William Pilz

Food Truck Bite of the Week: Getting Hapa'd up with Hapa SF

Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck: Hapa SF The Cuisine: Filipino food reinterpreted Specialty Items: Lumpia, sisig tacos, adobo chicken Worth the Wait in Line? Definitely. At peak lunchtime, it was a total 1 ... More >>

A Most Interesting Lunch from Dos Equis Mobile Academy Food Truck

Starting Wednesday, the Mobile Academy Food Truck will hit the streets dishing out free lunch courtesy of Dos Equis beer (sadly, the menu doesn't include beer) and will roll around town for ten days. From the 3rd to the 13th, the truck will take your lunch on an adventurous journey with Filipino cla ... More >>

William Pilz of Hapa SF Takes Over SodaCraft

​SFoodie was leaving the Ferry Plaza farmers market this afternoon when we noticed a familiar face behind the SodaCraft stand: William Pilz, owner of modern Filipino food truck Hapa SF. Pilz, it turns out, has just taken over production of the artisanal, seasonal, fermented sodas from SodaCraft fo ... More >>

What to Eat and Drink at Artopia Tonight

​Tonight, from 6-9 p.m., Public Works (161 Erie, at Mission) will be hosting Artopia, the SF Weekly's fifth annual celebration of the visual arts, dance, and film. We'll be naming the three winners of our annual Masterminds awards, and all 10 finalists -- whom you can read about here -- will be o ... More >>

Roamin' Cannoli Makes Sophomore Outing Today at Off The Grid

Foodspotting/Mel N.​ If you're having lunch at Off The Grid's Civic Center event today (11 a.m.-2 p.m.), save some room for dessert. It'll be your second chance to get a cannolo from new street vendor Roamin' Cannoli before she changes locations because of the regular rotation of vendors. Owne ... More >>

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Hapa SF Debuts Prepared Entrees at Whole Foods Haight St.

Jonathan KauffmanHapa SF's vegan pinakbet, which premiered with two other entrees at the Haight Street Whole Foods.​Yesterday's stealth early opening of the Stanyan Street Whole Foods brought more than EARTH University bananas to Upper Haight. It also brought a trio of packaged Filipino entree ... More >>

Hapa SF Rolling Out New Filipino Dishes for January Dinners

Gil Riego Jr./SFoodieHapa SF's William Pilz is doing two pop-ups this month.​Mod-Filipino food truck Hapa SF has announced two pop-up dates this month, Sat., Jan. 22, at La Victoria in the Mission and Tue., Jan. 25, at Bar Basic in SOMA. Owner William Pilz tells SFoodie the idea is to preview ... More >>

The Year in Food: Street Food Gets Serious

Chris MacArthurMobile vending went legit in 2010, thanks to events like Off the Grid Fort Mason Center.​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food. La CocinaAugust's S.F. Street Food Festival drew huge crowds to the Mission.​What burst onto the sc ... More >>

Loretta Keller, Leading Lady

Gil Riego, Jr.Loretta Keller​​There's the quick-to-heat, flash-in-the-pan hawt -- the kind that disappears after too many stints in rehab and plastic surgeons' offices -- and then there's hotness of the long, steady rolling boil variety. Specifically, Loretta Keller, the Helen Mirren of the kitc ... More >>

Richie Nakano, Ramen Renegade

Gil Riego Jr./SF WeeklyHapa Ramen's Richie Nakano.​Audrey Fukuman​When we asked you to ID the easiest-on-the-eyes chefs in San Francisco, Richie Nakano's name kept surfacing, like eggs in a poaching pot. Nakano ditched the restaurant track earlier this year to strike out on his own (he'd ... More >>

William Pilz: Hot Chef on Wheels

Gil Riego/SF Weekly​Audrey Fukuman​Behold, the first in SFoodie's exhaustively researched series devoted to the hottest local chefs. Hot as in, you know, hawt. Though, to be fair, many of the chefs we'll be presenting as shameless eye candy in the coming weeks and days show as well on th ... More >>

Fresh Eats: The State of S.F.’s Street Food

Hapa SF's Pulutan Pop-Up: Filipino with a California Twist

John BirdsallSinigang: The tamarind-spiked vegetable broth was unexpectedly flowery.​Something extraordinary happened Saturday night on 24th Street. At La Victoria, Hapa SF's William Pilz took a dozen Filipino dishes and translated them into Northern California's culinary vernacular. It was ... More >>

Highlights from a tour of S.F.'s newest street food trucks

How Much Does San Francisco Charge Food Trucks? We Asked SF Cart Project's Matt Cohen

Chris MacArthur/SF WeeklyHapa SF's William Pilz at a recent Off the Grid street-food event.​ We at SFoodie like to talk up how it's the summer of food trucks, and in this week's review, I surveyed seven of the newcomers. Common wisdom about food trucks is that they offer budding restaurateurs a ch ... More >>

Hapa SF Announces Filipino Pop-Up at La Victoria

earl g./YelpThe mobile food vendor's taking it sit-down for one night in August.​It's more than a month out, but word comes that Hapa SF chef William Pilz will do a night of contemporary Filipino dishes at La Victoria on 24th Street in the Mission. On August 6, Pilz will oversee a menu that, r ... More >>

What to Have for Lunch: Sisig and Soccer in South City

Genevieve Y./YelpSisig tacos, $6. World Cup play, free.​Friday, June 18, 2010Research for last Monday's lunch pick took SFoodie to Tanguito, the Argentinian food truck on the Wharf, where we ate choripan and watched the World Cup. In the same vein, we'd recommend you get on the 101 and drive a few ... More >>

Symposium Ponders Future of Local Filipino Cuisine. Could It Be Vegetarian?

Jun BelenAmy Besa of Brooklyn's Purple Yam, conducting a cooking demo. ​It was a busy weekend for Filipino food enthusiasts, as the Asian Culinary Forum hosted the city's first symposium on Filipino food at the International Culinary School in Civic Center. Filipino chefs, food historians, and ... More >>

Filipino Taco Truck Hapa SF Lives Up to the Hype

Jun BelenHapa's lumpia were the best we've tasted here.​It's been a couple of weeks since chef William Pilz launched Hapa SF, his mobile Filipino food venture. Pilz is quickly getting his bearings around the newly rehabbed, burgundy-colored taco-truck kitchen, as Hapa's following seems to mult ... More >>

Asian Culinary Forum's Weekend Symposium Probes Future of Filipino Cuisine

John BirdsallLumpia from chef William Pilz at a one-night Filipino prix fixe last July at Citizen Cake.​A celebration of Filipino foods is the premise of the the Asian Culinary Forum's weekend-long symposium of classes, panels, and tastings, happening May 15-16. The cooking class that covers t ... More >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Bloggery

My favorite five bites from SFoodie and beyond:Fritz Maytag.​1. I appreciated Brian Yaeger's thoughtful questioning ― motivated by a mixture of respect and betrayal ― of what might come of Fritz Maytag's sale of Anchor Brewing to the producers of Skyy Vodka.2. Considering that the last Undergr ... More >>

Hapa SF, Ex-Citizen Cake Chef's Filipino Taco Truck, Launches in Brisbane

Hapa SFChef William Pilz hopes to be on a regular schedule by mid-May.​Back in July, we blogged about a meal that, as it turned out, was a sort of watershed. William Pilz ― then chef of Citizen Cake ― collaborated with his mom to turn out a meal of Filipino classics (check it out here). ... More >>

Hot Meal: Filipino Prix Fixe at Citizen Cake

Lumpia came with a soy-based dip (left) and sweet-and-sour pineapple sauce. Last night's Filipino dinner at Citizen Cake (399 Grove at Gough) carefully balanced haute with homey. Okay, maybe haute is too strong. Aided by his mom and sister, Cake chef William Pilz engineered a series of familiar ... More >>

Update on Thursday's Filipino Dinner at Citizen Cake: Mystery Chef Revealed

stick in the mud/FlickrBraised oxtail like mom used to make -- literally.Yesterday we posted about the Filipino prix fixe at Citizen Cake this Thursday, reporting that guest chef Zenaida Belanich would be on site to work with regular Cake chef William Pilz. Truth is, we hadn't heard of Belanich, and ... More >>

Food of the Philippines to Star at Citizen Cake Thursday

bunnicula/FlickrFilipino cooking has defied crossover locally, though not without a notable try or two. Get a glimpse of the possibilities this Thursday at Citizen Cake (399 Grove at Gough), when guest chef Zenaida Belanich joins Cake chef William Pilz to engineer a four-course prix fixe featuring ... More >>