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Jardinière Installs Rooftop Beehives

Jardinière is the latest San Francisco restaurant to join the worker bee workforce with its new rooftop beehives. Honey is already being produced and used in the kitchen for dishes such as smoked honey jus with duck breast, honey glazed wild boar, caramelized honey ice cream with summer stone fruit ... More >>

"The Lady": A Burmese Protestor Biopic

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"Occupy" and "99 Percent" Shortlisted for Word of the Year

​Oxford University Press announced its 2011 Word of the Year on Wednesday. And it is ... drumroll please ... "Squeezed middle." Which brings to mind another word: "Huh?" Probably not the reaction the lexicographers were going for. "Squeezed middle," it turns out, is not what you get after eati ... More >>

Tonight: Sneak Preview of PBS Food Show

​Where: Goldman Theater, 2150 Allston (at Oxford), Berkeley When: Tonight, 6-10 p.m. Cost: $10 in advance, $15 at the door The rundown: We imagine there is a Venn diagram that would show a wide crossover between foodies and public TV supporters. Tonight in Berkeley, there's an event geared ... More >>

The 7 Best Veggie Burgers in the Bay Area

Ed U./YelpThe seriously red, seriously delicious Plant Burger.​You know what sucks? When you get to a restaurant, all hungry and excited to eat, and upon scanning the menu, you realize your only option is a motherloving Boca burger. Ye gads, the only thing worse is the dreaded GVP (Grilled Veg ... More >>

Hog Wild

Bouncer: Finds danger in free karaoke

Bouncer Discovers the Dangers of Free Karaoke

​So we ended up at Bow Bow. Two middle-aged men were at the end of the bar by the door, eating noodles and chatting in Cantonese. A tarted-up young lady was at the other end of the bar, thumbing through the karaoke book. My pal and I sat right in the middle of it all on two stools facing the bart ... More >>

Gather's Braised Mushroom Sandwich

John BirdsallBraised mushroom sandiwch on grilled ciabatta with cashew-gypsy pepper "cheese," $9.​Monday, October 25, 2010 Where chefs fail with the portobello is in forcing a false equivalency. Stemless, it has the size and shape of a meat patty, but, well, a portobello isn't meat, though ca ... More >>

Huerta Vida, a Smoky and Spicy Intoxicator by Gather

Tamara Palmer​Esquire named Sean Baker of Gather its 2010 Chef of the Year earlier in the week, so spirits are particularly high in this charming Berkeley restaurant right now. The cocktail we chose to toast his success succeeded in getting us pretty twisted. The Huerta Vida is a masculine concoct ... More >>

Cinnaholic Selling Microlending Certificates to Raise Much-Needed Cash

Tamara PalmerCinnaholic launched a shop in July near the U.C. Berkeley campus.​It's hard out here for a vegan cinnamon roll startup. This morning Vegansaurus passed along a microlending plea for Cinnaholic, the vegan cinnamon roll bakery that cranked up its ovens just two months ago in Berkel ... More >>

Eight Great Moments In Musical Punctuation History

Courtesy nationalpunctuationday.com​September 24 is National Punctuation Day, at least according to a guy with a cape in Northern California. (He's still probably cooler than Lynne Truss.) Today is the day that we brittle purists may with impunity box the ears of apostrophe abusers, comma splicers ... More >>

All-Vegan Cinnaholic Bakery is Both Subversive and Satisfying

Tamara PalmerCinnaholic's Old Skool Roll with pomegranate seeds ($4.50)​Berkeley's brand-new Cinnaholic is not a great place to go if you are terribly indecisive. A seemingly infinite number of customizable options are available for the bakery's all-vegan cinnamon rolls, including toppings, fr ... More >>

Cinnaholic Opens Tomorrow in Berkeley

Kat Spoer​We reported on its lease signing back in March, and now Cinnaholic is finally ready to unleash its 30-plus varieties of vegan cinnamon rolls this weekend in Berkeley. Cinnaholic's pinup owner Shannon Michelle Radke told SFoodie the store will be open to the public tomorrow (Sat., Jul ... More >>

Eco Food Tour Cruises Berkeley's Gather, West Marin Farms

Maïa Cybelle/FlickrOn the itinerary: Devil's Gulch Ranch in Marin County.​Trust us, your smartphone and a Google map will not save you in the no-signal hills of West Marin, but Bay Area Green Tours is offering a food and farm tour that sounds like it won't leave you lost. A biodiesel-fueled ... More >>

Future of Food's Deborah Koons Garcia Previewing New Film Next Week

​Ever wondered what it'd be like to attend a soil science convention? We're not sure we'd make it past the dreary continental breakfast. Nonetheless, we're excited about Symphony of the Soil, a new multi-film project by Deborah Koons Garcia, maker of the excellent The Future of Food. This docu ... More >>

The Embarcadero's Hefty-Ass Club: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

Des M./YelpBusinessman's special: Perry's Club with optional sweet potato fries.​Weds., Jan. 13, 2010 So maybe you're not in the habit of wearing pleated slacks and Oxford button-downs to the office. Big whoop. The club sandwich at Perry's on the Embarcadero will seem just as epic, whether yo ... More >>

An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

City's Restroom Taskforce Wants You To -- Ahem -- Sit Down And Offer Your Input

Jim HerdAs noted before, this public restroom in the Panhandle cost as much as a 16,200-square-foot mansion in the midwestDoes this city have a taskforce on taskforces? It doesn't appear to -- but just you wait, now someone will bring it up. In any event, all excretory humor aside, we do have a rest ... More >>

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