Business & Tech World’s First Commercial Hydrogen-Powered Ferry Spotted on the Waters of the SF Bay Today A ferry boat fueled entirely by hydrogen and oxygen hit the waters of the Bay Area Friday morning, and the zero-emissions boat will start carrying passengers on July 19, free of charge for the first six months.
SF News Ferry Building Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary Thursday With ‘A Very Ferry Birthday Party’ There’ll be free Humphry Slocombe ice cream, live music, (not free) Fort Point beer and more at Thursday’s Very Ferry Birthday Party to celebrate 125 years of the SF Ferry Building’s glorious but complicated history.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seasonal Libations At Tomorrow's CUESA Spring Cocktail Bash Tomorrow night, Wednesday May 15th at the Ferry Building, our neighborly farmers market organizers at CUESA are teaming up with the US Bartenders Guild to host their seasonal drinking event celebrating spring produce,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indulgent Foods, Scenic Places: A Breakfast Sandwich At The Ferry Plaza We here at SFist are raising the stakes for food porn by infusing our food photos with unadulterated city porn. Gratuitously indulgent food items, photographed (and eaten) in front of iconic San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment CGI <em>Peter Pan</em> Theatrical Production Coming to Ferry Plaza While it will star neither Mary Martin nor Cathy Rigby, J M Barrie’s Peter Pan, which will be performed at "the world’s first 360-degree CGI theatre," will make its U.S.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Carmen Jones: Based off of Georges Bizet's famous French opera Carmen, the adaptation was made into a successful Broadway musical, and then a '50s film staring Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, and Pearl
Arts & Entertainment 'Wine By The Bay' Event: Good Wines, Great Cause, Old Friends This Saturday at the San Francisco Embarcadero Hyatt Regency from noon-4 p.m., you can join KGO Radio and the Mendocino Wine Growers Foundation in celebration of the wines and other good stuff
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All The News You Can Booze For many of us with standard 9-5 jobs, a long weekend is coming up. Naturally, our minds turn to libations (take a look to the left for some insight into our personal plans)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Parsnips Given the odd carrot colors on display at the country's most upscale market, you'd be forgiven for thinking that parsnips are nothing more than beige carrots. They are cousins, but parsnips have a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Simple Summer Supper Great ingredients make great food, and all you have to do is get out of their way. Here's a casual summer meal we assembled for the test kitchen staff. This weekend, find your
Arts & Entertainment There’s A Brand New Dance But I Don’t Know Its Name When SFist Jackson announced, "Hey, I saw your BFF Dede today", we went scarlet (we don't wear green) with envy. When do we get OUR Dede Wilsey sighting? Taunting our jealousy, Jackson sent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Rancho Gordo Beans As soon as the weather presented a semblance of winter, we headed straight for the Rancho Gordo stall at the Saturday Ferry Plaza Market, where Steve Sando sells his excellent dried beans, explaining
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Favorite Farmer's Market Vendors of 2005 I rely on a number of high-quality producers for the Kitchen column. Some I've written about in depth, some make frequent cameo appearances. Here are the unsung (at least at this site) producers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Oysters Holiday shopping and holiday parties leave us little time to cook this season. As we wandered the waterlogged Ferry Plaza market this weekend, we passed by the stalls of produce, knowing any veggies
misc The 'Fisties: Best Place to Shop For Food The Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market gets plenty of press, and we do love the high-quality ingredients you'll find there. But it's not perfect: High prices make for expensive visits, and the many tourists
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Gravy and Stuffing We think the idea will catch on. But what should you serve? Turkeys are at the height of their season right now: Every market seems to have them. (Note, we used a chicken
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Winter Squash "But, um," you're thinking, "shouldn't that read 'winter squash is to '? Because, you know, they're winter squash?" Pish tosh, we say. The winter add-on is more about how long you can store
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Apricots We have been eagerly tasting apricots on our farmer's market forays, waiting for them to go from tart and unpleasant to juicy and sweet. Someday soon, we knew. Saturday wasn't promising until we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Marin Sun Farms We loves us a good piece of meat, but we can't stand buying the factory-farmed animal products we find in most stores. An American obsession with cheap meat has left us with powerful
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cardoons We were over the moon when we saw cardoons at Tairwa' Knoll's stall last Saturday at the Ferry Plaza Market. Restaurateurs and avid cardoon eaters usually buy all these tall, light green stalks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Capricious Cheese SFist Derrick, contributing. Photos by Melissa Schneider.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Asparagus Asparagus takes to a variety of quick preparations: blanch and stir-fry it, steam it, boil it, roast it, or grill it. Classicists can finish with a hollandaise sauce while flush gourmets might choose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Dried Mandarins We particularly liked this dust as a coating for Cointreau-flavored chocolate truffles, but we also enjoyed combining the Tang-colored spice with cayenne pepper to make a rub for seared ahi tuna, which we
