misc Gastronomique: Savor for the Savvy Cook. The restaurants include Myth, thus the proud display there, but also Acquerello, the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, Farallon, the Fifth Floor, La Folie, etc. That is the crème de la crème, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Fishing on Craigslist Walk around the corner, and you'll be at Market and 14th. You'd imagine the hustle and bustle to propagate half a block away. But it's almost like the video rental place with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot on the Cookie Trail. Cookies are humankind's single greatest creation. Brain surgery, motorized vehicles, the world wide web - all are helpless against the restorative power of the cookie. Surgeons forget to tie off a vein, cars
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Tries the Shangri-La Diet It's not what you think, the food is quite good. Inka must serve domestic sodas, but there you can try some Inka Cola, the Peruvian equivalent of Coca-Cola. If you were a sommelier
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Verdi's Requiem A shiny light was squarely placed on Verdi's score: all the details came out brightly, all the nuances were expertly underlined. That delicate, masterfully controlled introduction only lead to more of the same
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: the Marriage of Figaro Now, we all know where we are going with this: the last Figaro on the SF Opera stage was Nathan Gunn, in the Barber, a role he'll take again this Fall. Nathan is
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Reads Hungry Planet They visit a struggling Sicilian family, who, when they do the accounting for the picture with a week's worth of food, is shocked to discover they spend more than $2,000 on cigarettes
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joan of Arc The ghost of former general director Pamela Rosenberg was hovering above when a man dressed in a gray business suit was the first to come on the stage. We feared for a second
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Joe Goode Performance Group. The music he wrote is actually the opposite of the work he conducted the night before: it is pretty minimalist, with very simple melodic lines, underscored with a few bass notes here and
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand. The 8th Symphony is a monumental work, involving the full orchestra, three choirs and eight soloists, plus the organ and a harmonium. The harmonium was off-stage, supposedly to tmper its sound a bit,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Interviews Marcia Gagliardi Marcia, could you describe in a few words what/who is the tablehopper? “The tablehopper” is an insider weekly e-column/newsletter about the SF dining scene, chock-full of gossip about what’s opening,
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
misc Philistine: To Catch a Free Butterfly Tomorrow, for the first opera of new director David Gockley's era, the SF Opera will experiment with a live broadcast of the performance playing inside the War Memorial Opera House, outside on the
Arts & Entertainment Philistine Believes in Life After Love We said "twin" but the Labeque sisters are not twins, they are two years apart. They just play up the confusion with paired outfits and make-up styles, with Katia's bustier in black and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Phoenix Ashes This is a tragedy, of course: the pasta store will move to a new location, at the corner of Strawberry Creek Park in Berkeley, but without the space for the restaurant, and with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: More Beard Awards Beard Papa does not serve twinkies, but their cream puffs are driving San Franciscans to insanity all the same. Oh, no one with vanilla cream on their lips has lunged at Chris Daly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Combing the Beard's Results. Our side of the country still hold its own in the award count. Running in the 100m dash of these Olympics, Thomas Keller won a gold medal for Outstanding Restaurant. That means the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Zuni West That's seven, right? There are definitely worse models to emulate, we surely will not complain. We had a dinner there the week after the restaurant opened, and had they stumbled, we would not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Le Rouge et le Noir. Why do we whine about Le Rouge et Noir? It is actually the color scheme of Ten, a place that performed the opposite trick than that thing we cannot call cheese: It got
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Al's Diner So Ame, the somewhat new restaurant in the Home of Al Gore, aka. the St Regis hotel, looks like a wet otter, with a see-through wooden partition with wavy patterns that they went
misc SFist Rants: Dear Mr. USPS Dear Mr. USPS: Last Saturday, we come home at the same time as the mail woman, so we take our mail right away out of the box, and there is a "sorry we
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Honi Soit Qui Mahler Pense. This week's performances will instead offer Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka, and both the ballet and the Mahler recordings are related to the program of the week past, which we attended on Friday. That symphony
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Bibendum to the Rescue. If obnoxious and smelly French people show up in your restaurant and make a scene, just accommodate them kindly. It might not be the Michelin reviewer, but it might be us all the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Shoe-Shines The Birkenstocks. The purpose of the organization is to "protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life," and we cannot agree more. However, in its fight against fast
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Shostakovich-Rostropovich --You'll Lovich. To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Dimitri Shostakovich's birth (1906-1975), the Symphony played an all-Shosty program with an all Russian guest list. The connection between Shostakovich and Rostropovich goes much deeper than just
