SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kaya Closes And Two More Chefs Cut Ties With Daniel Patterson's Restaurant Group A bit of local food world drama: Two minority chefs who appear to have had creative or managerial differences with Daniel Patterson's Alta Group, Nigel Jones of SF's Kaya and Reem Assil of Oakland's Dyafa, have ended or are in the process of ending their relationships with Patterson.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daniel Patterson Cancels Plans For Alta On Mid-Market; Another Restaurant Will Move In Yotel Now that Daniel Patterson's restaurant group no longer has any locations in the city of his once burgeoning mini-chain called Alta, it comes as no surprise that his two-year-old plan to re-open Alta a few blocks down from its original Mid-Market location has fallen through.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Aster Closes On Guerrero; Guamanian Spot Prubechu Set To Open The Daniel Patterson-owned, Brett Cooper-helmed, Michelin-starred Mission spot Aster served its last dinner on Saturday after Cooper's previously announced departure for Southern California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Daniel Patterson Gets Razzed For Controversial Version Of Scrambled Eggs Once upon a time in the last decade, local star chef Daniel Patterson who is better known in haute foodie circles perhaps than he is known to the Food Network crowd discovered a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Haven To Pivot, Become Third Location Of Alta Followers of food news were scratching their heads in May when a press release revealed that Daniel Patterson's growing restaurant group had plans for a third location of his Alta CA concept in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locol Launches Yes Plz, A $1 Premium Cup Of Coffee; Daniel Patterson Talks The Democratization Of Food It's been a little over three months since New York Times food critic Pete Wells surprised everyone with a highly negative review of Locol in Oakland, the healthy fast-food venture from celebrity chefs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Healthy Fast-Food Chain Locol Opening West Oakland Bakery On Friday A post shared by LocoL (@welocol) on Mar 25, 2017 at 4:58pm PDT California chef celebs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi are adding a new direction to their nascent fast-food chain Locol
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Locol Revises Their Cheeseburger, Tweaks Menu Following Pete Wells Drama The biggest food story of the new year, arguably, has been New York Times critic Pete Wells's fairly bitchy review of Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi's new-style fast-food concept Locol. Many in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alta CA Will Get Second Location In Dogpatch, Alta Cafe & Bar When the ambitious new gallery and arts venue the Minnesota Street Project debuted last spring, we learned that chef-restaurateur Daniel Patterson (Coi, Locol, Aster, Haven, Plum Bar, Alta CA) had signed on to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Terrible Review From New York Times Critic, Locol Founder Roy Choi Takes The High Road Chef Roy Choi does not clap back. Of course the team behind the ambitious, healthy-but-still-cheap-and-supposedly-tasty fast-food venture Locol was going to respond when New York Times food critic Pete Wells panned not just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Times Critic Pete Wells Savages Locol In Oakland New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has given us another surprise Bay Area review in his intermittent mission to survey the national food scene, and it's a review of Daniel Patterson and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding The SF Restaurant Economy, Where $500 Dinners Proliferate And Mid-Range Spots Struggle A national restaurant consultant, in the last decade, once said that "San Francisco gives great middle," referring to the fact that the city had not, for many years, been much of a fine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Take A Look At The $5 Locol Burger, From Roy Choi And Daniel Patterson, Now On Sale In Oakland As noted last week, the much anticipated fast-food collaboration of chef-restaurateurs Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson has made its Bay Area debut, and that would be Locol. With multiple locations planned including one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Executive Chef Matthew Kirkley's New Seafood Menu At Coi As announced last summer, executive chef and owner Daniel Patterson has decided to step away from the kitchen at his flagship, Michelin two-star restaurant Coi in order to focus on his family and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daniel Patterson Buys SF's Oldest Steakhouse, Alfred's The idea of Daniel Patterson dining at, let alone taking over, San Francisco's oldest steakhouse Alfred's takes a little suspension of disbelief. But you'd better believe it's happening, says Inside Scoop. What's meant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Acclaimed Chef Daniel Patterson Hires New Exec Chef At Coi, Will Be Stepping Back Next Year Highly decorated local chef Daniel Patterson, who's one of only two Bay Area chefs (the other is David Kinch) to be cited for his innovations in the Modernist Cuisine tome, is making the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Aster Opens Tuesday In The Mission As hinted at earlier, the time has come for the debut of Aster (1001 Guerrero Street), the newest restaurant in the Daniel Patterson Group. This one comes to us via former Outerlands chef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Progress, SPQR, Quince, And Manresa Top 2015 James Beard Nomination List A month ago we had the so-called "long list" of semi-finalists for this year's "Oscars of the food world," a.k.a. The James Beard Foundation Awards. And today we bring you the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Daniel Patterson And Roy Choi Release Trailer For Fast Food Restaurant Loco'l Chefs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi have been amping up for Loco'l, a surprising foray into fast food announced last August. At that point, Patterson had already developed burger of 70 percent beef
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Haven Takes Temporary Pause In Oakland, Patterson Calls Chef Shuffle Rumors 'Gossip' Local chef-entrepreneur Daniel Patterson seems to like having several concepts on the stove at once, with Coi and Alta CA in SF plus the coming-this-year launch of Loco'l with LA's Roy Choi. And
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Burma Superstar Arrives On Valencia, Loco'l Finds A T-Loin Spot, And More December is a season of celebration for most restaurants, and 'tis the season of lists, like our roundup of the best new restaurants of the year. But it's also a season when we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chefs Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi To Launch Fast-Food Concept Called Loco'l A cool concept with an odd name from a pair of California chefs was announced today at the MAD food symposium in Copenhagen, and it's called Loco'l. S.F. chef and restaurateur Daniel
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 Big Food News: Coi To Be First S.F. Restaurant To Launch Ticketing System Daniel Patterson's North Beach fine-dining flagship, Coi, will be among the first U.S. restaurants, and the first in San Francisco, to begin using a dining-ticketing system pioneered by Chicago restaurants Next and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daniel Patterson, Slanted Door Win Big At James Beard Awards Last night in Manhattan, the "Oscars of the food world" happened, and finally, finally, Coi chef Daniel Patterson got the award he's been nominated for dozens of times without winning: Best Chef in