SFist Culinary Digest

Meredith Brody takes a couple of reader tips (oh boy, there are sure a few tips we'd like to give her), highlighting two relatively new but little known sushi joints, Oz and Amasia Hide's Sushi Bar. Both sound pretty good, but we'd still rather spend our money on the kaiseki omikase at Minako any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Bonnie Wach waxes poetic over the Park Chalet, although a little EssEff insecurity peaks through when she laments that Golden Gate Park has had no great eatery until now. Still, her review is a little more appropriate to her oeuvre than Dan Leone's a while back (and the Reuben does sound really good). Jonathan Kauffman lets us know to stick with the basics at Oakland friterie Luka's Taproom -- mussels, fries and beer. Sounds good. His Gingerbread Housing Bubble piece is Onion-esque -- download the PDF if you can't get your hands on the paper.

Dan Leone leaves San Francisco and finds a nice taqueria in San Leandro suggested by a reader in San Diego, Los Pericos. For the record, Dan, Jamaica is named by Mexicans after the famous sorrel tea from, you guessed it, Jamaica. Paul Reidinger runs into Dennis Leary -- not the annoying stand-up comic, but the the former chef at Rubicon. He's now the main man at the Commodore Hotel's restaurant space, which he's taken to naming Canteen and specializing in breakfast and lunch. Watch the space for improved decor and an expanded dinner service, Paul says.

The Chron is all about olives and nuts, nuts and olives. Hey, it's probably what Jebus enjoyed with his birthday wine. Amanda Berne visits A la Turka, which we were a bit disappointed with. Tara Duggan points out that celeriac is at it's peak, and Thy Tran at the cooking school delivers the basics on the noble swine. We're waiting for the Oliveto cookbook before we go by a prime cut or two and make some sweet, sweet cured meat.