For your viewing... pleasure? Here's a photo of President Barack Obama, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Steve Jobs, among other luminaries, having dinner on Thursday night. And, best of all, they're drinking white wine. more ›

As SFist reported yesterday, Barack Obama will hold dinner party tonight featuring a bevy of privileged dorks from Silicon Valley, who will chitchat about "[p]romoting American innovation, and [a] commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy." Zzzz. more ›

Not just reserved for drunken cyclists at Zeitgeist, tamales are a savory and sweet holiday treat during the holiday season for many South and Central American countries. So, in lieu of making the traditional crown roast or figgy pudding come Christ's birthday, order some tasty tamales from Mijita instead. more ›

Former SFist writer Mary Ladd just wrote this wildly helpful article about taking your little blessings to restaurants. Her thorough recommendations? Pick a noisy place, take the monster(s) outside if they act up, keep them busy, and never forget dessert. Read all about it at the Mercury News. (As for bringing babies to bars, do it. Do it often; do it soon. It's loads of fun. Best of all, the crumpled look on the faces of your PBR-swilling hipster patrons -- mere years away from spawning themselves, unbeknown to them -- is priceless.) more ›

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Restaurants are shuttering like mad these days. Because people are poorer. But it's your job, hungry/employed consumers, to keep San Francisco's top-tier food reputation going strong. So, why not check out some of SF's esteemed eateries on a rare Monday night out on the town, via SFist's new Monday food feature? more ›

For those of you with a decent chunk of change and a basting phobia, CHOW has compiled their list of top SF restaurants in which to celebrate Thanksgiving. Their top choice, Ducca, has an "Italian take on the holiday" featuring a "three-course meal, which includes turkey involtino and caramelized Brussels sprouts." A few other places of note are AME Restaurant ("lots of fresh fish from the sashimi bar"), Luce - InterContinental San Francisco Hotel (lobster with butternut squash and chestnuts with vin jaune), and the reasonably-priced Home ("serving a basic three-course prix fixe menu, with choice of turkey, ham, or veggie entree, and pumpkin pie, pecan pie, or sorbet for dessert.) Do you know of a decent Thanksgiving dinner with an appropriately pasty-textured menu? Let readers know about it in the comments. more ›

Everyone's had to do the dreaded parent intro dinner at one point or another and The Gate's Michael Bauer put up his list of suggestions of where to go. On Mike's list, we've got Cafe Majestic, Rubicon and Perbacco among others. Personally, we liked the suggestions of commenters more: Cassis, Zuni Cafe (pictured at left) and Rivoli for East Bay'ers. more ›