Results tagged “food”

Potrero Hill 9-to-5ers are in luck with this great new lunch place. Bento415, which offers cuisines from around the world packaged in cute, little bento boxes, will be making their official debut tomorrow morning. Breakfast bentos will be served, along with Blue Bottle Coffee, starting at 7:30 a.m. and lunch bentos will be served starting at 11:30 a.m. Both meals last until they run out.

FILM: Director Barry Jenkins joins SF Film Society Director Graham Leggat for a screening of Medicine for Melancholy and a conversation afterwards. M4M, which was shot in a mere three weeks and made its West Coast Premiere at the 2008 SF International Film Festival, is a "love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with issues of class, identity and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco - the city with the smallest proportional black population of any major American city."

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) sounded the alarm today, warning "consumers not to eat Santa Cruz County sport-harvested shellfish because the clams, mussels, scallops or oysters may be contaminated with domoic acid, a dangerous toxin that is harmful to people."

Now that autumn is in the air, the Mission is too clammy and cold, the Avenues are too foggy, and the Marina is too the Marina. So, why not spend your Thursday night in the lovely, twinkly, high-rise building-y downtown area. It simply crackles at night. And it's chic. And it has a good mix of San Francisco ilk. And there's no better venue than 111 Minna, who will be hosting some of the city's best gastronomic sweet treats.

We want to prompt our new "Earth to Alice" feature by saying this: we love Waters. We love her hat. We love Chez Panisse. We love Waters as a revolutionary icon. We love the way she uses the tines of a fork to carefully mince garlic so as not to bruise the oil. We love her breathy voice. We love her as one of the most important philosophers of our time. We just love her for being her. (Anthony Bourdain, we should point out, is not a philosopher. He is a Wally George-like on-air personality who cooks things.)

"Beretta bowls" by The Inadvertent Gardener.

Pulled from the Glen Park Parents Board mailing list, we came across this urgent plea for help. See, the recently opened Whole Foods is hurting small meat business Drewes Brothers Meats, located in Upper Noe Valley at 1706 Church. (If you don't know Drewes Brothers, you don't know meat; and if you don't know meat, may God have mercy on your soul.)

The Bay Area has a new daily food newsletter, one you need to know about. It's called Tasting Table. What's more, it's penned by the multi-talented Scott Hocker. (Before joining Tasting Table, Hocker was an editor and food scribe over at San Francisco Magazine.)

This is another NSFV (Not Safe for Vegans) post, so consider yourselves warned. SF Weekly food blogger Meredith Brody snapped the pic at right of a whole steer that spit roasted and then butchered before an audience at a event Saturday night celebrating a week of events at the museum focusing on Futurism. We, ourselves, are simultaneously grossed out and drooling over the photo and this write-up by Brody, which describes how the meat slices were sent onto a conveyor belt around the room, slathered in mole, and served atop Tartine bread along with a bunch of yummy cocktails.

Via W.L.: "Pleased with discovery of hole-in-the-wall serving home-made Korean food.

Quickly becoming the Fuzio of Asian cuisine, Osha Thai according to Eater, will set up shop in the old Bong Su space at Third and Folsom, replacing the greatest-named restaurant in San Francisco that closed earlier this year.

The benevolent folks at Mission Mission report that Taqueria Cancun is closed. Further reports indicate that the oddly popular taco joint is closed temporarily, due to a water pipe break. Fortunately, you can get the same slop at any number of other taquerias littering San Francisco's Mission district. Crisis averted! (via MM, Eater)

Soul Food Farm of Vacaville, who provide the Bay Area with delicious eggs and chickens via various locations and through their brand-spanking new CSA, encountered a devastating fire last month. One thousand baby chicks perished, 30+ acres were scorched, and an 1880s barn burned to the ground.

Although we find this season particularly listless -- for reasons we can't put our finger on, exactly -- Top Chef will return for another cycle of fast-paced cooking and egregious under-salting. And with that, Bravo will hold open casting calls for folks interested in competing in the foodie competition. Chefs in the Bay Area interested in trying out, listen up: season Top Chef auditions will happen on Sunday, October 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Parlor at 2801 Leavenworth.

Mission Mission has come across a jarring display of pure, unadulterated hate. The Mission's favorite place to eat tapas and swig sangria, Cha Cha Cha, is a mariachi-free zone. No! We love the colorful mariachi bands that come into taquerias to disturb us while we're eating our flautas. Why can't the same thing happen while we're eating our cajun shrimp and warm spinach salad?

by Amy Crocker

There seem to be some great happy hours going on tonight, so we figured we'd make it a theme!

Although the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program is being served up a Balboa High, San Francisco public schools still serve junk to kids. It's a big problem. Of what little money goes to free "school nutrition" at SF public schools, a slight $2.68 per meal, only $1 goes to the actual food itself.

Via C.W.: "yay! coupon day at rainbow grocery! hope to run into some friendly faces at checkout..."

Today's "Ask SFist" comes from the writer of this post. It's our second wedding anniversary next week, and we're on a budget. We always dine at home, usually only splurging on sushi, but we'd like to step out of our comfort zone for this special occasion.

Park Merced presents the 2nd annual SF Weekly DISH, a night of food, drink, and music, featuring bites and cocktails from 30 restaurants and tastings from 10 wineries. Partial proceeds will benefit the One World Children's Fund, which supports community-based organizations around the world that serve vulnerable children and their caregivers. Tickets are $20, buy now.

LIT: New York Times food critic Frank Bruni celebrates the release of his new memoir, Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, in which he talks about his rise from a baby bulimic to one of the most influential writers in the food world.

The fine folks at Vegansaurus are dripping with glee after finding the best burger in San Francisco. And best or worst of all, it's vegan. "[T]his is the best burger I have ever had, of any kind. SRSLY," squeals Vegansaurus' Megan Allison.

This quote has been making the rounds this week. So, of course, we feel the need to bring it to your attention. Nate Appleman -- A16 chef, James Beard Award winner, San Francisco expat, budding mini-Bourdain -- slammed San Franciscans with the following quote in the New York Times. Ahem:

Now that mainstream media has sunk its dentures in the seemingly fascinating world of social media -- which means they now have the editorial filter of The View's Sherri Shepherd -- they can't get enough of it. Today, CNN reports on Foursquare and EveryBlock, mentioning San Francisco hot dog retailer Showdogs. What CNN had to say about e-new media 3.0 is not important. What is important is that Showdogs is handing out free 8oz beer today to customers who bark at the cashier. [via Eater]

What is wrong with people? Some sick individual put aspirin in baby food jars in San Jose in early August. According to CBS 5/BCN, San Jose police alerted residents about "a man who has admitted to crushing up Aspirin tablets and putting them in baby food at two local stores." David Conklin, 29, "told officers that about two weeks ago he crushed between seven and eight tablets of Aspirin and put them in a jar of oatmeal apple flavored Gerber baby food in the Longs Drugs store near Leigh Avenue and Stokes Street." Conklin also told officers that he did a similar thing to baby food. "Conklin told investigators it was a Walgreens store that was near a Target store and several Hispanic markets." If you've have any baby food jars that look tampered with or look suspicious, please call the police immediately.

ART: Meet local artists as they create original artwork available for purchase at $5 to $50 at Make My Monday. Enjoy the waterfront views and cocktails at the no-host bar (RSVP at mmm@fortmason.org to hold your place), snack on Chaac-Mool $2 tacos and hot Golden Waffles, and relax on the Rebar Group's bushwaffle and Parkcycle.

Please meet one of San Francisco's dearest treasures, the Sweet Cart lady. She sells cheesecakes, cupcakes, and other assorted titular treats.

Oakland's Eat Real Festival, which was founded last year, is a sister event to the San Francisco Street Food Festival and sounds like a much better run event than the SF-based debacle trial run was. Get Real also benefits La Cocina, and there's no entry fee.

MUSIC: Smile! presents an eclectic mix of bands tonight at the Knockout with gothic/dark Chelsea Wolfe, pop/folk Helene Renaut, singer/songwriter J. Irvin Dally, and folk rock/shoegaze Upstairs Downstairs.