Rice-A-Roni

When We Were Red Hot: S.F.'s Tamale Industry Once Ruled America

Fresh Eats: Belly Burgers: Tom Pizzica Graduates to Pop-Ups

Tom Pizzica Hopes That His Belly Burgers Become The Next San Francisco Treat

​Perched in a corner of the miniscule kitchen at Clooney's Pub in the Mission, Tom Pizzica doesn't pull any punches when discussing his new pop-up, Belly Burgers. "I want my burger to be the cheapest, fastest, best gourmet burger in San Francisco. I just don't believe in the $13 burger," the forme ... More >>

SF Weekly Cover Causes Fraternal Distress on Parenthood

Like a good Boss Hogg scheme or the possibility of an attic bedroom, SF Weekly turned TV siblings against each other last night. Over on NBC's Parenthood, which is set in the East Bay and is more about parenting than the 'hood, entrepreneurial brothers Adam and Crosby found all their old-time jeal ... More >>

Frankaroni: a 4505 Meats Treat

Carina Ost​Do your dream of hot dog slices, great fried balls of macaroni and cheese, and can't stop humming the Rice-A-Roni jingle? Well, we have got the teenage wet dream treat for you. If you are lucky on Thursday or Saturday and the super cool clique at the 4505 Meats food stand at the Fe ... More >>

The 8 Sexiest Women on TV Cooking Shows

Last week SFoodie brought you the hot and hunky men of food television. Today, the companion post so hot it'll melt your listicle, their sultry female counterparts, the women you've watched tying up your meat, sizzling your pot, and making you run your Tivo in slow-mo. We give you the eight sexiest ... More >>

How the Happy Meal ban explains San Francisco

Last week SFoodie brought you the hot and hunky men of food television. Today, the companion post so hot it'll melt your listicle, their sultry female counterparts, the women you've watched tying up your meat, sizzling your pot, and making you run your Tivo in slow-mo. We give you the eight sexiest ... More >>

Bouncer: Discussing law and billionaires at the Buena Vista

Last week SFoodie brought you the hot and hunky men of food television. Today, the companion post so hot it'll melt your listicle, their sultry female counterparts, the women you've watched tying up your meat, sizzling your pot, and making you run your Tivo in slow-mo. We give you the eight sexiest ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

How much was that parking meter in the window...​Big rigs! Bridges! Barack! Brobdingnagian amounts of rain! And now: Quiz! 1. How did the San Francisco Police Department describe a man who fell -- and was allegedly pushed -- out of a fifth-story window in the wee hours on Thursday? A. "Unpopular"B ... More >>

El Mundo de Mando: A Texas Taco Blogger's Crawl Through the Mission

Mando Rayo The holy trinity at Taqueria Pancho Villa.Austin, Tex., taco blogger Mando Rayo (aka El Mundo de Mando of TacoJournalism) was in Cali this week, getting his first-ever taste of S.F. flavor. How did the Mission stack up to taco culture in Central Texas? Read on, homie. Ahh, San Fra ... More >>

Muni's 'New' Notion of Selling Cable Car Sponsorships Was a Great Idea -- In 1982

Sadly, it's too late to wheedle a cable car sponsorship out of Thelonious MonkWhen Municipal Transportation Agency director Malcolm Heinicke earlier this week proposed selling off "sponsorships" to the city's treasured cable cars as a means of making the city's ends meet, you could almost hear the r ... More >>

R.I.P. Vincent DeDomenico: Rice-A-Roni Creator Dies In His Sleep

Sadly, it's too late to wheedle a cable car sponsorship out of Thelonious MonkWhen Municipal Transportation Agency director Malcolm Heinicke earlier this week proposed selling off "sponsorships" to the city's treasured cable cars as a means of making the city's ends meet, you could almost hear the r ... More >>

Purple Prose

Mayoral stalker's writing is a real San Francisco treat

Room With a View

Food? What food? We're distracted by the beauty of San Francisco from on high.

Best Cable Car Gripman

Food? What food? We're distracted by the beauty of San Francisco from on high.

Worlds Collide

The Park Chalet is like a filmmaker's fantasy of S.F. come to life

Letters to the Editor

Week of August 13, 2003

Proud and Loud

Have a gay old time at the National Queer Arts Festival

Dog Bites

How Soon Is Now?; What He Did on His Vacation; A Cubicle of Her Own

Boondoggle by the Bay

Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront

Carnaval Cruise

Why the tacky political giveaway called Pier 39 shouldn't be used as a model for the coming redevelopment of San Francisco's waterfront