Twenty five restaurant visits and over a year after we first began eating our way around San Francisco in alphabetical order on a bi-weekly basis, we have reached the end of the road. One of the most popular questions from friends who know what we have been up to has been "Where are you going to go for Zed?" For the longest time we weren't quite sure of the answer. Inspiration finally came from......

Y is for Yuppy Marina which is where four girlfriends travelled to check out a fairly new sushi bar that we had read good things about . Yuzu is a modern, minimalist and sleek venue with grey slate floors and a lofty ceiling that gives the place the aura of museum cafe. On the night we visited, Yuzu was noticeably understaffed, but the apologies and sincerity of our servers made up for any slowness......

Sometimes we discuss the possibility of spending a night in the W hotel. It's no more than 2 miles from our house but the allure of their perfectly comfortable beds beckons to us from memories of happy nights we slept at the Ws in Seattle and San Diego. We fondly recall how Zoë at the W in New Orleans saved us many times from the dreadful food at the conference centre opposite, a fact which......

You may have noticed that our alphabetic journey around the restaurants of San Francisco has missed out the letter V. The closest we came to V last week was with Victory V throat lozenges and Vick's Vapour Rub. That's our excuse, during the season of snuffles and sickness, for skipping forward straight to the letter W and a place that sounds as if it will cure all ills, The Warming Hut.......

Today it's Just for U. Or rather, Just for You. Or more precisely, Mabel's Just For You Cafe, and to be quite honest, we'd rather it was Mabel's Just for Me Cafe, so we'd always be guaranteed a spot at this busy, off-the beaten track little cafe nestled in Dog Patch at the bottom of Potrero Hill. But we must confess, on Sundays when we are at our most laziest, we can only just manage......

A Trip to Tahoe and Back Tis the season to be snowboarding and skiing. And for San Franciscans, that means road trips to Tahoe a plenty. For us the big question always is where to eat? You may well accuse us of thinking too much of our bellies, but believe us, after all that energy expended on the slopes, we always feel like we deserve a hearty meal. We thought we'd share a few of......

We decided to cheat a little for the letter S. Instead of choosing a restaurant name, we settled on an entire cuisine - from S is for South of India. By the end of the meal, at popular new spot, Dosa, we realised that the initial of the day would more aptly describe S is for "Secret" recipes. The menu is apparently full of them. We detected a wave of excitement fluttering through San......

#1 The orgasmic burnt caramel pot de creme at Zuni Cafe. Blindfold me and feed me this scrumptious dessert. I didn't actually say it's better than sex. But it's close. Nine other examples of deliciousness from the year 2005 after the jump.........

In which SFist eats its way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. This week, on our travels, we are are coming up roses as we share two favourite eating spots we return to again and again. Rosamunde's Sausage Grill and Rose's Cafe could not be more different but we love them both, just about equally. If we tell you we are Gemini, that should go some way to explaining our split personality when......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order... Do you know how many eating establishments there are in San Francisco that begin with the letter Q? The answer is not many. You could probably count them all on three fingers. Our first thought, and choice, was to try out the renowned Michael Tusk-owned restaurant, Quince, in Pacific Heights. Rumour has it he offers a wonderful chef's table and as......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order... A short while ago we read the scoop, on SFist, about a new French restaurant on the scene. If you live in the area around Guerrero and 22nd, you might be thankful for the opening, a few months ago, of a friendly little French bistro calling itself La Provence. Whilst the neighbourhood itself might not conjure up images of neat little lavender......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order Somewhere deep in the Tenderloin you can find a secretive wooden door, sometimes marked by 'Daddi-Dee' waiting to see if you'll bum him a cigarette or slide him a note. The journey through the less than calm streets to 743 Larkin is certainly worth making because once you step over the threshold from sidewalk to Olive, you'll find a charming little bar......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Because they have free Wi-Fi connection, we could have written this review live from Nook, in the heart of Russian Hill. But, despite our internet addiction, we prefer to travel with a simple moleskin notebook (no lines). Nook is a quirky little cafe identified by rosy splashes of colour and warm red and dark woods that brightly fill the space previously......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Mmmmmm! One letter repeated many times that describes a state of deliciousness. Hence, we had high hopes for the letter M. There are so many Bay Area eateries beginning with the alphabet's middle letter, which one would we choose? A return trip to sumptuous Supper Club Mecca lacked the lustre and glamour of previous visits. It seemed overly expensive, the food......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. You know how it is - sometimes you hear so much buzz about a restaurant, you are not quite sure why you still haven't tried it. The more good things that are written, and whispered, about it, the more you wonder how much of it is hype and how much of the adoration is truly deserved. In the back of your......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Try and think of somewhere, in the heart of San Francisco, that you can dine on South Indian specialities like Dosa and Uttapam. Not such an easy question, is it? Ok, just to make it a little less difficult, we'll limit the boundaries of the question even further. Name a place in San Francisco where you can drink draft beer from......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Sfist has a little crush on James Ormsby. No less than three times in seven months, we have been drawn back to his swanky Gavin-endorsed restaurant in SoMa, Jack Falstaff. We are not even quite sure what the allure of Jack Falstaff is. We'll call it the 'James Ormsby Je ne sais quoi factor'. The attraction is certainly not the look......

In which SFist eats its way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. SFist can't even begin to recall the number of times it has aimlessly wandered past the Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco's Ferry Building Market Place and wondered why it appears to be less populated than its thriving surrounds. It always looks so peaceful and calm. It resembles a haven in a pop video where everything important luxuriates in sensuous slow motion......

In which SFist eats its way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order First of all we thought it would be really, really funny to review Hooters for our restaurant beginning with an H. The idea amused our friends, male acquaintances started heckling for an invitation and we quietly congratulated ourselves on the brilliance of our own imagination. But when we checked the Hooters web page for directions and stumbled across a photographic depiction of......

SFist interviews Sam Breach...

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. We admit we are a bit of a loss to describe the ethos behind Cafe Gratitude. We are told that Matthew Engelhart is a millionaire who started training in the being of abundance in 1984. Yes - he is the kind of guy who made his fortune selling workshops. Twenty years down the line Matthew, who apparently keeps his attention on......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Have you heard any buzz about Flytrap? It is hardly a new restaurant, having been around, in one location or another, since 1898. We first discovered it when we lived just a couple of blocks away. The very first time we visited we were the only two in the restaurant, for the entire evening, and we thought we'd stumbled across a......

In which SFist eats our way around the Bay Area in alphabetical order. Emmy's Spaghetti Shack, in Bernal Heights is somewhere we've wanted to try for a while. So when the time came to review a restaurant beginning with E, it seemed like the perfect excuse to head over towards the nether end of Mission Street. A work colleague who takes a kindly interest in our obsession with food wrinkled up his nose, when......