Slow Food Nation and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission) will co-present a special edition of OPENrestaurant (roving food gatherings hosted by Chez Panisse staffers) on Tuesday, January 6 at 7 p.m. The focus will be on ways the Bay Area can maximize our natural resources for growing food, or, as they posit, "How do we make the urban landscape more productive?" This discussion, led by farmers from local spots such as Alemany Farm and Ascend Garden, is both free and open to the public, b
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Eat, pay, and get out: Hot Food Porn gets all reflective about the kind of restaurant a chef who refused to compromise would open. No distracting bar scene and extra layers of service -- it's a matter of getting potentially douche-y staff the hell out so a chef can focus on cooking, then getting dishes to diners without making them cycle through extraneous hands. What would such a place look like? Hint: Check out HFP's pic homage to Dennis Le
