.)Exceptionally, SPQR is taking reservations for that day. The special brunch menu includes bitter chocolate and orange scones; house-made biscuit sandwiches with prosciutto cotto, sh

  May 5, 2009

• Morning Buzz: A Foodie Day Planner

  Monday, May 18, 2009 Let's do lunch: Some days you just feel like crispy. SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody says seek fulfillment in the fried chicken livers and Brussels sprouts at SPQR (1911 Fillmore at Bush, 771-7779), chef Nate Appleman's Pac Heights osteria that's hotter than a spatter burn to the forearm. Drink therapy: Head to the Castro to flaunt your ball-in-hand skills (that's a pool term, we swear): Free pool and two-buck pints Mondays at the Mix (4086 18th St. at Third St

  May 18, 2009

• Nate Appleman Weighs In on A16's Pizza Being Named One of the Nation's 25 Best

  Disinfected via Flickr 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

  May 21, 2009

• Shoreline Food Fest is an Odd Assemblage of TV Stars, Local Chefs, and Aging Rockers

  The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere on this Earth," New York author and food blogger Ed Levine -- a festival organizer -- told SFoodie. Levine said he'd heard the event called "the Super Bowl of food," a description that seemed to expr

  June 8, 2009

• Boulevard Chef Calls Lineup for Tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest 'Interesting'

  bernardus/FlickrNancy Oakes: Fearing a throwdown?Nancy Oakes told SFoodie she's not sure what to expect at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest, the sprawling Shoreline event that brings together Food Network personalities, local chefs, and rock bands. The chef and owner of Boulevard is doing an crab cake demo late Saturday. "I'm just going to play it as it goes -- I think it'll be interesting and fun for people," said Oakes. She acknowledged that the lineup, which includes Bobby Flay a

  June 12, 2009

• Offal Talented: Poggio Chef Named Winner of Sunday's Cochon 555

  Laiko BahrsTrotter Tots with pea-brain aioli, one of Peter McNee's winning dishes.Call him the dark horse: Poggio's Peter McNee was named Prince of Porc at the Fairmont last night, nosing out four chefs to take the crown (well, funky pig trophy) in the latest Cochon 555 challenge. McNee had been considered the underdog in the competition, which seeks to hype heritage pork varieties. In the six days before the event, McNee and Poggio sous chef Ian Banks turned a 110-pound Berkshire pig (raised b

  June 15, 2009

• Nate Appleman Celebrates 30th Birthday By Leaving A16 and SPQR

  Nate ApplemanNate Appleman was ebullient and accurate about his chances to win the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year ("a chef 30 years or younger who displays an impressive talent and who is likely to have a significant impact on the industry in years to come") when SFoodie talked to him a couple of months ago: "Being nominated three times, I just think it's my year." And he was happy to comment a few weeks later when we asked the Verace Pizza Napoletana Association-certified pizzaiolo h

  July 16, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Rumor maven: In her Scoop column for the Yummy Letter, GraceAnn Walden writes about Nate Appleman like he's a superplayer in a class with A-Rod and Mark Sanford. Last week the Chron broke the story that the inked, stocky chef was booking from A16 and SPQR. In classic gossip-rag style, Walden drops a sentence that's hard to interpret, except that it reeks of easy sleaze. After lobbing the bomblet that Appleman's wife and son have retreated to

  July 22, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

  ​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Are there any actual rock stars?: It's kind of a Manhattan bitch fight, really. But in advance of a Nightline segment ("Butchers: New Rock Stars of the Culinary World") Grub Street New York gets kind of pissy about what it regards a mugging of the original New York mag piece about the sexy-burly world of meat cutters (Grub Street being New York mag's food blog bitch). None of that is totally interesting, except that, in whining, Grub S

  August 14, 2009

• Okay, Appleman, So We Like Sustainable Tripe. Did You Have to Diss Us So Hard?

  Damn, ex-homie: Harsh!​In this morning's New York Times, Oliver Strand used a brief profile of Nate Appleman as an occasion to clown on the chef's former city. After rattling off an assortment of brilliant highlights from the 30-year-old Appleman's "career-defining" year -- a spread of canapés to whet the palate -- Strand dished up the second course, a fat helping of feigned befuddlement as to why such an acclaimed big-fish chef might ditch his provincial pond for a swim in the wide-open

  September 2, 2009

• Doggy Bag: Talking Shit About S.F. Chefs

  ​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Come here and say that: On Saturday, Grub Street New York reported on an Extreme Tag Team talk with Anthony Bourdain and David Chang from the New York Wine & Food Festival. Grub Street called it Ten Things Anthony Bourdain and David Chang Hate. You know Chang: The chefpreneur of, like, five Manhattan restaurants under the Momofuku franchise: Noodle Bar, Ssam Bar, Milk Bar, Ko. Grub Street's distillation went like this: Cupcakes: "I hate fuckin' cupcake

  October 12, 2009