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Flour & Co. is an Oasis in the Nob Hill Pastry Desert

Previously, if you had a sick friend at St. Francis Hospital on Nob Hill, the only local pastry you could bring to cheer them up was a sad doughnut that may or may not have shared the deep fryer with something dubious. Not any more. The simply named Flour & Co., now open on Hyde near California St., ... More >>

Bouncer Gets Fancy at the Redwood Room

Drink on for BuildOn: A Happy Hour To Feel Good About

What feels better than a few drinks after work with some friends? Simultaneously making the world a better place while doing it. This Thursday (Jan. 31), Soda Popinski's in Nob Hill will host a happy hour benefitting buildOn - an organization that mobilizes urban youth to break the cycle of povert ... More >>

Patti Page: What Did She Mean By "Throw Mama From the Train?"

I'm staggering through Walgreens Wednesday night, my brain in slo-mo, and my body numb. I'm getting a cold and I'm hoping to diminish its severity with some mass-produced placebos. My head is thick, the walls are moving and the floor is tilted. I come to a shelf packed with various remedies all prom ... More >>

The Pastry Cupboard's Oatmeal Medley Has a Way With Fruit

The Pastry Cupboard is celebrating one year as a retail shop. The shop is the brainchild of Chona Piumarta, who formerly worked as a pastry chef at the Slanted Door and LarkCreekSteak restaurants, and serves light breakfast and lunch fare alongside baked goods such as pies, cakes, cupcakes, and cook ... More >>

Court Workers to Decide on Possible Strike

There are few experiences in San Francisco more excruciating than waiting in line outside the Hall of Justice to take care of a traffic ticket. People crane their necks, instinctively trying to snatch a sight of the front of the line. Somebody inevitably says, "Why are three of the windows closed?" ... More >>

This Armored Car Crash Only Looked Like a Heist

When a Garda armored car crashed into a black Ford F-450 parked in front of the Trader Joe's on Bay Street and Mason Street earlier this afternoon, the scene only looked like something out of some crime movie. A witness at the scene told SF Weekly that the cab of the armored car got too close t ... More >>

Exploding Pig Farms, Trader Joe's Veg Eats, and Vegan Ryan Gosling!

​• It's Vegan Ryan Gosling! Pull your pants back up -- he's not actually vegan. It's just one in the sea of Gosling memes. Ryan Gosling is totally the house that Tumblr built. Anyway, this particular meme is pretty funny and you get to look at shirtless photos of Gosling, so since I have a Tumbl ... More >>

5 Tips for Feeling Like You've Accomplished Something By 30

​I know it's bad form, but sometimes I still want to eat as much junk food as possible as quickly as possible. Last night, for example, while in line at the grocery store, I wanted to grab as many Kit Kats and Twizzlers as I could carry and shovel them into my face hole on the drive home. In the s ... More >>

Good Luck is Hard Work

Prop 13: The Building-Sized Loopholes Corporations Exploit

Supermarkets No Longer Treat Generics as the Shame of the Cart

​Grocery chains have been rebranding their generic store brands for a decade or two now with flashier packaging and better names -- Whole Foods' 365, Safeway's O Organics -- but a new story from Bloomberg Business Week/SF Chronicle reports that the chains are now initiating large-scale marketing ... More >>

The Beefbreaker: Oscar Yedra Wants His Cut of the New Meat-Carving Movement

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Big Reforms in the Egg Industry, Big Scandal in the Competitive Eating World

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Good news for egg lovers. After almost a decade of activism, the Humane Society of the United States, an animal-welfare group that is not connected to local animal shelters, has f ... More >>

Taiwanese Food Blogger Gets Jail, Trader Joe's Should Stop Feeding Dumpster Divers

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Why I'm never becoming a restaurant critic in Taiwan. The Taipei Times reports that a local food blogger was just sentenced to 30 days in jail and almost $7,000 in fines for writ ... More >>

Ripping on the USDA's New Graphic, Whispering About Stumptown

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.​1. No more food pyramid. After several years and $2 million in research, the USDA released its new nutrition graphic last week to replace the much-maligned food pyramid, and the com ... More >>

Nitrite-Free Bacon Is Fake, But Lady Gaga's Flank-Steak Dress Was Real

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Is Nitrite-Free Bacon Really Healthier? The big controversy this week was sparked by Michael Ruhlman, author of Charcuterie, calling bullshit on nitrite-free bacon, found in every ... More >>

Fresh and Easy Comes on Strong, Oakland Bar Boom

​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Grub Street reports that San Francisco is about to see the arrival of four branches of Fresh and Easy, a grocery store chain, owned by British giant Tesco, that models itself along the lines of ... More >>

S.F. Man Assaults Motorist Trying to Back into His Parking Spot in Upper Haight

Parking wars​Everyone who has visited San Francisco for a few hours on the weekend knows that trying to find parking is as irritating as trying to navigate the aisles at Trader Joe's. But how far would you go to get a space on a Saturday afternoon? Wait, don't answer that. For one San Francisco ma ... More >>

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Tasting Petite Sirah, California's Little Big Wine

Alastair BlandTasting panelists Noah P. and Eleni K. strike a pose with the Petite empties.​It was born in 1880, and four years later came to California. But for another 80, almost nobody knew it. Petite Sirah is one of California's historical vines and among the earliest varieties introduced ... More >>

SFoodie Advent Calendar, Day 2: Vegan Joe-Joes

Filled with the holiday spirit? Yep. Vegan? That, too.The SFoodie Advent Calendar counts down the days before Christmas/Nondenominationalwinterholiday, one holiday treat at a time.For a vegan like me, Candy Cane Joe-Joes are nature's perfect food. I don't exaggerate when I say that I wait all year f ... More >>

All Six DeLano's to Shutter, Le Truc Se Gare Près de AT&T Park

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Grub Street scooped SFoodie in its own neighborhood followed SFoodie in reporting that Le Truc, which is un autobus that serves food, is going to be parking at 470 Brannan from 11 a.m. to 3 p. ... More >>

Big Backyard? You Could Raise All Your Own Food, New Book Says

The apocalypse is coming ― stock up on chickens.​Feed a family of four on a quarter- acre plot! Earn thousands in half the time a normal job would require! But wait ― there's more, as the late Billy Mays might have said. Never farmed before? Don't know an udder from a ukulele? Can't tell ... More >>

Hot Cross Buns: Class vs. Tradition

Sandbox Bakery (left), Dianda's (right).​You have two days left before Good Friday to source your annual hot cross bun breakfast. I went looking this week, and came across rworange's 2009 Bay Area hot cross bun ranking on Chowhound, the kind of obsessive act that validates the existence of the Int ... More >>

SFuture Shock: Bold predictions for the coming year

What to Do? Monday's Pick: Eat at 111 Minna

​Eat @ 111 MinnaGalleries are known for serving Trader Joe's buckets of minibrownies, not sliders with heirloom pepper relish and aioli, wild boar sausages on potato rolls, flatbread with foraged mushrooms, and cupcakes by Kingdom Cake. There: We just told you most of the menu at tonight's EAT at ... More >>

15-Piece Michael Jackson Tribute Show July 11 at Slim's

Last weekend passed with plenty of Michael Jackson tributes, from DJs to foodies alike. But this is the first report we've gotten of a full (and by full, we mean 15-piece) band performing the King of Pop's classic hits. On Saturday, July 11, Neverland: A Tribute to the  King of Pop!  will ... More >>

Safeway Jumps on Locavore Bandwagon

Safeway was well ahead of the curve as far as the country-of-origin food labeling that went into effect on March 16. Recently, the company instituted new produce signage that both informs and entices the locavores among us.

SOMA Taco Stand Hoping for Late June Opening

And it'll never get a flat tire.The owner of an under-construction taco stand in SOMA told SFoodie he's hoping to launch a soft opening on Monday, June 22. Arturo Aguilar described Publico Urban Taqueria (in the Trader Joe's shopping complex, 555 Ninth St. at Brannan) as a taco truck without an engi ... More >>

Cheap Wines That Don't Suck: Marchese de Petri 2003 Chianti Riserva

Despite the lightness of the wine, it stood up well to spicy jambalaya.

Behind the Bar with Brandon Skaggs: The Cesar

Move over, mojito. Step back, caipirinha. Hail Cesar!

Serious Bread: Acme's Pain au Levain

San Francisco sourdough? This is the one locals really eat.

Cheap Wines That Don't Suck: Espiral Vinho Verde

This fresh, light, tart, very slightly sparkling, delicious white wine has only 9% alcohol.

Who Says There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?

By Meredith Brody On a recent trip to Costco to patronize their amazingly low-cost pharmacy - well, a second trip (note to self, and others: the pharmacy at the Richmond location is NOT open on Sunday!) - we wanted to stay as far away from the five-pound hunks of cheese and the six-pack of fresh ra ... More >>

Top Ten Food Trends Time

By Meredith BrodyIt's that time of the year again, the time we make lists of the best movies, books, meals of the past twelve months - even though, in this Annus pretty much Horribilis, to quote Queen Elizabeth for pretty much the first time in my life, you might not be so much in the mood for looki ... More >>

First Impressions: New Malaysian-Singaporean Cafe in Lafayette

Green Eats: Sating that Vegan Sweet Tooth

Sunday Smorgasbord: Chocolate Salon at Fort Mason

Christmas for in-betweeners at the Black Magic Voodoo Lounge

Din With Dinner

Visiting the same place two nights in a row finds two different restaurants: one deserted and calm, the other crowded and riotous

Pasta Perfect

What to do when your signature dish is upstaged by a toque-wearing kitchen god

Feta (Not Quite) Accompli

Our second meal isn't as dazzling as our first at a new Greek eatery

Best Chance for a Decent Date

When in Romany

Bistro E Europe

Dog Bites

You know, there's an election -- hey! -- we said there's a local election coming up

Dog Bites

Parody This!; Cranky Dog Bites! Cranky!; Chicken Soup for the Stomach

Side Dish

Night Crawler