SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Overcaffeination in Mission Dolores Sunday was a beautiful day. Unless, we suppose, you're out of your head. It started at Maxfield's House of Caffeine, at 398 Dolores Street. We love the name of the place. We walked
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: My Fair Lady Sushi Zone is a few steps up from the corner of Market and Octavia. Right now, the construction area on the east side of market, not yet connected to the new freeway off-ramp,
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 Rise To Vote, Sir (With Your Trimethyldioxypurist) Palindromes are fun. From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: C'est quoi, Koi? Ooops, maybe the Outback people did not know that the week-end dim sum crowds park in their lot. Maybe they look back and forth at the dining room and the lot and think,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Celia's Mexican Restaurant We have our habits, and one of them is a powerful hankering for kickass Mexican food. Now, the Bay Area's abundance of taquerias and taco trucks is well-documented, and we have developed real
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Plumcots and Apriums Neither plums nor apricots were showing particularly well yet at the Berkeley Farmer's Market, but we found some decent samples of their hybrids. We've noticed purple-skinned plumcots and pluots, along with soft orange
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trimethyldioxypurism (Read: Damn Good Coffee) Abundant At New Mission Spot Ritual Coffee, at 1026 Valencia Street in the Mission, opened just a few weeks ago and already appears to have a loyal following. And why not? Our first thoughts as we walked in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Half Moon Bay Brewing Company Beer: We like it. So Half Moon Bay Brewing Company — a waterfront restaurant that brews its own — seemed a great choice for a foggy afternoon on the coast. We had s**t to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Hits A Downtown Sweet Spot While some time ago, we advised using corporate coffee houses in a pinch when you're in a strange town, we're beginning to believe that French bakeries should be our new default places to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: An Interview With Dan Leone. Before we talk with Dan, let's wrap up the Yucatan definitely-not-yuck-a-thon: since last week we had the opportunity to sample City Blend Cafe's cochinita pibil. City Blend is a coffee shop on 16th,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Nick’s Seashore Restaurant Remember in when Henry Hill's talking about how he and the other gangsters used to take their wives out on Friday nights? They'd go out for a nice dinner, and maybe there'd be
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 Wants You To Find A Friend: Emily, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (she'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from Grateful Dogs Rescue. She shares a name
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Asks YOU Okay, folks -- here's the deal. After about 30 entries here on SFist, your Trimethyldioxypurist (that is, fella who loves caffeine) is imploring you for your help in navigating the treacherous ocean that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Cancun Pigs Before we introduce the participants, a few words on the rule: we did a one-on-one comparison, which we judged based on two dishes from Yucatan, the peninsula at the bottom right of Mexico
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Marcello's That said, while waiting for local luminaries to strut down the red carpet on Sunday, we overcame our fears of potentially dreadful west coast pizza (thanks to an endorsement in our comments) and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In the Kitchen: Strawberries You don't need us to tell you what to do with strawberries. Eat them raw on a picnic and enjoy their juicy flesh. Eat them the raw with your lover, dunking the red
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes in the View We'll make this one short and sweet -- at Red's Java House (Pier 30), what you see is what you get. On a nice day, you can't beat being bayside; you can't beat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Wants You To Find A Friend: Cooper, from Grateful Dogs This week's adoptable pet (he'll be featured on SFist all week long on the right side of the site, below the ads) comes to us from the same place last week's dog did,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Represent: Three World Class Restaurants! Of course, our first thought was how did we do against the other 'ists? Well, we beat the crap out of LAist, with a series sweep at three to nothing, and that's what
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Canteen One of the cool perks of writing about food in blogs is that you get to meet people who write about food in blogs. And they are quite a few food bloggers around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Ono Hawaiian Grill We got there around 1:30, still a busy hour on a weekend, and sat down to wait; ten or fifteen minutes later, the spacy but sweet teenage hostess found us a table.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eat At URL's The first time we had lunch at "URL's" (har har) was a while back when we were working down Mathilda a piece at Hewlett-Packard and our friend was at Yahoo. He gave us
