SFist Culinary Digest

We know he gets a bad rap, but we love Martin Yan. It's so easy! Look at this! The Chron pays for a meal to get the interview, and it doesn't bother us one bit. GraceAnn Walden totally bites Doyle, leading with troubles at Michael Mina. Been reading SFist lately, GraceAnn? Also, enough caucasians have discovered pho (pha? phur? phuh?) to warrant an introduction by the Chron. SFist has been curing hangovers and colds with pho since high school.

Dan Leone has cabin fever and has cornmeal waffles at Rudy's Can't Fail Cafe. Paul Reidinger goes to a wine bar on the Haight and proclaims it non-yuppie. We miss Mascha Gutkin again.

Mmm. Meat pies. Nobody does it better than those under the southern cross. Jonathan Kaufman goes to New Zealand by way of Alameda. The Berkeley Bowl (where it's now okay to shop, thanks to unionization of the workforce) offers heirloom, er, heritage Turkeys for a sweet, sweet premium.

Bonnie Wach indulges in the latest craze - Hawaiian Food - which, surprise surprise, involves expensive amounts of raw tuna. And we can forgive Meredith Brody a lot of sins when she covers oyster bars - do we ever love us some bivalves! Had a half dozen tonight, in fact.