Jardinière, Hayes Valley's white-hot spot for perfect food and all-around exquisiteness, is having another one of their local guest bartender series tonight featuring Frommer’s Travel Guides editors. David Lytle (whose photos regularly appear on SFist) will be serving up the rye based The Rytle while newly relocated SF resident Stephen Bassman will mix the bourbon based Manhattan Transfer. Each Manhattans will sell for $9.00 with all proceeds going to Family Builders, a local organization that works to place foster children in permanent loving homes. (Proceeds going to a worthwhile cause? Hippies.) more ›

Critically acclaimed bon vivant Jay Barmann will be mixing drinks behind the bar at Jardiniere tomorrow, November 1 from 6-8pm. Join him, won't you? more ›

Pull up a stool to enjoy this week's cocktail, kids, from Jardinière's bar manager Brian MacGregor, and its name is a play on both the neighborhood the restaurant calls home, The Western Addition, and Ed Burns, creator of The Wire. From Brian: more ›

Beginning this Monday, Jardinière will be catering to the value-conscious consumer (who wants to splurge every now and then) with a weekly prix fixe menu, which features dishes from a different region of the world each Monday night. For $45, you get a top-notch, four-course meal and a wine pairing for each dish. The wine usually doubles the bill with such meals, so this is an offer we can't refuse, when the budget allows. more ›