South America

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Line-Caught with Fish Tacos from Cholita Linda

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Cholita Linda The Cuisine: Mexican mixed with Peruvian with a dash of Cuban Specialty Items: Tacos and aguas frescas Worth the Wait in Line? At peak time, a total 20 minute ... More >>

Dandelion Chocolate Smoothies Contain Real Cacao Fruit

The Mission's new bean-to-bar chocolate factory Dandelion Chocolate (740 Valencia) opened its cafe component last week. Included on the menu of hot chocolates (served by the cup or pot) and European drinking chocolate is an extra unusual item: Cacao fruit smoothies. This is a rare opportunity to ta ... More >>

Brave the Rain for a Colombian Pop-Up Lunch at SFMOMA Today

A few weeks ago we wrote about SFMOMA's circus-themed pop-up lunch in conjunction with its Paul Klee show. Today the museum is hosting a Colombian pop-up lunch from Maité Catering as part of its Here, There, and Elsewhere: Assembling Communities festival. Maité will be serving cheese and beef arep ... More >>

Animal Matter: Get Close to ROA and Chinese Calligraphy

Ross Mirkarimi Hearing: Eliana Lopez Talks About the Domestic Dispute With Her Husband

Eliana Lopez's testimony was like watching a live taping of Telemundo; there were laughs, cries, boo's, and applause as she testified, sometimes with a little sass, on her husband's behalf at City Hall last night. Lopez, a well-known Venezuelan soap opera star, smirked, smiled, rolled her eyes, and ... More >>

Walk the Talk

Moving the World

The Bird Is the Word: Surveying the Bay Area's Peruvian Rotisseries

Belcampo Meats and Blue Bottle Coffee's Inaugural "Meat Up"

​What: Belcampo Meats and Blue Bottle Coffee's Inaugural "Meat Up"Where: Blue Bottle's roaster in Jack London Square, 300 Webster St., Oakland When: Thursday, March 15th from noon to 2:30 Cost: Belcampo's Beef Chile Verde will run you nine bonesThe Rundown: New kid on the, ahem ... More >>

"Fake Sunset" Exhibit Conveys Real Meaning

"MCD LAB #3: Fake Sunset" Fecal Face Dot Gallery Jan. 7, 2012 After moving around town like a craigslist addict, even escaping a fire and enduring water damage at its recent Lower Haight location, Fecal Face Dot Gallery has found a new home. Located on Mission between 18th 19th streets, FFDG's spa ... More >>

Library Asks Teens to Help Grandma Close the Tech Gap

This screen is making me nauseous!​My mother, now in her 60's, has just never grasped onto any part of the computer age. She still drives to Barnes & Noble to buy books at full-price instead of getting the latest deal on Amazon. She's unsettled by the fact that a computer mouse is named after ... More >>

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 >>

De La Paz's Shark Senesac On the End Of Coffee

​​In an effort to chart the ever-expanding specialty coffee scene in the Bay Area, we've been engaging a selection of local coffee personalities to pick their brains about why coffee and why now. Today we talk with Shark Senesac of De La Paz Coffee.---You're in the process of opening a new ... More >>

Adrian Lux on Music vs. Modeling, and Getting Nominated for a Grammy

Raised by a punk rocker father and fashion photographer mother, and entering the modeling world at a young age, Grammy-nominated producer and DJ Adrian Lux is no stranger to the limelight. At 26, this Swedish artist has already achieved what many producers would consider their most ambitious goals - ... More >>

Eat Piranhas Without Having to Catch Them: Wild Game Dinners at the Big 4

Brazilian piranha "ribs," voracious teeth not included.​Private Wild Game Dinners Where: The Big 4 When: Now through November Before settling into my job as a music/food/everything writer this summer at SF Weekly, I did something that every college student dreams of (and salivates about): go ... More >>

Pamonha's Brazilian Cuisine: Sweet Corn Delight Justifies a Drive to Daly City

Soul Shakedown: Show Preview

Pop-Up Wine Special: Only for SFoodie Readers

Cameron Hughes, the man, and Cameron Hughes, the wines​Planning to write about pairing wine with roast chicken, I went back through months of tasting notes looking for the right Chardonnay: Great flavor, great price. It turned out to be a Chilean Chardonnay imported by San Francisco negociant ... More >>

Dottie's is Moving; 331 Cortland's New Addition

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. The breakfast line at Dottie's True Blue Cafe is moving to a new location. The Tender reports the "Home of the Infinite Line" is leaving its current space due to a rent increase. The owners haven't decide ... More >>

Mochilla's B Plus on Endtroducing, J-Dilla, and the Last Ten Years of Hip-Hop Photography

Los Angeles-based photographer and filmmaker Brian Cross (or B as he's commonly known) has blazed a distinct path through independent media over the past two decades. A native of Limerick, Ireland, Cross moved to L.A. in the early '90s and quickly became a go-to hip-hop photographer starting with a ... More >>

Who Makes This Soup?

Tamara Palmer​Thankfully, it doesn't look like soup weather this week, but there's always room for this tempting and restorative bowl. Can you figure out what kind of soup this is, plus the San Francisco restaurant where SFoodie snapped this picture? Offer a guess for both in the comments belo ... More >>

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 >>

Sipping Chocolate the Highlight of Pure Dark Pop-Up on Union

Tamara Palmer​SFoodie's Jonathan Kauffman first broke news of Pure Dark, a chocolate shop popping up on Union Street through February. Launched by candy manufacturer Mars to showcase its artisan chocolate line (and attract wholesale clients), the shop features comfy places to sit and sip its b ... More >>

International Warfare In San Francisco

Tempers flared in San Francisco last week...​Last week we wrote about a strange, albeit international, incident in the south of the city. A menacing group of hoodlums surrounded a stumbling drunk and asked him his country of origin. Not liking the answer, the leader of the pack said he was from a ... More >>

PizzaHacker's Frozen Dough Balls

Tamara Palmer​PizzaHacker Jeff Krupman has devised a way to bring a taste of his street-slung pies into people's kitchens with the introduction of new frozen pizza dough balls. Made with organic wheat and pizza flours (most likely from Central Milling), sourdough starter, filtered water, and L ... More >>

Cash Register Thief Gets $20 For His Troubles

There's $20 worth of ammo right there...​The mantra "crime does not pay" does not jibe with either Scarface -- or real life. Yet there are some days when, considering Time Is Money, that crime is not cost-effective. Take a major hood who saw fit to swipe a cash register from a Glen Park grocery st ... More >>

Chile Lindo Organizes Rally to Protest Lawyer in ADA Lawsuits

Robert GrahamChile Lindo's Paula Tejeda.​Paula Tejeda, Chile Lindo's embattled "Girl from Empanada," is among local merchants calling for a small business rally and press conference to highlight what they deem unfair targeting by disability lawyer Thomas Frankovich, who currently has more than ... More >>

Chile Lindo Closes After Landlord Slapped with ADA Violation

Paula Tejeda is hitting the streets once again​At our siister news blog, The Snitch, Lauren Smiley finds that Mission empanada shop Chile Lindo has closed, after the building's landlord has been dinged for failure to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, which Smiley reported last week. ... More >>

A Resource Guide to Pie in the Bay Area

Tamara PalmerChile Pies' green chile apple cheddar pie.​It's been declared pie season at SFoodie HQ, although we certainly don't mind celebrating it all year round. There seems to be a new enthusiasm for pie in the air right now. Even Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer recently wondered ... More >>

Arepas on the Run

A South American sandwich full of flavor, or just plain full.

What to Have for Lunch: Choripan with a Side of Soccer

Stefano C./YelpChoripan ($6.50)​Monday, June 14, 2010Last week when we visited Tanguito, the Argentinian food truck on Fisherman's Wharf, the sun was brilliant, the tables permanently installed next to the truck were packed, and the owners were tuning the flat-screen television they'd hooked onto ... More >>

Baylinks: Foot Traffic, Houseboats, & International Lions

​Do Divisadero Islands create a hazard for pedestrians? [Bike NOPA]You can live in Pat Kuleto's houseboat. [On The Block]You can win a dream dog park for your neighborhood. [Pawesome]This is the world's most unpretentious art car. [Uptown Almanac]Jet-setting lions to arrive in S.F. from Bolivia. [ ... More >>

Quite a Feet

Who Makes These Cookie Buns?

Tamara Palmer​Goodness gracious, great cookie buns are on the plate for this week's edition of our restaurant guessing game. What spot serves these and what's inside the buns? Take a shot at it in the comments below. Last week, SFoodie reader Kenyon correctly identified our Mystery Spot, Nopa ... More >>

Fresh Eats for the week of April 7-13, 2010

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A w/ Kento Tanaka (BRAZA!)

​We're pretty spoiled, living in this city. There are club nights all over town that focus on different areas of the globe (old Jamaican reggae, new Argentinean techno, the best in UK bass music), mixing traditional selections with the latest beats. Add to that list the hottest tracks from Brazil, ... More >>

The Two-Pie Meal: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

Thurs., Mar. 25 T. PalmerDouble-pie action: Don't judge us, just try it.​Dessert first is always a good rule of thumb, but if you stop into Chile Pies (& Ice Cream), the Green Chile Kitchen offshoot that opened its doors in the old GCK space yesterday, there's one (and only one) savory item t ... More >>

Today's South Park Street-Food Lunch Hosts BBC Radio's 'Americana'

J. BirdsallBBC mics will be on hand to pick up Lumpia Cart's sizzle.​Head on over to South Park today for lunch beginning at 11:30 a.m. to nosh amongst some of the usual street-food cart options, including Wholesome Bakery, Adobo Hobo, Gumbo Cart, Chile Lindo, and Lumpia Cart. Bonus for media ... More >>

SaltShaker Lists Underground Dining Spots in S.F. and Beyond

TastyTwosome/FlickrNotes from underground: Blair Warsham of S.F.'s graffEats.​The Internet often makes our world seem as tiny as a quinoa pearl. A native New Yorker (he eats, he writes, he cooks) sequestered in Buenos Aires also runs a Web site offering a thorough, immensely tantalizing rundow ... More >>

Teatro de Vecinos

Tamales Bay

The 23rd Annual San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show

Gil Still Gets It

Hanging Around

By The Light of the Moon

Monstrous Prehistoric Frog Ate Dinosaurs, Haunts Your Dreams

I Can See Clearly Now

South American cumbia gets the remix treatment at Tormenta Tropical

Global Orgasm To Align Earth's Consciousness on 12.22 — WTF?!

Cartoon Art