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Tonight: Rice Paper Scissors Spars with Anthony Bourdain on the Travel Channel

​Anthony Bourdain loves to come to San Francisco on a travel show budget, make fun of its citizens for being snobby, weirdo hippies, and then declare he loves it here and eat all our food. It's his pattern. He was in fine form when he visited with The Layover, his new Travel Channel show where he ... More >>

Summer Guide: The Best Obscure Tourist Attractions

​Anthony Bourdain loves to come to San Francisco on a travel show budget, make fun of its citizens for being snobby, weirdo hippies, and then declare he loves it here and eat all our food. It's his pattern. He was in fine form when he visited with The Layover, his new Travel Channel show where he ... More >>

Zimmern's S.F. Bizarre Foods Episode Doesn't Look So Bizarre

Is this extortion? Last summer, Andrew Zimmern checked into town to tape an episode of Bizarre Foods. In June, SFoodie's Tamara Palmer reported on speculation that producers for the shiny-domed Travel Channel host had reached out to forageSF's Iso Rabins to find gross stuff. Did Shirley Fong-Tor ... More >>

The Week In Event Names: Basic Cable TV Guide Edition

First Blood plays Saturday at the Oakland Metro Operahouse.​ NBC: The Poison Control Center. Drama. CBS: Great American Taxi. Game show. Fox: Terrible Things. News.ABC: City (Comma) State. Sitcom. ABC Family: OK Sweetheart. Sitcom. Cartoon Network: The Supervillains. Cartoon. Disney Channel: Sydn ... More >>

S.F. Street Food the Focus of Andrew Zimmern's Appetite for Life

MSNAndrew Zimmern interning for the Crème Brûlée Cart.​Food personality Andrew Zimmern's take as intern for the Crème Brûlée Cart one afternoon back in August at Precita Park has now surfaced as part of the first episode of the new season of Appetite for Life, his Web series on street fo ... More >>

This Weekend: Andrew Zimmern and Chris Cosentino Storm Off the Grid McCoppin

italyinsf.comChris Cosentino's "Big Brain, Little Brain."​We first brought you the news that Andrew Zimmern was returning to San Francisco to film more footage with Incanto chef/Food Network star Chris Cosentino for an upcoming episode of Zimmern's Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods. Now, we have ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern Returning to S.F. for More Bizarre Foods

sidereel.com​Andrew Zimmern, host of Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, was shooting street food antics in the area last month, and now it appears he's headed back for more next month. A source revealed that Bizarre Foods producers are currently scouting possible local activities, and Zimmern's T ... More >>

Street-Food Vendor MaliNumNum Schools TV's Andrew Zimmern

MaliNumNum TreatsMaliNumNum's Tara de Guzman (in purple), showing TV host Andrew Zimmern how to make a sisig roll in Precita Park last Sunday.​"Growing up Filipino, I've eaten so many parts of animals," says Tara de Guzman. The MaliNumNum Treats vendor showed up at Precita Park last Sunday for ... More >>

Will Andrew Zimmern Show Up at Sunday's Precita Birthday Bash for Adobo Hobo?

jrodmanjr/FlickrAdobo Hobo, frying up sisig for tacos.​Against the glamour of the wrapped food truck, the humble cart ― not to mention the folding table ― seems human-sized. That can only add to the intimacy of Sunday's birthday party for charter members of the Mission's new-school vendors ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern to Film Bizarre Foods in San Francisco

Scott L. Ehrisman​Andrew Zimmern is shooting an episode of his eat-anything Travel Channel series Bizarre Foods in San Francisco, according to a blog post from forageSF's Iso Rabins, who's been asked to participate. A commenter to Rabins' blog stated that Shirley Fong-Torres of Wok Wiz tours h ... More >>

DVR Alert: 'Man v. Food' Host Devours San Francisco (Kind of)

photomato/Flickr Watch Adam Richman stuff himself here. It may not have foodies buzzing the way Anthony Bourdain's visit last spring did, but fellow Travel Channel glutton Adam Richman visits San Francisco tonight to overeat on Man v. Food. Richman feasts on gut-bomb sandwiches at Yelpers' f ... More >>

Final Winner of Our 'No Reservations' Contest Wants to Give You a Big, Greasy Hug

Melanie Dunea, from "My Last Supper"So disturbingly wrong.​Behold the fifth and final winning entry in SFoodie's No Reservations viewing party contest. In case you shed brain cells over the weekend, a referesher: We asked groupies of Anthony Bourdain's Travel Channel food show to tell us why ... More >>

Winners of Our 'No Reservations' Viewing Party Contest Revealed

It's a day later than promised (we been busy with stuff, what can we say?), but behold the five winners in our No Reservations viewing party contest: Blair Bodie, Marcie Chin, Charlie Chou, Dabney Gough, and Justin Lanz. To refresh: In advance of the broadcast next Monday of the S.F. episode o ... More >>

The Afternoon I Holed Up in Bender's with Anthony Bourdain

Mary LaddThe nasty bits: The Bender's Bloody Mary, crowned with a beef stick.​Filming the San Francisco episode of No Reservations (the show airs on the Travel Channel network August 10) was similar to the other times I've hung out with Anthony Bourdain. It was all drinking and eating, only th ... More >>

Keep Checking SFoodie for Tickets to 'No Reservations' Private Viewing Party

mangoandtabasco/FlickrYep, we're totally crushing too.​We know: You love Anthony Bourdain. We love him, too, which is why we're practically wetting ourselves that in exactly two weeks -- on Monday, August 10 -- the Travel Channel will air the San Francisco-Oakland episode of No Reservations. I ... More >>

DJ Quik and Kurupt

mangoandtabasco/FlickrYep, we're totally crushing too.​We know: You love Anthony Bourdain. We love him, too, which is why we're practically wetting ourselves that in exactly two weeks -- on Monday, August 10 -- the Travel Channel will air the San Francisco-Oakland episode of No Reservations. I ... More >>

More Details on Anthony Bourdain's San Francisco Adventure

Last week, our Meredith Brody speculated on where celebrity chef/author/TV personality Anthony Bourdain would be filming during his trip to San Francisco for his No Reservations show on the Travel Channel. Bourdain jetted off this morning and now Eater SF has thoughtfully compiled a great map of al ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Bourdain on Spain Will Drive Foodies Berserk

Last week, our Meredith Brody speculated on where celebrity chef/author/TV personality Anthony Bourdain would be filming during his trip to San Francisco for his No Reservations show on the Travel Channel. Bourdain jetted off this morning and now Eater SF has thoughtfully compiled a great map of al ... More >>

No Reservations Movie Review. Grade: B

Last week, our Meredith Brody speculated on where celebrity chef/author/TV personality Anthony Bourdain would be filming during his trip to San Francisco for his No Reservations show on the Travel Channel. Bourdain jetted off this morning and now Eater SF has thoughtfully compiled a great map of al ... More >>

Light Dining

No Reservations is sweet and savory fare. Without the foam.

Sinking Feeling

At the bottom of the ocean lies a worthless Blue movie

Grapes, Without the Wrath

We read "Grape," the Chron's "serial saga," so you don't have to and uncover the world champion of pizza acrobatics

All-In

A brash Iranian-American wins $1.4 million at poker -- and knows his lucky streak has just started

Liberty for None

Mandy Moore's likable enough; wish we could say the same about her movie