SFist Culinary Digest

San Francisco gets the short shrift in the gossip department. Sure you have drama queen New York editors, LA producers and DC politicians. We have the celebrity chef racket.

When the two started working together a decade ago, Keller had no idea the heights to which Cunningham would take his operations. She was still raw from a group bloodletting at the hands of Jeremiah Tower, who had fired Cunningham and a handful of other managers from his Oakville Stars operation as his Northern California restaurant empire crumbled.

So much story untold there. Case in point: GraceAnn Walden dissects the latest Zagat ratings - too democratic? SFist is surprised more pizza and fried chicken doesn't make the top ten in San Francisco, truffle-adorned or otherwise. SFist is happy to see Californian olive oil coming up. Buy domestic, folks!

This week we actually feel kind of bad for Meredith Brody. She took English friends to a Cantonese restaurant, Daimo. Imagine if she'd chosen Hunan! Britian might leave the coalition of the willing. We would have reviewed Bonnie Wach's piece, but the link was broken as of the time of writing. Johnathan Kauffman comes home foraging and finds Bendean.

Dan Leone gets political, and the pizza suffers to the extreme. "No Zachary's or nothing" indeed. Paul Reidinger does Ola Fendert's Oola, if you know what we're saying. It's tough being world class.