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Belcampo Meats Wants to Bring Animals All the Way From Farm to (Your) Fork

Royalty-Free Images/FlickrAngus cattle, like the kind currently chewing its cud at Belcampo Meat's farm.​For a cow to magically transform into the ribeye steak sitting in your fridge, the animal travels through numerous middlemen: From the farmer to the feedlot, the feedlot to the slaughterhouse, ... More >>

Baia Pasta Prepares to Go Public With Popup Dinners and a CSA

Andrew NilsenBaia Pasta's durum spinners.Since this spring, Baia Pasta has been producing thick-walled, golden "spinners" with thick walls and sandpaper-rough ridges and curled spelt ringlets that look as if they've been molded out of fresh clay. But sales have been limited to the Pop-Up General Sto ... More >>

Meat and Greet: The Local Butcher Shop

From the Local Butcher Shop's Facebook page​By Katie Fleeman Many conversations in the foodie world involve the V word: vegetarianism. It comes with a number of arguments: it's more sustainable, it's healthier, and how could you possibly eat another living thing? The folks over at the Local ... More >>

Seoul Patch Starts Serving Bulgogi LTs Today

Kenichi KawashimaSeoul Patch's Korean fried chicken po'boy.​Not long ago, Eric Ehler, who'd been a cook and sous-chef at Serpentine for three years, took a break from cooking to hang out in Seoul. "I didn't just love the cuisine of Seoul," says Ehler, who was born in Korea but had spent ... More >>

Slow Money Entrepreneur Showcase Brings Money Down to the Soil

beyondtheplate.netBrentwood's Frog Hollow Farm.​Most people are familiar with Slow Food, the organization founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986 to encourage a return to traditional foodways and reconnect with the sources where our food comes from. So what if we took the same mentality and applied i ... More >>

Reviewing S.F. Airport's Terminal 2: Photographic Evidence

A bowl of warm potato chips at Cat Cora.​What with travelers spending more time waiting in airports, and airplane food disappearing (a mixed blessing?), it makes sense that SFO's new Terminal 2 has more food vendors than gates. For this week's full-length review, I took advantage of a couple of sh ... More >>

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Best Practices for Eating a Burrito in San Francisco

​John Birdsall​ A happy man once said, "The best burrito in the city is the one you are eating." He said it while cradling a ruptured super whose mass had burst through its tinfoil housing and was flowing, lavalike, down his forearms and plopping onto the sidewalk. We caught sight of let ... More >>

What To Do This Weekend, Feb. 11-13

bittermelon/FlickrUm, did we say there'd be beer? See Fri., Feb. 11.​Craving more? Scroll through additional listings here. Fri., Feb. 11: Food, Wine, and Amore at the Ferry Building Ferry Building Marketplace, 1 Ferry Building (at Embarcadero), 5-8 p.m. Affordable hors d'oeuvres, Napa Valley ... More >>

Best Practices for Having a Baby in San Francisco

​ For couples* under 35 who want to have a baby in San Francisco, relax. What's the rush? Go back to work. Go get a promotion! Look at this article again when you're 35. Is everyone 35 now? Wonderful. It's time to panic.

Save the Date: Fall Apple and Cheese Tasting in Healdsburg

pengrin™/FlickrSonoma County Gravenstein.​An orchard of ancient Gravenstein apples ― prized for their ability to tart and plump up a pie by Jonathan Kauffman ― will be the setting for a fall tasting next month in Healdsburg. The three-hour event at Gina's Orchard is heavy on samples of s ... More >>

Chill Out in Healdsburg

The perfect summer getaway is closer than you think.

Doggy Bag: Latest Slowing of Fast Food Takes on Pizza Hut

Local LemonsThe Local Lemons redo: homemade mozzarella, Molinari salami, and organic pizza sauce.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Gather 'round the good stuff!: Following her Slow Food takes on the Big Mac and the McNugget, Allison of Berkeley food blog Local Lemons takes on Pizza Hut ― ... More >>

One Woman's Quest to Save Gourmet, Tweet by Tweet

FoodRepublik.com/FlickrCould it spark a movement like Slow Food?​Kylie Sachs is hoping for a revolution. Though -- unlike most revolutionaries, perhaps -- she doesn't exactly have a plan of action. Except for tweeting. On Monday morning, when news of Gourmet magazine's demise surged through t ... More >>

How Do You Celebrate Futurism in S.F.? With a Banquet That Tells It to Eff Off

squash/FlickrA scene at an OPENrestaurant event from last year.​How do you celebrate a movement that glorified war, violence, and contempt for women? If you're in San Francisco, you subvert it. Next week, when the banquet for SFMOMA's commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of Futurism drop ... More >>

Throw a Few Back Tomorrow with Grist Food Politics Guru Tom Philpott

artandresistance/FlickrWear your crunchiest outfit.​Big Ag sucks, high-fructose corn syrup is toxic like antifreeze, and even a cursory look at the American food system is enough to make any thinking person yearn to be a hermit goat farmer in Humboldt. That's why we often turn to Grist food ed ... More >>

The Eight Best Places on Earth for Foodie Vacations

San Francisco may be the food capital of the United States (at least in our minds), but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of other destinations worthy of gastro-tourism this fall. Fasten your seat belt (and undo the top button of your jeans) as we take you to some of our global favorites.​1. B ... More >>

The Ups and Downs of Soul Food Farm's Rise from the Ashes

Arthur PerleyMonday's benefit at Cafe Rouge has been nixed.​The day after a Bi-Rite raffle raised over $8,000 (plus a $2,000 company match) for Soul Food Farm, poultry farmer Alexis Koefoed sounded almost surprised by the level of support the figure represented. "I didn't realize that Slow Foo ... More >>

Eat Real Fest, Day Three: Long Lines and Separation Anxiety

M. Brody The sign from SweetFace Bakery said it all.SF Weekly restaurant critic Meredith Brody risked sunburn and serious bloating at the three-day Eat Real Festival in Oakland this weekend. This is her third and final report. On the last day of Eat Real, the Oakland festival celebrating str ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. SFoodie Pissy. Rant. Session.: Now that the weekend's events are over, let it be said: Could there be a better way to piss off editors than to name an even "SF Chefs. Food. Wine."? Though it clocks a mere four words, SF C.F.W. seems way to ... More >>

State of the Cart

Join us as we map the street food scene and find out why there aren't more vendors in this most food-involved and temperate of cities.

Mi Amor

Let him count the ways this unique Italian restaurant won his heart

Big Surprise

Tracking down a cookie leads us to a marvelous and unexpected dinner

Fish Story

Kabuto's new digs are smaller, but its menu is still huge