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Kika's Treats Surpasses The 100 Grand Bar

San Francisco confectioner Kika's Treats take a nostalgic American fondness for the chocolate, caramel, and puffed rice combo in Nestlé 100 Grand candy bars (which were always the most coveted in the Halloween bag) and elevates the idea with Brazilian-inspired ingenuity. Small (too small, in our gr ... More >>

These S.F. Neighborhoods Will Give You the Best Candy on Halloween

Turns out, you don't need a big, violent party in the Castro to have a good time on Halloween in San Francisco. For the second year in a row, our carefree city has been deemed the best place for trick-or-treating in the nation. And really, that's what Halloween is all about -- the candy.According to ... More >>

Best S.F. Neighborhoods for Trick-or-Treaters

Years ago, the lore of houses that gave out full-size Snickers bars or other extraordinary treats on Halloween was passed from kid to kid. These days there's the Internet, and real estate website Zillow.com has compiled a list of the best S.F. neighborhoods to trick-or-treat in, reports our news blo ... More >>

Yes, the Gluten-Free Movement Has Finally Reached Your Halloween Bucket

Back in the day, it used to be so easy to give out candy on Halloween. But today, every little Tommy, Dickie and Madison seems to be either allergic to nuts, gluten-free, lactose-intolerant or has some other type of food restriction. Because this is San Francisco, shops like Rock Candy Snack Shop i ... More >>

James Cameron is Vegan, Chico State isn't, and These Ducks are the Happiest!

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Cows Are Eating Candy, Moby Likes Carnivores, and Vegan Snickers Pancakes!

​Happy Meatless Monday! Maybe you should have pizza today to celebrate? Word on the street is that Goodfella's Pizzeria in North Beach has added vegan pizza to their menu. Daiya cheese and vegan pepperoni, say word! If they get a good response, I hear they'll keep it on the menu for good. See Als ... More >>

Batter Up: Mastering the Art of Deep-Frying

Patrick Lee Wants To Fry You Anything At Batter Up

A graffiti-laden sliding window masked by a cold, windy MUNI stop in the Excelsior district seems an odd spot for the city's lone dive specializing in Texas State Fair "cuisine." Odder still, its owner, Patrick Lee, is a San Francisco bred dot-com escapee whose only prior restaurant experience consi ... More >>

Coming Soon: Deep-Fried Caramel Shortbread (Need We Say More?)

When we heard Claire from Clairesquares was making a deep-fried version of her caramel-topped shortbreads, which she's trumpeting as "a decadent, never-been-done-before dessert," we had to take a bite. The over-the-top creation will only be available at the San Francisco Street Food Festival on Aug ... More >>

Ocho's Organic Candy Bars Upgrade Your Childhood Favorites

Plebeian as they may be, there's a reason Reese's, Snickers, Mounds, and 3 Musketeers are ubiquitous. They're pretty good. But we're all foodies here, so we assume there's always a better -- artisan or organic -- version of anything that everyday palates prefer. With the new Ocho line of candy bars ... More >>

Good Bean Bars Go Nuts without Nuts

​We see a variety of plays on "power" bars seeking to supplant Clif and others, but it hasn't been sine Kind hit the scene that any have sought to change the format entirely. Good Bean takes the Kind concept one step further, by replacing the nuts with ... wait for it ... beans. The named didn't ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Ramona Bar: Double Dutch Sweets Out-Snickers Mars

Oakland Candymaker Double Dutch Sweets Out-Satisfies Snickers

​Buoyed by the lessons learned in a free class on starting a business at San Francisco's Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and a loan from Youth Business America, Shiyuan Deng started Double Dutch Sweets in Oakland last summer. A mini-Mars mogul in the making, Deng has created the Ramona Bar, a ... More >>

Bouncer Seeks Shithole Glory -- And Finds it at the Lucky Spot

From this week's Bouncer column: ​And so it was on the first day of 2012 that I found myself inside a bar that had called to me on many occasions. Yet until now my soul had not been ready to heed the clarion. I speak of course of Vieni Vieni Lucky Spot -- and a more gay and frolicsome establi ... More >>

Seeking and Finding Shithole Glory at the Lucky Spot

Cheeses, Grubs, and Halloween Candies: This Week in Food Bloggery

Jeremy Brooks/SF Weekly's Flickr pool​ Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Ben Narasin writes about the sheep's milk cheeses produced by Barinaga Ranch. The Marin-based cheesemaker lets her ewes graze outdoors all year, and only makes cheeses from the milk they produce in spring and summer. W ... More >>

You Know You Love it: 7 Best Chain Restaurants in S.F. Bay Area

We love fancy food as much as the next San Francisco asshole, but there are times when we just wants an enormous plate of mediocre slop. Every now and then we need to walk into a place that looks the same in S.F. as it does in Des Moines, and we need to order 52 plates of mozzarella sticks and a sma ... More >>

Tonight: Make (and Eat) Corn Dogs for Free!

​Vegan Hacker: Corn Dogs Where: Noisebridge, 2169 Mission When: Tuesday, May 31, 7 p.m. Cost: Free, but you might want to bring some veggie dogs and your favorite corn dog condiments. The rundown: Vegan nerds, unite! Vegan Hacker continues their series of taking foods previously thought u ... More >>

How the World's Best Restaurants Awards Got Famous, How Scotch Became Classy

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. World's Best Restaurants. I've skimmed over most of the press involving the San Pellegrino-sponsored annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" awards, which were announced a few days ... More >>

Man Did Not Threaten to Piss on Neighbor, Jury Finds

​A resident of San Francisco's Kean Motel was acquitted yesterday on charges that he forced his way into a neighbor's room, ate his Snickers bar, sprayed him with air freshener, and threatened to urinate on him.Prosecutors said Willie Smith, 42, pushed his way into the room of a 73-year-old neighb ... More >>

Theresa Sparks' Campaign Manager: That Shit's Not Mine!

That's a Snickers bar. We guarantee it. ​District 6 Supervisorial candidate Theresa Sparks may only have declared her official intention to run yesterday, but she's been publicly deliberating her run for quite some time. In fact, her unofficial -- but soon to be paid and official -- campaign manag ... More >>

At the Jersey Shore, Everybody Has a Nickname. Even San Francisco Politicians

Yes, San Francisco's politics suffers from bouts of dysfunction. But let's face it: The exploits of the boys and girls at City Hall can't hold a candle to the high drama on display in MTV's new blockbuster reality series, Jersey Shore. The show features an eight-count of self-styled "guidos" and "gu ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. Gotta hand it to him: Sure, we're only halfway through September, but we're ready to cede Eater's Paolo the award for best score of the month. The catch in question: a tweet by former NY Times resto critic Frank Bruni (in town to flog his used-to-be-a ... More >>

SF Candy Emporium Source of New York Times' Quotation of the Day

Relatively good news on the sweet treat front led to not only a front page story (entitled "When Economy Sours, a Tootsie Roll Can Still Soothe the Soul") on Tuesday, March 22's New York Times, but also yielded the Quotation of the Day, boxed at the top of page A3: "All is well in candy land," ... More >>

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Fair or No Fair with Indulgent Aunt M (at the Alameda County Fair)

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Stop Making Sense

Donnie Darko's exquisite muddle

Best Candy Store

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Il Caffe Emporio Rulli

Hankies Out

We can't help getting all choked up over the Snickers pie at Crossroads Cafe

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Money for Nothing

If you're good at pushing a shopping cart - really good - and establish a lucrative route, you too can make minimum wage by heisting bottles, cans, and newspapers from the blue recycling bins. And incur the wrath of the cops in the process.

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