Subject: Wylie Dufresne

• Top Chefs Tell Not Quite All

  August 26, 2008

• Vittles du Video

  Throughout my television-viewing life there have been certain programs that I've obsessed over, planned my schedule around, discussed with my fellow zealots over water cooler and barstool and, in short, made a point to watch without fail, but nowadays there's only one show I can't live without, Top Chef, a reality show on Bravo. On Top Chef, a dozen or so line cooks, restaurant owners, caterers and cuisiniers from across the country gather in some food-obsessed metropolis (San Francisco, New Yor

  February 11, 2009

• Orson Not Well

  Ambitious, edgy California cuisine flirts with the future in uneven fashion.

  July 23, 2008

• Seconds, Please!

  Small plates of complex ambition at a new restaurant and bar in the Tenderloin

  August 23, 2006

• Sine Coi Non

  July 26, 2006

• Rockin' Flavors

  August 17, 2005

• Falling in Love, Slowly

  June 23, 2004

• Pig Heaven

  Some costly meals during an East Coast trip remind us that good things often come in inexpensive packages

  February 18, 2004

• S.F. Chef Falkner Takes on 'Top Chef Masters' with Boar, Beef Jerky, and Extra-Credit Cookies

  S.F.'s own Elizabeth Falkner (pictured, second from left, with Wylie Dufresne, Graham Elliot Bowles, and Suzanne Tracht) competed in last night's episode of Bravo's Top Chef Masters. And while she didn't win (that honor went to Tracht), the Orson/Citizen Cake maven's dishes were certainly memorable.The episode's first Quickfire Challenge, taken from an early season of Top Chef, had the chefs hitting up vending machines to find ingredients to make an amuse-bouche. Falkner's creation: Braised

  June 18, 2009