SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Announces 2014 Bib Gourmands A week before the Michelin crew announces its coveted stars list, they give us their annual Bib Gourmand picks selected by Michelin’s anonymous food inspectors. To qualify, the restaurants must serve two
SF News Stanford Prof Wins Nobel Chemistry Prize (Prompting Yet Another Humblebrag) Stanford's Michael Levitt, professor in cancer research and structural biology, nabbed this year's prize in chemistry. He shares the award with Martin Karplus, at the University of Strasbourg and Harvard, and Arieh Warshel,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Chiarello Named 'Esquire' Chef Of The Year; Coqueta Gets Best New Restaurant Honor Esquire food critic John Mariani has unveiled his picks for 2013's best new restaurants in the nation, and on his list is Napa-based TV chef Michael Chiarello's first effort here in the city,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mag Announces Best Chef Honorees San Francisco Magazine annually annoints a Best Chef of the year, as well as a restaurateur, a pastry chef, and a rising star. This year, rather than leave it up to the editorial
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog, Outerlands, Yigit Pura Among StarChefs Honorees StarChefs announced today their 2013 San Francisco Rising Stars. Jason Fox (of Commonwealth), Sarah and Evan Rich (Rich Table), Yigit Pura (Tout Sweet), and the resplendent and quick Scott Baird and Josh Harris
Arts & Entertainment GLAAD To Honor Straight Politician, Baseball Team In S.F. This Saturday, the GLAAD Media Awards throws San Francisco a bone when they host their annual bronze-medal ceremony in the city. (The real awards, if you will, happen in Los Angeles and New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food & Wine Bestows Lots Of Dudes With 'Best New Chef' Accolades Food & Wine editor-in-chief Dana Cowin, as Grub Street pointed out, spent Monday tweeting clues about this year's gaggle of the magazine's Best New Chef award winners. The biggest leak, so to speak,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Thoughts On The 2013 James Beard Nominations The James Beard Awards announced their final 2013 nominees on Monday. The list might surprise you. Or not. Probably not, in fact. It's quite similar to 2012. Let's begin: First up, Thomas McNaughton
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luella Offering Oscar-Themed Food Package For Most Important Night Of The Year Sunday night is the most important night of the year. It's Oscar night, that's why! How much will you squirm when Anne Hathaway delivers her self-consciously kooky and over-prepared acceptance speech? A lot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards Milk It With Semifinalist Longlist As expected the Bay Area did super-duper when the James Beard Awards announced their curious semifinalist longlist. Why a semifinalist longlist? Presumably to give PR people more jerk-off material. Who knows. Fetch San
SF News C.W. Nevius' Dildo Goof Lands On 'Error of the Year' List Remember back in August, when Chronicle Columnist Chuck Nevius erroneously claimed local drag entertainer Peaches Christ had appeared at a church event with a crucifix-shaped dildo? At the time we called it, "Quite
Arts & Entertainment Party Down: San Francisco Nightlife Award Winners Announced! While the "Best Dealer" category was egregiously and painfully overlooked this year — Levamisole pushers need love too! — the 2012 Nightlife Awards were handed out Thursday night at Mezzanine. And what a party it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 5/31: Vetiver Performs 'Foul Play' MUSIC: Folk Yeah and Vogue Theater present a new series called City Scenes, featuring films curated by local musicians who perform alongside the screening. Tonight's inaugural event will feature local indie-folk darlings Vetiver
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boulevard, Pastry Chef Emily Luchetti Honored At James Beard Awards After eight nominations and no wins, Nancy Oakes and Pat Kuleto's American-French Boulevard nabbed 2012's Outstanding Restaurant honor at this year's James Beard Awards. A well-deserved (and somewhat tardy) win, Boulevard beat out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Award 2012 Nominees Announced The James Beard Award nominees were announced Monday, and SFist's searing portrait of the Jack in the Box Bacon Shake was not nominated in the media category. (Fie, nominating committee! Fie!) Other than
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AQ, Nopa, Danny Bowien Are James Beard Award Semifinalists The James Beard Awards (the CableACE Awards of food) announced their semifinalist list today. Not surprisingly, many Bay Area gastronomes made the cut. Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien, Thomas McNaughton of Flour + Water,
Arts & Entertainment Watch The Golden Globes At Balboa Theater This Sunday Our inbox is simply littered—littered!—with invitations to openings and galas and VIP-ness and other very important things happening this Sunday. Events where media types, like your SFist editor, enjoy getting tipsy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Enjoy Country's Best Chocolate, Pickles, Jams, Coffee, And More At Upcoming Good Food Awards The Good Food Awards unfurl over the weekend and the Ferry Building is where you'll want to be. (If not for the food and wine, come for the chronic celebrity sightings. Par example:
Arts & Entertainment Lower Haight Named 2011 Neighborhood Of The Year Beating out popular arrondissements like The Mission and North Beach, the Lower Haight nabbed Curbed's tight 2011 San Francisco Neighborhood of the Year battle. And we can see why: Lower Haight retains its
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Film Critics Circle Fails To Honor Melissa McCarthy The just-announced San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards weren't as egregious and self-conscious as in years past. But not by much. The gaggle of local film aesthetes selected Terrence Malik's (overwhelming and divine)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison's Josh Skenes Won An Award This Week Local chef/owner Josh Skenes (Saison) won the Outstanding Culinary Award by the The International Culinary Center on Tuesday. Skenes, an alumni of said International Culinary Center, was among five individuals to nab
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Manresa's David Kinch: GQ Chef Of The Year Noted chef David Kinch scored GQ's annual Chef of the Year award this year. "In a world of Molto food empires and spiky-haired TV hosts," GQ scribe Charles Bowden writes, "David Kinch is
SF News UC Berkeley Professor Nabs Nobel Prize In yet another year of predicable winners on the horizon (not Konstantin Novoselov again, please!), white hot 'it' astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter surprised many when he took home the Nobel Prize in Physics for
Arts & Entertainment We're Honored: SFist Wins SF Bay Guardian 'Best Blog' Award (Again) For the second year in a row, readers selected SFist as the Best Local Blog in the SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay. Aw shucks. Thanks to those of you who voted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Chronicle Early James Beard Winners Before tonight's chef and restaurants awards are handed out at the 2011 James Beard Awards, early technical awards in the non-chef categories (i.e., books, broadcast, journalism and restaurant design) were bestowed Friday
