Petaluma

Drink of the Week: The Marshall Manhattan at Nick's Cove

We were on our way to dinner at Nick's Cove, that cozy collection of cottages and a restaurant on the edge of Tomales Bay and purportedly the place where the barbecued oyster was invented. We were certainly there for oysters, but also to escape the hard landscape of the city for a few hours. The tra ... More >>

Marin "Fairy" Busted for Halloween Heist of Accused Marijuana Dealer

A Marin County woman donning a fairy costume was booked into jail after she allegedly attacked and robbed an accused Novato marijuana dealer on Halloween. According to news reports, 21-year-old Molly Ann Blumberg was with two other women on Oct. 31 when they went to 46-year-old David Murray Randolph ... More >>

Fruit and Vegetable Leathers Transform Into Fine Dining Treat

"I've made a lot of school lunches lately," Coi chef Daniel Patterson smiled sweetly as he dropped a plate on our table the other night. On it were squares of Tomme Dolce cheese from Petaluma's Andante Dairy covered by slices of apple and sheets of assorted fruit and vegetable leathers, a fine dinin ... More >>

At Buyer's Best Friend, You Can Sample Any Food in the Store

Nestled among the vintage stores and tie-dye of the Upper Haight is a new food nerd-friendly destination with a unique culinary purpose: to let you taste all of the inventory. Operating initially as an online wholesaler and broker of gourmet and specialty products, Buyer's Best Friend Wholesale an ... More >>

That's Amore

Della Fattoria's Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Shames All Others

Petaluma bakery Della Fattoria has the chocolate chip cookie for people who don't care about chocolate chip cookies. The secret to winning over non-believers is a round and wafer-thin shape and the liberal and judicious use of brown sugar in the batter. The chocolate chips are about half as big as ... More >>

Hungry Dude Goes Completely Berserk After Eating Mini-Mart Food

Have you ever wondered what's really in those nachos  served at your local gas station? What about the hot links rolling around the warmer. And the deli sandwiches? How long have they been there?We're even more curious about the mini mart spread after reading a story about a 27-year-old man who ... More >>

New York Times to Sell Press Democrat, 15 Other Papers

​Another Bay Area newspaper shake up is imminent. The New York Times Company announced this week that it's selling The Press Democrat, the Bay Area's fifth largest newspaper. Romenesko shared the news yesterday, explaining that the Santa Rosa newspaper as well as 15 other regional papers, includin ... More >>

Comprehensive Guide to CSAs in San Francisco: Meat, Eggs, Dairy, Etc.

A CSA meat package from Marin Sun Farms​Many people tend to think of CSAs only for fruits and vegetables, but in the Bay Area we're also blessed with a variety of meatier options. We've done the work of finding the farmers; now all you have to do is place your order and start up the grill. In ... More >>

Quince's Rum and Cheese Pairing Is Good for the Rum

Ben Narasin​Quince restaurant continues its series of cheese and spirit pairings this week with rum and artisan cheese ($36, available only in the bar and lounge). While Quince's first effort, Scotch and cheese, is a somewhat established coupling, rum and cheese is far more esoteric. That make ... More >>

Five Happiness' Tea-Smoked Duck

Jonathan KauffmanA half-order of tea-smoked duck from Five Happiness, $11.75.​ When no less a culinary icon than Cecilia Chiang tells you that Five Happiness -- a 38-year-old restaurant in the Inner Richmond you've passed thousands of times -- makes a great Peking duck, you listen. But when you st ... More >>

Drinking the Long View: Aged Beers at Lagunitas Brewing Co.

Alastair BlandHittin' the library: Aged beers at Lagunitas Brewing Co. in Petaluma.​When the Righteous Brothers told us that time can do so much, they might as well have been singing about beer. Some brewers recoil at the mere suggestion of putting away their hard-brewed work for a long stretc ... More >>

Rocky's Swag: Roach Gigz Rides His Cocky Charm Toward Rap's Big Ring

Stick a Folk in It

Shut Up About Changing the Food System. Unless You're Actually Going to Do Something

Gary E./YelpPremade sushi in the Whole Foods case in SOMA.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Honest Meat blogger Rebecca Thistlewaite showed up today on Grist to kick your ass ― the you who pays lip service to the idea of changing the food system, shops at a farmers' market once or twice ... More >>

The B³ Burger

John BirdsallBurger ($10), with fried Petaluma egg ($1) and Manchego cheese ($3).​Friday, August 20, 2010 ameer n./Yelp​This is a damn good burger. Kevin Ahajanian, fitted with the Keller halo from time spent at Bouchon, has stacked up something with the bones of Cali quintessential. Th ... More >>

Liqueur de Violettes, a Rockin' Tipple from Tempus Fugit

Tamara Palmer​Now, we're far from a spirits expert, but we did know that Tempus Fugit is a rock star in that world. We learned this via an interview last year with the incomparable Marilyn Manson, in which he informed us that Mansinthe, his very own brand of absinthe, was a collaboration with ... More >>

Gran Classico: An Ancient Liqueur Comes Back

Campari's hand-crafted cuz.​Maybe it's just us looking at the world through drunk-colored glasses, but it's never been a better time to have a drink. As the national interest in cocktails and the standard of quality in bars increase, it's created a market that allows for the revival of and ac ... More >>

Bay Citizen, Built on Barely Paid Labor, Runs Story Glorifying Unpaid Labor

Pick that damn arugula , intern!​The Bay Citizen, the nonprofit news organization launched with much fanfare May 26 by local investment banker Warren Hellman, has earned ample flack for its offer to pay $25 per story to local bloggers.But we learned today from the online newspaper that some employ ... More >>

The Other White Milk

Outstanding in the Field Announces 2010 Dates

Cheryl Bower/FlickrStart saving up.​Outstanding in the Field stages al fresco dinners at organic farms around the country, touring from site to site in a 57-year-old bus that probably runs on spring onion fumes and goat cheese whey. Now in its 11th year, Jim Denevan's operation has been across ... More >>

Local Pot Club Supplier Made Purported $200K a Year

Role models?​For readers thinking of a career change, here's toke for thought: If you become a supplier to local pot clubs, you can apparently make around $200,000 per year.According to a federal forfeiture complaint for more than $800,000 cash belonging to alleged pot club supplier Avery Badenhop ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Lonjevitea's Gravenstein Apple Kombucha

T. Palmer​Might we actually be living in the epicenter of great kombucha? Add Petaluma's Lonjevitea to a growing list of local companies offering a worthwhile twist on the probiotic tea. Brewed with yerba mate rather than the usual black tea, it still packs a powerful and stimulating kick, but wit ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Thursday's Prix-Fixe Madness

​From now through the end of SF Beer Week, we're providing daily quarterbacking for the frothiest events. Skol, dudes. Jesse Friedman/Beer & Nosh​We're over the Beer Week hump ― time to let the real gluttony begin. Behold the prix-fixe beer dinner: Thursday has eight on the schedule, ... More >>

Another 24 Hours: Craigslist Farm and Garden Classifieds

CraigslistTerrorize the squash-phobic in your life.​SFoodie's weekly look at some urban essentials offered up on Craiglist. • Five little ducks went out one day, over the hill and far away. Mother Duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack," but only four little ducks came back. Why? Because yo ... More >>

Another Thursday Option: Grow-A-Farmer Fundraiser at One Market

If floating your Thursday night away while eating wild food is just not your thing, consider shelling out 25 bones for a Grow-A-Farmer fundraiser that includes eats from One Market Restaurant, as well as Northern California farm inspired dishes. Event proceeds will go to the permanent housing projec ... More >>

Drink a Toast to American Genius with These Killer Local Brewskis

WhatKnot/FlickrBeer goes with the Fourth of July like hot buttered rum at Christmas or a sazerac on Bourbon Street. All those thick burgers, molten enchiladas, smoky platters of barbecue, and big slabs of pepperoni pizza cry out for a tall, cool beaker of suds in all its thirst-quenching glory. Th ... More >>

An Early Peek at Eat Real Fest Oakland's Street-Food Vendor List

Organizers of the Oakland edition of the Eat Real Street Food Fest in August have been announcing the event's growing vendor list one by one on Twitter. Instead of tracking down these peripatetic purveyors on their erratically scheduled street rounds, Eat Real is gathering up a carefully curated gro ... More >>

City of Burgers, Berkeley Edition: Flame

Flame Gourmet Burgers 2985 College (at Ashby), Berkeley; 510-666-8500. The East Bay has many contenders to burger immortality: Barney's, Café Rouge, Christopher's, Wood Tavern. But comparisons are tricky, since each operates in burger genres whose differences range from slight to whopping. There's ... More >>

Mark Your Calendar: CUESA Moveable Feast Fundraiser Set for Aziza in July

chez pim via FlickrSyhabout: Prix-fixe collaboratorPeople line up for Jesse Kuhn's Little Gem lettuces at the Ferry Plaza farmers' market on Saturdays and at the Marin farmers' market in San Rafael on Sundays. At his 10-acre Petaluma farm, Marin Roots, he also grows baby vegetables -- carrots, beets ... More >>

Pig Out: Pigs and Pinot Festival in Healdsburg, March 20 to 21

Looks like SFoodies will find lots to choose from in Sonoma the weekend of March 20, between the Artisanal Cheese Festival that we wrote about in Petaluma, and Charlie Palmer's Fourth Annual Celebration of Pigs and Pinot, a series of dining and educational events hosted by Palmer at the Hotel Healds ... More >>

Nothing But the Best

Uva Enoteca brings quite a bit of dolce vita to the Lower Haight.

SF Weekly Letters

Squeezing Beasts

The Velvet Teen

Cum Laude

Reign in blood and BBQ at Slayer in San Jose

Alt-Pride

Let's go to a fair on parade day! It seemed like a good idea.

Northern California Dreamin'

The Phoenix theater is the best clubhouse a local music scene could ever have

Image Consciousness

Michael Garlington -- an enormously talented art photographer with a penchant for the macabre -- has a drunken, wild-man persona. Or is that a canny self-promoter we see behind the curtain?

Paradise Found

Two years ago, the Velvet Teen took the road less traveled, and -- as Elysium proves -- that has made all the difference

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 7, 2004

Earthquake vs. Fire

Disasters duke it out on the soccer field

Best Bread

Della Fattoria

Best Free Alcohol and Drug Rehab

St. Anthony Foundation

Stick to the Suds

Eldos Grill & Brewery

Best New Locally Produced Documentary

Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

Hear This

Old-school punks return for a Victims Family reunion

A Boy Scout No More

Since he was 12, Steven Cozza has led a crusade against the Scouts' anti-gay policies. What will happen now that he's grown up to discover sports and girls?

Bound to Glory

On the road to possible stardom, Train tries to preserve its sanity and keep the bean counters happy

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