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April 17, 2012
Jerky v. Jerky: Eliminating the Bland in the Big Meat-Off
When we wrote up Krave's artisan jerky, a reader suggested that Oaktown Jerk made a jerky worth looking into. Then we discovered the new artisan jerky Jerk'N Pickle at the SF Chocolate Salon, and realized that it was time for a jerky-off. Oaktown Jerk: Cool label to be sure, but the meat was less i ... More >>
Blogs
April 4, 2012
San Franciscans Might Be Healthier if They Drank Even More Alcohol
You would think that a city that restricts residents from overindulging on calorie-packed Happy Meals and nicotine would rank high on the charts of obnoxiously healthy. But alas, Marin -- a county filled with binge drinkers and crappy public transit -- outdid us on this front. Don't worry, S.F ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2012
BarBot 2012: (Drunken) Man Vs. Machine
What: BarBot 2012 Where: pariSoma Innovation Lofts When: Fri., March 2 and Sat. March 3, 8-10 p.m. Cost: $15 at the door, $10 presale online The rundown: Nerds have come up with the ultimate way to meet girls with the fifth annual "festival of cocktail robotics." Cosmopolitans, White Russians, ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
Bay Area Trading Firm Falls Victim to Online Hijacking Scam, Costing Customers Millions
A Lativan man is being accused of a massive online hijacking scheme where he manipulated stock prices, making more than $850,000 in illegal profits from trading firms, including one in San Mateo. The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit in San Francisco this week, claiming Igors Nag ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011
Ramen Parlor Adds to San Mateo's Ramen Empire
Luis ChongPork broth ramen with lobster oil.While the city's ramen culture is just beginning to flourish, San Mateo's ramen scene is leaping ahead with a modern variant of ramen. One-month old Ramen Parlor is the latest ramen venture from chef-owner Kazunori Kobayashi, whose San Mateo ramen ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
Seven Injured in Shuttle Bus Collision
extranoise via FlickrSeven injuredA vehicle crashed into a shuttle bus carrying 14 elderly passengers Thursday night near Parkmerced, injuring seven and leaving one in critical condition. Around 9:16 p.m., the shuttle stalled on Junipero Serra Boulevard near Brotherhood Way and was rear-ended by ... More >>
News
September 21, 2011
San Francisco One of the Few California Towns with Room for Prisoners
extranoise via FlickrSeven injuredA vehicle crashed into a shuttle bus carrying 14 elderly passengers Thursday night near Parkmerced, injuring seven and leaving one in critical condition. Around 9:16 p.m., the shuttle stalled on Junipero Serra Boulevard near Brotherhood Way and was rear-ended by ... More >>
Blogs
September 9, 2011
Draeger's Makes American Kobe Beef Pastrami Sweet
Viognier restaurant, atop the impressively upscale San Mateo grocery store Draeger's, is moving into meat production, and was kind enough to drop us off a taste of its first product, American Kobe Beef Pastrami. The idea is fascinating. Pastrami, usually made from beef brisket -- one of the ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
HiYaaa! Truck's Banh Mi Hit San Mateo Tonight
Albert LawThe HiYaaa! banh mi truck on its inaugural run.Last Thursday, HiYaaa! (Twitter: @hiyaaaroll) kicked off its run, serving hot sandwiches to staff and friends at Ah Sam Florist in San Mateo. Influenced by their Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese heritage, owners Van Truong, Phillip Pagan, an ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Naked Chorizo, Filipino Food Truck, Offers its Pork Sausage Uncased
www.nakedchorizo.comChef-owner Zenia Llamas was looking for a provocative name for her new Filipino food truck which debuted in April. Naked Chorizo is a literal translation of Chorizong Hubad, a seasoned uncased pork sausage. Llamas' version is marinated and then cured for 5 days, to be us ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
San Francycle: Did David Chiu Drive on Bike to Work Day?
Wasn't Bike to Work day fabulous this year? We certainly saw a lot more cyclists out than usual, and we hope to see them out again on the remaining 364 days until next year. Let's do a quick roundup of the best of the bikes. According to the Chron, the mayor and "almost every member of the Bo ... More >>
Blogs
May 9, 2011
Rageit Almurisi, Passenger on SFO-Bound Flight, Bangs on Cockpit Door, Wrestled to the Ground
Another crazy passengerThis is any passenger's worst nightmare a week after the killing of Osama bin Laden. Passengers on a San Francisco-bound flight last night had a scare when a 28-year-old man with a Yemeni passport for no reason started yelling and banging on the cockpit door. Media outlets ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2011
Haggis on a Stick, South Asian Fusion, Making the Easter Bunny Cry
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. The good kind of scary. Thrillist came out with a list of five fried dishes that I think are supposed to be unnerving but just look delicious. On the bucket list: Bar Agricole's fr ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2011
Get Your Ass to San Mateo for: Romolo's Cannoli
Luis ChongSpumoni and cannoli from Romolo's in San Mateo.Traditional cannoli seem to have been all but forgotten in this era of cupcakes and macarons. SFoodie took advantage of a rare sunny weekend earlier this month to rekindle memories of Romolo's in San Mateo, the oldest (and only, for tha ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2011
Source Erupts, L'Appart Reappears, and Other Restaurant News
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Inside Scoop is first to blog about the arrival of Source (1 Division, source-sf.com), which should open as early March. The pitch: a "multidimensional dining experience" featuring "inte ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2011
Get Your Ass to San Mateo for: Chuka Ryori Cuisine at Yu-Raku
Luis ChongYu-Raku is the Bay Area's second eatery specializing in Chuka Ryori, Japanese-style Chinese food.A new series that urges SFoodie readers to get their butts out of the Mission. For a couple hours anyway. It may sound strange, but Japanese-style Chinese food (known as "Chuka Ryori") ... More >>
Dining
January 19, 2011
Recent Openers
Luis ChongYu-Raku is the Bay Area's second eatery specializing in Chuka Ryori, Japanese-style Chinese food.A new series that urges SFoodie readers to get their butts out of the Mission. For a couple hours anyway. It may sound strange, but Japanese-style Chinese food (known as "Chuka Ryori") ... More >>
Dining
January 12, 2011
Recent Openers
Luis ChongYu-Raku is the Bay Area's second eatery specializing in Chuka Ryori, Japanese-style Chinese food.A new series that urges SFoodie readers to get their butts out of the Mission. For a couple hours anyway. It may sound strange, but Japanese-style Chinese food (known as "Chuka Ryori") ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
High-tech Thieves Jury Rigged Gas Pumps to Steal Customers' Identities
A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>
Dining
January 5, 2011
Recent Openers
A pair of MacGyver-esque identity thieves has pleaded guilty to implanting devices in gas pumps that stole customers' checking-account information, a scheme that state officials say brought in $90,000.The California Attorney General's office announced today that the men -- David Karapetyan and Zh ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2011
Giants' World Series Trophy in City Hall Tomorrow
You think he was there for the trophy or the supes meeting? The confluence of the current Board of Supervisors' final meeting and a two-day stopover by the Giants' World Series trophy portends for large crowds in City Hall over the next several days. Expect lots of wild clothing and boisterous sp ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2010
Oidon's Champon, the Un-Tonkotsu
Luis ChongDespite appearances, champon, a noodle soup with roots in Nagasaki, bears little relation to tonkotsu ramen.Thursday, December 23, 2010 Luis ChongCold, wet days call for hearty comfort dishes. One of our favorites is a popular noodle soup from Nagasaki, Japan, called champo ... More >>
Blogs
December 23, 2010
'Tis the Season -- For Sewage Maladies: 1 Million Gallons Spill in Marin
Yes, againSewage-Related Terrorism?Yesterday we wrote about rain-induced sewage overflows befouling beaches South of San Francisco in San Mateo county. Now sewage is spewing into waters north of us, in Marin's Corte Madera Creek. Lots of sewage. And rain may have nothing to do with it. Perhaps 1 ... More >>
Blogs
December 22, 2010
Sewage Deposits Lead to Beach Closures
Long walks along the beach need not be romantic. As is all too often the case, heavy rainstorms result in overflowing sewers leading to foul detritus littering the bay. To put it bluntly, beaches in our vicinity are currently despoiled with what 17th-century London diarist Samuel Pepys would have ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2010
Nudists Planning Airport TSA Protest. Cops Planning Arrests.
In your dreams, TSAThe TSA might just get the chance to make good on its claim that the agency has no problem with people going through the airport security line naked. San Francisco nudist Rusty Mills -- whom you may recall from our recent cover story -- told us he was heartened by the news ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2010
Chef of Gator's Neo Soul Cafe Bringing BBQ Back to San Mateo
Luis ChongGlenn "Gator" Thompson will begin by introducing a stand-alone BBQ menu to The Grill.Glenn "Gator" Thompson was chef-owner of Gator's Neo Soul Cafe in downtown San Mateo from 2007-2009 before getting his current gig at Bayonne Casual Southern Dining in San Jose. This week, Thompson ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2010
Ginji Izakaya Coming to San Mateo's J-Food Zone
Luis ChongThe site's a former flooring store in the heart of the Peninsula's Japanese-cuisine ghetto.There's no end in sight for San Mateo's glut of J-food ― not that we're complaining. The Peninsula city is about to get yet another izakaya restaurant, this one named Ginji, presumably after ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2010
Hawaii Six Five-0: Takahashi's Polynesia on the Peninsula
Tamara PalmerGuava chiffon cake from Redwood City's Cake Happy.Tokutaro Takahashi started his eponymous San Mateo market in 1906, and there it still stands, operated by three generations of the Takahashi family. What it might lack in polish, it more than compensates for with the Bay Area's be ... More >>
Dining
June 23, 2010
New Restaurants
Tamara PalmerGuava chiffon cake from Redwood City's Cake Happy.Tokutaro Takahashi started his eponymous San Mateo market in 1906, and there it still stands, operated by three generations of the Takahashi family. What it might lack in polish, it more than compensates for with the Bay Area's be ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Symposium Ponders Future of Local Filipino Cuisine. Could It Be Vegetarian?
Jun BelenAmy Besa of Brooklyn's Purple Yam, conducting a cooking demo. It was a busy weekend for Filipino food enthusiasts, as the Asian Culinary Forum hosted the city's first symposium on Filipino food at the International Culinary School in Civic Center. Filipino chefs, food historians, and ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2010
Kauffman's Five: This Week in Food Bloggery
This week's favorite bits from SFoodie and beyond. 1. A celebrity panel assembled by Brian Yaeger to do a blind tasting of pale ales found that, oh yeah, our Sierra Nevada still shows well against the competition. If you've been avoiding Sierra Nevada because it's ol' familiar, reread Roxanne Web ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2010
Bay Area's First 'Stamina Ramen' to Debut at Soon-to-Launch Dojo
L. ChongThe Santa Ramen spin-off will focus on the spicy and the stamina-inducing. Popular Santa Ramen in San Mateo is adding a second location expected to open April 8. Just as S.F.'s Green Chile Kitchen recently opened the spin-off Chile Pies (& Ice Cream) at its pre-expansion site, owners ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Friday at Draeger's, S.F. Culinary Classics Revealed
T. PalmerShrimp Louis, the San Francisco treat.We heart the demonstration classes at Draeger's Cooking School (locations in San Mateo, Blackhawk, Menlo Park, and Los Altos). It's a great evening -- you plop behind a very studious desk, but instead of doing any real work, sip a glass of wine as be ... More >>
News
November 11, 2009
S.F. is special, even when it comes to raw sewage
T. PalmerShrimp Louis, the San Francisco treat.We heart the demonstration classes at Draeger's Cooking School (locations in San Mateo, Blackhawk, Menlo Park, and Los Altos). It's a great evening -- you plop behind a very studious desk, but instead of doing any real work, sip a glass of wine as be ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
What Bay Area Bridge Will Feature an Upended Big Rig Truck Today?
What truck mayhem will hit a Bay Area bridge today?The tried and true journalistic maxim is that it takes three instances to have a bona fide "trend." So, no, the Bay Area isn't experiencing a "trend" of big rig trucks flipping over on local bridges. But, you have to admit, the knee-jerk phrase o ... More >>
Blogs
August 25, 2009
Five Must-Eat Treats at the Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival
The 14th Annual Ghirardelli Square Chocolate Festival, September 12-13 at Ghirardelli Square (900 North Point at Polk), finds more chocolate-themed food vendors than ever before. Careful: If you don't pace yourself, the sugar rush will overtake you before you get to taste the cream of th ... More >>
Blogs
April 17, 2009
That's Just the Sound of the Employment Rate Whizzing Past Your Ears
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
Music
October 22, 2008
Budget Rock by the alphabet
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2008
Ten Better Lies for Online Cheating Than 'I Was Attacked!'
The California Employment Development Department released their latest statistics pertaining to unemployment and industry today, and guess what? They are not awesome. California hit a record high of 11.2 percent unemployment in March, which is nearly five points higher than March of last year. San F ... More >>
News
February 15, 2006
Greening the Left
Tycoons will pay to generate leftist ideas in voters' minds, but now they want to see results
News
April 20, 2005
Letters to the Editor
Week of Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Calendar
February 2, 2005
Fowl Play
Celebrating cock-a-doodle-doo
News
January 19, 2005
Zipped Up
S.F. Archbishop William Levada doesn't want the public to know about decades of alleged sexual misconduct by his clerics. But why are district attorneys in San Mateo, Marin, and San Francisco helping him keep secrets?
Calendar
November 3, 2004
Twilight Zone
The Rock goes dark
Calendar
October 13, 2004
Let It Roll
A skate date
Calendar
September 22, 2004
Do the Eskimo Roll
Pilot a skiff at PaddleFest
News
February 12, 2003
The Russian Card Game
A peek inside a new form of Russian organized crime and an ingenious method of turning credit card mailings into large amounts of cash
News
June 12, 2002
Letters to the Editor
Week of June 12, 2002
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January 26, 2000
Worst of the Lot
Bay Area nursing home regulation lags behind state
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