SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Drinks <i>Flavored Coffee?</i> Wha-huh? We know . . . that doesn't sound very "-purist," now does it? We must confess -- we weren't looking for coffee the day we bought these beans. In fact, we weren't even looking for chocolate,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Food Face-Off #1: Battle Oxtail That was, until now. Let the First SFist Food Face-Off begin. While we are building a giant kitchen set to host the battles at the SFist compound, as soon as the funding comes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: Eatin' in Austin Well, okay, so this may not be so helpful to residents of The City, but considering how many people we've run into from home and folks around these parts who've spent time in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Lucca Foods & Wine Shop We started eating at Lucca during a particularly dark time in our lives. It was 2001, and your author had just gotten dumped, was seriously ill and broke as s**t. Thank god
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink It's the Ides of March. Whatcha Gonna Eat? But it doesn't have to be this way. Michael Chiarello, whom we sort of adore, gets it right with this recipe from NapaStyle: the hearts of romaine are left as whole leaves, adorned
Arts & Entertainment Drink the Haight With Your Trimethyldioxypurist Inside the west-bound 1 California that we rode on Sunday, there's a sign that reads "Shop the Haight." The sign is printed in strange brown tones that make it almost unreadable.We thought
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Italia nella Missione And his legacy continues: at SFist, we are proud of gay weddings, even though we know fully well they are the first step on the slippery slope towards man-on-domesticated-wolf-o-philia. And we are proud
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Andy's The Richmond and Sunset is more than just the place you drive through on your way to the beach--it's home to some great, if overlooked, restaurants. We hope you're inspired to try new
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Stuffed: El Metate Of course, if you don't know, a Metate is the traditional stone bowl that is used to crush the limed corn, or hominy, into masa flour. Like a mortar and pestle, but much
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco A to Zed SFist had to overcome it's own self-acknowledged, inverted form of snobbery to make a reservation at widely applauded Marina District restaurant A16. We accidentally left our passport to Chestnut Street - the fake
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 Holy Grail Discovered: Decent Delivery Pizza Found in Berkeley (Yeah, we've heard countless times from the east coast transplants among us about the inherent inferiority of west coast pizza -- not to mention bagels -- so save it!) But when we're not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Weekend Getaway: Tahoe North Shore We stayed at a friend's beautiful home in Incline Village, which is just over the border in Nevada. Unfortunately, the county is too populous to have legal prostitution, but if you're in to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wide Awake in North Beach: Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store is a small, intimate cafe in North Beach, right on the corner of Columbus and Union. Both bar seating and small, round tables are available; plenty of large windows
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Big Momma's House Getting pregnant is a wonderful, beautiful thing. There’s the special joy in knowing that a life grows inside you, the hormones make you all blissed out, and suddenly your mother-in-law treats you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Talkin' Turckheim [] Even here at SFist, we like a little French touch in our food. For instance, we don't say 'foodie in the Sunset', we write gourmet de l'ouest. Grumps might complain about the choice
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Gets Stuffed: Real Meals Under Ten Bucks We live in the Mission, which is pretty much ground zero for cheap eats. If the terrorists/communists/homosexuals/bloggers/what-have-you wanted to imperil the ability for the cash-poor and culture-rich to feed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Patpong Out in the Sunset, you can't swing a cat without hitting a pretty decent Thai restaurant. We're reminded of the line in Six Degrees of Separation, where dining in New York is described
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
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Isn't Too Cool For Traffic School Sometimes we at SFist break the law. Not necessarily in a "hold up the local 7-Eleven" kind of way, but in a "oh crap that schoolbus had its lights flashing" kind of way.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nightmarish Coffee at 30,000 Feet It sure is hard to review a San Francisco-based coffee joint when you're not in San Francisco. Although we did find one fantastic coffee house in D.C. (that we would encourage anyone
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gourmet de l'Ouest: Lotus SFist has decided to take Dr. Phil's advice and to go out on "dates" with our long-standing sweetheart. Living in the Outer Sunset as we do, our desire to keep the relationship alive
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Westside Organics Haiku Contest Winner! The first runner up sure knows how to get us all hot and bothered: But the artistry of the following we think tipped the scales in favor of our winner: O delicate pea
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist In The Kitchen: Blood Oranges We're getting a bit tired of winter's oranges, but juicy, so-red-they're-violet blood oranges caught our attention at the Civic Center Farmer's Market and we to buy some. We like the hallmark taste that
