Pizza

Capo's: A Pizza Master's New Shrine to Chicago-Style Pies

Would You Eat a Matt Cain Pizza?

So you didn't score tickets to the World Series games. Big deal. You can still probably score some free pizza. Patxi's Pizza is offering Giants fans a chance to get pizza and win a signed Matt Cain jersey when they order up a piping hot pie online anytime during the World Series.

Farina Pizza: In the Mission, It's Thick with Thin Crust

So you didn't score tickets to the World Series games. Big deal. You can still probably score some free pizza. Patxi's Pizza is offering Giants fans a chance to get pizza and win a signed Matt Cain jersey when they order up a piping hot pie online anytime during the World Series.

SF Weekly's DISH Preview: Pizza and Pork Sandwiches from Carmel Pizza

Carmel Pizza Company has been the recipient of plenty of good buzz around town for its wood-fired pizzas and porchetta sandwiches (which we wrote about a few weeks ago), served out of its pizza truck parked in a semi-permanent location in North Beach. This Sunday, the restaurant is one of 40 resta ... More >>

Meat Week, Creamsicles, and Vegan Pizza Day, Hurrah!

​ OMG VEGAN PIZZA DAY IS TOMORROW! Get excited, guys. Here's the lowdown from my beloved Laura at Vegansaurus: 1. Beretta: Deal of the Vegan Pizza Day=broccolini, onion, ginger, olives, capers, and tomatoes, delightful vegan cheese. Plus, COCKTAILS. Love, love, love! 2. Patxi's: Buy one, get one ... More >>

Patxi's Pizza Locations Go Vegan For a Day

Signs and menus at Patxi's Pizza have a helpful pronunciation guide, "say pah-cheese," but all locations of the Bay Area parlor will participate in a statewide Vegan Pizza Day on June 30. To mark the dairy-free occasion, Patxi's offers a buy one 14-inch vegan pizza, get one 14-inch extra thin vegan ... More >>

Mozzeria: A Neighborhood Pizzeria That Gets Past Barriers

Signs and menus at Patxi's Pizza have a helpful pronunciation guide, "say pah-cheese," but all locations of the Bay Area parlor will participate in a statewide Vegan Pizza Day on June 30. To mark the dairy-free occasion, Patxi's offers a buy one 14-inch vegan pizza, get one 14-inch extra thin vegan ... More >>

Best of Coachella Weekend Two: Friday, April 20

The first weekend of Coachella: cold, damp, and wet. The second weekend of Coachella: hot, sultry, and steamy. Here are our scribes' picks for the best of what they saw on Friday, April 20 at Coachella.

Little Star Pizza Is Incognito in the South Bay

Luis Chong​Little Star Pizza has opened a new South Bay shop, but few customers might realize this, since the one-week old Downtown Campbell restaurant is instead named Blue Line Pizza. Little Star Pizza co-founder Brian Sadigursky has partnered with Angela Pace for this latest venture; the ... More >>

All about cafes: Cafeto, Elite Audio Systems Cafe, and Precita Park Cafe

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. A reader alerted us to a new coffee shop on College Hill, Cafeto (111 Richland at Mission). The Bernal Heights addition is working on outdoor seating and better signage. Bernalwood has a few snapsho ... More >>

With Stefano Restaurant, Guatemalan Pizza Becomes a New Anti-Fusion Meme in San Francisco

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. A reader alerted us to a new coffee shop on College Hill, Cafeto (111 Richland at Mission). The Bernal Heights addition is working on outdoor seating and better signage. Bernalwood has a few snapsho ... More >>

Top Five Meals Under $5 in San Francisco

Thomas Hawk/FlickrCheap eats here.​Now that burritos and falafel wraps cost $8 and a bowl of pho can't be found for less than $6, the under-$5 meal has become a rarity in San Francisco. Damn that Healthy San Francisco. (Kidding.) But the cheap meal is not a unicorn, and there's no need to reso ... More >>

Oakland's Camino Restaurant Hosts Mozza Cookbook Dinner

​Nancy Silverton's Los Angeles Italian restaurants -- Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza, co-owned by Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich -- have earned a cult-like following, which might inspire Silverton to stay guarded about their food's secrets. But instead, she's opening the restaurant's recipe ... More >>

Margherita-ville: Checking Out FiDi's Cupola Pizzeria and Pachino

Jonathan KauffmanCupola Pizzeria's pizza margherita, $13.50​Generation X seemed to devote a lot of time in our 20s complaining about being in the shadow of the baby boom generation. So I feel a certain empathy for the pizza restaurants that opened over the spring and summer this year, in the shado ... More >>

A16 Chef David Taylor Blazes His Own Trail of Carpaccio

Photos by Alanna Hale​Eight months ago, executive chef Liza Shaw left the popular Marina restaurant A16. David Taylor, formerly chef de cuisine, has quietly slipped into her place, marking his first time as executive chef. Most recently serving as sous chef at XYZ restaurant in the W Hotel fo ... More >>

Pizza, Pizza, More Eating Under the Dome, and a Hookah Lounge Transforms

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Two pizza places eye S.F.: Eater SF shares Mozzeria, a pizzeria documenting its trials and tribulations of pre-opening stressors and success, is slated to open in the Mission at 3228 16th St. (at Guerrero ... More >>

San Francisco's Top Five Pizzerias

Lara Hata​At least once a month, someone -- usually SFoodie -- claims that pizza in San Francisco has jumped the shark. Then a new place opens, and we drop in with friends to check it out, only to find the reservations booked up through the next month. It's not surprising. Because we're a little ... More >>

Pizza-Cocktail Synergy Continues with Zero Zero's Joel Teitelbaum

Lou BustamanteZero Zero bar manager Joel Teitelbaum: Cocktails, pizza ― sort of the same thing.​It never ceases to fascinate us that pizzerias have become some of the best places to get a cocktail in the Bay Area. Before Beretta ignited the artisanal cocktail and pizza craze back in 2008, wh ... More >>

As Pauline's Pizza Turns 25, We Chat with Owner Sidney Weinstein: Part 1

​ Pauline's Pizza, the little yellow pizzeria on Valencia that still feels hidden away from the Mission's main restaurant strip, is celebrating its 25th anniversary next Tuesday. And while its pies, with their crackly crusts and seasonal toppings, resemble anything you'll find at Pizzeria Delfina ... More >>

This Week's Review: Ragazza

Lara HataRagazza's nettle pizza was one of the successes.​ Pizza pizza pizzapizzapizzapizza. Hey, Kauffman, you just reviewed a pizza place last week, I can hear you say. (My editor was the first to say it for you.) Why you want to review Ragazza, sister restaurant to Gialina, this week?In fact, I ... More >>

At Una Pizza Napoletana, Anthony Mangieri does pizza his way

Lara HataRagazza's nettle pizza was one of the successes.​ Pizza pizza pizzapizzapizzapizza. Hey, Kauffman, you just reviewed a pizza place last week, I can hear you say. (My editor was the first to say it for you.) Why you want to review Ragazza, sister restaurant to Gialina, this week?In fact, I ... More >>

Interview with Anthony Mangieri

Natalie Knight/Una Pizza NapoletanaAnthony Mangieri​Una Pizza Napoletana's owner, Anthony Mangieri, started making pizzas at the age of 15, then at the age of 19 started up a bakery in Red Bank, N.J., where he sold naturally leavened breads baked in a brick oven. "It was a total failure, but a gre ... More >>

This Week's Review: Una Pizza Napoletana

Lara HataIt all boils down to this.​ This week I reviewed Una Pizza Napolitana, where owner and sole cook Anthony Mangieri practices a singular devotion to making pizza, and has developed a fervid following for it. (Read my interview with Mangieri here.) We have entered the era of the artisan as r ... More >>

Café Oliveto's Whole-Grain Pizza

John BirdsallCafe Oliveto's Napoletana, $15, with a crust made from authentic whole-wheat flour.​Thursday, November 18, 2010 Oliveto chef Paul Canales has been playing around with whole-wheat flours lately, in collaboration with Certified Foods. That's the stone mill in Woodland, northwest of ... More >>

Leland Yee To Announce Mayoral Run

Jim HerdLeland Yee, seen here with a werewolf campaigning against Prop. B, aspires to Room 200​Folks at political consultant Jim Stearns' office are playing coy, but let's be realistic: Sen. Leland Yee isn't "making an announcement" at the Department of Elections today to lecture the media on the ... More >>

Is Zero Zero a destination, or just a pizzeria?

Jim HerdLeland Yee, seen here with a werewolf campaigning against Prop. B, aspires to Room 200​Folks at political consultant Jim Stearns' office are playing coy, but let's be realistic: Sen. Leland Yee isn't "making an announcement" at the Department of Elections today to lecture the media on the ... More >>

This Week's Review: Zero Zero

Lara Hata​The anti-pizza sentiment in the media is almost as extreme as the public furor for it. While the foodistas may yawn, or moan, about the appearance of yet another upscale pizzeria, Zero Zero ― the subject of this week's review ― was packed when I went for dinner and packed again when ... More >>

The Throwback Rules at Giorgio's Pizzeria

Jeff L./YelpGiorgio's Pizzeria has been throwing pies since 1972.​Part of a series about restaurants that have been around so long they've slipped into a media black hole.It used to bother me that I'm not a diner guy. Some restaurant critics are: They love the cheap coffee, the meatloaf sandwiches ... More >>

This Week in Food Bloggery

peter_r/FlickrBruce Hill's margherita, coming to a neighborhood slightly nearer you.​Highlights from the blogs this week:1. The imminent arrival of yet another wave of pizzerias ― Zero Zero, Ragazza, Una Pizza Napoletana, Antica Pizzeria Napoletana, not to mention something from ex-Flour Water ... More >>

Zero Zero's Bruce Hill, and Why Artisanal Pizza is Ubiquitous in San Francisco

John BirdsallBruce Hill, going all "American Gothic" with the pizza shovel.​Yesterday, Zero Zero chef Bruce Hill took us on a Q-and-A spin around the custom wood-fired pizza oven he spent much of last week seasoning, to prepare for tomorrow's opening. In today's part two, Hill and Zero Zero ch ... More >>

Zero Zero's Bruce Hill and the Zen of Pizza Making

John BirdsallBruce Hill and his all-important ember shovel.​If you thought San Francisco had reached pizza saturation, think again. On Wednesday, Bruce Hill's Neapolitan pizzeria Zero Zero will begin firing pies in the former Azie space at 826 Folsom (at Fourth St.). Hill's no pizza virgin. ... More >>

Pizza Di Mano Foretells Blurry Late Nights Filled with So-So Slices

Alexis G./YelpNot as molten and blistered ― or as brittle-bottomed ― as other neighborhood 'zas.​On Monday, Eater popped off about Pizza Di Mano, the new "no-frills pizza place ... just off 24th and Mission near the BART station." With its cheap tables, glass snot-shield protecting the co ... More >>

North Beach's Plastic Pizza Spinning Master

Sunny weather brought the regulars flocking to Washington Square Park in North Beach: hippies strumming guitars, transients smoking bud, young people sunbathing with their noses buried in books. Then we spotted this guy from a distance. It took us a second to realize what we were witnessing: The d ... More >>

Meet the Plastic Pizza Spinning Master of North Beach

Sunny weather brought the regulars flocking to Washington Square Park in North Beach yesterday afternoon: hippies strumming guitars, transients smoking bud, young people sunbathing with their noses buried in books. Then we spotted this guy from a distance. It took us a second to realize what we we ... More >>

Thin crust, thick beer: Pi Bar and Delarosa benefit from thoughtful brew selections and reasonable prices

Sunny weather brought the regulars flocking to Washington Square Park in North Beach yesterday afternoon: hippies strumming guitars, transients smoking bud, young people sunbathing with their noses buried in books. Then we spotted this guy from a distance. It took us a second to realize what we we ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Latest Slowing of Fast Food Takes on Pizza Hut

Local LemonsThe Local Lemons redo: homemade mozzarella, Molinari salami, and organic pizza sauce.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Gather 'round the good stuff!: Following her Slow Food takes on the Big Mac and the McNugget, Allison of Berkeley food blog Local Lemons takes on Pizza Hut ― ... More >>

Flour Water Pizza Chef Jon Darsky: The SFoodie Interview

Before he was a pizzaiolo, Darsky scouted talent for the KC Royals.​Go ahead, call Jon Darsky a pizzaiolo, though the Flour Water pizza maker really prefers "dough guy" instead. Since opening last May in the Mission (2401 Harrison at 20th St.), the restaurant has stayed smoking hot, and Dars ... More >>

Patxi's on Fillmore Slated to Open Next Tuesday

allentomdude/FlickrOh, sweet Jesus: A sausage, olive, and pepper deep dish from Patxi's in Hayes Valley.​More pizza news, hot off the wire: Back in May, Eater reported that Patxi's Chicago Pizza was expanding to three Bay Area locations (there's one in Palo Alto) with the opening of a new rest ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Baked: Bay Area Bites' Andrew Simmons pondered the psychology of the thin crust Tuesday. Why in the hayle is Flour Water mobbed, while Valencia Street's Pizzeria is as overlooked and possibly underloved? Simmons hears the drone of the buzz mach ... More >>

Tenderloin Nightclub Morphing Into 222, a Trendy Thin-Crust Eatery

Joseph Lubushkin222 Hyde in sweatier times: Anybody here jonesing for a salumi plate?Shuttered Tenderloin club 222 Hyde (SF Weekly Clubs Editor John Graham has described it as a "slumming-hipster nightclub") is apparently being reborn as 222, a thin-crust pizza place. A two-page Web site is up onlin ... More >>

Beretta: Cocktails, pizza, and a wall of noise on Valencia

Joseph Lubushkin222 Hyde in sweatier times: Anybody here jonesing for a salumi plate?Shuttered Tenderloin club 222 Hyde (SF Weekly Clubs Editor John Graham has described it as a "slumming-hipster nightclub") is apparently being reborn as 222, a thin-crust pizza place. A two-page Web site is up onlin ... More >>

Pizza Smackdown

SoCal chain goes head to head with hometown favorite

Pie High

At a tiny Delfina spinoff, pizza is optional, cannoli mandatory

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Fresh Eats

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Slices of Heaven

Enjoying pizza in several locations, including between covers

North Beach

All in la Famiglia

Pies in the Sky

Goat Hill Pizza gives you all you can eat -- and a city view to top it off