SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award Semifinalists Include Hayes Valley's Kiln and Rintaro Chef Sylvan Mishima Brackett The James Beard Award "long list" is out, and while it hardly guarantees any more Bay Area love than the awards saw fit to dole out last year (which was almost none), there are at least a dozen local chefs and restaurants in contention for shortlisting.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Manufactory Named One Of Food & Wine's Restaurants Of The Year They did not take home a James Beard Award the other night in Chicago, however baker Chad Robertson, pastry chef Liz Prueitt, and chef Sam Goinsalvos still got a nice honor this week
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu Chef Corey Lee Wins James Beard Award; SingleThread Wins For Restaurant Design The James Beard Foundation Awards for restaurants and chefs were last night in Chicago the media awards were all announced last week and the big San Francisco winner of the evening was Benu
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink For The First Time, Chronicle's 2017 Rising Star Chef Class Includes No White Males Responding to criticism about the list's usual lack of diversity, and starting last year, the San Francisco Chronicle took the annual Rising Star Chefs feature out of the hands of critic Michael Bauer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Californios Chef Val Cantu Named One Of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs It's time again for Food & Wine Magazine's annual list of the Best New Chefs in the country, an honor that ranks up there in the industry with the James Beard Awards and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Manufactory And In Situ Among Finalists For 2017 James Beard Awards The short list is in, and among the finalists i.e. the actual nominees for this years James Beard Foundation Awards are a number of San Francisco players, once again doing the local
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here Are The Very Many 2017 James Beard Awards Semifinalists From The Bay Area The lengthy list of semifinalists for the James Beard Foundation Awards is out, and there's plenty for the Bay Area to root for in nearly every category of these so-called food world Oscars.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Bon Appétit</i> Names Leo's Oyster Bar The Best Designed New Restaurant In The Country Leading up to the big unveiling of their annual Best New Restaurants issue, Bon Appétit did what they did last year and first gave us a Top 50 last week, just so that
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hear Oakland's Own Daveed Diggs Talk About Winning His First Tony Award For 'Hamilton' Oakland-born hip-hop artist turned Broadway star Daveed Diggs took home the Tony Award Sunday night for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance in the dual roles of the Marquis de
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cala and Locol Land On <i>Food & Wine</i> Best New Restaurant List Every magazine gets their annual turn to declare their favorites among the nation's crop of new eateries, and this week we get Food & Wine's 2016 Restaurants Of the Year list, which features
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Gets Fully Snubbed At 2016 James Beard Awards The "Oscars of the Food World" happened last night as the chef and restaurant portion of the annual James Beard Foundation Awards took place in Chicago on the traditional night off for chefs,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Names Six Rising Star Chefs, Including Aatxe's Ryan Pollnow and Californios' Val Cantu See how The Chronicle’s 2016 Rising Star Chefs shape the Bay Area’s dining scene.https://t.co/SqGOBx13G2 pic.twitter.com/VyMPaojLdG— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) March 31, 2016 It's time again for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Liholiho Yacht Club Tops SF Finalists For 2016 James Beard Awards The James Beard Award finalists were just announced yesterday following last month's announcements of the semi-finalists or "long list" and low and behold, Liholiho Yacht Club will be competing with four other restaurant
Arts & Entertainment Robert De Niro Tells SF Startup Mogul 'I Don't Give A F**k Who You Are' You don't get to where I am in life* without meeting a few famous actors. Some are a charming surprise, some are clearly crazy, and some of them seem a lot like you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Progress, SPQR, Quince, And Manresa Top 2015 James Beard Nomination List A month ago we had the so-called "long list" of semi-finalists for this year's "Oscars of the food world," a.k.a. The James Beard Foundation Awards. And today we bring you the
Arts & Entertainment SF Film Critics Award 'Boyhood,' Michael Keaton, Julianne Moore The San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards were on Sunday, and the big prizes of the night went to two movies likely to capture a bunch of Oscar nominations as well: Boyhood, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide Director Michael Ellis Discusses The 'Extraordinary' Bay Area Food Scene In conjunction with the release of the new star rankings for the Bay Area Michelin Guide for 2015 today, SFist spoke with the guide's international director Michael Ellis. Ellis took the gig in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide 2015: Saison and Benu Become The First Three-Star Restaurants In The City For a couple of years it's been no secret that chef Joshua Skenes was aiming to make Saison the first Michelin three-star restaurant in San Francisco proper. Today, he got his wish, along
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tosca Café Lands On Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants List Making up for its getting cut from the James Beard shortlist earlier this year, the splashy and on-point debut of North Beach's revamped Tosca Café has made it onto critic Andrew Knowlton's annual
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daniel Patterson, Slanted Door Win Big At James Beard Awards Last night in Manhattan, the "Oscars of the food world" happened, and finally, finally, Coi chef Daniel Patterson got the award he's been nominated for dozens of times without winning: Best Chef in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matthew Accarrino Named One Of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs Matthew Accarrino had the daunting task of taking over the kitchen at SPQR after Nate Appleman nabbed the James Beard's "Rising Star Chef" award and left for the other coast. Not only did
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards 2014 Semifinalists: Trick Dog, Tyler Florence, Tosca Cafe, & More The James Beard Awards announced its short list this morning. The Cavalier, Coqueta, and Tosca Cafe are mentioned as prospects in the Best New Restaurant category, while Trick Dog and Hard Water could
Arts & Entertainment Watch John Oliver Skewer Techies At The Crunchies John Oliver On The Tech Industry | Crunchies 2013 Last night I had the pleasure of watching John Oliver emcee the Crunchies. His opening monologue was only brimming not with attacks on San Francisco
SF News Crunchies Turn Crappy As Anti-Tech Protesters Vow To Crash Award Ceremony Taking their eyes off Google Buses for a moment, concerned anti-eviction citizens plan to protest tonight's Crunchies at Davies Symphony Hall. What are the Crunchies, you ask? Hosted by Gigaom, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch,
SF News 'Lemon Skunk' Triumphs At Pot Competition The nation has waited with bated breath, and the results are in: a strain of weed called Lemon Skunk has taken the gold at the 10th Annual Emerald Cup, the only outdoor organic
