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Attack of the Heirloom Tomato Week! August 14 - 24

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Global Pantry: Wattleseed

This exotic Australian spice tastes a lot like mocha.

Now Open: The Creamery

It's been an exciting couple of days for those of us who have to forage for food in the somewhat sterile section of SoMa known as Mission Bay. Just last Thursday we got Tsunami, a new Japanese joint for after-hours sake and sushi. And yesterday The Creamery opened its doors on Fourth and Townse ... More >>

The Dollar Oyster List

Yeah, that's right, FREE oysters on Fridays at El Rio--until they run out.

New Restaurants

Yeah, that's right, FREE oysters on Fridays at El Rio--until they run out.

New Restaurants

Yeah, that's right, FREE oysters on Fridays at El Rio--until they run out.

Free Parking for Sale

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Many say homeless guys who help commuters find street parking provide a valuable service. But others complain that they cause trouble.

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

Best Place for a Walk (Indoors)

A weekly listing of new restaurants around town

The Light Fantastic

All free, all dance, all week

Dog Bites

An Anniversary for the Rest of Us

The Luddite Eats

Paragon

Pop Review: Little Skillet, Farmer Brown's Street-Food Cousin

Little Skillet 330 Ritch (near Townsend), 777-2777. Street food? These days, anything you can snarf while seated on a curb is smokin' hot. That's why today, the third day Little Skillet has been open, the line snaked down alleyesque Ritch Street in far eastern SOMA. Think Farmer Brown: Same owners, ... More >>

Little Skillet's stellar takeaway can brighten a summer day

Little Skillet 330 Ritch (near Townsend), 777-2777. Street food? These days, anything you can snarf while seated on a curb is smokin' hot. That's why today, the third day Little Skillet has been open, the line snaked down alleyesque Ritch Street in far eastern SOMA. Think Farmer Brown: Same owners, ... More >>

Flush or F%@#ed: Pineapple Burgers at the High and Low End

We know it sucks. In May, the U.S. Department of Labor reckoned the jobless rate in the S.F.-Oakland-Fremont area at 9.7 percent -- call it a leading indicator of all those steak-frites and dirty martinis not being consumed in local restaurants, either by those of us recently hustled out by securit ... More >>

New Restaurants

We know it sucks. In May, the U.S. Department of Labor reckoned the jobless rate in the S.F.-Oakland-Fremont area at 9.7 percent -- call it a leading indicator of all those steak-frites and dirty martinis not being consumed in local restaurants, either by those of us recently hustled out by securit ... More >>

New Restaurants

We know it sucks. In May, the U.S. Department of Labor reckoned the jobless rate in the S.F.-Oakland-Fremont area at 9.7 percent -- call it a leading indicator of all those steak-frites and dirty martinis not being consumed in local restaurants, either by those of us recently hustled out by securit ... More >>

Creamery Owner Weeks Away from Launching Iron Cactus Taqueria

J. BirdsallThe facade includes wooden doors reclaimed from an Argentinian hacienda.​SOMA café The Creamery (685 Fourth St. at Townsend) is nearing a launch date for its adjacent taqueria, The Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St.), which has been rumored since March. A restaurant spokesman cited Wednes ... More >>

Iron Cactus Taqueria Plans to Open Next Week Near Caltrain

Once it starts spinning, you should probably grab your train.​An update on Iron Cactus (683 Fourth St. at Townsend), the SOMA taqueria adjacent to The Creamery (and from the same owners): The revised opening date is next Wednesday, Oct. 21. Iron Cactus' wagonwheel logo, an interior of repurpos ... More >>

The Iron Cactus: SOMA Gets Its Very Own Hunk of the Mission Burrito

J. BirdsallDisplay plates behind the sneeze guard.​Shouldn't every micro-neighborhood have its own Mission-style burrito place? The kind with a sneeze guard, pump tortilla steamer, and lady burrito makers with a flair for creative cosmetology? It's arguable. Today saw the launch of The Iron C ... More >>

Photo of the Week: Obama or JFK?

Click to enlargeWe can't tell either.​ Found on Townsend and Fourth Street.

Early Bird Special: Ironside

Jen SiskaIronside's cuban sandwich​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Point your finger at the jobless rate or the housing bubble's bust: We're living through a moment of intense repurposing. And while we may not be at the point of sock darning, we're seriously digging ... More >>

Vendor Announces Sequel to Last Month's 'Outside In' Indoor Street-Food Party

T. PalmerOrganizer Roger Feely of Soul Cocina in action.​Chef Roger Feely of Soul Cocina has teamed up with Little Skillet to organize the sequel to last month's Outside In event, an indoor party featuring street-food carts and live DJs.The roster of mixmasters for the evening features popular hip ... More >>

Grits You Can Bask In: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

Christine L./YelpThe Snuggie you wrap your insides in.​Weds., Jan. 6, 2010 Little Skillet's grits with andouille and cheddar is the lunchtime equivalent of the Snuggie: grits haunted with butter -- gluey in a good way -- with an orange-gold scurf of melted cheese and hunks of sautéed sausage ... More >>

SFoodie's 92: Brown Sugar-Black Pepper Biscuits from Little Skillet

J. Birdsall​As a windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here, a different one each day. Tweet your own nominations ― extra points for pics ― to @SFoodie. Number 89: Brown Sugar-Black Pepper Biscuits from Littl ... More >>

Cutting Through the Gloom, Alsatian Style: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallIronside's flammkuchen, the anti-Cali.​Tues., Jan. 19, 2010 It's as gray and sodden as Northern Europe out there, so why not lunch on something with roots in Alsace? Ironside's flammenkucken flatbread is a pizza not exactly in the Cal-Med tradition. Moistened with crème frâiche, ... More >>

A Cuban Sandwich Worth Lifting the Ban For: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallThe roll makes all the difference.​Weds., Feb. 3, 2010 Your average pan cubano? A lardy-tasting slice of pork roast, bracketed with ham and Swiss in a bready roll. At Ironside, chef Bob Cina takes the Cuban sandwich to the border of ethereal. Mostly it's the airy roll, compressed o ... More >>

Little Skillet Chef Stepping Down

Ciscle, holding up the current issue of 7x7, whose cover features Little Skillet's chicken and waffles.​After nearly nine months of warm reviews, Little Skillet chef Christian Ciscle is stepping down at the end of February for unstated reasons. In a clipped e-mail message addressed to "Friends ... More >>

Memory's Knuckle Ball: Your SFoodie Lunch Planner

J. BirdsallA la recherche de game days past.​Mon., Feb. 22, 2010 Some restaurants you imprint with certain memories gleaned from your first meal there, impressions reproducible no matter how different the reality of later visits. Which is to say that a grilled cheese with tomato soup at Parag ... More >>

Seen in S.F.: Crosswalk Instructions Are Not F*@cking Around

Spotted at Townsend and 8th St.​Really? The middle finger? How pedestrian.

Chronicle Books Warehouse Sale Starts Thursday

Cover price: $19.95. Sale price: $6.98​Chronicle Books' annual warehouse sale starts tomorrow. From Thursday through Saturday, the San Francisco publishing house will be selling hundreds of titles from its back catalog ― for 65 percent off. (Note: The sale only takes place at the store located i ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch Today: Epiphany Cheeseburger from Holy Grill

John BirdsallThe Epiphany with cheddar ($6.25). ​Fri., May 7, 2010 Toro E./Yelp​Everyone knows there's burger dualism, two irreducible types you scarf on radically different occasions. The first you order from the Nopa barstool you were aggressive enough to ingratiate your ass cheek ont ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch: Cuban Sandwich from Goza-Goza

Jonathan KauffmanGoza-Goza's no-nonsense, cheese-filled Cuban sandwich ($6).​Thursday, June 4, 2010burritowings​We confess ourselves taken with San Francisco's enduring Cuban sandwich fixation, one taken up by both forces at work in the food scene ― the facifiers and the gut-bombers ― and al ... More >>

Spire's Spaetzle Gratin

John BirdsallOven baked spaetzle gratin ($8).​Tuesday, July 13, 2010 Requirements for opening a restaurant in SOMA's ballpark corridor: big bar, dishes you can eat without the dangly tails of your panda hat wicking up extraneous sauces, slouchy lounge. Once its liquor license arrives (possi ... More >>

Recent Openers

The newest dining and drinking spots around town

Recent Openers

The newest dining and drinking spots around town

The Summit's Kinko's-Style Guerrilla Marketing

John BirdsallCalling all beanie-rocking, studded-belt-wearing art students.​Looks like Desi Danganan is engaging in a bit of old-school guerrilla marketing, Kinko's style. Summit, the ex-Poleng proprietor's café, restaurant, and art gallery slated for 780 Valencia, is due in September. Yester ... More >>

San Francisco's Year in Biking

Cyclists finally get a portion of their due.​Injunction Eased! Ridership Up! Is Tipping Point Near?On Aug. 6, 2010, a San Francisco judge lifted a ridiculous five-year court injunction that had prevented the city from making improvements to facilitate bicycle traffic. Soon thereafter, the city got ... More >>

Ponzu Nears the End, Decantr Stays Dark, and More Proof That Spire is Gone

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Grub Street reports Roostertail Rotisserie's liquor license was approved, and hypothesizes the opening date of the Lower Pac Heights restaurant to be right around the corner. Also from Grub Street, they ... More >>

SOMA Fire Closes Moya Ethiopian and Nico's Tacos Official Cinco de Mayo Opening

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Grub Street reports that yesterday's SOMA fire in the Park Hotel SRO has closed ground-floor restaurant Moya Ethiopian. The SFFD declared the building "structurally unsound" and the restaurant will remain ... More >>

Fresh Eats: SoMa's New Burmese Gourmet Food Truck

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Grub Street reports that yesterday's SOMA fire in the Park Hotel SRO has closed ground-floor restaurant Moya Ethiopian. The SFFD declared the building "structurally unsound" and the restaurant will remain ... More >>