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  • Blogs

    November 2, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2010

    Open-Source Art

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Signs of Spring: Asparagus

    Coming soon: cold with aioli.

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2008

    Tonight: Food Network filming at Tommy's Joynt

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    Gnarls Barkley & Slow Food: The Odd Couple in SF

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2008

    Bleeps Revealed: Bourdain On German Anal Porn, Food Network

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Music

    March 5, 2008

    Eavesdropping Once Again: the codependents at Basil

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2008

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2007

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2007

    Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2007

    Gastro Pups: It's All Your Fault Food Network

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2007

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2007

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2007

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2007

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

    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 >>

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 11, 2005

    Best Sweets Shop

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    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 >>

  • News

    September 1, 2004

    Dog Bites

    The photo spread that has the city giggling

  • Holiday

    January 22, 2003

    Real Life Resolutions

    The photo spread that has the city giggling

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