Nutella

Food Truck Giving Away Samples of Delicious Nutella Next Week

Except for vegans and the poor souls allergic to hazelnuts, we don't know anyone who doesn't absolutely love Nutella, that decadent, nutty, creamy spread that makes you feel vaguely European every time you eat it on toast. And guess what! In honor of a PR campaign called the Nutella Breakfast Tour, ... More >>

Cafe des Amis: Braving a Carb-Filled Brunch

Café des Carbs: Wherein I Brunch Like I am About to Run a Zombie Apocalypse Marathon

There are several places in San Francisco sane people try to avoid when darkness falls, like the blocks surrounding 16th and Mission, the area near 6th and Market, the intersection of Eddy and Leavenworth, and The Marina. Luckily, if you are doing it right, brunch comes during the daylight hours, so ... More >>

Top 5 Unusual Cupcake Flavors in San Francisco

The point cupcake mania really started taking hold in our hearts was in 2005 when Saturday Night Live did their "Lazy Sunday" skit. The sight of Andy Samburg and Chris Parnell taking huge bites out of delicious looking cupcakes while rapping about New York City's Magnolia bakery got our sweet teeth ... More >>

Cookie Butter: Trader Joe's Hatches Evil Plot to Cause Addiction

Never has the Cook E. Monster experienced such a loss of self-control as when confronted with a fresh jar of Trader Joe's Cookie Butter. The only responsible thing to do is to pass the information. This is in hopes that we will not be the only lonely addict who instinctively knows that this spread, ... More >>

The Top Five Parties This Weekend: Warm Leatherette, 120 Minutes, New York Night Train, and More

That's it folks, it's over. Burning Man 2012 came and went much the way it has every year. Life, however, goes on. This might be easy to forget while you lose yourself un-glueing things from the hood of your Toyota. But since research suggests that such activity has the potential to permanently hypn ... More >>

3 Places to Get Your Waffle On

We might be a culture based on convenience, but if there's one area of take-out that Europeans roundly beat us in, it's the waffle. Over there they call it a gaufre, and across Europe, especially in Belgium and some parts of France, you can find stands that package waffles exclusively to go. We didn ... More >>

Peach Pairings: 4 Ways to Accentuate This Summer Fruit

These days, my farmers' market routine begins with a systematic sampling of the peaches at every single stand. Donut peaches, white peaches, yellow peaches: Some may be just a bit juicer or a tad sweeter, but they're all pretty darn good. Restaurants around San Francisco are playing up the summer ... More >>

Number 2: Steamed Sea Bass with Lime and Chile From Lers Ros

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Tom Silargorn has a flair for the dramatic. His soups are all served in ringed Mongolian hot pots, blue flames and sparks shooting up through the tube at their center; every day you order tom kha gai feels like July 4. ... More >>

Number 3: Koo's Spoonful of Happiness

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​ When Kiyoshi Hiyakawa opened his Inner Sunset sushi bar Koo in 2004, he hoped to escape the cutely termed, Americanized rolls of his former employer, Tokyo Gogo, and instead offer a more traditional se ... 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 9: Liguria Bakery's Pizza Focaccia

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Everyone in San Francisco, it seems, has his or her favorite kind of focaccia from Liguria Bakery. Some will defend to their death the honor of the rectangles dimpled with green onions, others the loaves thickly speckl ... 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 >>

Number 11: Wing Wings' Chicken Salad Biscuit

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​"I make the chicken salad biscuit to offer a non-fried, boneless option that can appeal to pretty much everyone," says  Wing Wings owner Christian Ciscle of the sleeper on his menu. It's a three-buck item, list ... More >>

Number 12: Pamonhas de Sal from Pamonhas

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​There are only a few places in the United States where you can find pamonhas (pah-MONE-yahs), Brazilian fresh corn tamales, and one of them happens to be a little green-walled cafe in Daly City named after its signatur ... More >>

Number 13: Gobi Aloo Kati Rolls from the Kasa Indian Truck

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Kolkota's version of a New York slice, kati rolls were  designed to eat on the street. Originally a meat skewer wrapped in a paratha (flaky flatbread), the rolls have evolved in numerous directions over the years ... More >>

Number 14: Delfina's Trippa alla Fiorentina

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Trippa alla fiorentina is not a pretty dish. There are no elegant curls of hand-made pasta to photograph. A tuft of baby greens placed on top would only look like a boutonniere pinned to the chest of an orangutan. But ... More >>

Number 15: Leatherneck Steakhouse's Truffled Tater Tots

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Along with properly seared New York strips and a beautiful sea bass with chorizo and saffron-tomato butter sauce, Paul Lozito serves what must be the best steakhouse snack in San Francisco: truffled tater tots. The na ... More >>

Number 16: Baia Pasta's Durum Pastas

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Fresh artisan pasta has been a staple of farmers markets and natural-foods stores since the 1980s, so you'd think the arrival of one more would be cause for, well, nothing. But Renato Sardo and Dario Barbone's Baia Pas ... More >>

Number 17: Z&Y Restaurant's Fish With Flaming Chile Oil

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​The next time your best friend pretends she's not dieting but is "cleansing" her body of "toxins" with a little bout of self-starvation, one-up her by embarking on an "internal sweat lodge," otherwise known as Z&Y' ... More >>

Number 17: Auntie April's Fried Catfish

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​The subtitle to April Spears' Bayview restaurant is "Chicken & Waffles," but her signature dish is overshadowed by "Grandad's Fisher's catfish." If it seems like the easiest thing in the world to fry catfish proper ... More >>

Number 19: None But the Brave at Heaven's Dog

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​The tale of Trevor Easter's version of the None but the Brave at Heaven's Dog has all the intrigue of a pulp novel: mistaken identity, poisoning, bootlegging, and a happy, delicious ending. The cocktail first attracted ... More >>

Number 20: Vegan Kibbeh at Saha Arabic Fusion

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Though more than a third of the dishes on its menus include meat, Saha -- Mohamed and Marmee Aboghanem's style-y Tenderloin restaurant -- has achieved cult status for devoting a huge chunk of its menu to vegan dishes. A ... More >>

Number 21: Starter Bakery's Hazelnut Kouign Amann

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Although Ti Kouz has stopped serving krampouz, Bay Area eaters are still struggling to pronounce Breton words thanks to Starter Bakery. Its signature pastry, the kouign amman (queen ah-mahn), is a butter cake from Brit ... More >>

Number 22: Pupusas at Cafe and Restaurant Montecristo

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Just a few streets down from McLaren Park, on a stretch of Geneva that takes you from San Francisco to Daly City and then Brisbane in a matter of blocks, is Cafe and Restaurant Montecristo, whose exterior is draped in ... More >>

Number 23: The 2 A.M. Apple Fritter at Bob's Donuts

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​At 2 a.m., belly full of Jack Daniels and hair reeking of stale cigarette smoke, you're not so concerned that sustenance is organic, vegan, or pedigreed. No, at two o'clock you need a gut bomb. Something that seems deli ... More >>

Number 24: Le Sanctuaire's Vadouvan

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​In 2005, a Los Angeles chef named Ludovic Lefebvre asked Le Sanctuaire, a merchant of spices and molecular-gastronomy tools with branches in Santa Monica and San Francisco, to develop a spice blend for him. Called vado ... More >>

Number 25: Cobb Louis Salad at Nettie's Crab Shack

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​"Arrange lettuce leaves around the inside of a salad bowl, with a few sliced leaves on the bottom," writes Victor Hirtzler, chef of the St. Francis Hotel, in his 1910 recipe for Crab Louis. "Put crab meat on top of the ... More >>

Number 26: Soy Sauce Chicken from Happy Bakery & Deli

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​With the exception of a good egg, Western cooks seem to have lost the art of poaching. Sometime in the 1970s, restaurants supplanted their pike quenelles, suprèmes de volaille (chicken tenders), and poached salmon wit ... More >>

Number 28: Local Mission Eatery's Asparagus-Egg Sandwich

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​The Germans, of course, have a word for one of SFoodie's favorite times of year: Spargelzeit, or asparagus season. The appearance of asparagus is the moment when going to the farmers' market begins to seem like an adve ... More >>

Number 27: The Jewish-Style Artichoke from Locanda

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Artichokes were originally a Jewish specialty in Italy, writes Cucina Ebraica author Joyce Goldstein, but now carciofi alla giudia are considered a Roman specialty as well. Considering that we live less ... More >>

Number 29: 18-Hour Brisket From Memphis Minnie's

When your plate of 18-hour smoked brisket slides over the glass shelves at Memphis Minnie's, your stomach might balk a bit. This is an intimidating spread of food. In one corner: a bright-yellow cornbread muffin and two ramekins of vinegary slaw, smoky beans, or whatever else you might hav ... More >>

Number 30: Custard Buns from City View

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Regulars at City View know that there is a reason to make it there before the rush: The dim sum restaurant bakes a limited number of custard buns every day and runs out of them long before service is over. After noon, ... More >>

Number 31: Kung Pao Pastrami from Mission Chinese Food

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition. ​Kung pao pastrami all started, Anthony Myint says, when Ryan Ostler, the former chef of Broken Record and a southern-food popup at Bruno's, loaned the Mission Chinese Food team a smoker, and Danny Bowien got all exc ... More >>

Number 32: Panisse Frites From Frances

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​If the era of gorgeously simple Bay Area cuisine ushered in by chefs like Judy Rogers and Paul Bertolli has taught us anything, it's that nothing is too humble for us to lavish attention on. We have become a city of ... More >>

Number 33: Chawanmushi from Izakaya Yuzuki

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Izakaya Yuzuki's flawless chawanmushi, or steamed custard, is a performance that begins with the lifting of the wooden lid that caps a stoneware bowl. The steam that rolls up off the custard and spills out the sides ... More >>

Number 34: Chorizo from Fatted Calf Charcuterie

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​In the Bay Area, "chorizo" usually refers to the fresh, spicy Mexican sausage that fills tacos and tortas in the Mission. The occasional bit of Spanish-style chorizo that turns up in paella is often little more than ... More >>

Number 35: Silvanas From House of Silvanas

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Of the many fine things to come from houses -- prime rib, pancakes, Venus Xtravaganza -- the finest may be silvanas. Conjured out of butter and cashews, with a touch of food coloring added for good luck, t ... More >>

Number 36: Linden Street Brewery's Black Lager

​ SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​"The 'steam beer' style was born in the Bay Area," says Adam Lamoreaux, Linden Street Brewery's founder and brewmaster. His Burning Oak Black Lager is made in that style, which he calls an "Old California lager" ... More >>

Number 37: Red Blossom Tea Company's Aged Oolongs

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​The Bay Area's coffee roasters may get scads of national press, but our tea merchants, too, have become a force in their own realm of connoisseurship. Among them are Red Blossom Tea Company's Peter and Alice Leong, ... More >>

Number 38: Broken Record's Crawfish Grits

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​On New Year's Eve of 1973, the Allman Brothers put on a legendary, marathon show at the Cow Palace. Nearly four decades later, up Geneva at The Broken Record, Georgian Shane LaValley creates something just as unapologe ... More >>

Number 39: La Mar's Cebiche Mixto

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​San Francisco's first known Peruvian restaurant, Fonda Peruana, opened at the beginning of the Gold Rush, and 19th-century shipping routes between South America and San Francisco brought Peruvian pisco to our saloons, w ... More >>

No. 40: Black Jet Baking Co.'s Nutella-Hazelnut Hand Pie

​SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​Certain foodistas have decried the cupcake boom as the infantilization of American tastes. But the rise of the hand pie -- "Pop Tart" to those of you who don't care about violating trademark law -- doesn't necessari ... More >>

San Francisco's Top 10 Cupcake Spots

Tamara PalmerPart of the outdoor mural at Let's Cupcake.In a fickle landscape for food businesses, many cupcake shops have opened in recent years in San Francisco -- and, happily, they continue to stick around. While not every innovation regarding the dessert has worked out in practice (cupcake and ... More >>

Black Jet Baking Co. to Sell Pies, Cookies at the Ferry Building

Jonathan KauffmanBlack Jet Bakery's Nutella-hazelnut hand pie.​For the past year, Black Jet Baking Co. has been making cookies and hand pies -- artisanal Pop-Tarts, you could call them -- for cafes around the city, including Ritual Roasters and Matching Half. Founder Gillian Shaw started baking at ... More >>

Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival. For Real.

"Chocolate & Chalk Art" Art Nouveau Woman chalk art by Natasha Robinson.​Where: North Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley When: Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: For one glorious day, the streets of Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto will transform from a posh shopping mall for rich h ... More >>

Late Night at 15 Romolo: The Smiths, Frat Boys, and High-Flying Wings

Carina OstThe fried-banana-and-Nutella Challah at 'Cha Boy. Pickles: bad. Pickle juice: good.​Through San Francisco's Bada Bing! landscape of strippers and cannolis runs an alleyway with a bar that defies geographic guidelines. Hipsters in jean jackets and dark-rimmed glasses sing to the Pixie ... More >>

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