Chris Cosentino's Incanto in Noe Valley played host to something resembling a foie gras summit meeting on Tuesday. As EaterSF reports, a "who's who" of San Francisco chefs, representatives from local foie gras makers and general goose liver supporters met at Incanto to discuss the impending ban on foie gras in the state of California. Eater has a nice recap of yesterday's meeting, but here are some highlights from the front lines of the foie gras resistance: more ›

Let's start with "The Next Iron Chef." For the challenge ("Resourcefulness") the chefs were broken into teams by last week's winner Chris Cosentino, of local restaurant Incanto, and the teams then selected secret ingredients for their teammates. The challenge wasn't a team challenge, though, so there was much crying of "sabotage" when the chefs got to their outdoor, charcoal grill-equipped location and saw their ingredients. more ›

We can't think of a better way to spend a birthday (our husband's) than eating an entire animal with seventeen fellow carnivores at Incanto Restaurant's private room, in Noe Valley. This is a bit of Laura Ingalls Wilder in the City, for sure. Not only are the food and wine superb at Incanto, it's where we ate offal (Prather Ranch veal testicles, anyone?) with Culinary Bad Boy Anthony Bourdain earlier this year. more ›

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