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Botanical Bakery's Got a Spicy Little Number

Sonoma County's Botanical Bakery offers teeny tiny shortbread cookies ("Shorties") that are about the size of a quarter and flavored with herbs and spices such as fennel pollen and lavender. The latest variety, Chocolate Chipotle, is the feistiest and most potentially addicting of all the Shorties. ... More >>

The Pastry Cupboard's Oatmeal Medley Has a Way With Fruit

The Pastry Cupboard is celebrating one year as a retail shop. The shop is the brainchild of Chona Piumarta, who formerly worked as a pastry chef at the Slanted Door and LarkCreekSteak restaurants, and serves light breakfast and lunch fare alongside baked goods such as pies, cakes, cupcakes, and cook ... 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 >>

Batter Up Fries Oreos Into Something Enjoyable

A confession: Cook E. Monster does not like Oreos. The chocolate cookies do not taste like chocolate and the white filling in between the not-chocolate cookies does not taste like something that should be edible. But we had heard that they could fry almost anything at Batter Up and we wondered if t ... More >>

Outerlands' While-You-Wait Treat

The result of the national attention given to Outerlands can be a stupidly long wait to get a sandwich and a salad in the Outer Sunset, even on weekdays. But it's a delight to discover that there's something at the counter to sweeten the deal of waiting in the chill. A dessert sandwich, if you will, ... More >>

Batter Up: Mastering the Art of Deep-Frying

Patrick Lee Wants To Fry You Anything At Batter Up

A graffiti-laden sliding window masked by a cold, windy MUNI stop in the Excelsior district seems an odd spot for the city's lone dive specializing in Texas State Fair "cuisine." Odder still, its owner, Patrick Lee, is a San Francisco bred dot-com escapee whose only prior restaurant experience consi ... More >>

Angry Cookie Lovers Threaten to Boycott Gay Oreo

Oreo Cookie just gave San Francisco a new reason to devour its delicious processed lard-filled cookies: The Homosexual Oreo. After thousands attended Gay Pride in San Francisco and New York City, Oreo created a photo of a Rainbow cookie which it then displayed on its Facebook page. Sadly, the cookie ... 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 >>

Dandelion Chocolate: The Return of Bean-to-Bar in SF

​Bean-to-bar chocolate is tough to do authentically, and SF hasn't had a local B2B producer of note since Scharffen Berger shut down their facility, but here's some good news: Dandelion is a weed worth watching. Starting out as some folks in a garage in East Palo Alto, these chocolateiers hav ... More >>

Raw Cookies Are Heating Up, But You've Got to Like Coconut

When we first heard of this week's surprise announcement of the pending closure of most of the Northern California locations of Café Gratitude, a vegetarian restaurant that also sells raw food products to specialty grocers, we were concerned for the cookies. Without their raw lemon coconut and rasp ... More >>

"Cookie Monster" Offers Best Explanation Yet for Occupy Wall Street

"C is for Corporate Malfeasance"​A guy calling himself Cookie Monster has written what looks to us like the most clear and persuasive explanation for the Occupy movement we've seen anywhere, a copy-and-pastable screed that everyone should send to their crazy aunts and skeptical grandfolks. Admi ... More >>

Get Your Ass to Oakland for: Homeroom

Carina OstTake a good look ― you *will* be tested on this.​A series urging SFoodie readers to get their butts out of the Mission. For a couple hours anyway. Mac is officially in session: The Bay Area's first-ever macaroni-and-cheese restaurant unlocked its doors in Oakland's Temescal neighb ... More >>

Meet the One Love Bakers: Marge Bakery's Megan Gordon

Marge BakeryMo's, Marge Bakery's mashup of the Oreo and the MoonPie.​When Megan Gordon got pink-slipped from her high school teaching gig, it didn't take her long to realize what it was she wanted to do: become a baker. "I felt that I'd reached the end of a road," Gordon says, "but I always lo ... More >>

American Cupcake Brings Together Cupcakes and Wine ― at Last

Tamara PalmerThe Fun House: Bubblegum, cotton candy, and Pixie Stix mini cupcakes with Pinot Gris, Syrah Rosé, and Brut Rosé.​Despite the name, Cow Hollow's American Cupcake, an over-the-top white and pink confection which opened May 1, also offers a menu of savory snacks in addition to cupc ... More >>

Fist-Pumping Goodness and Nightclub Flashbacks at SF Food Wars' Chocolate Cookie Situation

T. PalmerJersey Shore cheesiness ruled at Sunday's SF Food Wars baking competition.​(View our slideshow of the Chocolate Cookie Situation, yo.)It wasn't the first time we've stumbled out of Mighty drunk, shining with glitter, and slathered in white stuff, but it was the only occasion we've don ... More >>

Bulleit Bourbon: A 90-Proof Rite of Passage

Markyboy81/FlickrHonestly, if you don't respect yourself, who will?​The late great American cultural historian Bernard DeVoto once wrote an entire book dedicated to the proposition that the only cocktails a self-respecting adult should consider imbibing are the dry martini and a slug of whiske ... More >>

Deep-Fried Butter: Ultimate State Fair Gross-Out or Stroke of Genius?

paul79uf/FlickrImagine the possibilities.​We'll have to wait and see if the latest fatty food from the State Fair of Texas -- deep-fried butter -- ever becomes the subject of a food eating contest in the Joey Chestnut style. Chances are that watching anyone eat a deep-fried butter stick may ma ... More >>

News Flash: San Francisco Menaced By 'Fog'

In other news: Soylent Green is peopleBy Fake Ward Bushee Editor, Fake San Francisco Chronicle When I first came to San Francisco after spending many years as editor of the Arizona Republic, the first thing that struck me - literally -- was Frank Vega's 7-iron (he insisted it was a tradition at the ... More >>

Friday Sundae: MaggieMudd's Vegan Messy Marcy

The biggest, gooiest sundae at MaggieMudd (903 Cortland at Gates, 641-5291) is the glorious Messy Marcy ($8.25). This dirty girl consists of three scoops of your choice of traditional or dairy-free ice cream (made with coconut or soy milk) served over a warm brownie and topped with cookie pieces, ... More >>

Farewell to Oreo

There's a World Going On Underground: Creepy S.F. Tunnels Latest Fodder For History Channel

Amidst the deluge of End-of-Days, Nostradamus junk that seems to take up the lion's share of the History Channel's programming these days (whatever happened to The Hitler Channel?) San Francisco made an appearance -- not that you'd recognize it. The weapons depots, nuclear missile silos, and the vas ... More >>

Snacktion: Blessing's Alive and Radiant Foods' Chai Raweo

Name: Chai RaweoBrand: Blessing's Alive and Radiant FoodsOrigin: BerkeleyFound at: Rainbow Grocery (1745 Folsom)Cost: $8.19Ingredients: Soaked almonds, raw cashews, honey, coconut, chai essenceCalories per serving: Not listedWhy I bought it: We have yet to cover any raw Snacktion, plus this looked l ... More >>

Everything's Better With Bacon

Tonight: World's Largest Ice Cream Social

I Was Always a Hydrox Girl

At T.G.I. Friday's, Moms Know Their Place

The Magical MUNI tour kicks off!

Fair or No Fair with Indulgent Aunt M (at the Alameda County Fair)

A Grown-Up Restaurant

Sophisticated and delicious fare in a chic city setting

I Scream

Nondairy ice cream that's worthy of Milwaukee's best

Reigning Cats and Dogs

At Petchitecture, a charity event where architects and design firms build and auction animal habitats, the animals, of course, dress up.

So-So Chic

RNM

Collect Call

Dropping in on Mark "Ultranova" at Blackhole for a little obsession with the art of things

Call It Fate

Destino

The Bridge and Tunnel Crowd

Night Crawler

Night Crawler

Da Da Da

Know When to Fold 'Em

Night Crawler

Tropical Reigns

King Creole

Deep Xanadu-doo

William Randolph Hearst's heirs want to build hotels and a golf course on his seaside estate, below his fabled castle. Ranchers and environmentalists are raising Kane.

Are You Being Served?

At Rocco's Cafe, the answer could easily be: Not quite

Slap Shots

Night+Day

Were All Connected

Both Dog Opera and Word of Mouth descend from the "universal" theme of Search for Signs