SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Interviews Nina Zagat The Zagat 2006 is out, and it's the 20th anniversary of the SF edition. So we got to hang out with Nina in her suite at the Four Seasons. She did not wear
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Val's Restaurant & Lounge Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Chili Peppers We know people who show off their by chomping on hot, raw chilis. Not us. We'd be happy just to have a higher tolerance. Then maybe we could appreciate the subtle flavors described
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Charles Siegel There are few things as beloved as chocolate--it can change moods, please crowds, make an otherwise forgettable event suddenly memorable. It's magical. And it can concern us sometimes, as with recent local chocolatiers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: What's that Almodovar Movie Again? Let's take a look behind the scenes at the Gastronomique production studio. The question that we get all the time (email us your questions, comments, or suggestions here, btw, we want your input)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Karma=Good Coffee? Indeed. Ah, it's times like this that we wish we really wish we could describe "taste" better. We found a really nice coffee -- from a local roaster no less -- and when we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Sweet Peppers All the pretty peppers at the market are in the species , but there are two main subdivisions: sweet peppers and chili peppers. We'll give you some ideas for sweet peppers this week, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Grapes Even before harvest, grape vines produce big fleshy leaves you can use to wrap various stuffings, and you can crush unfermented grapes to make verjuice ( if you prefer), a tart liquid similar to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Miscellaneous Awards also went to Julie Kaufmann, of the Merc, for best food section, and to the Chron’s Miriam Morgan, Linda Murphy, Carol Ness, Michael Bauer, Craig Lee for best food section, best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Melons You'll find a number of varieties at the farmer's market right now, but for a cook's purposes, they divide into two categories: watermelons and everything else. Watermelons have an airy network of cells
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Where We Got Crabs. Kepiting hitam manis means: fried Dungeness crab served with the house special black pepper sauce. We had chosen it on our first visit, as we saw it handwritten on the special board. We
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Crayfish Fast forward a few years to the Grand Lake Market in Oakland. We spotted another crayfish vendor, but this time we subdued our long enough to ask an important question. "How do you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Rock Out with Eight Guys Out In the two years that the company's existed, feedback has been positive (such as two guys who met through 8 Guys Out, then paused their membership to focus on pursuing each other), and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: You Can Ride Our Tail Any Time Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: The Corral Steakhouse Remember in , when the pre-Skeletor-phase Jennifer Connelly, on the advice of a talking worm, walks through what appears to be a solid wall, but is actually a gap in the maze when she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Rants: Oh, So Bittersweet A lot of great stuff starts in the Bay Area. Conversely, it often ends here too. We guess that's our punishment for living in an area where a commitment to artisanal techniques goes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Tomatillos The tart taste of a tomatillo, which is a relative of the tomato, adds a zingy note to guacamole or salads, though Elizabeth Schneider cautions readers to use raw pieces in moderation. More
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe For The (Accidental) Soccer Mom? You Bet! Strange weekend. We're almost exclusively pedestrians, but every so often we're forced to go through the hell that is renting a car. While we hate driving, we were more than happy to make
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: New Mission Round-Up Today's places, below the jump, are Pizzeria Delfina, The Window, Baku de Thai, Big Lantern and Crazy Sushi, all of them between Duboce and 18th and Mission and Dolores.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink K to Zed Try and think of somewhere, in the heart of San Francisco, that you can dine on South Indian specialities like Dosa and Uttapam. Not such an easy question, is it? Ok, just to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Okra So we have pointedly ignored the okra that has appeared at markets of late. Even the pretty crimson types haven't tempted us. But every farmer seems to have this hibiscus relative for sale,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Soup in the 'Fly It is no wonder that, when stealing the word amuse-bouche from the vocabulary of French cuisine, Americans commonly take only the first part, and unceremoniously dump its trailer. The First Amendment covers the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Tour of Anchor Steam Brewing Ah, yes, beer. It fuels our bodies and quenches our thirst (well, our thirst for beer and tipsy hijinx anyway). Say what you will about the Egyptians, but having been largely credited with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Market Breakfast Back when we subscribed, we daydreamed about the perfect life depicted in those features. We eyed the Smoked Trout with Cucumber-Watercress Cream and thought that maybe if we made it often enough, we
