Don’t expect authors slamming each other over the back with folding chairs on Oct. 17. Expect literary excellence with a little silliness.
Zuni Cafe and others take home accolades, but there’s a sour note, as 95-year-old vintner Mike Grgich won in spite of sexual-misconduct allegations.
Plus S.F. has three of the world’s 50 best bars but only five KFC/Taco Bells remaining, and the James Beard tour comes to town Nov. 4.
Black Cat
R.I.P. Restauranting is something like shipbuilding: New ventures are launched with considerable fanfare and then sent out to meet their fate, which, if unkind,…