SF institution Jeanty at Jack's closed Friday nightChef Phillippe Jeanty blamed the cost of doing business in San Francisco for Friday's closure of Jeanty at Jack's, one of the city's oldest restaurants. The announcement that the Sacramento Street restaurant would cease operating came late Friday afternoon, surprising many. This morning, Jeanty suggested to SFoodie that the bleak economy - coupled with city-mandated business expenses - combined to kill off the eatery.
"I went back and forth on
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Everybody just chill the eff out: At Bay Area Bites yesterday, Stuart Leavenworth struggled to parse Michael Bauer's recent star-stripping of Oakland's Oliveto. Now, the last thing we want to do is insert ourselves into the spaghetti fight between the restaurant's defenders and, well, Bauer, but, since Leavenworth references a defense of Oliveto posted on SFoodie back in April (by ex-contributor Robert Lauriston), we feel we gotta weigh in. First,
Robert LauristonGet ready to gulp. Seriously.People like oysters. And they like dolphins. They're not totally unrelated: Both are cold, wet, and both, though we've never tasted a dolphin (not knowingly, anyway), allegedly damn tasty. Tomorrow, McCormick & Kuleto's (Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point at Polk) offers a sort of mashup of these fellow sea creatures, with its 16th annual Shuck and Swallow oyster challenge, followed by a benefit for the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, which
