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 Watch Daniel Patterson Cut Something Off A Tree, Talk Lichen Chef Daniel Patterson (Coi, Haven, Plum) can be seen in this video ordering from the drive-thru at Wendy's and later picking out his favorite bulk Halloween candy at CVS. Heh. No, not really.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coi Chef Goes Casual, Saison Gets Cheaper While boozing it up last night, we got into a simmering debate with a food writer over high-end tasting menus. Personally, we love them. The more intricate and fussier, the better. Why? Why
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Plum Scores Manfred Wrembel As Their New Executive Chef A year after opening Plum in Oakland, Daniel Patterson (he of Coi) hired a new executive chef to guide the menu at his other acclaimed joint. Manfred Wrembel, who just finished a six-year
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 Jeremy Fox and Daniel Patterson Do It Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi has word that former Ubuntu superstar chef Jeremy Fox "has found a new home: Daniel Patterson’s upcoming Oakland restaurant, Plum." Promising to be more casual than the now-sacred
misc Coi and Ugbuntu Make NYT's Top Ten List Sure, these places look like the types of fine dining establishments none of us could afford. Nevertheless we were delighted to read in this morning's New York Times ("Coast to Coast, Restaurants That
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Un-natural Food Additive Alert So, we ourselves are as naïve as anyone else on this topic, having not-too-long-ago extolled the virtues of dishes containing the latest faux-food villain at B Restaurant in Oakland... Guess what? Truffle oil
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: W♥WL Chef Daniel Patterson -- whose new restaurant Coi is about to open downtown -- wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, pointing out the influence of Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. Hers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Tamed Madness Bernard Loiseau was a sad casualty of a similar debate: this French chef committed suicide, alledgedly because the Michelin was going to take his third star away (on a scale of three). His