SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Matthew Accarrino Helps Cleanup Home State of NJ Shortly after winning his first Michelin star for his work at SPQR, Chef Matthew Accarrino headed back to his native New Jersey to help clean up after his home state fell victim to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: Renowned Swedish Chef Magnus Nilsson and S.F.'s Daniel Patterson This past Saturday, internationally acclaimed San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson (who today had his two stars for his restaurant Coi re-upped by the Michelin Guide) welcomed another internationally renowned chef, 29-year-old Magnus Nilsson
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Also, A Shot Of Julia Child With Hoss Zare Not to be outdone by Ms. Des Jardins, chef Hoss Zare (of Zare at Flytrap in SOMA) just posted this pic of himself posing with the late and too-great Julia Child. (Any other
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Finally, A Shot Of Julia Child With Traci Des Jardins In relation to today's 3 Tasty Ways To Celebrate Julia Child's 100th Birthday article, Jardinière's own Traci Des Jardins sends us this photo of Child alongside the esteemed Top Chef Masters contender and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City's Best Chefs Turn Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Into Swank Soiree Sunday And we're off. The summer fetes celebrating the current season's harvests will dot the Bay Area for the next few months, and we couldn't be happier. And so should you. For starters, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras Ban Still Happening, Sort Of While the food press has turned the benign foie gras ban into the gastronomic Brown v. Board of Education of our lifetime, you won't likely see the fattened liver off too many menus
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Violent Anti-Foie Gras Rhetoric Gives Chefs Goosebumps Chefs and restauranteurs — the sort of people who tend to have more knives and sharp objects on hand than most — are starting to fear the increasingly violent rhetoric that has fattened up as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Thomas Keller's American Express Ad Makes Us Want To Visit Yountville, Plant Trees Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi brings our attention to a new ad for American Express featuring French Laundry founder and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup lover, Thomas Keller. The commercial, drenched in music written by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Listen & Eat: Commonwealth Club 'Meet & Eat with SF's Hottest Young Chefs' The Bay Area's continuing sanctification of chefs (what in heaven's name do you think Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham would say regarding this trend of placing cooks on such high pedestals?) goes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Auditions Coming To S.F. Top Chef will hit its tenth season this year, and they are looking for San Francisco-based gastronomic talent for the big one-zero. Might you be the next cheftestant? While Bravo's food competition show
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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Allegedly Scandalous NYC Chef Speaking at Herbst Theater This Week Now, this is our kind of gastronome. Gabrielle Hamilton, James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Prune (in New York City's East Village), will speak on Thursday at the Herbst Theatre as part
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pork Competition Cochon 555 Returns This Sunday This year's annual bacchanalia of pork and wine, Cochon 555, rears its savory head on Sunday, June 5. Will you be there? Well, you should. "Officially, the event is all about promoting heritage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYC Beats SF at James Beard Awards During last night's chefs and restaurants portion of the James Beard Awards (i.e., the Grammy Awards of food), New York took home most of the top awards, leaving many Bay Area gastronomes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards 2011 Nominations Announced The James Beard Foundation announced its final nominees today for their annual awards bestowment, set to take place on May 9. As expected a slew of nominees are right here in the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins To Compete On 'Top Chef Masters' Traci Des Jardins - noted chef/owner of Hayes Valley's Jardinière; AT&T Park's Public House & Mijita; and Lake Tahoe's Manzanita - will appear on the next season of Top Chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink David Bazirgan, San Francisco's "Hottest" Chef Eater held its annual sexy chef survey. And the San Francisco winner is... David Bazirgan, chef at Fifth Floor. Eater notes: " 'The Baz"'has done it again. After grappling through heat after heat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink "Tyler Florence and Jeremy Fox Split" See, it's headlines like that, Paolo Lucchesi, that get our heart strings zinging! (Say what you will about Florence, he's still the kind of guy you want inside you.) Alas, the two noted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Less Female Executive Chef After Liza Shaw Departs A16 Paolo Lucchesi of Inside Scoop broke some food industry news last night about the much-lauded A16. "Executive chef Liza Shaw — who has been in the kitchen since it opened in 2004 — will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Absinthe's Jamie Lauren Heading to LA Paolo Lucchesi informs us that the city will soon lose one of its celebrity gastronomes, former Top Chef contestant Jamie Lauren. According to her Twitter page (via Eater) she says, "Yes! It's true!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The <em>Chron</em> Names Charlie Kleinman and Josh Skenes as Rising Star Chefs This past weekend the Chron's food staff revealed their picks for the Rising Star Chefs of 2010, and it's an all-male slate this time around. Last year's list had two women on it,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Royalty Reveal Junk Food Favorites Yes, it's the time again when Bay Area chefs, critics, and other artisan slop notables break their silence on what junk food they let pass over their acclaimed, richly-textured palates. Everything from aged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Umpteenth New York Chef Slams SF Food Although the mystique and innovation of New York City has dimmed over the last few years -- what was once, as countless New Yorkers have described it to us, a mecca for richly-textured
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: George Morrone (Sutro’s at the Cliff House) by Tiffany Maleshefski Uber-chef George Morrone is best known for helping Aqua and Fifth Floor become the culinary powerhouses they are today. Both boast highly coveted and damn-hard-to-get Michelin stars (two and one
