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Michael Mina's New Cooking Site Lets You Make Restaurant Dishes at Home

Local celeb chef Michael Mina has teamed up with food entrepreneur Tanya Melillo to create a new cooking website and daily email called Cook Taste Eat. The site's concept centers around a weekly, restaurant-quality menu developed by Mina himself, which is broken down into daily recipes highlighted i ... 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 >>

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 >>

Noise Pop and GraffEats Offer A Culinary Tribute to the Art of the Cover Song

courtesy of Noise Pop Industries Music and gourmet eats: together at last ​ There's a shared culture between musicians and chefs, says Noise Pop Industries marketing manager Dawson Ludwig, ticking off concrete examples, like getting off work at 2 a.m., and the more esoteric shared sense of undergr ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain's Coming to Ferry Plaza Tomorrow. Leave Your Drugs at Home

poopscape/FlickrBring your slavish adoration.​Anthony Bourdain will be in the San Francisco Bay Area for one day only ― tomorrow. Leave your bags of weed and coke at home, please. The best way to catch sight of him? In the morning, at Book Passage in the Ferry Building. The event starts at 1 ... More >>

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

Daniel Patterson: S.F. is Killing the Upscale Neighborhood Restaurant

fOtOdOjO/Flickr​We started out seeking to challenge the current meme that Oakland is the new locus of Bay Area chef talent. (In the East Bay Express, Carolyn Jung even called it America's next great dining destination.) We thought, sure, a handful of chefs are opening second restaurants in O-T ... More >>

Il Cane Rosso's Lauren Kiino: The SFoodie Interview

Kiino, working the Cane Rosso lunch line.​We confess: We have no clue what the hell environmental geologists do. But if studying to be one means you walk away with an acute understanding of stuff like terroir, and how foods grow, then it was the perfect education for Lauren Kiino. The 37-year- ... More >>

Local Heavies to Celebrate Cecilia Chiang, the Julia Child of Chinese Cooking

Silent auction prizes include signed copies of Chiang's latest book.​Famed San Francisco restaurant owner, cooking teacher, and consultant Cecilia Chiang is being honored on her 90th birthday Friday with a banquet at Yank Sing Rincon Center (101 Spear at Mission). The eight-course menu was cre ... 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 >>

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 >>

Why All the Hatin' on Alice Waters?

America's most hated?Activist icon Alice Waters has come in for harsh criticism in recent weeks in both bloggerdom and the national press -- Eater SF documents the vitriol here, and here -- including an apparently erroneous incident that had Waters throwing a hissy fit at Thomas Keller's Per Se. Cri ... More >>

James Beard Award Nominations Announced

Bay Area Takes All Five Nominations for Best Chef in Pacific Region; Boulevard and A 16's Nate Appleman Among Locals Competing For Top PrizesThe prestigious James Beard Awards, given by the James Beard Foundation and often referred to as the Oscars of the restaurant and food media industries, announ ... More >>

Incredible, Edible

Brad Bird does it again; health inspectors everywhere shaken to their core

Ratataouille -- delighting in digital cuisine

Ratataouille -- delighting in digital cuisine

Little Bites

An entertaining tasting menu of sweet and savory short plays

Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday Gift Guide

Hits and Myths

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

Foie Gras for the Soul

Restaurants react to last week's attacks

Side Dish

Handoffs