Richard Blais

Blogs
October 14, 2011
Don't Worry About the Future of the Cookbook
Is this the future of cookbooks? (Cross your fingers.)Yesterday, the New York edition of Grub Street published a great essay by Hugh Merwin on the bright future of cookbooks, even as more and more readers are switching to e-readers and bookstores are flailing. Cookbook sales are still strong, an ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
'Top Chef' Runner-Up Wants to Borrow Your SF Home For Cooking Show
Richard BlaisWe don't normally run apartment-rental ads here on SFoodie, but this one's a little different. Richard Blais, a runner-up on "Top Chef" Season 4, is planning to film a new show for the Cooking Channel next month in San Francisco. But the budget apparently is so small that the pr ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2011
111 Minna's Daily Lunch Transformation, Two Sisters and a Book, and Richard Blais is Coming!
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. From a nightclub, to an art gallery, and now, a lunch spot. Tablehopper reports starting in August, 111 Minna will play host to chef Josh Birch's lunch and happy hour restaurant, Da Bettina, named after h ... More >>
Dining
July 23, 2008
Orson Not Well
Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.