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Ron Siegel

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Scrambled Eggs With Crab and Truffle, Courtesy of Parallel 37's Ron Siegel

    You may be able to take Ron Siegel, longtime chef of the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton and now Parallel 37, out of a fine-dining environment, but you can't take the fine-dining out of the chef. As part of SFoodie's three-part interview with Chef Siegel (read part one here and part two here), we as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Q&A With Parallel 37's Ron Siegel, Part 2: In SF, "Casual" Food Ain't Really Casual

    Courtesy of Parallel 37Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 at the Ritz-Carlton.​Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 in the Ritz-Carlton, has worked in three- and four-star restaurants for 20 years. In 1998, Siegel, then the chef at Charles Nob Hill, received international fame when he became the first Ame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Q&A With Parallel 37's Ron Siegel, Part 1: On Leaving the Four-Star World Behind

    Courtesy of Parallel 37Ron Siegel of Parallel 37, formerly the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton.​Ron Siegel, chef of Parallel 37 in the Ritz-Carlton, began his career in the butcher shops of Palo Alto. Upon graduation from culinary school in 1991, he worked as part of the opening team at Aqua, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Parallel 37 Opens, Trident Will Return, and Citizen Cake Set to Shutter

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Ron Siegel's new restaurant Parallel 37 opens today as a sleeker, more modern replacement to its predecessor (600 Stockton at Pine). Earlier we mentioned bar manager Camber Lay would oversee the cocktail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Just The Chairman Now, Hops & Hominy, Maestro, Parallel 37 to Open this Winter

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Dropping the bao: The food truck formerly known as the Chariman Bao, has altered their moniker to the Chairman. According to the statement they sent us, chef Hiroo Nagahara says, "We decided to change our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    September 2011 Openings & Closures: Hotel Restaurants Change with the Times

    Ron StarrThe end of an era at the Ritz Carlton​With the closure of the Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton after 20 years and the W Hotel opening Trace, the City's restaurant scene saw the loss of a traditional, white-tablecloth dinner, and the ascendance of sustainable fare in a modern, sleek set ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Cowboy Food, Batter Bakery Expands, and Goodbye Dining Room

    The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The old west may show up in the Mission. Eater SF shares the former Bombay and Bazar and Ice Cream space may become a throwback to the cowboy days of yesteryear. The same team (Woodhouse Fish Co.'s McNive ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2011

    Petals, a Floral Farewell by The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton

    Tamara Palmer​After 20 years, The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton will close for an extended beauty sleep and extreme makeover, from which it will emerge impossibly fresh and new, a more casual experience and concept in contrast to the hours-long, multi-course tasting menus that are a current ... More >>

  • Dining

    January 26, 2011

    Seven Hills: Alexander Alioto pays homage to the classics

    Tamara Palmer​After 20 years, The Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton will close for an extended beauty sleep and extreme makeover, from which it will emerge impossibly fresh and new, a more casual experience and concept in contrast to the hours-long, multi-course tasting menus that are a current ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Hash Demi-Glace and THC Mashed Potatoes: Meet the Chef of Cannabis Catering

    Peter DaSilva/New York TimesAt the Ritz-Carlton, chef Ron Siegel uses a mini bong to infuse quail eggs with cedar smoke. But THC in demi-glace?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Chow.com's Joyce Slaton recently chilled with "420 Chef," the Bay Area dude behind Cannabis Catering (420 calls i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Is Kim Severson Blowing Smoke About the Rise of Stoner Cuisine?

    Peter DaSilva/New York TimesThe Ritz-Carlton's Ron Siegel serves quail eggs fumigated with cedar smoke ― from a bong.​When cozy, all-consuming, pipe-induced hunger pangs ripple forth, tokers both midnight and morning favor foods with lively texture, voluminous flavors, and, more often than n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    Melissa Perello of the Castro's Long-Awaited Frances: The SFoodie Interview

    Melissa Perello was born in Nutley, N.J., lived in Houston, and went to cooking school in upstate New York, but San Francisco is where the 32-year-old chef formed her restaurant bones. She arrived here fresh from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., to gig with mentor Michael Mina a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 29, 2009

    Dine About Town

    Melissa Perello was born in Nutley, N.J., lived in Houston, and went to cooking school in upstate New York, but San Francisco is where the 32-year-old chef formed her restaurant bones. She arrived here fresh from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., to gig with mentor Michael Mina a ... More >>

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