With a hearty nod to punk rock icons the Ramones, Gobba Gobba Hey is one of the latest creations in San Francisco pavement cuisine. The brainchild of Steven Gdula, author of The Warmest Room in the House: How the Kitchen Became the Heart of the Twentieth Century American Home (and, full disclosure, an occasional SF Weekly contributor), Gobba Gobba Hey is a line of gobs, portable round cakes with cream filling which are a staple regional treat in Pennsylvania. "I started baking gobs be
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Leonard Cohen
April 15, 2009
The Paramount TheatreBy Steven Gdula
Better than: Most performers one quarter of his age.
Given the circumstances surrounding his current tour, no one would've blamed Leonard Cohen if he'd only played a 90-minute set Wednesday night at the Paramount Theatre before bidding the audience adieu. Cohen, who was forced last year to take his show - and his soon-to-be 75-year-old self - around the world after bad business dealings left him nearly broke
Peaches
Friday, June 5, 2009
The Grand At The Regency
Review by Steven Gdula
Better than: Seeing the same show in a place without hardwood floors.
Just as Peaches was getting ready to deliver the money shot at her Friday night show at The Grand Ballroom, an audience member launched a water bottle at the stage, hitting the singer squarely on the forehead. Not surprisingly, she delivered an epithet-riddled outburst at the offender. The reprimand was well deserved, but it also necessary for thi
Anna CondaWe're back! Ten Things was on vacation for the last two weeks and we've returned, well, broke. So we are more than happy to round up all the fun stuff to do this weekend for those who are feeling down to their bottom dollar (and we all know those bottom dollars should be saved for beer). Slideluck Potshow (Friday)So there's this photographer named Casey Kelbaugh, and when he lived in Seattle, he used to throw these really cool get-togethers called Slideluck Potshows. He solicited photo
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Miniature gobs -- gobbles -- will be available through 4505 Meats.We're waiting with bated breath and an empty stomach for next week's launch of the new Thursday street-food-focused farmer's market at the Ferry Building. But one of its most anticipated stalls won't be open until the following week.4505 Meats proprietor Ryan Farr told SFoodie that the opening menu when his stall launches on July 9 will include his "golden dog," chicken beer sausage, and narcotic-like chicharro
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Gobbles at your doorstep.While the thrill of tracking down the latest in street food (and meeting fellow hunters in the process) is something everyone should experience, if you simply don't have the time or energy to track these people down and follow them on a whim, quite a few of these new-fangled S.F. vendors are available to deliver to offices and homes. Minimum orders vary, but veer more towards at least a dozen of a product (yet still tend to be priced well below a r
Not too long ago, the city's street food offerings caught the attention of late-night borrachos fixing for bacon-wrapped hot dogs, hammered Zeitgeist hipsters heeding the arrival of the Tamale Lady, and hopeful day laborers with an appetite. Later this month, street food becomes the subject of a panel discussion in the dress-shirt ambience of the Commonwealth Club of California, and SFoodie's own Tamara Palmer is moderating, and there'll be a post-talk tasting at 111 Minna Gallery.
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Feel free to customize.This afternoon, Steven Gdula of Gobba Gobba Hey was urging fellow street-food vendors to show support for Amuse Bouche vendor Murat Celebi-Ariner at tonight's post-Commonwealth Club street food party at 111 Minna Gallery by wearing t-shirts that read "Free Murat." Murat was reportedly picked up by Homeland Secutiry for a visa violation, though SFoodie hasn't been able to confirm the information. Gdula told SFoodie the idea came from Curtis Kimball of Crème Brûlée
m. BrodyMission Street Food's Anthony Myint (left) with Magic Curry Kart's Brian Kimball.A full house celebrated San Francisco's street-food scene at last night's panel discussion at the Commonwealth Club, The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, moderated by SFoodie blogger Tamara Palmer. In fact, a number of the 250 in attendance were so inflamed by the prospect of sampling street-food wares at a companion tasting at nearby gallery space 111 Minna., they cut out of the auditorium e
Meredith BrodyAnthony Myint (left) and Brian KimballMissed last month's panel discussion on street food at the Commonwealth Club? No worries -- audio is now available. To refresh: On Oct. 29, SFoodie contributor Tamara Palmer moderated The Street Food Movement: SF Hearts the Cart, a discussion about the challenges of selling street food in San Francisco, with Charles Phan (The Slanted Door, Out the Door), Steven Gdula (Gobba Gobba Hey), Anthony Myint (Misison Street Food), and Brian Kimba
Mission MissionMission Street Food gets saucy this week with Booze Night for Ladies' Night on Thursday, Nov. 19. In other words, MSF will present a menu of alcohol-tinged tastiness, with proceeds to benefit Ladies' Night, a nonprofit program from the Women's Community Clinic, the Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, and the Haight's Homeless Youth Alliance that hosts a weekly sit-down meal and other vital services for women.Steven Gdula, author of The Warmest Room in the House: How the Kitch
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