Traci Des Jardins

Is Benu's Corey Lee One of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs?

​Every year, just before Food & Wine magazine announces its annual list of 10 best new chefs, editor Dana Cowin (@fwscout) tweets out hints about the winners, using the hashtag #BestNewChefs. At least one Bay Area chef usually makes the cut. Last year, it was Joshua Skenes of Saison, and the y ... More >>

A Talk About the Bay Area's Food Scene

{Guerrilla Futures | Jason Testers}​What: The Bay Citizen & The Booksmith Culture Talks: The Bay Area's Food Scene Where: Madrone Studios, 1317 15th St. (at Folsom). When: Tonight! Nov. 17, 7 p.m. Cost: $15 door, $10 before, and free for Bay Citizen members The rundown: The foodie realm ex ... More >>

A Giant Beer Dinner at Jardiniere

​You've done a lot to support the Giants. The orange wig, 'Let Timmy Smoke' t-shirt, and beard implant were all grand gestures. Next week, there's another way to celebrate the home team, and all you need to do is indulge in some quality food and beer.As the season winds down, Traci Des Jardins and ... More >>

Hot Dogs Stink, S.F. HuffPo's Does Food, and Willie Brown Eats in the Mission

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Looking for the hot dog cart near AT&T park? Come back after July 27. Currently the Department of Public Works is playing its lovely waiting game with Gorilla Pete's, the hot dog vendor that had been park ... More >>

Mijita May Head East, Chef Pop-ups, More Burgers, and Kink.com's New Bar

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. If opening a Mexican restaurant, head east. Inside Scoop reports, via Bloomberg news, that chef Traci Des Jardins is looking at New York, Boston, and Washington D.C., as possible expansion cities for her ... More >>

Top Chef: The Tour Quick-Firing at Embarcadero

Jonathan KauffmanThe Top Chef Tour's San Francisco stop.​Bravo TV trailers and "Top Chef" tents have colonized Justin Herman Plaza this morning. Is Bravo flash-filming a segment for the next series? Is Traci Des Jardins throwing a semi-celebratory Top Chef Masters gala? No -- it's the Top Chef Tou ... More >>

Classy Des Jardins and Butter-Bomb Desserts: This Week in Food Bloggery

Jeffrey-Anthony/SF Weekly Flickr pool​ Highlights from the blog this week: 1. Peter Jamison talked to Iso Rabins about the Health Department's shut-down of the Underground Market, which may be permanent. But the market attracted New York Times coverage! And thousands of people! Uh... 2. Carina O ... More >>

Top Chef Masters: Nostalgic Finale Edition

Bravo TVHost Curtis Stone checks in with San Francisco finalist Traci Des Jardins.​Last night brought the finale of Bravo's Top Chef Masters and our SF-based Traci Des Jardins was in it to win it. On the line was $100,000 for the cheftestants' charity of choice. For those of us rooting for the ... More >>

Traci Des Jardins on Top Chef Masters, Duck Love, and Pop-Ups

Courtesy Traci Des Jardins​Our local Top Chef Masters cheftestant Traci Des Jardins didn't win the title last night, but she did take home more than $30,000 for La Cocina and made us very proud. We spoke with her this afternoon, just for the duck of it. SFoodie: We have been so excited watchi ... More >>

Chef-Crushing on London, Discovering Anda Piroshki: This Week in Food Bloggery

Nick Vasilopoulos/StoqqGialina's Atomica.​ Highlights from the blog this week:1. Laura Beck eats at Ubuntu, faints, then interviews chef Aaron London as soon as she recovers. London reveals that he does indeed work 100 hours a week and strives to make every part of the artichoke edible, which is p ... More >>

Top Chef Masters, Week 6: Traci Gives Adam What He Wants, Scores Big for La Cocina

sunovasurfboards/FlickrAdam Levine.​We know there's a rockin' contestant from Santa Cruz still in the running to be The Next American Idol (be sure to over-enunciate every word, like Seacrest), but SFoodie is all about the fact that S.F. chef Traci Des Jardins is still in the running to be The ... More >>

Top Chef Masters, Week 1: Traci Snarls, La Cocina Wins!

SF CHEFS/FlickrDo not fuck with Des Jardins.​We are still suffering from a bit of Top Chef overload, but the new season of Top Chef Masters with new host, format, and judges brought us right back into the world of cheftestants, Quickfires, and knife packings. We tuned in last night for the Sea ... More >>

Ecco Reveals Where the Bathrooms Will Be, Joe DiMaggio's One for the Record Books

The past 72 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Because, well, just because, Eater's Carolyn A. passes along the floor-plan for Potrero Hill's Ecco Caffe (1125 Mariposa), the Santa Rosa microroastery whose owner, Andrew Barnett, has been talking ... More >>

Mijita's Chilaquiles

John BirdsallChilaquiles with refried beans ($6.75) and scrambled egg ($1.50).​Friday, August 6, 2010 Maybe, like egg salad or doughnuts, chilaquiles are never really bad. What makes them good: attention to texture, plus, as a starting point, a tortilla base that strives for more than the gre ... More >>

Half right: New brewpubs attempt to reach bistro-level quality, with mixed results

Three Food Tips You Might Not Know About AT&T Park

Enter here: Cheap beer, no line to get into the park.​Three lessons I learned from one of this week's home games against the Nationals. Lincecum was having an off night ― okay, the whole team was having an off night ― which allowed a friend and I to spend six innings touring food stands instea ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo: Mijita/Public House Offering Beer Specials, Free Chips and Salsa

John Birdsall​We can tell you Cinco de Mayo honors a small group of Mexicans who overcame the French at the Battle of Puebla, but we can't tell you which excuse to use when calling in sick Wednesday so you can check out the celebrations at SOMA's Mijita and Public House. Festivities promise to ... More >>

Traci Des Jardins Lines Up Epic Talent for Taste of the Nation Benefit

JardiniereTraci Des Jardins.​Traci Des Jardins is San Francisco's honorary chair of Share Our Strength, a nonprofit with the motto "no kid hungry," and she's pulled together an impressive selection of culinary talents for Thursday's Taste of the Nation benefit. More than 40 chefs and restauran ... More >>

Awesome Range of Beers at Public House Leads the League

Brian YaegerCertified cicerone Eric Cripe assembled the epic beer list.​If the Giants keep winning, AT&T Park should be packed for the home stand that starts next Friday. This season, no longer will fans need to shell out big bucks for mediocre food inside the park when there's Traci Des Jardi ... More >>

Traci Des Jardins' Ballpark Eateries Public House and Mijita in Stealth-Open Mode

J. BirdsallMijita started serving food this morning. Public House launches its kitchen at 4.​Well, well, well. Just hours after last night's launch party for media and industry wrapped, the dual Traci Des Jardins ballpark eateries Public House and Mijita are officially in soft-open mode ― li ... More >>

Tonight: Public House/Mijita Soft-Opens for Media and Industry

J. BirdsallThe mighty keg wall at Public House.​Unless you wear chef pants to work or have some connection to media old or new, you won't be able to witness tonight's launch party for Public House/Mijita at AT&T Park. The official public opening for Traci Des Jardins' double-in-the-bubble ball ... More >>

It's One for the Record Books: Public House/Mijita to Officially Open April 9

J. BirdsallThe state of Mijita's tiled main counter last week.​Official opening date for the Public House/Mijita twins in the old Acme Chophouse spot at AT&T Park is April 9, date of the Giants regular season home opener against Atlanta. Does that indicate the project is off track? Not really, ... More >>

Acme Chophouse To Be Split to Make Way for Two New Casual Restaurants

More than the Acme sign is getting split.​Even before the remains of Acme Chophouse are, well, ashes, much less gone cold, comes word of what'll take its place. Turns out the sprawling Acme space (24 Willie Mays Plaza at AT&T Park) will be chopped into two unequal parts to house separate eater ... More >>

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 sustai ... More >>

Dine About Town

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 ... More >>

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-ba ... More >>

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-hunti ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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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 Jar ... More >>

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 Cra ... More >>

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

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

Ferry Building Favorites

Best Steakhouse

Acme Chophouse

Urban Explorer

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

Entrez au Jardin

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

Hop on Chop

Acme Chophouse

Best Place to Sweat While Doing Business

Sportsclub/LA San Francisco

You'd Better Chop Around

A preview of Pac Bell Park's new restaurant, the Acme Chophouse

Heavy Hitters

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

Bringing Back Bongo Bongo

Trader Vic's comes to Palo Alto

Foie Gras for the Soul

Restaurants react to last week's attacks

Made

Tales of extravagance and excess from the restaurant scene

The Dining Depression

The latest tidbits of restaurant news about Jardinière, Ozumo, and Eastside West

Best Restaurant

Jardinière

Modern Classic

Jardinière

Side Dish

Sno-Drift, Hall of Fame and Cain Vineyard and Winery