SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Make Your Reservations Now! You know all our fancy, world-class, four star restaurants, and how difficult it is to get a reservation? You've got to plan months in advance -- both to book a table, and to
Arts & Entertainment Newsflash: South Bay Fun not oxymoron First, you could go to the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Gastronomically, this is probably your best bet, gastrointestinally, it's questionable. Sadly, they aren't running the train down there this year, which really takes the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Happiness is a warm broth. We must mention that, post-blues, we found comfort in the best spanakopita, a Greek phyllo dough square stuffed with spinach. We saw it displayed in the window at Dino's, and it was so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink J to Zed Sfist has a little crush on James Ormsby. No less than three times in seven months, we have been drawn back to his swanky Gavin-endorsed restaurant in SoMa, Jack Falstaff. We are not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Corn Farmers bred the super-sweets for a good reason. As soon as you pick corn, enzymes begin to convert the sugar in the kernels to starch. Hence the old advice to boil water before
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spiked! Good Coffee In The Castro While our list of reader-recommended coffee houses to try is growing, we didn't have a chance to cross any places off of it this week. That's because we happened across a wonderful little
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Bitter Melon Bitter melon is, obviously, bitter. Western palates shy away from this sensation, but it's a common component throughout Eastern cuisine, where many consider bitterness to be a cleansing panacea. Piles of these exotic-looking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Mangeurs d'ail, et fiers de l'être. Bouchon is Keller's other restaurant, the French bistro sidekick to his French Laundry's and his Per Se's haute cuisine. The French Laundry, in Yountville in Napa, is arguably the best restaurant in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vote Early, Vote Often Okay, so we got an email from Gridskipper asking us to nominate some of the World's Sexiest Cities in different categories, but the catch was, we couldn't nominate our own. Since Gridskipper has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink I to Zed SFist can't even begin to recall the number of times it has aimlessly wandered past the Imperial Tea Court in San Francisco's Ferry Building Market Place and wondered why it appears to be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Counter-Intuitive Search For Coffee The last time we actually posted something in this column (as opposed to our contest cop-out), it ended with something like, "blah blah, sick of chalk menus, blah blah, cafes are all the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sorry, You'll Have to Leave, As You're Not a Member You know, we really wish there was some place in San Francisco to go that was stylishly exclusive. Really, we'd go out more, but everytime we go to some club we're surrounded by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink MeredithWatch Okay, there are three bloggers in town who at one point in their lives asked themselves, "Am I the only person who thinks Meredith Brody's restaurant reviews stink?" Well, thanks to the magic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All Hail the Burrito SFist works so hard for you, San Francisco, that when we're not blogging here, we're off blogging somewhere else (and sometimes even getting work done at our day jobs). And sometimes we get
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Moss Beach Distillery Here's the thing: We are Breakfast Eaters, and we are drinkers, so the words "champagne brunch," once they enter our brain, tend to stay there, ping-ponging around and popping out anytime the old
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cucumbers We found cucumbers by the armful at this weekend's Jack London Square farmer's market. Pickling cucumbers, Japanese cucumbers, standard American cucumbers. The abundance flaunted itself, and challenged us to take some into the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Inventory à la Prevert Goat Hill pizza for all-you-can-eat Monday nights after the jump.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Zucchini, Mostly The simplest treatment features sautéed slices with minced garlic—we suggest the flavorful, hard-necked Rocambole variety you can find at various market stalls. Before turning on the heat, slice the squash into thin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Craps Out ( . . And You Can Win!) As may be the case with many coffee aficionados, breakfast is our favorite meal. Cuz we get to drink coffee with it. Oh sure, we drink coffee with dinner too, but the a.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: It must be Siegfried, because it's not Roy. Trader Joe's has become a weekend ritual for us. We really can't admit this without shame. Weekends used to be times to climb mountains or party endlessly. Now, we must wake up early
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wanna Be a Pundit? We received a nice note from Wendy over at KQED's Bay Area Bites Blog who tipped us off about the following opportunity: A heads up for all you local foodies out there...KQED
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Deliver Us From Yet Another Burrito You know we love San Francisco. You should also know that we hate the fact that nobody f**king delivers (coming soon to an SFist Rant near you). So when we heard about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Peaches Mmmm. Peaches. Repeat after us. Mmmm. Peaches. We've been slurping down sample slices at various farmer's markets stands, and we were drawn to the Gold Dust heirloom peaches from Frog Hollow. Sure, it's
