SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Bar Star at Bar Iris In Russian Hill Falls From Roof To His Death A promising career ended tragically Friday when 33-year-old bar manager Ilya Romanov fell from the rooftop garden of the Russian Hill establishments Nisei and Bar Iris, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink That Dumb Rubber Glove Law Hated By All Bartenders And Chefs Got Repealed Remember that ridiculous California law that would have require all bartenders, sushi chefs, and anyone handling food or beverages to wear rubber gloves all the time? Well, AB1252, as it was named, was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Bartenders Angry Over New Glove Law While the thought of forcing the mixologist community to wear prostate-exam gloves gives one a hardy chuckle rimmed with a touch of bitter schadenfreude, California's AB 1252 has gone too far. At least
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zagat Picks 30 Notable People Under 30 Who Cook And Other Stuff Zagat released their 30 Under 30 list today, boasting the top 30 up-and-coming restaurant industry professionals working in the Bay Area dining scene. The list includes chefs, bar managers, pastry chefs, managers, beer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Winning Chalices (And More) From Jasper's Annual 'Pimp-Cup Challenge' After this weekend's SF Chefs festivities finished on Sunday, a bevy of service industry folks, salt-of-the-earth bartenders, and PR ilk headed to Jasper's Corner Tap & Kitchen for the second annual "pimp cup"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Booze Folk Gather For Rather Awesome Party on Alcatraz Were you aware that Alcatraz could be rented out for events, for a price? Neither were we! Leave it to major liquor distributor William Grant & Sons, who came to the Bay Area
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Strawberry Punch at Zero Zero It's kinda summer, everybody! And even though it's not as hot as it was on Wednesday, we're still in a springy/summery mood. Thus our choice of cocktail this week is a seasonal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Nobody's Dirty Business at The Hideout We love ourselves a good bitter-but-balanced cocktail, and we came across a doozy recently at the Hideout the awesome, cocktail-nerdy bar within a bar in the back of Dalva on 16th. It's called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Tournament Shandy at Long Bar Up at Long Bar in Pac Heights (2298 Fillmore), new owner Reza Esmaili is preparing for a big change. The bar star took over the place last summer, with ultimate plans to give
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Barrel-Aged Bonnie & Clyde Cocktail at Blackbird Have you heard of barrel-aged cocktails? No? Well, you're not alone, since there's only one bar in S.F. doing them at the moment, but you're soon to see plenty more if we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Rusty Rake at 15 Romolo We're going to let the Examiner pinch hit on this week's cocktail, because we're still hungover from New Year's and can't think about mixing a drink just yet. But, in theory, this drink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Sailors' Nog from Twenty Five Lusk The holiday season has come barreling down, and let's face it: drinking is the only way you're going to make it through. With that in mind, please enjoy this recipe from Twenty Five
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Reasons Why Bartenders Don't Like You Lou Bustamante has an intriguing report about what bartenders hate most in a customer. None of the reasons, at least not directly, are related to blackout tomfoolery. After asking "some of the city's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Moulin Rouge from Brick & Bottle Don't get up to Corte Madera much? Neither do we. But if you're up there for a spot of holiday shopping and need a place to get a drink, might we recommend the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Chartreuse Swizzle from Clock Bar For this week's cocktail, we turn to a new listicle on Tasting Table SF featuring what they consider the 15 best cocktails in the city, along with recipes for each. The list is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Dark and Stormy Martini from Level III TGIF, everyone. Time to drink. While we might quibble with the use of the word "martini" in the name of this drink, we can't argue with its tastiness. The concoction is by Level
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Little Ava at 25 Lusk The newest, and coolest, restaurant and bar in SoMa is Twenty-Five Lusk, on an alley between 3rd and 4th off of Townsend (parallel to Ritch). Architects Cass Calder Smith designed the space, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Ti Punch from Bar Agricole The newest bar in SoMa, tucked away on 11th Street near DNA Lounge and Slim's, is Bar Agricole from cocktail wizard Thad Vogler (with a food menu by Brandon Jew, formerly of Magnolia)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (at Michael Mina) Michael Mina, the eponymous restaurant from chef Michael Mina that was formerly at the Westin St. Francis (that space has now become Mina's steakhouse concept Bourbon Steak) has relocated to the former Aqua
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: WhiskyFest Edition Tonight, at the Marriott, a few hundred people will gather to taste 260 different whiskies, and may or may not all live to see tomorrow. JK! But tonight is WhiskyFest, and for the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Mean Streets at Foreign Cinema This week's cocktail, which is meant for warm weather (we know, today doesn't quite count) is named after Martin Scorsese's seminal film, Mean Streets. It was created by Foreign Cinema's bar manager Bryan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hurricane at Hog & Rocks Just as the East Coast and Mexico get buffeted by storms this week, we bring you one of the classic drinks on the menu at predictably popular new Mission hang, Hog & Rocks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where Have All the Bartenders Gone? That's the question posed by 7x7's Sara Deseran, and thank God she did. Swimming in a sea of artisan hooch concoctions, Deseran points our attention to the old-fashion bartenders -- specifically, bartender Scott
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Hop Toad Cocktail at Comstock Saloon Comstock Salooon, the new throwback-to-1907 bar in North Beach from former Absinthe bar guys Jeff Hollinger and Jonny Raglin, is a great place to get a stiff drink. If you're feeling adventurous, ask
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Central City at Prospect You might have heard that Nancy Oakes and her team at Boulevard decided to open a new restaurant this week called Prospect. It has gotten, we think needless to say, a lot of
