SF News World Peace, One Stomach At A Time Destination Dinners officially opened for business just about a month ago. Lisa runs it from her home. She's a big thinker with ambitious goals that go beyond the scope of typical business objectives
Arts & Entertainment A (Diaper) Change For The Better: Local Mom/Inventor Grace Welch It's the kind of success story many dream about, having a simple idea and turning it into a successful venture. Grace Welch, local inventor, businesswoman, and first and foremost, mom, did just that.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Take The Caffe Out of North Beach, Is It Truly Trieste? So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i> To Get New Host; Animatronic Puppeteer Seeks Work Hey, folks -- season one is over, but that doesn't mean there's not something delicious about it in the news to help us bide our time until season 2 begins (thankfully, again here
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Convenience, Choice, Coffee . . . Still Craving Cafe Ponte This is a tale of warning; we're sharing the very start of what's already an addiction... A few weeks ago, we attended an annual event in our neighborhood -- a sidewalk sale where
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Last Suppers So last night the best reality show on television came to an end for this season. It was down to the final two -- perhaps there was a little controversy, perhaps one of
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: And Then There Were Two Okay, folks, first let us apologize for not reviewing the delightful "chef reunion show" a few weeks back. Part of us wanted to, but we opted out because, honestly, who the hell wants
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i> Bonus Coverage: The <i>Top Chef</i> Drinking Game Howdy, folks -- the "top mixologists" at SFist feel that Bravo's Top Chef has given us so much in terms of culinary excellence, intrigue, and bitchiness (not necessarily in that order), that we
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Whole-a Whole-Lotta Lamb Ahhh parrots, lambs, and pepper monkeys -- welcome back to our review of the Top Chef animal farm. Another Top Chef episode in the can; the season will be over shortly, so watch
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> Something Store-Bought; Something Blew . Before we delve into what happened last week, we must share with you some exciting news: Bravo's Top Chef has been renewed! (Hat tap to our very own Rain, TYVM) . Huzzah! Thus, rather
misc Local Coffee Guy Takes A Fall; Coffee Community Helps Him Back Up Some time ago, we met Steve Ford, who, among other things pulls a great shot of espresso. We met him during his tenure with the stalkerriffic Blue Bottle Coffee Company; since our encounter,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Spanish-American War; Cannes or Canned? Oh, man, we're coming down to it--Bravo's just keeps getting better and better. Watch this San Francisco-based series tonight at 10 p.m. before it's too late! Someone is walking away from this
misc What's In A Name? SFist Spotlight On Ritual Roasters, Part II In part one of our spotlight on Ritual Roasters, we told you the backstory behind one the the Mission's most popular new cafes. We did, however, save one important component of that story
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Rushin' Roulette We love . We hope you will too -- here's our weekly recap of last week's episode, which we hope will prompt you to watch the new one tonight at 10 p.m. on
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: At the Pork End Of The Street Yes, folks, that is literally the worst headline ever -- at least until next week. Our horrible headlines are the latest in SFist's effort to induce you to watch what is possibly the
misc SFist Answers: Things To Make You Cry A friend of SFist writes: "Someone in my office was just arrested for possession of child pornography. The case has been relatively high-profile in the area. The suspect seemed like a nice guy,
Arts & Entertainment Alternative Press Expo: Better Than Your Mom's Basement On a day when the sun finally came back to San Francisco, we thought it best to hide from those destructive rays in pursuit of a hobby often associated with living in one's
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: You Wouldn't Like Her When She's Angry Hey, folks, welcome back to another recap of the "slow food movement" of reality TV shows, Bravo's Top Chef. It's deliciously vibrant, diverse, and, most especially cool, local! Again, we're recapping last week's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Business Spotlight: Ritual Roasters "Our friends pitied us when they saw this place," says Eileen Hassi, co-proprietor of red-hot Mission District cafe Ritual Roasters. "They told us we were doing everything wrong." Jeremy Tooker, her co-proprietor, agreed.
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Why Can't You Set That Monkfish Free? SFist is back, trying to wet your whistle with another short recap of Bravo's delightful Top Chef, a reality competition for people with knives that takes place here in San Francisco and is
misc SFist Answers: Blah Blah Blah TG Writes: Will I get pregnant in the next three months? Reply hazy -- ask later. See, folks, sometimes we need more info to give a better answer than that. Of course, with
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Villainy, Thy Name is Stephen So, anyone else out there watching on Bravo? Allow us to introduce you to it -- it's like the Apprentice for foodies. Notably, it takes place right here, in our fair city. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Are Courageous (For Trying This Coffee) So, get this -- Cafe Gratitude has coffee. It's not brewed, but instead, per the cafe's menu, "infused for 48 hours in cold water." Organic beans, no less, from a company known as
misc This Just In -- Self-Heating Coffee! (Is Awful! Shocker.) So, while for the most part we're very into doing coffee the "right way" (grind just before brewing, etc etc), there's a part of us that's super susceptible to gimmickry. We always want
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An Obsession With Coffee? Oh, and you can consider the above set of links the Trimethyldioxypurist's guide to getting started as an enthusiast. Obsessive is a whole other level, and you'll know it if you're there*, and
