SF News Semi-Truck Full of 40,000 Pounds of Chocolate Goes Up in Blazes in Placer County A real meltdown in the Placer County city of Colfax, as a semi-truck carrying 40,000 pounds of chocolate burst into flames early this morning on I-80, and that 40,000 pounds of chocolate is still sitting there in the sun.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 11 Best Candy And Chocolate Shops In The Bay Area With the departures of Joseph Schmidt and Scharffen Berger, chocolatiers who each had local operations before buyouts from Hershey's, the Bay Area's status as a sweet-toothed capital was in question. Not for long,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Would You Pay $11 For A Candy Bar? We Did. Candy bars are meant to be consumed during your walk from the liquor store to your apartment's front door. Typically after having too many beers. But what about an $11 candy bar? When
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oh, And Batkid's Key To The City Was Made Of Chocolate And not just any regular old chocolate, you see. It was made with local artisan enablers TCHO Chocolate. Ta-da. Update: The key, according to TCHO, was "was made with our semi-sweet 60.5%
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate-Covered Crickets Now Sold At The Ferry Building If you're having a hankering for insects or mealworms this afternoon, you may want to stop by the Ferry Building where such snacks are now available in handy snack pouches from the La
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate & Bourbon Pairing At Hi-Lo Saturday On Saturday, June 15th, Hog & Rocks bar manager and scribe Michael Lazar (Left Coast Libations: The Art of West Coast Bartending)will join chocolatier Lisa Gallinger (Dandelion Chocolate) for an afternoon of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Matzo Crack Now Available From Salty Sweet The last time we caught up with Salty Sweet, we mainlined their salt-dusted chocolate chip cookies. We unofficially declared them the best cookies in San Francisco. Really, they are some of the best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate Is Super Trendy Right Now Sure, we're Valentine's Day-adjacent, when all thoughts, especially retail and commercial, turn to chocolate. And yes, when has chocolate not been trendy ... in my mouth? We can't help but notice, though, that fancy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardinière's Hot Chocolate No. 5 As the holidays arrive so do sweet chocolate treats to help you chase away the existential Christmas blues. Jardinière, for example, now serves hot chocolate for the holidays, and they're calling it Hot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Emily Luchetti's Exceptional Defense Of Milk Chocolate While San Francisco is home to the finest food, it's also home to some of the laziest food criticism. Each overheard tidbit can come off as painful as the nuggets of cinematic turd
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold: S'mores Sandwich At AT&T Park Your San Francisco Giants held their annual Media Day at AT&T Park on Thursday. While there this morning, we came across two noteworthy items: Virgin American's Brian Wilson airplane and the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Cuckoo For Cocoa At San Francisco Chocolate Salon It's a forlorn time of year for chocolate lovers: that heart-shaped box from Valentine's Day has nothing but a dented caramel-raspberry-pistachio truffle left in it, while it's too early to break in to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Corner Store Food Critic: Yorkie Chocolate Bar Welcome to Corner Store Food Critic, where we select an item typically found at any number of corner stores in San Francisco, bring said item home in a carefully wrapped bag, and then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Valentine's Day Treats: Droga Confections' “Put your Money on Honey” Keep an eye out for more tasty V-Day treats in the coming weeks! by Aislinn Fletcher Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and the obligatory heart shaped candy boxes are on the shelves
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: 'Kings of Pastry' Screening, Q&A with Michael Recchiuti by Aislinn Fletcher “Eat the highest quality of food you can in small quantities so your brain is happy every day.” -- Pastry Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer Saturday night’s screening of the movie
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate Making Classes In The Castro Saratoga Chocolates in the shuttered Jo, located in the old Joseph Schmidt space at 3489 16th Street in the Castro, is offering truffle making and wine/chocolate classes this winter. According to Mary
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: Free Chocolate for BART Commuters Tonight Yesterday, we gave you free hot dogs. Today, we bring your free chocolate. Dark chocolate. Milk chocolate too, hopefully. (Whatever, we still love us some milk chocolate. With caramel. And nougat.) Anyway, Mission
SF News BART Thanks Riders With Free Ghirardelli Chocolate on Friday This just in via the trusty funcheapSF.com: From 6 to 9 a.m. on Friday morning, BART riders will receive FREE Ghirardelli Luxe Milk Almond Chocolates and coupon cards at the following
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy National Milk Chocolate Day! Oh, what a day! What a day! What a day! Today is National Milk Chocolate Day. Milk chocolate, you see, is the way chocolate was meant to be eaten. Dark (or real) chocolate
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Firm, Luscious Things to Put In Your Mouth by Ted Weinstein Warning! Ending soon: the chance to have some of the world's most delightfully smooth, luxurious orbs to pop into your mouth (both large and small, depending on your own predilections)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science of Chocolate, Tonight, 7:30 p.m., KQED QUEST on KQED Public Media. Everyone loves chocolate -- especially "bitches," as a female friend loves to remind us whenever we reach for a Snickers. From Willy Wonka to Kylie Minogue, people love
misc Sad: Scharffenberger Soon to Suck Bad news this morning from across the Bay, as big conglomerate Hershey's announced that they're closing the Scharffenberger plant in West Berkeley. This comes, of course, after Hershey made nice with the locals,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Strange Brews You may already be familiar with Peet's Coffee's seasonal quencher, the "Jasmine Lime Cooler." Seasonal because its secret ingredient is none other than Odwalla's Summertime Lime drink. But, you know, it's hard to
misc Stephanie Marcon of Coco-Luxe What is your favorite type of chocolate? It depends on my mood What is it like to be a chocolatier in the Bay Area? Great, a lot of support from the community and
misc Photo du Jour 133 We're gargantuan fans of local photographer Darwin Bell. Famous for his use of polaroids, his digital images are just as spectacular. The above shot ("the chocolate orgy ended in love") is an old
