Thomas Keller

Best Sandwiches in the Movies: Don't Forget Spinal Tap

We very much enjoyed Bon Appetit's all-sandwich-all-the-time coverage last week for Sandwich Week, but had a few quibbles with their list of the 13 best sandwiches on film. Mainly because they missed one of our all-time sandwich scenes: The tiny bread (and regular sized lunch meat) that causes such ... More >>

IACP Conference Hits San Francisco Next Weekend

Thomas Keller watchers, get ready: next weekend, San Francisco will be the home to the International Association of Culinary Professional's (IACP) 35th annual conference that has a regional theme of "Dirt to Digital: Real Food in a Virtual World." Keller, Joyce Goldstein, Bruce Aidells and Andrew Kn ... More >>

Food Truck Bite of the Week: The Wise Bowl and the Fool

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Hapa Ramen and Wise Sons Deli The Cuisine: Food Truck Mash-up Specialty Items: Seasonally influenced ramen (Hapa Ramen) and Jewish deli classics (Wise Sons Deli) Worth the ... More >>

San Francisco Baking Institute Seeks Signatures for Survival

Eater brings the unfortunate word that San Francisco Baking Institute, which has trained many local professionals and armed them with the skills to open their own businesses, may have to remain closed while it is mired in state red tape to get their application for license renewal approved. The rene ... More >>

Fall Book Preview: 5 Local Food Titles to Anticipate

When it comes to food-centric books, the Bay Area is a publishing powerhouse, and this fall is no exception. Here are the titles we're most anticipating this season, presented in chronological order: The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes by James Freeman, Ca ... More >>

Distilled Moustache: Brilliant Fake Press Release Submitted to Eater SF

Monday is already off to a good start, thanks to another fake press release submission to Eater SF for a new bar called DISTILLED MOUSTACHE. The same jokester sent a fake release to Eater a few weeks ago for a restaurant called Reclaimed Wood & Subway Tiles, which claimed to have ingredients sourced ... More >>

What Does Selling Out Mean for a Chef?

​It is beyond debate that Rocco DiSpirito has sold out, but what about Mario Batali? Thomas Keller? Chris Cosentino? When you get some TV time or film an American Express ad, are you destroying your credibility -- and with whom? Yesterday, on Chow.com, Hapa Ramen's Richie Nakano wrote about growi ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Corey Lee's haute cuisine at Benu is almost flawless

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Crowd Goes Nuts for Medium Rare

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 >>

Don’t Be Chicken

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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

SFoodie: Cream of Cauliflower with Fried Oysters and Chervil

SFoodie: Cream of Cauliflower with Fried Oysters and Chervil

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

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

Is Thomas Keller The Britney Spears Of Fine Dining?

Is Thomas Keller The Britney Spears Of Fine Dining?

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

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

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

Letters to the Editor

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

Side Dish

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