The Television Food Network GP

Ragazza Boxes It Up, Papalote Savors the Sweet Taste of Victory ― Again

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. You know how old recipe books you don't really cook from anymore become dust collecters on the shelves, or languish, their covers curling, on the floor next to the nightstand? Well, Inside Scoop re ... More >>

TyFlo Gets Him Some Momofuku, Joltin' Joe Appears to Be Down in the Count

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Tyler Florence must slip bags of unicorn glitter into the pay envelopes. Either that or issue signing bonuses bristling with Food Network stock. Either way, a week after reporting that the Wayfare ... More >>

Vote Local Trucks Onto Season Two of The Great Food Truck Race

Tamara PalmerChairman Bao needs your vote.​Food Network is looking to the public to help cast the second season of The Great Food Truck Race and soliciting your votes online. There are 271 trucks and carts across the country vying for 10 spots worth $10,000 each, including Bay Area trucks like ... More >>

The Great Food Truck Race Doesn't Sound So Great

John BirdsallThe owner of Spencer on the Go suggests the Food Network show suffered from casting that was, well, lame.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Food Gal Carolyn Jung takes the PR call and schedules interview time with Laurent Katgely, the chef and owner of Chez Spencer and Spencer ... More >>

Wayfare Tavern's Hangtown Fry

John BirdsallHangtown Fry ($18). Yeah, we totally got it to go ― you try getting a seat here at lunch.​Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Maybe it's because Tyler Florence is so accustomed to playing to a national audience on Food Network that six-week-old Wayfare Tavern feels so regionally nonspec ... More >>

DVR Alert: Humphry Slocombe on New Food Network Show Outrageous Food

Tamara PalmerGotta get there early for Fetal Kitten.​Frozen dessert wonderland Humphry Slocombe is featured on Outrageous Foods, which has its premiere tomorrow night on Food Network. Hosted by Aaron McCargo (Big Daddy's House), the program focuses on the wildest eats in the country, beginning ... More >>

Brian Boitano's 'Street Tweets' Episode Airs This Weekend

Gary Soup/Flickr​We've been following this story through both the planning and execution, and now Food Network has finally set this weekend to air the "Street Tweets" street food episode of What Would Brian Boitano Make? Set your DVRs for Sun., April 25 at 1 p.m. or Mon., April 26 at 9:30 a.m ... More >>

What Would Brian Boitano Make ― with Sardines?

T. PalmerBoitano filming an episode of his Food Network series at Precita Park.​Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy recently interviewed Bay Area Olympic and World Figure Skating gold medalist Brian Boitano about his street-food adventures, wine preferences, and Food Network series What Would Bria ... More >>

Open-Source Art

The Crazy Eight: 2009's Most Scandalous Moments in Celebrity Food Gossip

Andrew CrowleyBrit celeb chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant allegedly poisoned 500 people in 2009.​Murders! Poisonings! Runaway grooms! The year in celebrity food gossip reads like a script for The Young and the Restless. Behold these crazy eight moments: 8. A household name in his native UK, che ... More >>

Craigslist Alert: Score 50-Pound Cases of Nuts the FDA Says Will Kill You

CraigslistTasty -- but deadly.​Trout amandine is a classic preparation, perhaps a particularly popular one now that trout has become such a hot choice for economically and ecologically inclined chefs. Fans of the dish will be happy to know a Stockton farmer has a few 50-pound cases of shelled, ... More >>

Boss of the Sauce Pits Marinara v. Marinara in North Beach This Sunday

timeoutnewyork/FlickrNot that Fieri.​Billed as the world's largest tomato sauce competition, Boss of the Sauce hits North Beach Sunday. For this third annual Boss event celebrating Italian heritage, restaurants will have their tomato sauce creations judged by both public volunteers and celeb j ... More >>

Brian Boitano Seeks Inspiration from S.F. Street-Food Vendors

Food NetworkBoitano: Grazing the curb.​The answer to what would Brian Boitano make is about to get a whole lot streetier. A location scout for Food Network told SFoodie she plans to show up at street-food events over the next few days to find food-cart vendors to appear on-camera and "inspire" ... More >>

Melissa Perello of the Castro's Long-Awaited Frances: The SFoodie Interview

Melissa Perello was born in Nutley, N.J., lived in Houston, and went to cooking school in upstate New York, but San Francisco is where the 32-year-old chef formed her restaurant bones. She arrived here fresh from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., to gig with mentor Michael Mina a ... More >>

Sorry, Chris: Chefs vs. City = Massive Fail

Food NetworkChris (left), we love you, bro, but tell us there isn't going to be a Season Two.​We bow to no one in our love for chef Chris Cosentino. Incanto is on the short list of S.F. restaurants that (a) we unfailingly recommend to others, and (b) gladly spend our own money at. We're still ... More >>

DVR Alert: 'Chefs vs. City' Tears Up San Francisco Tonight

Food NetworkCome on -- you've watched trashier TV before.​We admit it. With so many food shows taping in these parts lately, we've relegated Chefs vs. City to the inner chip recesses of the DVR machine, back where Jamie at Home mingles with old eps of Breaking Bad. Tonight's installment takes ... More >>

Recipe: Brian Boitano's Bacon Corn Muffins With Savory Cream Cheese Frosting

Food Network​Earlier this week, we spoke with Olympic and World figure skating champion Brian Boitano in anticipation of Sunday's debut of his Food Network program What Would Brian Boitano Make?Now, we have one answer to that question in the form of a fetching recipe from the man himself. He ... More >>

Olympic Champ Brian Boitano Saves the World, One Meal at a Time

Food Network Boitano freestyles in the kitchen.​"When Brian Boitano traveled through time to the year 3010/He fought the evil robot king and saved the human race again."-- "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" from South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut Olympic and World figure skating champion Brian B ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Kicking off food porn Wednesday? Foodhoe's lascivious, big-pixel exploration of the newly expanded Best-O-Burger. Look, and feel the awesome power of the LDL surge. On the Daily Feed, Bunrab gets all tight focus on some izakaya dishes at ... More >>

Impending Brian Boitano Cooking Show Inspires Foodie Fantasy League

Food NetworkWait'll you taste his Triple Lutz brownies.SFoodie blogger Tamara Palmer reported on it way back in April. Today, Food Network's buzz machine began revving up for real for the August 23 debut of What Would Brian Boitano Make?, in which a certain Bay Area native and Olympic skater shares ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Bi-Rite Creamery on 'The Best Thing I Ever Ate'

Bi-Rite Creamery's Banana Split.If you think the line is bad now, just wait! Bi-Rite Creamery (3692 18th at Dolores) takes a star turn on tomorrow night's "Sugar Rush" episode of Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate."Sugar Rush" airs on Tuesday, July 7 at 9:30 p.m.; Wednesday, July 8 at 12:30 a. ... More >>

Ideas for Replacing TyFlo's Still-Missing Fork

Food NetworkWe're pretty sure it's been eating at you in those quiet moments, like when you wake up at 3 a.m. and just can't drift off to sleep again: Tyler Florence's ginormous fork is still missing from the sign of his Mill Valley tchotchke emporium. Fans of the Marin native and incandescent Food ... More >>

Season Six of 'Next Food Network Star' to Hold Open-Call Auditions Here

Kim in Cajun Country/FlickrNo, this isn't the real Guy Fieri, just a wannabe like you.Admit it: You bust out your Guy Fieri moves in front of the full-length when nobody's home. In July, you'll have a chance to do it where it counts -- in front of a Food Network casting agent. On July 26 at the W ... More >>

Boulevard Chef Calls Lineup for Tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest 'Interesting'

bernardus/FlickrNancy Oakes: Fearing a throwdown?Nancy Oakes told SFoodie she's not sure what to expect at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest, the sprawling Shoreline event that brings together Food Network personalities, local chefs, and rock bands. The chef and owner of Boulevard is doi ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this S ... More >>

Shoreline Food Fest is an Odd Assemblage of TV Stars, Local Chefs, and Aging Rockers

The Super Bowl of food? Let's hope the half-time show is betterAn unusual group of local chefs, TV food celebrities, and Boomer bands are coming together at Shoreline this Saturday for the Great American Food and Music Fest. "There'll be more deliciousness per square inch than you will find anywhere ... More >>

Boccalone Set to Clean Up With Lard Soap

Soon, enthusiasts of Boccalone (1 Ferry Bldg. at Embarcadero) will have something more appropriate to rub all over their body than their still-new and delectable Nduja (a Calabrian spreadable salame with addictive spice and meatiness). The salumeria, owned by Incanto's Chris Cosentino (co-star of th ... More >>

Upcoming Great American Food and Music Fest Features Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Marshall Crenshaw, Little Feat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- and an Astounding Array of Eats

There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling te ... More >>

Signs of Spring: Asparagus

Coming soon: cold with aioli.

Casting Call: Bobby Flay Wants The Bay Area's Best African-American Grillers

Rock Shrimp has been casting the second season of the Food Network's Grill It! with Bobby Flay for more than a month now. The New York-based production company is now specifically looking on Craigslist for local African-Americans (who "appear to look between 21 and 45") with the ability (and reci ... More >>

Tasty Tomes: Writers' Favorite Recipes (from the National Book League of Great Britain)

Thackeray (of whom I've read, well, not much, but I have seen movies based on Becky Sharp and The Luck of Barry Lyndon, and I have a subscription to Vanity Fair!) once said "Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them."To which I ... More >>

Interview: Jonnatan Leiva of Jack Falstaff on Bison and Cooking for TV

Tonight: Food Network filming at Tommy's Joynt

Scoop! Rachael Ray to Air Show on East Bay – In Seven or Eight Months!

Gnarls Barkley & Slow Food: The Odd Couple in SF

Bleeps Revealed: Bourdain On German Anal Porn, Food Network

Let's Get Sustainable: Cooking for Solutions 2008 Is Coming

Eavesdropping Once Again: the codependents at Basil

SNL Throws In It's 'I Drink Your Milkshake' Two Cents

Top 5 Music Turkeys of 2007: Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse ...

Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

The World After Google: Restaurant Critics Curse God, The New York Daily News

The World After Google: Restaurant Critics Curse God, The New York Daily News

SFoodie: Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen, No Reservations Analyzed

SFoodie: Top Chef, Hell's Kitchen, No Reservations Analyzed

Best Sweets Shop

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dog Bites

The photo spread that has the city giggling

Real Life Resolutions