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Desperately Seeking Soup Dumplings: Bay Area Xiao Long Bao

Desperately Seeking Soup Dumplings: Bay Area Xiao Long Bao

SFWeekly's 7-Day Dish

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SF Weekly's Seven Day Dish

Shades of Blue

Blue Point beautifully balances enthusiasm and know-how

Battle Lines

Richmond residents take aim at plans to expand a medical center they say is already overbuilt

Holiday Gift Guide

Richmond residents take aim at plans to expand a medical center they say is already overbuilt

Driving San Francisco Sane

Although the city has more cars per square mile than either New York or L.A., driving in S.F. is no nightmare. In fact, once its intricacies are mastered, motoring here can be downright civilized – and civilizing.

Roe v. Age

Don't be intimidated by the metallic chic or the weird-sounding dishes

Best Neighborhood Movie Theater

Balboa Theater

Club Directory

Balboa Theater

Tally Ho

We thought we'd lost the motorloaf forever. Then we checked the phone book.

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We thought we'd lost the motorloaf forever. Then we checked the phone book.

Letters to the Editor

Cleaning Up the Countryside; Beyond the Fringe; Elvis, Healing From the Grave; Close Encounters

Letters to the Editor

News Flash; Sex Change and the City; Defining Dance

Best Flaming Bowl of Liquor

The Scorpion

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The Scorpion

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The Scorpion

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The Scorpion

Early Bird Special: Bund Shanghai

Jen SiskaNote to aspiring restaurateurs: The fiercest Chinese eateries are in diaspora neighborhoods, places like the Outer Richmond or northern Peninsula, where second- and third-generation Asian Americans actually live. Seems like nobody told the owners of Bund Shanghai (640 Jackson at Kearny), a ... More >>

Shanghai comes to Chinatown via Bund

Jen SiskaNote to aspiring restaurateurs: The fiercest Chinese eateries are in diaspora neighborhoods, places like the Outer Richmond or northern Peninsula, where second- and third-generation Asian Americans actually live. Seems like nobody told the owners of Bund Shanghai (640 Jackson at Kearny), a ... More >>

Soup Therapy, All-You-Can-Pound Suds, and Flaunting Your Man Ink: A Foodie Day Planner

 Friday, July 24, 2009 Let's do lunch: What the hell, it'll be foggy all over the city today, so why not lunch in the Outer Richmond. Keep warm, says SF Weekly food critic Meredith Brody, with soup dumplings, knife-cut noodle soup, and garlic chicken wings at cash-only Shanghai House (3641 Ba ... More >>

In the Court of the Dumpling King

Gary Soup/Flickr Sheng jian bao: Worthy of coronation. Old episodes of Check, Please! Bay Area aren't always the best barometer of local restaurant excellence, but in the case of Shanghai Dumpling King, one came through like the Earl of Warwick. Local Filipino-American writer and St. Mary's C ... More >>

Thawing Out with Sushi: A SFoodie Lunch Planner

​Friday, October 9, 2009 If you're anywhere near the Outer Richmond at lunchtime, chances are you're articulated extremities will feel as frosty as Otter Pops. Understandably, cold fish is a hard sell. But, suggests SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody, the sushi here is so good you mig ... More >>

The Meter Is Running: Municipal Transportation Agency Outlines Plan to Extend Parking Meter Hours -- Which Could Raise $9M for City

​Earlier today, the Municipal Transportation Agency unveiled the results of a study regarding its tentative plan to extend parking meter hours to weekday evenings and on Sunday. There's no shortage of details -- reporters were even handed a city map with "pink" and "teal" parking zones -- but whet ... More >>

Early-Bird Special: Yu-Zen

cygnoir/FlickrYu-Zen's futo maki.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. We all know the taste of mid-grade sushi-joint food like we know the taste of a McDonald's burger: starchy tempura, elaborately gooshy fantasy rolls, watery miso soup. Get something better, and it seem ... More >>

Yu-Zen and the art of sushi

cygnoir/FlickrYu-Zen's futo maki.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. We all know the taste of mid-grade sushi-joint food like we know the taste of a McDonald's burger: starchy tempura, elaborately gooshy fantasy rolls, watery miso soup. Get something better, and it seem ... More >>

Does This Giraffe Look Guilty? Net Tightens Around Renowned S.F. Graffiti Artist 'Girafa'

Late last month, San Jose cops made an announcement that reverberated like a shock wave through the ranks of local graffiti fans. Police in the South Bay metropolis believed they had unmasked the prominent artist-vandal known as "Girafa," a graffiti "writer" -- as such auteurs prefer to be called -- ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ Adam Stephens

Dan Monick​Adam Stephens is the singing and guitar-playing half of successful San Francisco duo Two Gallants (Tyson Vogel is the drumming and backing vocals half). Signed to Saddle Creek records since 2005, they've toured incessantly in support of their three full-length albums and have finally ta ... More >>

The Food's Tasty, the Room's Nice. Why is La Vie So Sleepy?

Susu/FlickrWhy so quiet?​People take pity on empty bars, bleak little dives with dart boards and televisions. In a dead room, there's no need to shout, which makes for better conversation. Likewise, everyone gets a seat. Drinkers can spread out. No one scoops up the wrong pint. Restaurants, h ... More >>

The Crime That Just Keeps Giving -- Car Arsons Return to S.F.

www.lcpstc.org​The apparent "anything you can do I can do better" competition between unknown miscreants on both sides of the bay to see who can immolate more vehicles recorded a couple more San Francisco entries yesterday and early this morning. Sometime between midnight and noon on Sunday -- tha ... More >>

Soups, small plates, and snacks shine at Taste of Formosa

www.lcpstc.org​The apparent "anything you can do I can do better" competition between unknown miscreants on both sides of the bay to see who can immolate more vehicles recorded a couple more San Francisco entries yesterday and early this morning. Sometime between midnight and noon on Sunday -- tha ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 1: Empero Taste

Click to enlarge.​All hail the arrival of the year of the metal tiger! This week, in celebration of Chinese New Year, SFoodie drove around town picking up Chinese New Year banquet menus, then asked Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents to translate. We'll be rolling out the menus on SFoodie over th ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 2: New Hing Lung

Click to enlarge.​In honor of the blossoming year of the metal tiger, last week SFoodie drove around San Francisco picking up New Year's menus ― a million thanks to Adobo Hobo's Ed Chui and his parents for translating them for us. 2010: Sponsored by Kellogg's.​We'll be rolling out the menu ... More >>

Translating Chinese New Year's Menus, Part 5: Hakka Restaurant

Click to enlarge.​The year of the iron tiger officially arrived last weekend, but Chinese restaurants around the Bay Area are offering special New Year's banquet menus over the course of the next few weeks. Soundtrack for 2010.​SFoodie drove around the city collecting some of them, which Adobo H ... More >>

Pieroshki, Dyed Eggs, Kulich ― It's Easter in the Outer Richmond

Kovalchuk.Nikolay/FlickrKulich.​"Kulich [pronounced koo-LEECH] is a sweet Easter bread that's kind of like panettone," says Biba Belikow, a congregation member at the gorgeous, gold-domed Holy Virgin Cathedral in the Outer Richmond. This Sunday, the cathedral is holding a kulich-decorating event f ... More >>

John Campbell's Irish Bakery Opens in Pac Heights

John Campbell'sThe original location.​Just in time for St. Patrick's Day: John Campell's Irish Bakery, the three-year-old Geary Street bakery whose scones SFoodie believes are some of the best things in town to eat, opened a second location in Pacific Heights yesterday. Located on the corner of Fi ... More >>

John Campbell's Taking Over Potrero Space from Bento 415/Pinkie's/4505 Meats

Claudine C./YelpPinkie's, Bento 415, and 4505 Meats are out at the end of April.​Eater was tipped yesterday to the forced exit later this month of Pinkie's Bakery and Bento 415 ― also co-tenant 4505 Meats, who uses the space for production ― from shared kitchen and retail space in Potrero ... More >>

John Campbell's Unveils Retail Bakery in Potrero

John Birdsall​Who says nothing's open on holidays? Last Sunday ― the Fourth of July ― the Potrero outpost of John Campbell's Irish Bakery opened its retail space in the former site of Pinkie's Bakery/Bento 415/4505 Meats. Campbell's had already been using the space for production baking. T ... More >>

Superior Palace Feeds Nostalgia for the Supercheap Rice Plate

Alex HochmanMandarin pork spareribs plate, with built-in "dessert."​We fondly remember the days of supercheap Chinese rice-plate lunches, the kind we stuffed ourselves silly on under bad fluorescent lighting, returning to the office in desperate need of a breath mint and a nap. Well, we're hap ... More >>

While the Buzz Machine Goes Dormant, Delano's Market Quietly Closes

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.All of us blogs took Thanksgiving off, and all the restaurants seemed to go into dormancy this weekend -- seriously, SFoodie was out and about this weekend, and non-downtown San Francisco seem ... More >>

Have a Jelly Doughnut for Hanukkah

Israel Kosher Meat's sufganiyah, $2.​Israel Kosher Meat, Poultry & Deli is a Russian Jewish deli in the Outer Richmond that wears its age as unabashedly as it does its faith. While the shelves are sparsely stocked and the front window needs a good scrubbing, Yelpers love the place for its ... More >>

A16 Changes Chefs, Puerto Alegre Colonizes Bombay Ice Creamery

​ ​The past 36 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Inside Scoop broke word that Liza Shaw is leaving A16, where she's been exec chef (and has worked since the beginning). Replacing her will be her chef de cuisine, David Taylor. In other chef ... More >>

Richmond Safeway Remodel: Take Your Virtual Tour Today

Generally speaking, residents of the Outer Richmond, which includes your author, have it pretty good. We're close to great parks and beaches, exceptional Chinese food is never more than a few blocks away, and we harbor a dirty little secret: The fog isn't nearly as bad as we like to tell you.

'Girafa' Pleads Guilty to San Jose Graffiti Charges, Fined $38,000

A guilty conscience?​San Francisco resident Steven Free, known by his graffiti writer's moniker of "Girafa," has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of felony and misdemeanor vandalism in San Jose, agreeing to pay $38,000 in fines.San Jose cops arrested Free in 2009 on 10 felony vandalism counts. As ... More >>

Bacon and Snowballs Roll Out, Venga Sets Up Shop, Four New Coffee Shops, and More

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Food Truck News: Who doesn't like bacon? Okay, I don't, but I'm a rarity, which is a good thing for Bacon Bacon Truck. Inside Scoop reports the porcine truck from former E&O general manager Jim Angelus is ... More >>

Red Tavern: Inconsistent Quality but Never Boring Meals at Russian Restaurant

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Food Truck News: Who doesn't like bacon? Okay, I don't, but I'm a rarity, which is a good thing for Bacon Bacon Truck. Inside Scoop reports the porcine truck from former E&O general manager Jim Angelus is ... More >>

Photos: For Rip Curl Pro Search, Ocean Beach Has Its Day in the Sun

Ocean Beach on Wednesday, the last day of the Rip Curl Pro Search contest​San Francisco's selection as the home of the 2011 Rip Curl Pro Search surfing competition delighted surf enthusiasts throughout the Bay Area. Ocean Beach has long been a holy site among surfers. (One of the finest journalist ... More >>

Jang Soo BBQ: Rethinking Korean Barbecue in Style and Substance

Ocean Beach on Wednesday, the last day of the Rip Curl Pro Search contest​San Francisco's selection as the home of the 2011 Rip Curl Pro Search surfing competition delighted surf enthusiasts throughout the Bay Area. Ocean Beach has long been a holy site among surfers. (One of the finest journalist ... More >>