If you wanted to know the latest gossip in the SF restaurant scene, you wouldn't come here. Not yet: we are convinced we will start receiving FAT JUICY TIPS --just any second now-- about which new place is about to open, and which chefs are about to switch kitchens. No, you would go check out the Inside Scoop. So we were disappointed to see that GraceAnn Walden, who penned the column for fourteen years, had moved on to other endeavours. GraceAnn always had her ear to the ground, scooping hot tips after hot tips, and dishing them fresh from the oven to you.

Since food reviewer Amanda Berne is taking over the column, does this mean that Amanda's reviewing gig is up for grabs? Personal to M. Bauer, food editor: us, Michael, us, us, us! We absolutely won't mind having our food expensed, and we have all these cool disguises from the village people garage sale to go totally anonymous. Just between us, cowboy, we're very frisky too.