Seeing what's new at CHOW offered us a chance to eat Bruce Hill's food, while finding out what’s new in the CHOW/CNet/Chowhound world. The menu included: Tomales Bay oysters, Serrano ham Manchego finger sandwiches, steak tartare on olive toasts (a Bix famous classic), Dungeness crab rolls with Meyer lemon mayo, and potato pillows with crème fraîche and American sturgeon caviar. Firecracker shrimp with smoky chili aioli was reported to be the most popular item. This further supports the notion that "shrimp is the ultimate crowd pleaser bar none,” (a quote from CHOW’s Meredith Arthur, who does Editorial Development) posited in CHOW magazine’s Killer Apps feature. We also loved the moist mini-burgers. They were like buttah!

SFist Mary contributing