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James Beard Awards Announce Semifinalists: Bay Area's Well Represented, Obviously

​The day has come for the James Beard Foundation to announce the semifinalists for the 2012 Restaurant Awards. As SFoodie has written before, the finals can resemble the Oscars in that they're often career awards rather than a measure of how the nominees are performing at this very moment. Tha ... More >>

Ubuntu's Aaron London: Cooking Like Meat Doesn't Matter

UbuntuJames Beard Rising Star Chef finalist Aaron London.​When Ubuntu opened in 2007, there was great fanfare across the land. Jeremy Fox was the undisputed king of vegetables, and the restaurant topped pretty much every Best Of list. Critics (literally?) crapped their pants over its amazingne ... More >>

Monroe Races to Open, Laura Cunningham's Vita Is Dead

​ ​The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. Eater SF on the construction of a new lounge and private-event space in North Beach called Monroe (473 Broadway). The pitch: cocktails, minimal food, and horse porn. Okay, soft porn. Okay, j ... More >>

At Spoonbar in Healdsburg, Scott Beattie Riffs on Classic Warm-Weather Cocktails

Lou BustamanteAt Spoonbar, ex-Cyrus barman Scott Beattie has a simpler, more refined focus on classic cocktails.​On a recent fog-soaked day in the city, the promise of sunshine lured us north to the warmth of Healdsburg, Yountville's counterpart as a showcase of Sonoma County's best food and d ... More >>

Jon's Street Eats Seeks Investors for Oakland Restaurant

Tamara PalmerJon Kosorek wants to put down roots.​Jon Kosorek launched Jon's Street Eats last summer, hoping to get enough exposure with the food cart that he could eventually find investors for a restaurant. Now that he has a few Oakland brick-and-mortar spots in mind, and one in particular t ... More >>

James Beard Semifinalists Announced

​The semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Restaurant Awards were announced today, and not surprisingly, the Bay Area has shown well. Also not surprising are many of the people on the list. Of the 35 Bay Area semifinalists named, 14 are repeats from the semifinals last year (marked with an asteri ... More >>

Thomas Keller (and His Latest Food Porn) Will Turn Pages at Omnivore This Weekend

​We only allow ourselves occasional and furtive peeks at the hefty new Thomas Keller bestseller Ad Hoc at Home because it is the very definition of food porn.The book is being marketed as Keller's most accessible. This is corroborated by reading the family-style recipes inspired by his Yountville ... More >>

Don’t Be Chicken

Fish & Farm's Chad Newton: The SFoodie Interview

C. NewtonChad Newton: Wants Gordon to keep yelling.​Growing up in Mountain View, Chad Newton got a taste of restaurant glory via family trips to Stars, Jeremiah Tower's watershed Cali brasserie. "I used to always gravitate toward the regular menu, not the kid's menu," Newton said. He graduated ... More >>

Street Food in the Napa Valley? Whatever

FTPoed/FlickrThe view from the Brix patio: Watch out for street urchins.​Jumping the shark. Sooner or later, everything has to, whether it's the Brady's in Hawaii, Blossom in Paris, or that Kara chick on American Idol. As for local street food, it may have glimpsed its shark today, with the a ... More >>

Hubert Keller Wins First Top Chef Masters Episode with Dorm-Room Mac and Cheese

On last night's premiere of Top Chef Masters, Hubert Keller, executive chef/owner of Fleur de Lys (777 Sutter at Taylor) charmed a gaggle of Girl Scouts and a mess of college students and whipped up the winning meal: Cold Scottish salmon, hardy carrot and petit pea soup with cinnamon croutons, and ... More >>

Virginity Lost at Gary Danko

The Cost of Doing Business in SF Helped Doom Jeanty at Jack's, Says Chef Philippe Jeanty

SF institution Jeanty at Jack's closed Friday nightChef Phillippe Jeanty blamed the cost of doing business in San Francisco for Friday's closure of Jeanty at Jack's, one of the city's oldest restaurants. The announcement that the Sacramento Street restaurant would cease operating came late Friday af ... More >>

Early Bird Special: Gary Danko

It had to happen -- SF Weekly food critic lost her virginity, and to a hunk of foie gras, no less. Brody experiences her gastro rite de passage at überluxe Gary Danko, which opened in 1999 and still has a way with a cheese cart. And in case you think a place not accustomed to skimping on the lobste ... More >>

Upcoming Great American Food and Music Fest Features Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri, Marshall Crenshaw, Little Feat, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy -- and an Astounding Array of Eats

There'll be plenty for both foodies and music lovers to enjoy at the Great American Food and Music Fest, a one-day event running from noon to 10 p.m. on June 13 at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in Mountain View.Chef and Food Network star Bobby Flay is the host, and will demonstrate his famed grilling te ... More >>

The Chronicle's 2009 Top 100: Who's Out, Who's In

To be continued ...

Road Trip: Up to Napa and Back Again, High and Low

Fellow SFoodie blogger Tamara Palmer and I were headed up to the Culinary Institute of America's Napa Valley campus in St. Helena, aka Greystone, to attend a seminar on Japanese food.But the fertile springtime valley held a number of other temptations, and we were determined to sample as many as tim ... More >>

James Beard Award Nominations Announced

Bay Area Takes All Five Nominations for Best Chef in Pacific Region; Boulevard and A 16's Nate Appleman Among Locals Competing For Top PrizesThe prestigious James Beard Awards, given by the James Beard Foundation and often referred to as the Oscars of the restaurant and food media industries, announ ... More >>

Specialist Referrals

Everybody orders the same particular thing at these Korean finds — for a reason.

French Laundry Tops Michelin Guide: What Do Tires Have To Do With It?

French Laundry Tops Michelin Guide: What Do Tires Have To Do With It?

SFoodie: Cream of Cauliflower with Fried Oysters and Chervil

SFoodie: Cream of Cauliflower with Fried Oysters and Chervil

Aix Marks the Spot

Really good eating at a friendly neighborhood bistro

Museum of Food

Bringing the galleries of Copia alive, French-style

Belle Époque

Jeanty at Jack's

Esprit de Corps

Hotel Biron is a little bit of Paris in San Francisco

Fighting Nuns

Oh, brother -- sisters invade the W Hotel

A Temple to High Living

Elisabeth Daniel

Standard Order

LiveFire

Here's the Beef

Balboa Cafe; Bill's Place; Burger Joint; Mo's Grill; Original Joe's; Pier 23 Cafe; Polkers Gourmet Burgers

Side Dish

Danko Schön, Pho Free, Hot Seat, Smoke 'Em If Ya Got 'Em, Out of the Hole

Side Dish

Party.com, Rim Style, Arriba!, Peel Me a Grape, Royal Flush (Continued)

Side Dish

Moondance, Frankly, My Dear ..., Book 'Em, Clever Waiter Tricks, Bells and Whistles, Comings and Goings, and Going Public

Dish

One for the Road

Buckeye Roadhouse keeps its customers satisfied with updated twists on American fare