Ryan Farr

4505 Meats Butcher Shop: Where Dreams Come True

4505 Butcher Shop: Chicharrones Nachos, Chorizo Con Queso-Topped Sausages, and More

A fixture at the Ferry Building's Farmers Markets, Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats has been serving up a variety of meaty morsels to take home or to nosh for lunch every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Their famous melt-in-your-mouth cloud-like chicharrones and oft "Best of" list-topping burger are now go-t ... More >>

Sharpen Your Knife Skills at S.F. Cooking School's New Winter Classes

Last fall saw the opening of the San Francisco Cooking School, a new culinary education center in the Civic Center that offers professional degrees as well as classes for amateurs taught by some of the best chefs in the city. Today the school released the new lineup of winter "hands-on" classes for ... More >>

Treat Your Favorite Carnivore to the Gift of 4505 Meats

All through December, SFoodie is bringing you local gift ideas for the food obsessives in your life. Friends, around the holidays, we understand the need to get cozy and ring in the celebrations with certain holiday fare. You will attempt to get snuggly with hot chocolate, mulled cider, and hot tod ... More >>

Bacon-Flavored Coffee, Toothpaste, Candy Canes, and 33 More Ridiculous Bacon Products

It wasn't Baconalia that broke us. It wasn't even Burger King's bacon sundae. But yesterday we finally reached the end of our patience with this country's bacon obsession, when we learned that a disgusting-sounding bacon-flavored coffee took home top honors and $10,000 at a Seattle's Best Coffee-spo ... More >>

4505 Meats' New Marshmallow Bar is a Real Cereal Killer

The era of pork in desserts has been slowly fading--and for good reason. We've seen bacon in chocolate bars and fast food sundaes, [insert any pork product here] ice cream, and pork belly everything, usually having more shock than gastronomic value. Joining the small canon of producers whose produc ... More >>

Summer of Eats: Nosh Your Way From Solstice to Equinox in S.F.

The era of pork in desserts has been slowly fading--and for good reason. We've seen bacon in chocolate bars and fast food sundaes, [insert any pork product here] ice cream, and pork belly everything, usually having more shock than gastronomic value. Joining the small canon of producers whose produc ... More >>

Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats Talks Whole Beast Butchery

In the more than two years since Ryan Farr and his wife, Cesalee, founded 4505 Meats, the artisanal butcher has achieved nationwide fame. He has been called a "rock star butcher" by the New York Times and recently appeared on the Martha Stewart Show. In Whole Beast Butchery, Farr provides step-by- ... More >>

Dare to Go "Whole Hog"

In the more than two years since Ryan Farr and his wife, Cesalee, founded 4505 Meats, the artisanal butcher has achieved nationwide fame. He has been called a "rock star butcher" by the New York Times and recently appeared on the Martha Stewart Show. In Whole Beast Butchery, Farr provides step-by- ... More >>

The Fascination of Pork Rinds

You know you want some.​For most of the last few decades, pork rinds fell into the realm of the ultra-déclassé. But the low-carb fad turned the fried pork-skin strips into a respectable snack among New York Times-reading dieters. The growth of the Latino population brought chicharrones out of th ... More >>

Cheese Shop Crime, Passion Cafe for Rent (Again), Maharani's Back, and Macaron News

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. What's with all the restaurant crime? Saturday it was a shooting outside Little Joe's, and today Eater SF recounts the latest robbery attempt at Mission Cheese. Via the shop's newsletter, Eater learned a ... More >>

Prep Your Gut With 4505 Meats' Turducken Sandwich

Jonathan Kauffman4505 Meats' chicken-in-a-duck-in-a-turkey (and eventually in you), $12.​ Wednesday, November 24, 2010 If you've been reading SFoodie religiously, you know that 4505 Meats has been taking orders for Thanksgiving turducken. On the 4505 blog, owner Ryan Farr has posted photos of the ... More >>

This Weekend in Napa, Primal Celebrates the Art of the Hack

kentbrew/FlickrAt last year's Primal, a guest grabs a knife and lends a hand.​A bunch of butchers and chefs will be wielding cleavers against major protein at Primal in Napa this weekend, a repeat of last year's event in the same outdoor location. A bacon taste-off is planned, and expect a sle ... More >>

Ferry Plaza's Thursday Food Market Turns 1 Today. Celebrate with Lindsay Lohan

niallkennedy/Flickr4505's Ryan Farr busting it out.​Ferry Plaza's Thursday farmers' market turns one today, and CUESA is celebrating with special giveaways and deals. The first 111 people to hit the info booth today will receive a coin worth a dollar off any purchase. As for the deals: Two pie ... More >>

Sunset Celebration Weekend's New Street-Food Alley

​These days, you're not a proper lifestyle magazine if you can't throw a proper party. Next weekend, Sunset, the Menlo Park-based West Coast lifestyle magazine, is holding its annual Celebration Weekend. The event will take place on the venerable publication's seven-acre grounds ― yeah, magazine ... More >>

Call by Noon for a Seat at 4505 Meats' Whole Hog Butchery Class

John BirdsallSpeed-dial a place at the carnage.​If you're feeling the urge to watch a local celeb hunk butcher break down a hulking hunk of swine, get that speed dial going, all quick-like. The chance to snag a $125 seat at the 4505 Meats' Whole Hog butchery class at La Cocina with Ryan Farr i ... More >>

Pinkie's and Bento 415 Announce New Space in SOMA; 4505 Meats Finds Temporary Kitchen

Ben N./YelpThe site currently housing Ideal Cafe (pictured) will allow Bento 415 actual restaurant space.​Looks like the landlord ripple that threatened to leave Pinkie's Bakery, Bento 415, and 4505 Meats out on the sidewalk is resolved. (As we originally reported, John Campbell's Irish Bakery ... More >>

John Campbell's Taking Over Potrero Space from Bento 415/Pinkie's/4505 Meats

Claudine C./YelpPinkie's, Bento 415, and 4505 Meats are out at the end of April.​Eater was tipped yesterday to the forced exit later this month of Pinkie's Bakery and Bento 415 ― also co-tenant 4505 Meats, who uses the space for production ― from shared kitchen and retail space in Potrero ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch Today: 4505 Meats' Fried Mac and Cheese

Fiends Ain't Family/FlickrSeriously.​Thurs., April 1, 2010 Luis C./Yelp​Sure, it sounds like the butt of some bubba-cuisine joke, or a foodie's April Fool's. And yes, 4505's deep-fried mac is a panko-crusted calorie bomb, and it is shaped with the rectilinear precision of an industrial ... More >>

Super Bowl Sunday at Bloodhound: Eat Spit-Roasted Hog

Jared Z./Yelp​Somewhere along the streets of Pigtown, perhaps at the slovenly post office or the scraps-stocked general store, there is a wanted poster bearing Ryan Farr's face. The guy behind 4505 Meats has made his bones whittling whatever he can off those of pigs, typically plump, happy, he ... More >>

Details on Buying an Organic Holiday Ham from Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats

​Turns out deserving charities won't be the only ones getting a taste of 4505 Meats ham this season. Star butcher Ryan Farr has more details about 4505's holiday ham offerings. Each one is 22 pounds, more or less, from Iowa organic hog farm Becker Lane. Each will undergo brining by 4505, and y ... More >>

Win a 4505 Meats Christmas Ham ― for People Who Really Need It

​Share some hammy love this month: Sign up as a 4505 Meats Facebook friend and you might win a ham. Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats is raffling off three hams per week until Christmas hits, but don't get your slicer out just yet. Each winner gets to choose his or her favorite charity, to which 4505 wil ... More >>

Ryan Farr: The Turducken Master Trains His Sights on Prime Rib

Jesse Friedman/Beer & NoshFarr: A growing foodlebrity with national buzz.​One thing's certain: These days, it doesn't suck being Ryan Farr. When the 4505 Meats proprietor conducts a pair of Whole Hog butchery classes this Sunday at La Cocina (2948 Folsom at 25th St.), students will experience ... More >>

Eight Creative Additions to Your Thanksgiving Feast

Thanksgiving is upon us, but instead of sticking with traditional turkey and stuffing, why not spice things up with some more creative fare? Some of these dishes might freak out your grandparents (or you, for that matter), but they're guaranteed to spark a conversation.​ 8. Guac-a-BirdJello is usu ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Reading the Future in a Bag of Pork Skins

Meatmeister/FlickrThere goes the neighborhood.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Going too Farr: Mission Loc@l's Kate Kilpatrick probes chicharrones both Bi-Rite and ghetto, sampling swine skin from sources as diverse as 4505 Meats and La Gallinita. Her guides? Papalote's Victor Escobedo an ... More >>

Another Display of Butchery and Upscale Eats, This Time in Napa

J. BirdsallRyan Farr dispatching a beast at Bloodhound.​Yet another butcher-chef-fire event (this one called Primal) is happening Saturday in Napa -- observe the breakdown of a pig, a goat, a cow, and a lamb, and taste the results. Incanto's Chris Cosentino, Perbacco's Staffan Terje, Fatted Ca ... More >>

Thanksgiving is Coming Fast. Know What You'll Be Serving?

4505Meats.comTurducken from 4505 Meats: Why settle for one bird when you can have three?​Mission dwellers have a grazing option today. Starting at 5 p.m., Bi-Rite Market (3639 18th St. at Guerrero) is setting up a Thanksgiving tasting station set up in front of the store -- samples of Bill Nim ... More >>

Please, Don't Bring Your Toddler to This Petting Zoo. Unless They Have a Thing for Butchery

kimoWear something splatter-proof.​Another carving party led by meat superstars Ryan Farr and Taylor Boetticher will throw down when Petting Zoo hits at Bloodhound (1145 Folsom at Seventh St.) next Tuesday, Nov. 3. Forty large will get you all the (spit-roasted) food you can eat, demonstration ... More >>

Marin Goes All Backwoods Next Month for Swamp Cabbage Feast

perrygrl/FlickrWear your fishing vest.​On Sunday, Nov. 15, Mill Valley is where the wild things are -- smoked, roasted, and stewed. Savory Thymes, an organization dedicated -- in large part -- to the "cross-pollination" of inspired ideas about sustainable food systems in the global economy, is ... More >>

Hey, That's Ryan Farr Grilling Lamb on a Mission Sidewalk!

M. LaddThe 4505 Meats chef stuffed the leg with various other parts.​Yes, that was 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr manning the grill in front of the McSweeney's headquarters at 839 Valencia (at 19th St.) earlier today. As you read this, the McSweeney's crew is noshing on baby lamb. Farr -- with help fro ... More >>

Friday Street-Food Market Reportedly Set for Folsom and Second

J. BirdsallNamu's ssam (aka Korean tacos): Coming to the absurdly named SF Blu.​Eater SF reports that, starting next week, lovers of the Thursday Ferry Plaza street food market will be able to get sloppy seconds, as it were, on Fridays. Beginning September 25, a trio of Plaza stalwarts (Tacoli ... More >>

Feast With a Chef Dream Team (and Support CUESA) at Sunday Supper

cuesa.org​Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), the non-profit organization responsible for the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market and its associated educational programming, will host its largest annual fundraiser in October. Attendees of this year's "Sunday Supper" will sit i ... More >>

Local Flavor: 4505 Meats' Bacon Peanut Butter Brownie

Can you handle another bacon dessert?​"We inhabit a subculture peculiarly steeped in pork fat," blogged SFoodie editor John Birdsall earlier this afternoon, speaking of the porcine pleasures available in the Ferry Building. To that we humbly add the bacon peanut butter brownie, available on select ... More >>

Ryan Farr Pork Posters Come Pre-Smudged with Lard

4505 MeatsGuaranteed to make any room feel more porcine.​Gotta get that pork poster! For those who can't afford to bid for the chance to have 4505 Meats' chef Ryan Farr conduct an in-house butchery demo (an S.F. Street Food Festival auction item), consider shelling out a little over $35 for a ... More >>

Bite the Zeitgeist Next Week at Acme's Artisanal Wiener Tasting

J. Birdsall4505 Meats' Dogzilla-style hot dog: Cultural icon in a bun.​What is it about the hot dog -- traditional lunch of toddlers, work-boot wearers, and Costco shoppers -- that's turned all zeitgeisty? Sure, it's the curdled economy -- big duh. For the price of a turkey club, you can get a ... More >>

Want to Make Your Place Feel More Lived In? Try Butchery

J. Birdsall Farr at work: This could be your dining room table.You know, a house just isn't a home these days without a little pig butchery. Just so happens that if you score the winning bid in the San Francisco Street Food Festival's silent auction, you'll be able to give your flat exactly w ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

 Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Stoner specs: Yeah, we all made fun of it -- the messenger-bag-turned-beer-cooler by Timbuk2, named for Dolores Park. Last Sunday, Mission Mission's Allan Hough actually spotted some guy using one, unleashing a string of reader comments abo ... More >>

Namu's Asian Street Foods a Big Draw at Ferry Plaza's Thursday Market

The Korean "tacos" are worth the lines. We'll call it: The Ferry Plaza Thursday street-food market is officially an S.F. institution. Shortly after noon today, the lines for the mod Cali-Korean place Namu and Ryan Farr's 4505 Meats snaked across the sidewalk. A camera crew for 7x7 magazine ch ... More >>

Show Dogs Unleashes Upscale Wieners on the Tenderloin

Meredith BrodyA lamb merguez sausage (left) and the 4505 dog.The irony of passing two long soup kitchen lines to sample upscale hot dogs at the new Show Dogs sausage emporium in the Tenderloin didn't escape us. But owners Gayle Pirie and John Clark's Foreign Cinema has had a singularly salubrious e ... More >>

Hacking Up Pigs? Kid Stuff. Bloodhound Event Promises to Butcher a Steer

Maybe pigs are the gateway agilitynut/FlickrSteers = the new hogs.drug of butchery, the giggly little high that leads inevitably to the synapse-busting experience that leaves you watching the fibers in your flokati coalesce into runes. On Tuesday, July 28th, meat gods Ryan Farr and Taylor Boettiche ... More >>

Ryan Farr Promises Dogs, Gobs, and More at 4505 Meats Stall

Steven Gdula Miniature gobs -- gobbles -- will be available through 4505 Meats.We're waiting with bated breath and an empty stomach for next week's launch of the new Thursday street-food-focused farmer's market at the Ferry Building. But one of its most anticipated stalls won't be open until ... More >>

Explore Meat and Booze at CUESA Class and Go Home with Sausage

FogCityFog/FlickrH. Joseph Ehrmann of Elixir will demo Perfect Punch.The Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) is up to its delicious tricks again with a summer-friendly event this Friday, June 26. The Summer Sausage and Perfect Punch class features three of the Bay Area's ... More >>

'Porkapalooza' Offers Another Chance to Mix Butchery with Boozing

Relive the magic.Remember how much fun Bloodhound's last mashup of butchery and boozing was? Here's your chance to touch the magic (ar at least risk being splattered by it) all over again. On June 16 - next Tuesday - Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and Taylor Boetticher of Fatted Calf are tag-teaming for Po ... More >>

The Five Best Bacon Sweets in San Francisco

Badge by S.F.'s Snarky McF*ckbuttonsYou may be tiring of all the hype and fuss surrounding bacon, but admit it: You're still not tired of bacon. Or sweets. So what should you consume if you need a fix of both at the same time? Enjoy this countdown of our top five faves.5. Bacon marshmallows fr ... More >>

CUESA Announces Vendor List for Thursday Street-Food Market at the Ferry Building

JC Anthony Dee 42 via FlickrStarting in July, the fanciest street food in town will happen right hereCome July 2, street food takes to the waterfront -- haute street food, that is. Riding the wave of mobile food fervor sweeping the city, the Ferry Plaza folks are launching a Thursday farmers' market ... More >>

Butchery and Bacon-Spiked Bourbon: Bloodhound Pig Roast Turns Hacking into a Spectator Sport

One of the evening's victims, in mid-takedownLast night's pig roast at SOMA bar Bloodhound saw two superstars of the city's pig culture go head-to-head in a hack-off. Call it more a demonstration of competing butchery styles than an Iron Chef smackdown: Chicharrones king Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats and ... More >>

Teeny Dishes, Oysters, Meat, and Happy Chefs: The Month in SFoodie

Here are some highlights from the past month in SFoodie, in case you missed 'em:• We launched our new series of Twitter-sized recipes from local chefs, challenging them to create a dish in 140 characters. Check out these itty bitty instructions for Pig's Head Mu-Shu from Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats, E ... More >>

Twitter-Sized Recipes, Pt. 2: Thomas Martinez

(Photo by Chris Andre) We're having fun with local chefs, challenging them to create a recipe with only 140 characters, the same amount of space allowed for messages on Twitter. After last week's pig head Mu-Shu recipe from Ryan Farr, we have a lovely vegetarian offering to follow. At age 22, Thom ... More >>

Meatpaper Pig Party at Camino 4/27

This shindig should definitely be worth the schlep to Oakland.

Mission Street Food's Inauguration Gala and Charity Work

Mission Street Food is sharing in the country's revelry of Inauguration Day by making this week's installment a dedication to the election of Barack Obama, including a "Rocket's Red Glare" salad, remixes on classics like mac & cheese, BBQ and beans 'n weenies and even Baracky Road and I Have a D ... More >>