Willy Wonka

Equator and Ma'velous Team Up for Glimpse at Best Coffee in America

Ma'velous, that glimmering trove of coffees and gorgeous gizmos by Civic Center, is bringing in an extra special bounty to its already very special menu. But if you blink, you'll miss it. The goods? Granja La Esperanza Geisha, a lot of a rare and celebrated varietal roasted by Caitlin McCarthy-Garci ... More >>

The Company Bar & Kitchen Aims To Be a Triple Threat

The Company Bar & Kitchen is currently being built at 133 Steuart Street, in the space that formerly housed Shanghai 1930 restaurant. The project is the latest in the Mina Group collection and is led by longtime Mina group star sommelier Rajat Parr. AK Design Network from Los Angeles is transforming ... More >>

Bouncer Gets Fancy at the Redwood Room

Two-Buck Chocolatier: Capsule Chocolates

Real candy makers will surely shudder in horror at Ichiban Kan's (22 Peace Plaza; 1931 Irving) $2 "capsule chocolate" maker, but it's a fun thing for amateurs like us to try out. It comes with little bitty teeny tiny instructions that basically offer the most rudimentary directions for tempering cho ... More >>

California Candy Festival Expects 20,000 Revelers This Weekend

A 45-minute drive is all that separates you from Fairfield's annual cavity-causing celebration known as the California Candy Festival, which takes place Sept. 22-23 at Jelly Belly Candy Company Visitors Center and the Lots of Fun (One Jelly Belly Lane). An estimated 20,000 attendees are expected th ... More >>

Outside Lands Introduces Beer Lands to Fest, Summer Pairings Series Starts This Weekend

Outside Lands returns to Golden Gate Park on August 10-12 and makes a bid for being one of the city's biggest food fests with even more edible options than ever. A Taste of the Bay Area features 58 local food vendors including new businesses such as the Del Popolo monster pizza truck and brick and m ... More >>

See's Candy Tries to Break World Record With 7,000-Pound Lollipop

It will be like a scene from Willy Wonka. Next week, See's Candy plans to ring in National Lollipop Day 2012 by unveiling its freakish 7,000-pound sucker in San Francisco. Now that would certainly satisfy your oral fixation. The famous candy manufacturer isn't inventing this grossly large lollipop f ... More >>

Dumb Food Show Easter Unwrapped Is as Adorable as a Baby with a Peep Stuck to Her Head

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going with food TV. This week, Easter Unwrapped, an hour show that never hurt anybody, April 7 on the Cooking Channel It would be a crime to critically review Unwrapped, to lay any sort of smothering blanket upon this innocent show, which films fac ... More >>

No Tickets? Nine Ways You Can Still Get Into Burning Man 2012

Whatever else history might say of the Burning Man Ticket Fiasco of 2012, it offers the community that puts on the festival one more brute lesson in market economics. For attendees at the longtime countercultural arts festival held annually in the desert near Reno, news that four-fifths of the ticke ... More >>

Calmly Manic

Sutton Cellars Hosts Weekend Event with Best Name, Jug Sunday

Lou BustamanteCarl Sutton.​ Jug Sundays at Sutton Cellars Where: Sutton Cellars, 601 22nd St. (at Illinois) When: Sun., June 12, 2-5 p.m. Cost: Free The rundown: It's that time again: Jug Sunday. This Sunday, Sutton Cellars will be out during Sunday Streets in the Bayview to hook you up wi ... More >>

Evolution's Nuts: Darwin Deez Drops Rap Mixtape, Plays Hemlock on Friday

Fell in love with this fish who got caught in my mesh / Yo, she burned my scene up like David Koresh​ Maybe my bullshit detector has plutonium batteries, but I'm not so sure I trust Darwin Deez. I've read a lot about how he's the new hotness, a genius of musical invention, number ten on the NME' ... More >>

Ghosts On Tape Comes Out Creepy

myspace.com/ghostsontapesf​"Tropical plants and girls with the daisy dukes on." "The future and the dirty south." "Brain sandwich." These are a few of the phrases used by Ryan Merry, the DJ behind Ghosts On Tape, to describe the sounds he makes with floppy discs and turntables. Ghosts On Tape ... More >>

Baylinks: Golden Tickets, Target, & Online Degrees

​Get your online degree from University of Phoenix UC Berkeley [The Daily Clog]Willy Wonka comes down from his sugar high and picks up a pie [Grub Street San Francisco]Disgruntled hotel workers march in Union Square [NBC Bay Area] 

City Unsure Which San Franciscans Would Get Google Wi-Fi Coverage

We want it ... but we don't know where to put it ​As noted yesterday, San Francisco publicized its full application to enter the Google fiber network sweepstakes, which has taken on something of a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket feel -- but with delicious Wi-Fi fiber instead of chocolate.  San Fran ... More >>

Sunday's Mini Cupcake Clash Was a Swirl of Costumes and Buttercream

Tamara PalmerSweetiecups' "La Vie en Brie"​We thought we were way over cupcakes, but as we told a friend, "If cupcakes were always as good as the ones we had at the SF Food Wars Mini Cupcake Clash, we'd be happy!" (Or words to that effect.) Sunday was a perfect day for cupcaking in the deligh ... More >>

Greenhouse That Introduced Public To Incredibly Stinky Plant Now Offers Bite of Incredibly Tasty One

'Miracle Fruit'​Our green-thumbed readers may remember the July saga of San Francisco State's corpse flower. The exotic Indonesian plant crossed up experts from every local university by stubbornly refusing to bloom. But, when it did, it sure lived up to its title. Visitors to the SFSU greenhouse ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

MochipetOur hand picked list of events worth your spare time, for the price of your spare change. Zombie Beach Party (Friday)In San Francisco, Zombies never say die. When they're not "killing" people during flash mobs, they're going to the beach--indoors, of course, because the real sun would damage ... More >>

Chocolate and Chalk: Together at Last

In a few weeks, they'll be eating chalk and drawing with chocolate in the Gourmet Ghetto. Wait! Scratch that, reverse it, as Willy Wonka would say. The annual Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival in Berkeley combines a sidewalk chalk-drawing contest with a wild tasting menu created by area establi ... More >>

30 Century Man

Going Down

Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth.

Saturday: The de Young Goes Psychedelic for Chihuly

A World of Pure Imagination

My Body, My Self

Food issues and a bad self-image led our columnist to undergo weight-loss surgery. She's still a mess, but a better-looking one.

Beat Box

The Go! Team

Proof of Youth (Sub Pop)

The Best Art Prints on the Web: Creep Machine's Josh Curates His Top 5 of the Week

Mustache Ride

In the latest WarioWare, you can pick your friend's nose

Chuck and the Chocolate Factory

Get Down With Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

Reeferzilla Meets NIMBY-Ra

And unfortunately it's not science fiction. It's San Francisco politics, and the winner used some interesting jujitsu.

Working Blue. And Brown.

Inside the dirtiest joke ever told is a nugget of unadulterated joy

Arrrr, Matey

The Buccaneer offers good time pirate fun, and a lesson in rejection

Reps Etc.

Bad News

One more awful remake strikes out

Chocolate Kisses

Thanks to Depp and Burton, Willy Wonka just got weirder

Best Hot Chocolate

Bouncer

Drunks and bagpipes at Lefty O'Doul's are no match for "Tim," the best piano player ever

Sonny's Days

In which we meet a donkey, some crows, and Sonny Smith, who is not a folk singer

Best Playground

Julius Kahn Playground

In Memoriam

A dance for the dead

Creep Week

Seven nights of frightening films

Bean Scene

In which we tour the Jelly Belly factory and gag on the Harry Potter flavors

The Slime of Their Lives

At a messy party for the fetishists known as "sploshers," love is a many-splattered thing

It's Not the Cheese

Luzern

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Cocoa Nuts

At Alfred Schilling, there's no escape from chocolate

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995