Passover

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Passover Dinners Not To Pass Over

For eight days every spring, Passover recalls the exodus of Jews from Egypt to freedom, while royally screwing over food choices of modern-day Jews and relegating their diets to flattened pieces of cardboard-tasting matzoh. Given the bevy of pastries, hipster-toasts and other tempting leavened goodi ... More >>

Passover Menus: Kosher Dishes for the Eating

There are few opportunities for kosher foodies to pig out, but Passover is an exception. The week-long Jewish holiday is here again, and there's an abundance of non-pig options for followers of the faith and dairy-detesting vegans to celebrate. Here's a list of prescribed menus on SFoodie's Pas ... More >>

Old World Food Truck Nears Launch

​After nearly eight months of test-driving old school Jewish classics like borscht and corned beef during pop-up dinners at La Victoria, Kenny Hockert is finally ready to launch his Old World Food Truck in an actual food truck. Hockert plans a soft debut during the third or fourth week of Apr ... More >>

Celebrate Passover This Wednesday Italian Style with Sipping Seder

Courtesy Sipping Seder​Italian Passover with the Sipping Seder Where: Perbacco, 230 California (at Front), 955-0663 When: Wed., April 20 Cost: $49 (cocktails not included) Reservations: Call the restaurant at 415-955-0663 The rundown: Rob Corwin and Danny Jacobs's Sipping Seder project loo ... More >>

The Sipping Seder: Two S.F. Guys Redesign the Passover Plate in Cocktail Form

HoMan Lee/The Sipping SederRob Corwin, left, and Danny Jacobs have come up with a collection of Passover cocktails corresponding to elements on the seder plate.​Reinventing a cultural and religious feast like the Passover seder takes some guts ― and a Boston shaker. If you thought your only opti ... More >>

Wise Sons Passover Seder at Coffee Bar

the design pocket/FlickrNo spot for vanilla pot de creme?​Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen Passover Seder Where: Coffee Bar, 1890 Bryant (at Mariposa), 551-8100 When: Mon., April 18, 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday seder is sold out) Cost: $45, $65 with wine pairings The rundown: If San Francisco can hav ... More >>

Maps, Maps, Maps: This Week in Food Bloggery

kennejima/FlickrCastro Farmers Market: Back in business.​Five SFoodie highlights from this week:1. Sean Timberlake just updated the map of San Francisco farmers' markets that Jun Belen created last year. Then he came up with a schedule of markets, listed by day of the week. This is one for the boo ... More >>

Passover Matzo Ball Soup Brawl: Miller's Deli vs. Moishe's Pippic

Alex HochmanMiller's matzo ball soup isn't kosher for Passover, but it'll fill up even the hungriest of growing Jewish boys.​ Sticking matzo ball soup on your restaurant menu takes straight-up chutzpah. Everyone thinks their grandma makes the best one on Earth, or if they're not Jewish, their ... More >>

Pinback's Rob Crow Talks His Many Projects, Band Names He Wishes He'd Thought of

Rob Crow and Zach Smith played Saturday at the Independent​Rob Crow and Zach Smith, the confirmed sci-fi geeks and indie-rock schizophrenics who mastermind Pinback, came to the Independent on Saturday night to present "The Rob and Zach Show," a pared-down version of their darkly enchanting pop rev ... More >>

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