Meredith Brody takes a couple of reader tips (oh boy, there are sure a few tips we'd like to give her), highlighting two relatively new but little known sushi joints, Oz and Amasia Hide's Sushi Bar. Both sound pretty good, but we'd still rather spend our money on the kaiseki omikase at Minako any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Bonnie Wach waxes poetic over the Park Chalet, although a little EssEff......

Dan Leone hits us right in the gut with Giordano Bros. -- we're not familiar with the Pittsburgh all-in-one like they serve at Primanti Brothers. We'd have to defer to Mr. Kavanagh on that one. But the idea of stuffing the french fries into the sandwich appeals to us on so many levels that Giordano Bros. seems an inevitability, especially if they stayed open just a little later. The other Guardian foodie, Paul Reidinger, hits......

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Herb Caen, SFist's idol and mentor, called us (in a play on President Taft's quote) "The City that Knows Chow." And how. In San Francisco most of the food press arrives on SFist's doorstep on Wednesday. The Chron, The Weekly, The Bay Guardian - first, second and third helpings of food in print. Why do we obsess? I'm not sure. But the eats around here are the best....