SFist Culinary Digest
We'd like to take the time to thank everyone who bothered to read the Culinary Digest. But it's time has come -- we're retiring the digest while there's still some money left in Social Security. We're also tired of thinking up new and interesting ways of making fun of Meredith Brody, the fact that the Food section of the Chronicle is the best part of the paper depresses us and we think you've gotten the idea that we think Dan Leone and Jonathan Kauffman are doing good work. It's not like we won't still read all of them, each and every Wednesday. Instead, look for more original foodie content in the coming year. Feel free to snark on us, Meredith!
One last hurrah after the jump.
Dan Leone doesn't do a lot of restaurant reviewing this week, instead musing on the business models of One World Cafe in Salt Lake City (?) which offers a pay-what-you-will menu. On he way home he drop's by Santa Nella's Pea Soup Andersen's, which offers a bottomless bowl of, you guessed it, pea soup. We'll try to remember it next time we're anywhere near Salt Lake City or Santa Nella. Paul Reidinger goes curry in the Haight at Rotee. What he didn't answer was, "How's the Roti?" Just askin'.
Jonathan Kauffman muses on the soda fountain, and offers up two to be found on the other side of the bridge -- Ozzie's Soda Fountain and the Medicine Chest. We didn't realize that loving soda fountains was a white thing. In fact, we remember Malcolm X was a soda jerk in Boston. We think anyone would like a hand-mixed coca-cola, especially with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. He also reassures us that reheating leftovers in plastic will not make us look like Viktor Yuschenko. The word's still out on letting an eastern Ukrainian secret agent reheat your leftovers. Oh, and Meredith Brody went to Berkeley's O Chamé.
El Chron es en fuego - no, not with Olivia Wu's article on Flambé, but with Janet Fletcher's bit about posole. We're grabbing some hominy and dried anchos on our way out of town for our New Year's Day medicine. Along with pho and alka-seltzer, only posole actually works to cure the common hangover. Between that and Linda Furiya's donburi, we'd never miss a day at work. Amanda Berne reviews Jack Falstaff, the new venue from the Gavster's old buddies in the biz.