SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Alchemy: Jim Woods And Mateveza Yerba Maté Ale We've seen some hideous examples of what can happen when a product attempts to combine several things into one. We've also seen some pretty good examples. Well, now there's a pretty stellar one:
Arts & Entertainment <i>Death Note</i>: Story Of Killer Diary Is Grim, Intriguing, Excellent Entry Into Manga We've long been a fan of Japanese comics, or manga, as they're commonly called. Local publisher Viz, who is responsible for much of the product that American audiences see, sent us a review
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Stick A Fork In It; It's Done Hey, folks, welcome to our weekly opinions on the past week's , which we hope will spur you to watch tonight's episo-- What? Last week was it? No after-season wrap-up where they contestants yell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocola is a No-No-La. . . At Least For The Coffee There are many fine examples of patisseries and boulangeries that make wonderful coffee. Cocola, located in the Westfield, that wondrous new monstrosity of a shopping complex, is not one of them. While we're
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: It Takes More Than A Little Paprika To Make Me Cry Geez -- itself might make us cry. But you know what's really interesting about Top Chef? Even though it's come off the rails, it's still pretty compelling. However, the wind has been further
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Bald Truth--It Ain't About The Food A lot of stupid crap for a show where the mantra has been "it's all about the food." We still enjoy the show, but believe that the producers should (and will) be a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parties We <i>Were</i> Invited To: Good, Good, Good, Good Hydration The scene: everyone is standing around the bar, taking sips from wine glasses--but they aren't filled with wine. One of the attendees comments that she can't believe that a room of (mostly) journalists,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coffee Follow-Up: Take A Pill, People (Or Not) Hey, folks, your Trimethyldioxypurist is back with a quick follow-up to the review of Meth Coffee we posted yesterday. We saw something related on the wires this morning. We're tempted to just link
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Buzz About 'Meth Coffee' Gets Your Trimethyldioxypurist Off His Ass Hey, folks. It's been a while. Accordingly, we should probably reprint our mission statement: Or something like that. Your Trimethyldioxypurist has been very happy with his coffee-related life; we're utilizing our good brewer,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> La-La-Later -- First and foremost, we (usually) like it and want to help keep it on the air. We figure that sharing what happened last week on the day a new episode is about
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> We Eat Our Words (Forgive Us For Our Sins) While we'll maintain our stance that his sensibilities don't always align with ours, Chef Tom's, or the spirit of the challenges, we're going to eat whatever detrimental words we've said about the "cheftestant"
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Mamma Mia, There She Goes . . . Hey, folks! Been a while! But since we only post our thoughts on Bravo's on the day a new one's coming out, this review is anything but fresh. Hopefully it'll help you recall
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> My God, What The Hell Is Padma Wearing? And, wow, last week's ep. was pretty fun! First comment: how is it we've avoided talking about Padma's strange outfits heretofore? Cuz, dude, she's really smokin', obviously, but we think the ladies from
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Ancient Secrets Of the Four-Hour Thanksgiving Salad Oy, gee. We're sick today. We feel like grade-A crapola, and it may color our review of the last episode of just a tad. Not to mention that we're about 10 lbs. heavier
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> No Clever Headline Needed When Michelle Bernstein Is Involved You may recall a bunch of bitching in our last review -- the short reminder is NOBODY WENT HOME. Well, as some even predicted, this week made up for that (at least in
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Miscounting Calories; Discounting Viewers (Let us state up front: it's only because this show can be, is often, and should always be so freaking good that these missteps get to us). Let's give credit to some of
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Karma's Four Teeth And A Gigantic Ass Welcome to our thoughts on Wednesday's episode of Top Chef on Bravo, which we hope will help psych y'all up for tonight's episode. We must say that this episode was a vast improvement
Arts & Entertainment It Was A Dark & Stormy Bite: <i>Pet Noir</i>'s Shannon O'Leary We first met Shannon O'Leary at the last Alternative Press Expo, where she was showing the floppy versions of her books and Fortune's Bitch. Now, she's about to publish a hardbound, 120+ page
Arts & Entertainment We Survived Being On Local TV (So Far): A True Story Despite our apprehension at having done so, we think it's really cool that there is good, quality local programming available in our area. A sort of televised equivalent of SFist, no? And of
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Lying + Cheating=Lychee-ting? We'll still tune in tonight to on Bravo -- but last week's episode was pretty annoying as far as we were concerned. Is the sheen off the apple, or was this crappy episode
Arts & Entertainment Parties We <i>Were</i> Invited To: Burritophile's TV Debut We were invited to attend a party celebrating the ascension of the gang at Burritophile into the Rulers of All Media. Indeed, after appearing on these esteemed pages, then being quoted extensively by
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: We Left Our Knives In San Francisco Man, we loved last season of . So much so, that we're gonna keep writing about it, even though it's made the move to Los Angeles. Top Chef, for those who don't know, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use? Please excuse us. We need to take issue with an article, "French roast brews, sip for sip" in today's Los Angeles Times. Why were we reading the L.A. Times, you ask? We're
Arts & Entertainment Local Publisher's Graphic Novel Highest Placer on USA Today List? BELIEVE IT! Viz Media is a local publisher that, among other things, imports all sorts of great Japanese comix ("manga") and cartoons ("anime"), translates them, and distributes them to the U.S. markets. Naruto Volume
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anatomy of a Burrito(phile) Dan Johnson of Burritophile wants to meet up at Taqueria El Castillito, on Golden Gate Avenue, just a stone's throw away from City Hall. This SFist knows this to be a good thing,
