Thomas Keller

French Laundry, Chow, and Doctors Agree: Life Takes Huevos

Is Thomas Keller The Britney Spears Of Fine Dining?

Per Se Server Tells All: Vomit In The Dining Room And The Imaginary Bitchalots

SFoodie: Cream of Cauliflower with Fried Oysters and Chervil

French Laundry Tops Michelin Guide: What Do Tires Have To Do With It?

French Laundry, Chow, and Doctors Agree: Life Takes Huevos

Is Thomas Keller The Britney Spears Of Fine Dining?

Per Se Server Tells All: Vomit In The Dining Room And The Imaginary Bitchalots

SFoodie: Cream of Cauliflower with Fried Oysters and Chervil

French Laundry Tops Michelin Guide: What Do Tires Have To Do With It?

Localvore: Bay Area Cravings of the Now

(Image via EaterSF)•Dressing Thomas Keller [EaterSF/EaterNY] •Bourbon balls [Bay Area Bites]•He'Brew Jewbilation [Oakland Tribune]•The Kitchen Cabinet [SFGate]-- Tamara Palmer

The New Grazing

A fancy restaurant morphs into a place where you can order some food with your cocktails

Stars in Our Eyes

Our selections from the new and controversial Michelin restaurant guide garner mixed reviews

Seconds, Please!

Small plates of complex ambition at a new restaurant and bar in the Tenderloin

Best Napa Restaurant

Market

Hits and Myths

A fancy Greek restaurant explodes our expectations of cheap, unmemorable fare

Letters to the Editor

Attack and Counterattack; All the World's a Stage; Feedback; Janet Jackson, Defender of Justice; Correction

Side Dish

Handoffs

Side Dish

Moondance, Frankly, My Dear ..., Book 'Em, Clever Waiter Tricks, Bells and Whistles, Comings and Goings, and Going Public

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 >>

Watch Alton Brown Feed the Fishies in Monterey Bay

Brown: Worth the schlep?Many of the events taking place this Friday and Saturday for the Monterey Bay Aquarium's eighth-annual Cooking for Solutions are already sold out, including Friday's members-only VIP opening reception with TV chef/food scientist Alton Brown. If money ain't a thang, a few of S ... More >>

Liam Mayclem Trades his Mic for a Knife as Guest Chef of Saturday's SubCulture Dining Event

Mayclem: On the DL in the kitchenYou've watched him flog restaurants on TV, now see what he can do with a whisk. CBS 5 Eye on the Bay host Liam Mayclem is billed as Saturday's "celebrity chef" (you were expecting Thomas Keller maybe?) for SubCulture Dining's "Kitchen Confidential" pirate dinner at ... More >>

The Doggie Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Doubting Thomas: At Civil Eats, East Bay eco-chef Aaron French is kinda pissed at Thomas Keller for his de facto diss of the strict constructionist view of local foods. If you can get Maine lobster delivered to your back door within a day, should ... More >>

Glitz, Glamour, and the Girl Fight That Almost Was: Who We Saw at SF Chefs.Food.Wine

M. Ladd Circa's Erik Hopfinger, bearing tasty lamb chops. At the opening reception for SF Chefs.Food.Wine in Union Square last night, several attendees were giggling over reports that horns had trumpeted the appearance of Mayor Gavin Newsom minutes earlier. SFoodie spotted Michael Bauer and ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. You asked for it: Grub Street New York published its Grub Report earlier this week. Think of it as a Twitpic of the state of the nation's restaurants, captured, collectively, by about a dozen critics. Anthony Bourdain, Jonathan Gold, Gael Greene, Ed L ... More >>

Don’t Be Chicken

​Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. You asked for it: Grub Street New York published its Grub Report earlier this week. Think of it as a Twitpic of the state of the nation's restaurants, captured, collectively, by about a dozen critics. Anthony Bourdain, Jonathan Gold, Gael Greene, Ed L ... More >>

Thomas Keller (and His Latest Food Porn) Will Turn Pages at Omnivore This Weekend

​We only allow ourselves occasional and furtive peeks at the hefty new Thomas Keller bestseller Ad Hoc at Home because it is the very definition of food porn.The book is being marketed as Keller's most accessible. This is corroborated by reading the family-style recipes inspired by his Yountville ... More >>

The Crowd Goes Nuts for Medium Rare

​We only allow ourselves occasional and furtive peeks at the hefty new Thomas Keller bestseller Ad Hoc at Home because it is the very definition of food porn.The book is being marketed as Keller's most accessible. This is corroborated by reading the family-style recipes inspired by his Yountville ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Fish Scaler for the World

Mister Munchie/FlickrThe fish case at 99 Ranch.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Gill guys: At the Daily Feed, Gutenberg pays photographic homage to the guys behind the fish counter at 99 Ranch. It's a City of Big Shoulders sort of Sandburgian tribute: The Sunday afternoon scene at the fis ... More >>

If You Went to the Bathroom at Baker & Banker ...

Perhaps the only bathroom art Thomas Keller has ever signed. ​... you probably noticed the framed menus that tile the walls, a sort of miniature salon for the educated diner. When I called up Jeff Banker before filing this week's review of the Pacific Heights bistro, I asked the chef about the gal ... More >>

Soups, small plates, and snacks shine at Taste of Formosa

Perhaps the only bathroom art Thomas Keller has ever signed. ​... you probably noticed the framed menus that tile the walls, a sort of miniature salon for the educated diner. When I called up Jeff Banker before filing this week's review of the Pacific Heights bistro, I asked the chef about the gal ... More >>

IACP Announces 2010 Cookbook Award Winners

​The International Association of Culinary Professionals is currently having its annual conference in Portland, where the city's best restaurants are being raided by thousands of ravenous, overly discerning food writers. We offer our condolences to the PDX police officers who spent last night brea ... More >>

David Kinch, Nicole Plue Win Beard Awards, and Everyone (After)Parties Hard

plucchesi/FlickrFrench Laundry's Timothy Hollingsworth.​Last night capped two days of galas, as San Francisco chefs and food writers traveled to New York for the James Beard Foundation Awards, which were presented Sunday and Monday nights. According to the vigorous Tweeting, the afterparty hopping ... More >>

Prospect updates Boulevard's aesthetic, but edgy it isn't

plucchesi/FlickrFrench Laundry's Timothy Hollingsworth.​Last night capped two days of galas, as San Francisco chefs and food writers traveled to New York for the James Beard Foundation Awards, which were presented Sunday and Monday nights. According to the vigorous Tweeting, the afterparty hopping ... More >>

Hash Demi-Glace and THC Mashed Potatoes: Meet the Chef of Cannabis Catering

Peter DaSilva/New York TimesAt the Ritz-Carlton, chef Ron Siegel uses a mini bong to infuse quail eggs with cedar smoke. But THC in demi-glace?​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Chow.com's Joyce Slaton recently chilled with "420 Chef," the Bay Area dude behind Cannabis Catering (420 calls i ... More >>

Diamond Lil Bustaurant Revs Up, Zut! Opens! In Berkeley!

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Inside Scoop and Eater SF both announced that Zut! (1820 Fourth St., 510-644-0444, www.zutonfourth.com) opened yesterday in the old Eccolo space. The pitch: Pan-Mediterran ... More >>

Corey Lee's haute cuisine at Benu is almost flawless

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene.Inside Scoop and Eater SF both announced that Zut! (1820 Fourth St., 510-644-0444, www.zutonfourth.com) opened yesterday in the old Eccolo space. The pitch: Pan-Mediterran ... More >>

Michelin's Stripping Chez Panisse of Its Star No Ding on Alice

Mike D./YelpWhat's seen as the restaurant's fall has Alice haters purring with schadenfreude.​The news dangling from the release today of this year's Michelin Guide for San Francisco is even flimsier than usual. Chris Kostow's Meadowood joins French Laundry in three-star territory. But the rea ... More >>

Are There Any Food-Related Cyber Monday Deals Worth Getting?

Online retailers are apparently stampeding after customers today.​SFoodie had never heard about Cyber Monday until this year, even though it was created in 2005. Yesterday, our Twitter feed began spilling forth a torrent of blips about Cyber Monday deals. Today the tweetstream has risen higher. So ... More >>

Inspecting Modernist Cuisine, Preventing Recipe Theft, Sympathizing for the Guy

​1. The critics take on Modernist Cuisine. As SFoodie mentioned yesterday, Nathan Myhrvold's 2,438-page Modernist Cuisine is now out, and most of the big papers are running reviews today. Legendary cookbook author Michael Ruhlman, writing in the New York Times, and Washington Post contributor Andr ... More >>

Bar Bambino's Spinning Off Pronto, Mister Lew's Taking Time to Find Himself

Today in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Lou BustamanteBacon and a shot at KoKo's: On the endangered species list?​Spinoff zone: Tablehopper pounces on news of the Bar Bambino spinoff planned for the renovated ODC theater at 17th Street and Shot ... More >>

Magical Filipino Cookies, Thomas Keller Speaks

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.Jonathan KauffmanHouse of Silvanas' cookies: pandan (top), ube, mango.​ 1. The Bay Area's other best cookie? On the way back from the Pacifica Fresh & Easy last week, I stopped ... More >>

Are "Emperor Chefs" Like Michael Mina and Thomas Keller a Good Thing?

Emperor Michael Mina.​ Wolfgang Puck. Michael Mina. Jean-Georges Vongerichten. Thomas Keller. Chefs, who used to be invisible and nameless kitchen generals, have become celebrities. And since the 1990s, more than that -- they're empire builders. Yesterday, Huffington Post ran a feature about the ... More >>

What's Your Death Row Last Meal?

James Reynolds/Last SuppersRecreations of condemned inmates' actual last meal requests​I got to thinking about death-row last meal requests last week, which naturally made me think of mine. I don't want to speculate about why I'd be executed. Naturally, I would be being framed. I also asked ... More >>

Q&A with SPQR's Matthew Accarrino, Part 1: Is California All That?

Alanna HaleSPQR's chef, Matthew Accarrino.​It's been two years since Matthew Accarrino moved to San Francisco and took over the kitchen at Fillmore's SQPR, boosting an already popular eatery into one of the city's defining Italian restaurants. It seems that Accarrino - both as a chef and as a ... More >>

Friendly's and Chevy's Are Ailing. Is That a Bad Sign for America?

The recession's not being so kind to Black Angus Steakhouse.​You might expect that food columnists would be breaking out in song at the news that Friendly's, not to mention Fuddrucker's, Black Angus Steakhouse, and Chevy's Fresh Mex have all filed for bankruptcy in recent years. Some researchers h ... More >>

Thomas Keller's Cup4Cup Gluten-free Flour Put to the Test

​ Thomas Keller has jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon. Everything that Chef Keller touches turns to gold, so it is no surprise that his new flour has created quite the buzz among the gluten-free community. And the TV food world, too: Here he is cooking on Martha Stewart's show this morning: ... More >>

Sandra Lee in Cher Drag, New Developments in Ramen: This Week in Food Bloggery

Generik11/SF Weekly Flickr pool ​Highlights from the blogs: 1. Michael Leaverton begins his new series of TV reviews with a flash of smoke and a cackle: It's the Sandra Lee Halloween special! Sandra Lee as Cher, Sandra Lee as Mad Hatter, Sandra Lee knocking back the cocktails. 2. Noodlespotter ... More >>

It's Now Fried Chicken Night Almost Every Night of the Week

Kimberly SandieThe glory of Magnolia's Thursday night fried chicken is its boned-out thigh.​There are restaurants that specialize in fried chicken and restaurants known for their fried chicken specials. Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc may be the most famous of the latter -- his chicken has become so renown ... More >>