SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sonic Drive-Ins Coming To Oakland, Pleasanton, And Elsewhere The Oklahoma-based Sonic Drive-In, which you probably have seen many commercials for but have not necessarily sampled yourself if you've only lived in the inner Bay Area most of your life (or Manhattan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Super Duper Opening Ninth Location At Kearny And Pine Next Week The empire of Adriano Paganini grows yet again next week as his reps announce the opening of the Bay Area's ninth Super Duper location, this one coming to 346 Kearny Street, at Pine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Stuff: It's Super Duper Day, Everyone For everyone who didn't just get their first VC round or some exorbitant signing bonus and who toils, with the rest of us, among the moderately paid non-elite, free lunch is still a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Does Super Duper Really Make The Bay Area's Best Burger? (The Answer Is No.) While Super Duper makes a perfectly decent, if greasy, under-$10 burger, I've got to take this opportunity to call out the Business Times and their poorly conceived Bay Area food bracket thing,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Mythbuster Grant Imahara Sells Out To McDonald's In Beef PR Video This odd video appeared today on McDonald's YouTube channel, framed like an episode of Mythbusters and featuring its former host Grant Imahara, in which Imahara takes a trip inside the Cargill beef processing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Gets Its Own Burger The already blessed citizenry of eastern SoMa score yet another choice burger to cram down their throats, this one from the Umami Burger on King Street. The Caprese Burger, billed as SoMa's very
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hamburger Mary's Returning To San Francisco? Hamburger Mary's, noted burger chained with a devout LGBT following, might make its return to San Francisco. First opening in 1972 in the city's then-delightfully seedy South of Market district, it closed in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Burger News: KronnerBurger Closing, Umami Burger Arrives in SoMa, and Smash Burger Comes to Potrero There's been a glut of burger joints around the Bay the last couple years. Whether we all collectively have just said "f@%k it" to our Paleo diets and training programs and embraced
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Mini Burgers At Super Duper Today! Every week is Burger Week as far as we're concerned, and local burger joint Super Duper seems to concur. In honor of something called "Super Duper Day" and apropos of nothing other than
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink List Makes Case For 50 Best Burgers In San Francisco Right Now Over at Grub Street, an au courant list of the 50 best burgers in San Francisco went live today. And what a rundown it is! They've got choice imagery and description of classics,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Ringmaster: Straw's Death-Defying Donut-Bacon-Fried Egg Hamburger The resplendent Tamara Palmer at The Feast recently stopped by Straw in Hayes Valley. Noted for their spin on carnival food favorites, they recently allowed her to film them making The Ringmaster, a
SF News Hot Buns Serving Burgers at 'Street Food Fridays' Tonight Tamara Palmer at the Feast has word that "McDonalds-style" burgers with their pinkies up will be featured at Street Food Fridays. Behold: "Hot Buns, run by two ladies rumored to have at least
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Burgers, Culinary Crack by Ben Kasman There’s a reason why burgers are culinary crack. They’re perfect. Carbs, meat, cheese, and veggies collide in a voltron of flavor. C’mon, you know you want one
misc HIV/AIDS Group to Score Your Black Muslim Bakery Property Your Black Muslim Bakery -- the prominent and notorious Oakland setting featured in many a Chauncey Bailey story -- will probably be sold today to Vital Life Services, a nondenominational "nonprofit serving people
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Eats: Can't Stop Eating Those Free-Range Burgers Another stop on our East Bay tour of the best burgers made from "naturally-raised" meat: Luka's Taproom & Lounge. Just look at the picture. Need we say more? Note the little cup of
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Local Feasts! La Vie En Rose (the Embarcadero) is a full course, all four food groups, soup and cocktails, dinner of a film. (It screened at the SFIFF, and we loved it then too!) And
misc Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Seaman’s Soup Kitchen Okay, it's really NOT a soup kitchen, but if you have a boat docked in Oakland’s Embarcadero Cove Marina (down the highway from Jack London Square and across from Alameda's Coast Guard
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
SF News Paris Hilton Is Coming. We Repeat, Paris Hilton is Coming Yes, it’s true, the lovely and talented Ms. Hilton herself will be in town tomorrow as she signs autographs to promote her new perfume, Heiress. Yes, Heiress, the perfume for people who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CHOW Down Seeing what's new at CHOW offered us a chance to eat Bruce Hill's food, while finding out what’s new in the CHOW/CNet/Chowhound world. The menu included: Tomales Bay oysters, Serrano
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The End of Kelly's Burgers? While walking down 16th today we noticed something off, something unusual, something different and then we figured out what it was-- Kelly's Burgers looked not only closed but boarded up. The familiar outdoor
misc Gastronomique: Savor for the Savvy Cook. The restaurants include Myth, thus the proud display there, but also Acquerello, the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, Farallon, the Fifth Floor, La Folie, etc. That is the crème de la crème, and
SF News What Happened With That? We know you're totally dying to find out what happened with some of the stories we told you about from San Mateo County a week or so ago. Dying! Who won that habanero