SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California's Foie Gras Ban May Be Back On, Pending An Appeal Following a brief, two-and-a-half-year period in which it was illegal to produce or sell foie gras in California, following the implementation of a law that dated back to 2004 in the California banning
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dominique Crenn Pens Brusque Note To Male-Dominated San Pellegrino Chef Competition: 'Please Evolve' Two-starred Michelin chef Dominique Crenn has a few words on social media this week for the San Pellegrino 2018 Young Chef competition, which just announced its juries in 21 regions around the globe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two SF Chefs, Ravi Kapur And David Barzelay, Named <em>Food & Wine</em> Best New Chefs The prestigious annual honor of being named to Food & Wine's Best New Chefs issue will be going to not one but two local chefs this year, once again proving San Francisco is
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brandon Jew's Long-Awaited Chinatown Restaurant Mister Jiu's Due In New Year It's been well over two years that we've known about the approach of chef Brandon Jew's ambitious Chinatown project, named for the more proper spelling of his ancestral name, Mister Jiu's. As Eater
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchit Ends Private Chef Service, Will Focus On Kitchit Tonight Instead In the realm of laziness that brought us on-demand dinner businesses like Munchery and Sprig, SF-based Kitchit has occupied a more expensive realm that allowed people to bring private chefs to their homes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins Talks With Adam Savage About Her Work Ethic, Her Restaurants, And Appearing On <em>Top Chef Masters</em> Local celebrity chef and restaurateur Traci Des Jardins, who stepped onto the national TV stage a couple years back making it into the final three on Top Chef Masters, sat down with friend
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In-House Tech Company Chefs Talk About What They Cook, Not About Stock Options Over at the Chronicle, Jonathan Kauffman did video interviews with a panel of tech-company chefs Lance Holton of Twitter, Brian Mattingly of Dropbox, Shane Dykhuis of BandPage, and Matthew DuTrumble of Zynga asking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Melissa King To Appear On 12th Season of <i>Top Chef</i>, Premiering In October Recent Luce sous chef Melissa King, who has ten years experience in the Bay Area fine dining scene, has landed a place in the cast of Top Chef's 12th season, which premieres October
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Respond To Minimum Wage Hike: 'Get Ready For the $25 Burger' Remember that awful billboard? Well, Zagat went around asking San Francisco chefs and restaurant owners how they're planning to deal with the all-but-inevitable minimum wage hike that's going on the November ballot, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Chef Community Mourns Loss Of Chris L'Hommedieu The local chef community lost one of its own at far too young an age this week. Chris L'Hommedieu, a chef's chef and often-cited mentor, died at the age of 44 of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Watch Coi Chef Daniel Patterson Do The Town With <i>Vice</i> "Have you guys seen some of these episodes?" asks Benu chef Corey Lee when chef Daniel Patterson and his wife Alexandra make their first stop on a Vice tour at his restaurant. "You
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Chef Thomas Keller Quizzed About Doing Actual Laundry On Dorky NPR Show French Laundry and Per Se chef Thomas Keller, who has earned three Michelin stars for both of those restaurants, appeared in a quiz segment on the syndicated NPR show "Wait Wait Don't Tell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ex-Outerlands Chef Brett Cooper Taking Over Beast & The Hare Location On Guerrero Ever since Outerlands decided to part ways with the chef who put them on the map, Brett Cooper, everyone's been curious where he might pop up. In May, Cooper signed on to work
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dominique Crenn And Pals Eat And Party At Rich Table And Trou Normand: Video We loved that debaucherous, totally envy-inducing night in which Vice took the State Bird Provisions crew, and some of their friends, out to Ramen Shop and back to the city to drink and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meals On Wheels Star Chefs & Vintners Gala Raises Record Sum On Sunday, over 100 Bay Area chefs gathered to cook for the annual, lavish benefit affair known as the Star Chefs & Vintners Gala, now in its 27th year raising money for Meals
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hubert Keller's Fleur de Lys Closing This Month After 44 Years Chef Hubert Keller, whose romantic French restaurant Fleur de Lys has been serving escargot on Nob Hill for 44 years 28 of those with him in the kitchen has decided to close his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coqueta, Benu, And (Again) State Bird Among 21 Bay Area James Beard Award Nominees The last couple of years have brought a serious uptick in the national attention being given to Bay Area restaurants. And last year at the annual "food Oscars," the James Beard Foundation Awards,
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alumna Heading To Saison The star-chef wattage in SoMa just got brighter, at least for those of you who consider chefs celebrities. Grayson Schmitz, who appeared on season 9 of Top Chef's Texas cycle, can now be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Battery Finally Gets A New Chef After their opening chef and general manager jumped ship a month in, the Battery (oh, you know) has scored some serious kitchen talent. Finally. According to Inside Scoop, the (in)famous private club
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Judy Rodgers, Chef Of Zuni Café Fame, Died Judy Rodgers, the woman noted for being the chef-partner of the Zuni Café since 1987 as well as the author of the Zuni Café Cookbook, died at the age of 57 Monday. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Mission Market Debuts Today At Harrison And 23rd Bursting onto the scene after a few delays today is Local Mission Market, the offshoot grocery store from the team behind Local Mission Eatery and Local's Corner. That would be the team of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chefs, Foodies React To Death Of Charlie Trotter Charlie Trotter, the famous chef and former owner of the noted eponymous restaurant, which closed in 2012, was found dead Tuesday morning. Local chefs and food ilk alike mourned his passing. Here are
