Arts & Entertainment Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder Sure Jager makes things all surreal, tequila makes you do things you normally wouldn't do, and whiskey makes things all sh---kicking but if you really want something that brings the crazy, there's absinthe.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Still Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass! The bay area Michelin Guide 2008 is out, and there’s not much changed from last year: the French Laundry is the only place with 3 stars (the most) in the wider bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: Holy New Whole Foods! What would Batman and Robin think? With its chic industrial/gothic design, the new “market hall” style Whole Foods that opened recently near Lake Merritt in Oakland certainly could be used for a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zagat '08 Survey The 2008 edition is out: your nice alphabetical list of restaurants with a grade for food, decor and service, as rated by the users of Zagat. This year, it is going 2.0,
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 Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up Berrylicious illustration from The Oakland Tribune. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Serious bock-bock time for those of you who
Arts & Entertainment CalTrain of Thought Other local trains featured in the book include MUNI's F-line and the famous cable car, with a cameo appearance by your very own Golden Gate Bridge, of course. (Yay! The next generation of
Arts & Entertainment Former Vallejo Councilman Is <i>That Much Closer</i> To Being Whipping Boy Why on earth would an almost 60-year-old former city councilman from Vallejo want to be on Hell's Kitchen? To be continually called a "donkey" ("don-keeeeeh!") on route to embarassing himself on national television?
Arts & Entertainment Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up Yummy photo courtesy of Dinner Party -One new blog we're eyeing is Dinner Party, who recently put the jam in jammy by making strawberry balsamic jam. We like and find heartwarming the idea
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Oooh, Ho, Hoh! (said with heavy French accent, mimicking one of our favorite cooking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mmmmm, Taco Truck: Los Compadres Taqueria No need to bury the lead: the Los Compadres taco truck that does business at Spear & Folsom is yummy. We enjoyed a rather large burrito there recently (pictured above with our fat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cheap, Loud, And Drug-Laden: Taqueria's Owner And Chef Busted There aren't a lot of reviews out there for Lol Tun Restaurant, on Folsom between 19th & 20th streets. The folks participating on Yelp generally say the food is good and cheap, but
Arts & Entertainment You Can Be On Top (Chef). We'd Like It. The next season of Top Chef is looking for a few good contestants, right here in San Francisco. Applicants that aren't able to attend can submit video profiles instead, but Sunday brings you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up We like it like that: Taste Tests had a great Pres A Vi shrimp cake brunch recently. The pic is worth at least a thousand licks! Looks like a fresh update on our
Arts & Entertainment Bauer On LAist On Bauer? Food Flap! You know how sometimes we point out when an out-of-town publication takes an outside-in look at our fair city? We've pointed to such pieces in the L.A. Times and the Economist even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section (Abbreviated) Round Up Roasted Chioggia beets with nectarine juices & marjoram. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here is our short and sweet favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Michael Bauer eats
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Today's Delicious Prize For Using Embarcadero Station We were rather pleased Monday, yesterday, and again today to be subjected to nice young lasses offering free gum to those exiting the Embarcadero Station on the corner of Market and Spear. In
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'In Vino Veritas' -- And Sometimes Other Stuff: SFist Alum Writes About 'Fruit Wine' Derrick Schneider has an excellent food-focused blog called "Obsession With Food." He also wrote for SFist regularly for quite a long time, most notably his still-popular SFist in the Kitchen series. So of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up Think you can't cook? Have a slew of reasons why not? There's hope. Find out how and why one 60-year old Brit took inspiration from 101 Cookbooks to make dishes like creme brulee,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Happy Hour Pain-Killing In SF Unthirsty breaks down the top-ten San Francisco happy hours for stopping the shakes. Although we have to disagree with the number-one spot going to the thematic, fun, yet sometimes overpriced Tonga Room --
Arts & Entertainment Ritual Roasters Event For Bikes To Rwanda This Saturday Ritual Coffee Roasters' two locations are only about three miles apart. Not so bad on a bike, right? Well, what if you're biking with 130 pounds of coffee? Yeah, a little tougher. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Chocolate Salon at Fort Mason If you like learning about and consuming chi-chi/artisan/premium/hand-made chocolate in all its forms, there's lots to love at the Chocolate Salon, taking place today and tomorrow in Building A at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Sun-heated ovens are examined. Good: thought to help save the planet, low(ish) cost,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vive Le Bon Anniversaire! 4:30 p.m.: Catch the last matinée showing of at the U.A. Theater on Shattuck. (This theater has the tastiest popcorn we've tried lately, by the way. Not too salty. No
