Can this woman solve SF's restaurant downturn?Last week the popular Rachael Ray visited SF on her Food Network show Rachael Ray's Vacation -- whose intro makes us giggle, as this show is explained as a way for Rachael to "catch her breath" between working on "30 Minute Meals, the magazine, the shows, the books, my family" -- as if filming another show isn't, well, work! Rachael's been here several times before, with the the no-longer-in-production $40 a Day, Rachael Ray's
Elaine Baker/FlickrNopa's Laurence Jossel: This could be your kitchen, 'cept with a cheaper fridge.Two weeks ago we reported on the coalescing list of silent auction items for the San Francisco Street Food Festival happening this Saturday. Since then there've been glittery additions, including the chance to get tight with some of the city's star cooks.
Consider a chef's meal for four from Thomas McNaughton of Flour Water (starting bid: $200), or having Delfina's Craig Stoll working at
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Street map: At Grub Street, local street food agregator Matt Cohen offers a user guide to both Saturday's looming street food festival on Folsom and next weekend's Eat Real in Oakland. His tips go something like this: seek out unusual stuff, go pioneering from vendors you've never heard of, have pity on restaurant chefs trying to flaunt their street cred the way a soccer mom might flaunt a new tramp stamp (okay, we kind of added that h
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You asked for it: Grub Street New York published its Grub Report earlier this week. Think of it as a Twitpic of the state of the nation's restaurants, captured, collectively, by about a dozen critics. Anthony Bourdain, Jonathan Gold, Gael Greene, Ed Levine, Alan Richman -- some majorly serious bros. Among them is Michael Nagrant of the online mag Hungry. Now, while answers to some mighty predictable questions (When and how will fine dining rebound
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