SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Deep Dish Dissent. That would be Patxi's, a Palo Alto institution which just bore an off-spring in the city. Patxi's, like Little Star before, is filling a big void in the SF culinary landscape: the equivalent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Would You Like Some Cicciolina With That Wine? An advance edition due to the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We cannot find a link to it, so take it with a grain of salt, but we read recently that,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Tamed Madness Bernard Loiseau was a sad casualty of a similar debate: this French chef committed suicide, alledgedly because the Michelin was going to take his third star away (on a scale of three). His
SF News Your Commute: Train Meets Truck. Lying brochure: it went through with a big noise and a big thump at the impact which sent a sharp jolt through our herniated back. Then a cloud of sawdust, due to hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Fidelio Photos by Terrence McCarthy/SF Opera. Above, from left to right, Christine Brewer, Greta Feeney and Arthur Woodley
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Meta Food Post We are living vicariously this week, but those who do get to eat belong to four different media, in some kind of meta-food marathon. On the menu: a newspaper article, a magazine, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Battle Thai Part II A short PSA: yesterday we (aka. SFist Sam) investigated the food of Provence. Since no one has done more for the PR of the Provence area than Peter Mayle -- except maybe for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Forza La Forza del Destino, the latest production of the SF Opera, opened yesterday in a wonderful new production. The Opera completely reinvented this classic, and came up with a fresh and polemic take
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Battle Thai Part I There are two categories of Thai restaurants, nowadays: the lounge-y kind, with black clad petite waiters and waitresses, ambient music with a techno beat, sleek furniture. The traditional kind, also known as kitschy,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Norma Norma is the ultimate bel canto opera, this beautiful singing style which places the emphasis on the lyricism and vocal agility of the singer. It is also an extremely powerful story, and yesterday's
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Interviews Julie Powell Julie Powell first got her fifteen minutes of fame as the author of the Julie/Julia Project. She decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over
Arts & Entertainment Ray Brown Tribute: Happy Bass Day. Yesterday's early show was particularly moving, as Ray's widow Cecilia was in the audience and went up on stage while the band was singing "Happy Birthday." Ray Brown's picture on the side wall
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Jay to Zed. Blue Jay is a little brother to Emmy's in many ways: It is in an upcoming location, at the fringes of some difficult neighborhood; it serves nicely priced tasty food; it makes up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Interviews Nina Zagat The Zagat 2006 is out, and it's the 20th anniversary of the SF edition. So we got to hang out with Nina in her suite at the Four Seasons. She did not wear
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Dr. Atomic The opera focuses on the last days leading to the explosion of the first atomic test bomb, in June and July 1945. It is centered about J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientific director
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: What's that Almodovar Movie Again? Let's take a look behind the scenes at the Gastronomique production studio. The question that we get all the time (email us your questions, comments, or suggestions here, btw, we want your input)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Miscellaneous Awards also went to Julie Kaufmann, of the Merc, for best food section, and to the Chron’s Miriam Morgan, Linda Murphy, Carol Ness, Michael Bauer, Craig Lee for best food section, best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: The Italian Girl in Algiers. The San Francisco Opera opened its season last Saturday and picked up right where it left off last time we visited. , just like Cosi fan Tutti, is another joyful and energetic opera, another
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: the Buns on GQ's Cover She kindly pre-digested the list for us, so we don’t have to actually purchase GQ and the NYTimes to hide Jessica's skin in the fold. Here it is:... Picture above courtesy of
Arts & Entertainment Fall Classical Music Preview Tomorrow, the symphony kicks it off with a gala, celebrating three anniversaries: Michael Tilson Thomas's, aka MTT, 10th anniversary at the baton, Shostakovich's 100th birthday next year, and the 25th anniversary for Davies
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: the Richmond's Rich Richmond. Two food blogs, Life begins at 30 and Locavores have been organizing the Eat Local Challenge, an effort to support local producers and encourage awareness of what is on our plates, by eating
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Where We Got Crabs. Kepiting hitam manis means: fried Dungeness crab served with the house special black pepper sauce. We had chosen it on our first visit, as we saw it handwritten on the special board. We
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: You Can Ride Our Tail Any Time Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: New Mission Round-Up Today's places, below the jump, are Pizzeria Delfina, The Window, Baku de Thai, Big Lantern and Crazy Sushi, all of them between Duboce and 18th and Mission and Dolores.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Soup in the 'Fly It is no wonder that, when stealing the word amuse-bouche from the vocabulary of French cuisine, Americans commonly take only the first part, and unceremoniously dump its trailer. The First Amendment covers the
