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May 14, 2012
Eats Fills Cozy Brunch Niche in the Richmond
Come Sunday morning, most San Franciscans head to the Mission for a fix of bottomless Bloody Marys and breakfast sandwiches stacked with house-cured salumi and local cheese. But Eats, located in a cute corner of the Inner Richmond, reminds us that the brunch "scene" in this city is more varied than ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
Chris Cosentino's Cookbook Hits Bookstores
The charismatic, culinary tornado and executive chef at Incanto with a James Beard Award nomination this year, Chris Cosentino has built his reputation as a loud, meat-fueled, barely unofficial offal spokesperson whose menus run rich with pork fat. His nose-to-tail crusade is showcased at his Boccal ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
Two Sisters' Eclectic Brunch Is a Haven with Personality
Every now and then, you discover a place you're reluctant to recommend even to your close friends, for fear that the precious "hidden gem" quality will be corrupted by noisy patrons and lines gathering at the door. Two Sisters Bar & Books, the new restaurant and watering hole in the heart of ... More >>
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February 13, 2012
Happy Goat's Scotch Caramel Sauce
Happy Goat's Scotch Caramel Sauce is a revelation. The caramel first woos you with a sweet hit of fragrant Madagascar bourbon vanilla bean. Next comes the seduction of 12-year-aged single malt Scotch whiskey from Aberlour. The finish is a subtle twinge of earthiness. No sign of cloying over-swee ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Q&A With Mary Risley of Tante Marie's Cooking School, Part 1
Mary Risley's resume is as impressive as it is long. She founded Tante Marie's Cooking School in 1979; started the nonprofit organization Food Runners in 1987; was named Bon Appetit's "cooking teacher of the year" in 1988; and authored a cookbook in 2003. However, Risley might be better known the ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Suppenkuche Brings Beer and Brats to Sunday Morning
The promise of beer-filled boots attracts crowds to Hayes Valley's Suppenkuche on Saturday nights, but come back the following morning and you may be surprised. Not only does the restaurant offer a full, ever-changing German brunch menu, bartenders are doling out boots once again, this time to a ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Simple Comfort Food Satisfies at Chow Brunch
A lazy, aimless Sunday morning is the perfect time to find yourself at Chow, the cozy restaurant situated at Church and Market yet seemingly tucked away in its own quiet world. Known for its easy, unpretentious favorites any time of day, during weekend brunch hours (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.) Chow is argu ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2011
Starbucks is a "Diamond-in-the-Rough", Jeremy Fox May Not Come Back, and Saision News
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Mega green: Eater SF reports Starbucks will open a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified location in the Castro at 2221 Market (at Sanchez). While it will incorporate the same el ... More >>
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November 7, 2011
Charlie Palmer's Coming, Pot Pantry Moves, and The Melt's Second Location is Open
The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco food scene. Last week we spotted a liquor license for Charlie Palmer's restaurant group in the window of the Crescent Hotel. Now, Inside Scoop confirms Palmer will create a new concept in the space, with a restauran ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Thomas Keller's Cup4Cup Gluten-free Flour Put to the Test
Thomas Keller has jumped on the gluten-free bandwagon. Everything that Chef Keller touches turns to gold, so it is no surprise that his new flour has created quite the buzz among the gluten-free community. And the TV food world, too: Here he is cooking on Martha Stewart's show this morning: ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Today in the FiDi: Food Trucks and a Charity Bakesale!
Luis ChongLIBA Falafel.What: Food Trucks Charity Bakesale Where: Ice House Alley, 151 Union at Battery When: Wed., October 26, 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Cost: Varies The rundown: Williams Sonoma's food truck gathering is upon us for the month of October. They actually have a pretty great ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Brunch Glory: The Butler and the Chef Brings Paris to SF
San Francisco is home to many a French-style cafe (ahem, La Boulange), but The Butler and the Chef is the real deal. Tucked away in SOMA's charming South Park, the bistro's yellow storefront draws customers into its bright dining space, dotted with graphic posters and tiny circular tables for two ... More >>
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October 7, 2011
15 Romolo Has a Low-Key, Boozy Brunch
During happy hour on a Friday night, 15 Romolo is packed tightly with hip urbanites waiting for an artisanal cocktail. At noon on a Sunday, however -- when most brunch lines are curling around the street corner -- the bar is half-empty. It's occupied by a few diners chatting quietly at small tab ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Cafe Flore: Come for Sunshine, Not Predictable Brunch
It's that time of year in San Francisco: Just when we're ready to give up on summer completely and dive into Starbucks' pumpkin spiced lattes, the temperatures finally rise. The sun comes out, the jackets fall off, the parks fill up. And it's these weekends that draw everyone to places like Cafe ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
Zazie Brunch Lives Up to Hype
From exposed brick walls and vintage posters to tightly-packed dining tables, Zazie has all the makings of a classic French bistro. The dinner menu features usual regional suspects -- think French Onion Soup Gratinee and Mussels Marineres -- but the Cole Valley gem is at its best during brunch, w ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Pottery Barn Dolls Can Strangle Kids, Recall Notice Says
Maybe a recall would have stopped himChloe and Sophie, dolls sold under the Pottery Barn Kids label owned by San Francisco-based Williams Sonoma, are being recalled in Canada in conjunction with a U.S. recall -- and for good reason: They strangle kids, the Canuck government says.No, Pottery Barn ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Sir Kensington's Takes Ketchup Upscale
Everything goes upscale eventually. Mustard long ago moved from yellow and Dijon to an array of artisan flavors. Ketchup, however, has remained mostly moribund, with only the variety of a few brand names to distinguish between otherwise indistinguishable squeezable red pastes. Now some Bay ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Rose's Café Takes Pastries, Charm to a New Level
Just as we begin to tire of kitschy boulangeries and lackluster Italian coffee shops, a place like Rose's Café reminds us how cozy a true European-style cafe can be. Absent are the colorblocked Perrier posters and premade paninis, with simple bistro chairs, velvet booths and house-made pastries ... More >>
Blogs
July 26, 2011
Ten Dishes Not to Order on a First Date
Your palms are sweating, you inadvertently raised another awkward conversation topic, and you're pretty sure your pants seam just ripped. Aren't first dates stressful enough without a cursed dinner order? What goes on during the meal will make or break what happens -- or doesn't happen -- aft ... More >>
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July 22, 2011
Wok On, Buy in Chinatown
Ben NarasinYee Cheong's wok on campfire coalsI've always been a big fan of cast iron: skillets, griddles, butter melters that look like medieval castle defenses in miniature. They last forever, they're cheap, and they don't seem to have any "bad for you" issues as aluminum and Teflon are repu ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Meat Market Art Opening
An Alyson Thomas originalMeat Market Art Opening Where: Pot Pantry, 3412 22nd St. (at Guerrero), 206-1134 When: Fri., May 6, 6-9 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: Attorney-turned-artist Alyson Thomas has a food thing. If her custom work for breweries, pizzerias, and Williams-Sonoma doesn't ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
Gift Ideas: Five Cheap Kitchen Tools I Can't Live Without
The high-end kitchen stores and the glossy mags will tell you that All-Clad is the best declaration of true love. And it might just be. But many of us can't afford much more than an All-Clad refrigerator magnet. I was looking around my kitchen today and realizing just how many of my essential tools ... More >>
Dining
December 1, 2010
Fresh Eats
Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news
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November 19, 2010
Pot Pantry: New and Vintage Kitchen Shop Now Open in the Mission
Pot PantryThe owner's a Williams-Sonoma alum.Give a former Williams-Sonoma employee 250 square feet of retail space and what does she do? Open a kitchen shop, naturally, filled with new and used stuff. Donna Suh Wageman rolled out Pot Pantry last week at 3412 22nd Street, the former home, ... More >>
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September 13, 2010
Tofu Banh Mi from Ebbett's Good To Go
John Birdsall Shredded Hodo Soy Beanery tofu with pickled carrots, cucumbers, piquillo peppers, spicy pesto, and sriracha mayo, $8.Monday, September 13, 2010 John BirdsallLike Nancy Botwin, East Bay moms Suzanne Schafer and Shari Washburn wanted to do something that would guarantee th ... More >>
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August 3, 2010
Omnivore Books In Consulting Deal with Williams-Sonoma
Janine KahnOmnivore Books' Celia Sack will pick a book of the month, and has curated a collection of vintage tomes for Williams-Sonoma stores.Williams-Sonoma likes Noe Valley's Omnivore Books so much, the bigger-than-God cookware chain has hired Omnivore's Celia Sack to serve as book consulta ... More >>
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June 15, 2010
What to Have for Lunch: Piperade To-Go's Mr. Williams Sandwich
John BirdsallMr. Williams: chicken, avocado, peppers, and Manchego ($8).Tuesday, June 15, 2010 John BirdsallWe couldn't say for sure whether the Mr. Williams sandwich is named after Chuck Williams, founder of Williams-Sonoma. But we do know that the back-alley, takeaway spinoff of Ger ... More >>
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May 19, 2010
Don't Sound Like a Tool: The (Cooking) Tool Edition
Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more godawful imitations of a language you don't speak.tah-ZHEEN.A couple years ago, Sur La Tab ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
IACP Announces 2010 Cookbook Award Winners
The International Association of Culinary Professionals is currently having its annual conference in Portland, where the city's best restaurants are being raided by thousands of ravenous, overly discerning food writers. We offer our condolences to the PDX police officers who spent last night brea ... More >>
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September 8, 2009
Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends
Our favorite morsel from the food blogs. The semiotics of yum: We once had an editor who enforced a ban on hated words: crispy, veggie, hipster, and foodie, a tag that necessarily shows up often on a site called SFoodie. At Bay Area Bites today, SFoodie contributor Andrew Simmons muses on fo ... More >>
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July 6, 2009
Portuguese Bistro-Slash-Food Shop Horatius Brings Drama to Potrero
It's part café, part food shop and event space, with a dose of Williams Sonoma thrown in for good measure. The sprawling, soaring new food venture Horatius opened in Potrero Hill late last month (350 Kansas at 16th St.), with a crest-y logo that'd be right at home at the mall (preppy polos for& ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
Junk Mail Solicitation of the Day: Save $10K on My Wedding? Tell Me More!
But see how much money they saved? When the suffix of your e-mail address is "@NameOfaNewspaper.com" you get a lot of amazing solicitations by truly desperate PR mavens. We've lost count of how many deluded souls thought you, the readers, would be clamoring for stories about contact paper one can ap ... More >>
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May 6, 2009
Among Possessions of 'Landlords From Hell' Revealed in Bankruptcy Filing: Nifty $1k Handgun
There's $1,000 toward your debt...In the current edition of SF Weekly, we feature a story about the ongoing saga of Kip and Nicole Macy -- who earned the sobriquet "Landlords From Hell" after being accused of, among other transgressions, hacking the joists supporting a tenant's floor, hacking a tena ... More >>
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April 23, 2008
It's a Classy Affair
There's $1,000 toward your debt...In the current edition of SF Weekly, we feature a story about the ongoing saga of Kip and Nicole Macy -- who earned the sobriquet "Landlords From Hell" after being accused of, among other transgressions, hacking the joists supporting a tenant's floor, hacking a tena ... More >>
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January 18, 2006
Change Your Romance Regime
A monthly guide: 12 new ways to meet "The One" in the new year
Pride
June 22, 2005
Too Jaded for Gay Pride? Get Over It!
A queer guide to Pride events
Best of San Francisco
May 19, 2004
Best Places for Same-Sex Wedding Registry
A queer guide to Pride events
Best of San Francisco
May 19, 2004
Best Kitchenware Bargains
Economy Restaurant Fixtures
News
March 19, 2003
Death of a Deli
Mike Cresci just wanted to sell his raviolis. But the old neighborhood never accepted him.
Music
January 15, 2003
Various Artists
Ultra. Chilled 03
Music
May 22, 2002
Same Old Brand-New
Blame Rock River Communications -- and hipster Jeff Daniel -- for those cheesy store-branded music compilations
Best of San Francisco
May 15, 2002
Best Wedding Resources
Blame Rock River Communications -- and hipster Jeff Daniel -- for those cheesy store-branded music compilations
Best of San Francisco
May 15, 2002
Best Place to Buy Eclectic Gifts
Market Between Sanchez and Castro
Best of San Francisco
May 15, 2002
Best Furniture for Book Lovers
Books & Bookshelves
News
November 24, 1999
Trojan Horse
In a city that loves to hate chain stores, plans for a new Pottery Barn in the Castro are scarcely raising a peep. The neighborhood may regret it.
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November 10, 1999
South to the Future
FAT OF THE LAND: First in a Four-Part Series
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