Subject: Traci Des Jardins

• Oh, La La: Foie Gras Back On The Menu At Jardiniere

  November 9, 2007

• Oh, La La: Foie Gras Back On The Menu At Jardiniere

  November 9, 2007

• Membership Has Its Privileges: Free Crab Cookbook

  If you have a Visa Signature rewards card, Visa, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, and almost 50 Bay Area restaurants have cooked up a little present for you: a nice little pamphlet of crab recipes, titled SF Chefs. Food. Wine.: Dungeness Crab. Inside you'll find recipes from A (Angel Hair Crab Lasagna, from Andrea Froncillo, executive chef/owner of Franciscan Crab Restaurant) to Z (well, W: Wok Roasted Ginger-Scallion Dungeness Crab, from George Chen, chef/owner of Shanghai 1930). The res

  February 4, 2009

• Mayor Newsom Signs Resolution Commending SF Restaurants That Remove Foie Gras From Their Menus, as Plumpjack Restaurants Remove It From Theirs

  Photo by Rui OrnelasGather ye fattened duck or goose livers while ye may.It seems as if the tide of pc history is against you.Mayor Gavin Newsom signed the resolution that was unanimously passed by the Board of Supervisors commending SF restaurants that have removed foie gras from their menus, ahead of California Health and Safety Code 25980, which will make it illegal to sell or produce foie gras in California effective in 2012.And, in a related development, foie gras was removed from any menus

  April 7, 2009

• Victuals Tour

  Come along as we walk (and eat) our way through the Ferry Building.

  September 24, 2008

• Fancy a Rhubarbella? Tonight's Jardiniere Gala Marks the End of Cocktail Week

  Kenn Wilson via FlickrSan Francisco's third annual mixology fest wraps up tonightStarting last Monday, the third annual SF Cocktail Week stirred, shook, and muddled its way through the city. It closes tonight with a gala at Jardiniere, 6-9 p.m. Forty-five bucks gets you all-you-can-eat Traci Des Jardins appetizers, drinks, and a gift bag, along with the chance to chat up the mixologists behind seven satellite bars, including Brian MacGregor (Jardiniere), Scott Baird (Coco 500), and Steve Liles (

  May 18, 2009

• Class Act

  Falling in love again with Rubicon, still at the top of its game after a decade

  June 8, 2005

• Ferry Building Favorites

  May 11, 2005

• Brilliant Bites

  Tacos by the sea and bocadillos downtown -- the new toys of upscale restaurateurs

  September 29, 2004

• Best Steakhouse

  Acme Chophouse

  May 19, 2004

• Urban Explorer

  Some of the best things our critic consumed in a year of eating around a constantly evolving town

  December 31, 2003

• Double Play

  Dinner at Acme Chophouse followed by a swell game in the world's most beautiful baseball stadium -- score!

  July 2, 2003

• Entrez au Jardin

  A brief encounter with the author of Cooking for Mr. Latte at Jardinière

  May 14, 2003

• Antojitos Antics

  Calvin Trillin and assorted other out-of-town tipsters inspire a round of tacos

  January 29, 2003

• Hop on Chop

  July 17, 2002

• Best Place to Sweat While Doing Business

  Sportsclub/LA San Francisco

  May 15, 2002

• You'd Better Chop Around

  April 3, 2002

• Heavy Hitters

  A new restaurant pinch-hits for Pac Bell Park's Twenty Four

  February 6, 2002

• Bringing Back Bongo Bongo

  January 9, 2002

• Foie Gras for the Soul

  Restaurants react to last week's attacks

  September 19, 2001

• Made

  August 22, 2001

• The Dining Depression

  June 13, 2001

• Best Restaurant

  May 23, 2001

• Modern Classic

  Jardinière

  October 18, 2000

• Side Dish

  August 30, 2000

• Bay Area Chefs Up For Beard Awards: A Remarkably Collegial Bunch

  Jennifer SauerChef Jeremy FoxThe James Beard Awards (popularly known as the Oscars of the food world) will be awarded Monday, May 4. This year all five chefs nominated for the category of Best Chef: Pacific - an area that covers California and Hawaii -- come from the Bay Area: Jeremy Fox of Ubuntu in Napa, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg, Loretta Keller of Coco500 in San Francisco, David Kinch of Manresa in Los Gatos, and Daniel Patterson of Coi in San Francisco. Conversations with a

  May 1, 2009

• How the Bay Area Fared at James Beard Restaurant Awards

  Douglas Keane Douglas Keane of Cyrus Surprise Winner for Best Chef, Pacific, and Nate Appleman's Third Time is Charm as He Wins Best Rising Star ChefAt last night's James Beard Awards, in something of an upset, Douglas Keane of Cyrus in Healdsburg won Best Chef, Pacific, over fellow nominees Jeremy Fox (Ubuntu, Napa), Loretta Keller (Coco 500, San Francisco), David Kinch (Manresa, Los Gatos), and Daniel Patterson (Coi, San Francisco). Most of the nominees, all of whom we spoke to last week, thou

  May 5, 2009

• Peapodcast

  June 3, 2009

• Queer Food Capital: Fifth Floor Master Sommelier Emily Wines

  In anticipation of Pride on Sunday, June 28, SFoodie is presenting daily features celebrating San Francisco's LGBT food and drink culture, including interviews with prominent out chefs and other foodies. We're here, we're queer, we're cooking your burger. Get over it.! Name: Emily Wines (yeah, that's really her birth name) Age: 36 Current gig: Sommelier, Fifth Floor (12 Fourth St. at Market), a Kimpton Hotels restaurant. Past life: A self-described wine-rabid waiter at Jardinière. Queer heroe

  June 17, 2009

• Even If the Fireworks are Fogbound, These Fourth of July Feasts Promise Plenty of Sparkle

  plucchesi/FlickrEpic Roasthouse and Waterbar: The fireworks may move indoors this year.Toasting and noshing on the town can be the tastiest way to enjoy this Fourth of July. Here are some SFoodie recommended spots to hit before -- or instead of -- the usual fireworks or fog. El Rio (3158 Mission at Precita): From 1:30 to 8 p.m., eight smackers (aka $8) gets you an afternoon of traditional BBQ, drink specials, and live music ... from eight bands. Outdoor patio seating is available, and the sign

  July 1, 2009

• Coffee Table Book We Crave: Lady Chefs Who Hunt

  JardiniereTraci des Jardins - chef/co-owner of JardiniereThis is so hot (unless you are a member of PETA)! If the chef-ladies-who-hunt decide to make a coffee table book about their current hunting adventure in outer Mongolia, SFoodie is all over it. In late June, I got wind of a camping-slash-hunting expedition including chef Traci des Jardins (Jardiniere and Acme Chophouse), Loretta Keller (Coco500), Mary Sue Milliken (Ciudad in Los Angeles), Anita Lo (Annisa in NYC), and April Bloomfield (NY

  July 14, 2009

• Jardiniere Going All Argentinian Beefy for Monday's Three-Course Dinner

  Shirley77/Flickr Mmmm, beefalicious! This Monday, July 27, at 6 p.m., chef-huntress Traci Des Jardins (just back from her trip to Outer Mongolia -- we're not kidding) will make an in-house appearance for a bovine-centric dinner at Jardiniere (300 Grove at Franklin) to highlight San Francisco-based Estancia, which raises grass-fed beef in Uruguay. Estancia CEO Bill Reed will also appear. The three-course dinner is $45 including wine pairings, part of Jardiniere's recurring Monday night prix-

  July 24, 2009

• Estancia Dinner at Jardiniere: Local? Grass Fed? We'll Settle for Tasty

  Mary LaddThe roasted skirt steak was beefy and tender.​Before digging in to the Estancia grass-fed beef prix fixe at Jardiniere (300 Grove at Franklin) last night, SFoodie and überblogger Amy Sherman chatted with Traci Des Jardins, who admitted to nursing a 14-hours-ahead jet lag (she'd just returned from a trip to Outer Mongolia). Chef Des Jardins reported that the Mongolian town close to the Russian border where she and her companions stayed is by no means a tourist attraction. "The may

  July 28, 2009

• Dine About Town

  July 29, 2009

• Preeti Mistry of 'Top Chef' Season Six: The SFoodie Interview

  Bravo TV​We were worried when local girl Preeti Mistry turned to her three colleagues last week during the first Quickfire Challenge of Top Chef Las Vegas -- a mise-en-place battle for which she'd have to open 15 clams before others on her team could move on to other tasks, including trimming a rib eye. Mistry said, "It's the same as an oyster, right? Clams?" Virgin clam-shucker Mistry, an executive chef at Bon Appétit Management Company who runs Charlie's Café at Google in Mountain Vi

  August 26, 2009

• Acme Chophouse To Close at the End of the Year

  The upscale steakhouse is being axed -- er, cleavered.​The Chronicle's Michael Bauer reported on his blog last night that Acme Chophouse (24 Willie Mays Plaza at AT&T Park) is closing December 31. Rumors have been swirling for at least a year about the upscale steakhouse that emphasizes sustainable sourcing. Managing chef-partner Traci Des Jardins cited the difficulty of filling 330 seats during baseball's off season. Baseball fans (and others) will still be able to get their food and drin

  November 12, 2009