North-American Food and Cooking

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Tagine Squash Tacos at The Taco Guys

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: The Taco Guys The Cuisine: Global cuisine delivered on a tortilla Specialty Items: Maui fish taco, kalua pork taco Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunch time, a total 15 mi ... More >>

Freaky Street

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Carne Asada Tacos at El Tonayense

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: El Tonayense The Cuisine: Jalisco style Mexican food Specialty Items: The tacos Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunch time, a total 4 minutes from the end of the line to fo ... More >>

Belly Laughs

Learn All About the History of Tacos This Thursday

Where: Omnivore Books on Food When: Thu, Oct. 4, 6-7 p.m. Cost: Free Author Jeffrey Pilcher will be reading from and discussing his new book, Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food. In it, Pilcher undergoes a comprehensive historical quest for the origins and evolution of the taco, tracing ... More >>

Tasty Burritos Come With a Warm Welcome at Victor's

When you walk into Graciela Mendoza Moreno's restaurant, she will surprise you with a compliment. "Guapo!" or "Guapa!" she shouts ("Handsome!" or "Beautiful!") to every customer who enters Victor's Mexican restaurant in SOMA. She stands at the helm of the burrito assembly line, beside the mild and s ... More >>

Brackers: Raw Food Snacking for Indecisive Eaters

"Crunchy, like crackers -- filling, like bread!" The Daly City-based raw food company Amai Health Products takes the portmanteau to new heights with Brackers. The snack features soaked and often sprouted seeds for quick, clean energy that doesn't lead to a crash or what the company describes as a s ... More >>

Oysterfest: Show Preview

La Pastrami Fuses Jewish and Mexican ... and It's Actually Pretty Good

"Goyim pastrami." That's what SFoodie's New York-loyal Jewish grandma angrily called any pastrami that wasn't served between two slices of rye with a dab of mustard. Even a reuben sandwich was suspect. Well, two-week old food truck La Pastrami has upped the ante on grandma's anger: enter the pastram ... More >>

The Window: Dishing Bayou by the Bay and Other Big (Easy) Treats

Most of the windows on the corner of 12th and Howard are still covered in paper as the newest location of The Coffee Bar is still under construction. If you're a foodie, the window you're looking for is on the Howard Street side and identified by a bright red, stylized sign displaying this pop up ho ... More >>

Macy's Great American Chefs Tour for Meals on Wheels Rolls into Town this Saturday

Macy's Great American Chefs Tour San Francisco Stop with Chef Rick BaylessWhere: Macy's Union Square at 170 O'Farrell Street in the Cellar Demo Kitchen When: Demo #1: Saturday, June 2 from noon to 1:30 p.m. (For tickets, visit here.)Demo #2: Saturday, June 2 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. (For tickets, click h ... More >>

Casa Sanchez: Etching the Next Era at the Home of the Taco Tattoo

Casa Sanchez has long been home of the "taco tattoo" story. If you get a tattoo of "Jimmy the Cornman" riding his corn on the cob rocket, you get free lunch for life. Pretty good deal, especially considering that Casa Sanchez brand tortilla chips and fresh salsa are now the highest selling chip ... More >>

Number 8: Taqueria La Alteña's Al Pastor Burrito

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​For as many taquerias and taco trucks in San Francisco serve "al pastor" -- shepherd-style pork -- Taqueria La Alteña is one of only a few of them make al pastor the traditional way: on a spit. If you think the vertic ... More >>

Number 10: Boxing Room's Dirty Rice

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Boxing Room's chef, Justin Simoneaux, brings a California sensibility to traditional Cajun dishes -- fried oyster salad with arugula and fennel, gulf flounder with tasso and green garlic -- but for his dirty rice, h ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Radish Brunch Makes Friends in the Neighborhood

​Radish opened up in the Mission less than a year ago, pitching itself as a "neighborhood standby" committed to serving seasonal, locally sourced ingredients with a Southern twist. The tiny kitchen may have a few kinks to work out, but their tasty eats and fun, funky personality show they're on th ... More >>

Boogaloos Brunch: Quick, Dirty & Delicious

​In the brunch world, there exist two camps. First, there are the restaurants known as darlings of the dinner scene which have extended their fresh, farmers' market-inspired fare to Saturday and Sunday mornings. Then, on the other hand, we have aficionados of the good old two-eggs-and-bacon Americ ... More >>

Soup Mission: Finding S.F.'s Best Central American Broths

Fourth Wave Coffee and Another Tamale Lady

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Whether a coffee snob, or just looking for a cup of joe, there are some changes a brewing in the caffeine scene. Tablehopper shares Fourth Wave Coffee will open in the former Polk Street Station Diner in ... More >>

What to Eat at Eat Real Fest? Food You Won't Find in San Francisco

Lien T./FlickrSilog tacos from Tim Luym's WOW Truck.​ Today, Oakland's three-day Eat Real Fest begins, bringing together 60 food trucks, 30 small food vendors, and tens of thousands of eaters. There will be jam-making demonstrations and butchery contests, live music, and more sunshine than the Wes ... More >>

Long Before Taco Trucks, Tamaleros Roamed the Streets

Tamale Ladies like ours are the forerunner of the taco truck.​We food writers over the age of 30 occasionally like to put out little reminders to you youngsters that the street-food movement in America was around long before people started selling Korean spicy pork buns out of chic trucks. Remembe ... More >>

Tacko: The Nantucket Gringo Take on the Taco

Outside Lands Food Gets Even Better

W. Blake GrayThe huarache Alambre from El Huarache Loco​Outside Lands last year had what might have been the best lineup of food purveyors ever at a music festival -- not hard because at most big outdoor shows, people are happy if they can even get food. This year the music lineup is signifi ... More >>

The Food at Outside Lands Is Gonna Be Even Better This Year

The huarache Alambre from El Huarache Loco, which you can eat at Outside Lands this year.​ Ostensibly one goes to Outside Lands for the music, right? I mean, spending three days in Golden Gate Park amid throngs of crazy young ravers, rock dads, children of rock dads, hipster trash, and jaded a ... More >>

Mijita May Head East, Chef Pop-ups, More Burgers, and Kink.com's New Bar

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. If opening a Mexican restaurant, head east. Inside Scoop reports, via Bloomberg news, that chef Traci Des Jardins is looking at New York, Boston, and Washington D.C., as possible expansion cities for her ... More >>

Tie One On for the Tamale Lady's Birthday

SanFranAnnie FlickrLooking for tamales​The Tamale Lady's 58th Birthday Where: Zeitgeist, 199 Valencia (at Duboce) When: Tuesday, June 21, 6-10 p.m. Cost: Free, but buy a few drinks to celebrate The Rundown: Anyone who frequents the Mission bars is going to run into the Tamale Lady: Virgin ... More >>

Criolla Kitchen's Secret Weapon? Slow Hand BBQ Ribs

Luis ChongCriolla Kitchen.​Missed out on some great BBQ during Memorial Day Weekend because your current partner is a vegetarian? Don't own a meat smoker?* Or just lack the skills to make fall-off-the-bone tender slow-smoked BBQ? Well, fret no more! You can easily remedy that problem at Crioll ... More >>

A Full List of the 92 Best Dishes in S.F. for Fresh Eats

Saturday's Green Festival: Crunchy. The Food: Less So

Elaine N./YelpA Donna's tamale.​Green Festival Where: Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 Eighth St. (at Brannan), 487-3293 When: Sat., Apr. 9, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun., Apr. 10, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $10 in advance, $15 at the door The rundown: Hey San Francisco, it's time to walk your talk. Sure ... More >>

Due Later This Month in Oakland: Berlyn's Gourmet Eatery

Tamara PalmerDontaye Ball.​Berlyn's Gourmet Eatery, a new restaurant from owner Larry McClendon and Best Of S.F. winner Dontaye Ball of Good Foods Catering, is expected to debut in Oakland at the end of April. Ball says it'll be open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, with daily changing speci ... More >>

A Spicy Taste of Austin in a Mellow SOMA Parking Lot

Jesse HirschLe Truc's Tex-Mex breakfast taco with egg, potatoes, bacon, and Tapatio aioli, $3.​Yesterday morning SFoodie veered off our usual bike route to stumble upon a sleepy, laid-back version of SOMA's lunchtime darling, the food bus Le Truc. After prior lunches here amongst marauding tec ... More >>

Best Practices for Eating a Burrito in San Francisco

​John Birdsall​ A happy man once said, "The best burrito in the city is the one you are eating." He said it while cradling a ruptured super whose mass had burst through its tinfoil housing and was flowing, lavalike, down his forearms and plopping onto the sidewalk. We caught sight of let ... More >>

Haltun Mayan Cuisine May Make Yucatecan Food a New S.F. Staple

Fresh Eats: We recommend Reverie's pozole and Ajisen's ramen

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Our weekly pick from Thrillist.com

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Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town.

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It's Maya Pleasure

This Yucatecan kitchen has a magic touch

The Maddening Crowd

Seasonal New American food in a reimagined industrial setting draws a noisy throng downtown

A Little Grilled Gift

Fresh Mexican fare is just the thing to lure you out of the house and toward the Mission

FiDi After Hours

A few oases in the Financial District's evening desert

Stick to the Suds

Eldos Grill & Brewery

South and West

Mission: Possible

What's in a Name?

2223 Market cruises through an eclectic menu; at the Slow Club, leisurely grazing is all

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