Ryan Farr

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Smoking Out at 4505 Meats

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: 4505 Meats' First Tuesday BBQ The Cuisine: Meat, most likely topped with more meat Specialty Items: Anything out of the smoker Worth the Wait in Line? At peak lunch time, a ... More >>

Mission Community Market's Chef Box

I love my CSA box. I love the convenient delivery, the juicy peaches, and the vegetables with names I have to pretend I know how to pronounce. Sometimes, however, I might leave a rutabaga to rot or get more excited about the florescent pink of the radishes than anything I might cook with them. The C ... More >>

Q&A with Cheryl Burr and Chris Beerman, Part 2: On Burgers, Pickles, and 100-Hour Weeks

Chris Beerman and Cheryl Burr are friends and business partners, co-owners of the almost two-year-old, Americana-themed Citizens Band and Pinkie's Bakery. The pair found the space their restaurant and bakery now reside in through a tip from 4505 Meats' Ryan Farr -- though he passed it along with t ... More >>

Lucky Peach Issue 3, Cooks & Chefs, Release Party

What: McSweeney's Food Quarterly Lucky Peach Issue 3, "Cooks & Chefs" Release PartyWhere: The hidden climes of Secret Alley ... 180 Capp St.When: Fri., March 13th, 7-11 p.m.Cost: $8 for magazine subscribers, $12 for laypeopleThe Rundown: Esteemed local publisher McSweeney's has done a bang ... More >>

Robert Burns Night: Pairing Haggis and Whisky

drewleavy/Flickr"But mark the Rustic, haggis fed/The trembling earth resounds his tread"​The culinary feast known as Burns Night, a dinner punctuated with poems from Scottish poet Robert Burns for his birthday (the 253rd one) today, is clearly not for the uninitiated. Aside from sourcing or making ... More >>

The Beefbreaker: Oscar Yedra Wants His Cut of the New Meat-Carving Movement

Oscar Yedra: The Butcher You Don't Yet Know (VIDEO)

​This week's cover feature, "The Beefbreaker," dives into the growing Bay Area scene of artisan butchers who are retrieving the lost art of whole animal butchery in the United States. Sure, there's the leaders in the local scene foodies will already know -- Tia Harrison, Tyler Boetticher,  Ry ... More >>

San Francisco's Top Five Hot Dogs

John BirdsallDa Beef's Chicago-style hot dog.​Like Shakespeare plays, biblical parables, and that damn Pachelbel's Canon, the hot dog is the theme on which a million variations are played. The frankfurter has been upscaled and deep-fried, pressed into lettuce as well as Acme rolls. SFoodie has eat ... More >>

Jake Godby Tasting Menu: $10 Off For SFoodie Readers!

Andy WrightJake Godby shows his dedication to ice cream​Jake Godby Guest Chef Night at Baker and Banker Where:Baker and Banker, 1701 Octavia (at Bush), 351-2500 When: Wed., July 20 Cost: $65 (when you mention SF Weekly) The rundown: If you're like us, and you spend way too much time immers ... More >>

High-End All-You-Can-Consume Fest at Ferry Plaza on Sunday

Lou BustamanteFeasting inside the Ferry Building​Where: Ferry Building Marketplace, 1 Ferry Building (at Embarcadero) When: Sun., July 10, 6 - 9 p.m. Cost: $95 online via Eventbrite The rundown: Summer is finally here and so far, it's been a stunner. We finally got to see what the fireworks ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Friday's House Party Hook-Up: Sublime Chili Dogs from Bi-Rite's Morgan Maki

Michael ChopkoAt a house party last fall, Maki busted out fried chicken.​Coming off what had to have been a narrow defeat at Cochon 555, Bi-Rite chef and butcher Morgan Maki is tackling a less-demanding preparation. This Friday evening, July 2, instead of dismembering and curing, braising, and ... More >>

Cochon 555 is Rolling into San Francisco. With Luck, No Punches Will Fly

wanderkeil/FlickrGet ready for the thunderous, rollin' pig-pulling ― and hopefully brawl-free ― review.​Cochon 555 is coming to San Francisco ― you know, that thunderous, rollin' pig-pulling review boasting five lauded chefs, five hapless swine, and five exemplary wine crafters. On June ... 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 >>

Extreme Dogs: Sausage overload

Jonathan Kauffman Takes a Bite Out of S.F.'s Extreme Hot Dog

arnold | inuyaki/Flickr4505 Meats' zilla-style golden dog.​Are hot dogs the new martini ― all-purpose vehicles for blinging out with gaudier theme accessories than even Gaga would cover her ladyparts with? In today's "Eat," SF Weekly food critic Jonathan Kauffman eats his way through almost ... More >>

Biscuits, Triple XXX Hot Sauce, and Banh Xeo: New Weekend Brunch Options

M. LaddEgg beaters: Brunch condiments at Baby Blues BBQ.​Brunch ruts can set in without warning, till all of a sudden you're seated on a bolt-down at Just For You, scanning a menu you've studied dozens of times, thinking: WTF. Fortunately, like a fresh pot of coffee at the Bunn station, a new ... More >>

Meatpaper Loves Rabbit in Its Own Special Way

​Meatpaper's 10th issue is on its way, and the magazine is holding a series of events to promote it while raising awareness about the deliciousness of rabbit, which the editors are calling "the new chicken." (Backyard chickens are now the old chicken. Which probably makes duck, which used to be th ... More >>

Soon-to-Drop McSweeney's Skews Foodie with Chang, Farr, Roadkill

McSweeney'sChang stuffs something in his mouth besides his kitchen clog.​We're so excited about the upcoming star-studded 33rd issue of McSweeney's -- a.k.a. The San Francisco Panorama ($16), an esoteric, 320-page riff on the newspaper form -- mainly because roughly 5 percent of those pages wi ... 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 >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Are there any actual rock stars?: It's kind of a Manhattan bitch fight, really. But in advance of a Nightline segment ("Butchers: New Rock Stars of the Culinary World") Grub Street New York gets kind of pissy about what it regards a muggin ... More >>

New Ferry Plaza Thursday Street-Food Market Off to a Delicious Start

Meredith Brody Laiola spinoff Tacolicious was serving up tacos inspired by the street. Today saw the kick-off for Ferry Plaza's Thursday street-food market. In the Ferry Building's North Arcade, five carts offered fare made from market-fresh ingredients. We were first in line to taste th ... More >>

Offal Talented: Poggio Chef Named Winner of Sunday's Cochon 555

Laiko BahrsTrotter Tots with pea-brain aioli, one of Peter McNee's winning dishes.Call him the dark horse: Poggio's Peter McNee was named Prince of Porc at the Fairmont last night, nosing out four chefs to take the crown (well, funky pig trophy) in the latest Cochon 555 challenge. McNee had been con ... More >>

Everything's Coming Up Meat!

Carnivores can study, taste, and feast on all things fleshy.

On a Mission

Inexpensive street food as reimagined by guest chefs draws crowds and donations.

Orson Not Well

Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.