misc SFist Rants: Running in the dark. We want first to congratulate the 15,000 runners who took part in the SF marathon this past Sunday: you are amazing. Congratulations to all of you. But who is the dunderhead who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Happiness is a warm broth. We must mention that, post-blues, we found comfort in the best spanakopita, a Greek phyllo dough square stuffed with spinach. We saw it displayed in the window at Dino's, and it was so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Living to the Fullest Live food was all the rage two years ago. Everybody was oooh and aaah-ing at Roxanne, a haute cuisine place which did not cook its food. Everybody who could afford it, as the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Owen Linderholm The bloggers are: Stephanie Lucianovic, The Grub Report, of San Francisco, Guy Prince (aka Dr Biggles, featured in a Chron article with SFist Sam), Meathenge, from Albany, Ellen Ferlazzo, Chronicles of a Curious
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Mangeurs d'ail, et fiers de l'être. Bouchon is Keller's other restaurant, the French bistro sidekick to his French Laundry's and his Per Se's haute cuisine. The French Laundry, in Yountville in Napa, is arguably the best restaurant in the
Arts & Entertainment Which Bastille to storm? Anyhow, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate: Parisist has opened for business this week, and in all likelyhood, Lance Armstrong will finish today's Tour de France stage in yellow. Vive la France.
SF News Bienvenue, petite sœur En France, on est toujours en retard d'une vague. Les nouvelles idées nous arrivent, certes, mais sans se presser. Il n'y a pas le feu au lac. Tenez, par exemple, les internets. Il
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Inventory à la Prevert Goat Hill pizza for all-you-can-eat Monday nights after the jump.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte It only turned out that this production of Cosi had been set into a hotel on the Riviera at the onset of WWI, instead of the traditional foothills of the Vesuvio. The change
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: It must be Siegfried, because it's not Roy. Trader Joe's has become a weekend ritual for us. We really can't admit this without shame. Weekends used to be times to climb mountains or party endlessly. Now, we must wake up early
misc SFist Raves: Stern Grove We are so getting ready, we are packing our icebox with cold cuts, pasta salads and a few bottles of chardonnay. We do not enjoy carrying the cooler on muni, even though the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: My Fair Lady Sushi Zone is a few steps up from the corner of Market and Octavia. Right now, the construction area on the east side of market, not yet connected to the new freeway off-ramp,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: C'est quoi, Koi? Ooops, maybe the Outback people did not know that the week-end dim sum crowds park in their lot. Maybe they look back and forth at the dining room and the lot and think,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Sous le Soleil Exactement Café du Soleil opened last week in the space formerly occupied by Movida. For the neighborhood, it seems like a win-win situation: le Soleil still serves the wine-and-beer under the same license as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Odeon Gone, What's Still Fresh? We have to admit being sad to see the Odeon disappear. While the bar did not leave up to the bourgeois sophistication of its French name, we will miss it. We still have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: A Guide for the Guides The guide book which got us waxing nostalgic about the internet bubble was Chowhound's guide to the San Francisco. Chowhound is one of our favorite places to waste time on-line, and an iconic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Dan Leone, Part II Any changes to the Top 5 places from the list you gave for the 10th anniversary last year? Dan Leone: Um, I’ve since discovered a soul food place called Your Neighborhood Restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: An Interview With Dan Leone. Before we talk with Dan, let's wrap up the Yucatan definitely-not-yuck-a-thon: since last week we had the opportunity to sample City Blend Cafe's cochinita pibil. City Blend is a coffee shop on 16th,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Cancun Pigs Before we introduce the participants, a few words on the rule: we did a one-on-one comparison, which we judged based on two dishes from Yucatan, the peninsula at the bottom right of Mexico
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Canteen One of the cool perks of writing about food in blogs is that you get to meet people who write about food in blogs. And they are quite a few food bloggers around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Just Bite Me This week, at Gastronomique, we went and educated ourselves about Italy. We actually traveled there last week, and had a wonderful time, until we went to the Mechanics Institute. There, Carol Field told
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Gastronomique: Do It Yourself The NCAA tournament had us floating belly up in our betting pool. Our beloved UCLA Bruins lost in the first round to the biggest jerk in basketball, the infamous tamper tantrum prone chair
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: BBQ Pork Battle Food Face-Off Number Two (you can find Number One here) will pit against each other two BBQ places. In our fighting pit, we welcome Big Nate's and Memphie Minnie's. Our favorite BBQ place,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Raising A Stink To get our cheese fix, there are a few places to go to: the Cheese Board in Berkeley deserves a few posts of its own, there are a few neighborhood cheese shops in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Food Face-Off #1: Battle Oxtail That was, until now. Let the First SFist Food Face-Off begin. While we are building a giant kitchen set to host the battles at the SFist compound, as soon as the funding comes
