SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are You Really That Desperate? Okay, SFist admits that the dating scene is ugly. Really, really ugly. We've never had much luck at hooking up with folks at bars or clubs, though granted the line between consuming enough
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink In Case You Missed It: King Cakes That said, there are things about Mardi Gras that do appeal to us -- those metallic purple, gold, and green beads, for example. We got our annual fill of those from our brother-in-law,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Takes a Dive Similarly, there are coffee-related ventures where the coffee quality doesn't matter. Not as much, at least, so long as it's hot and plentiful and the server is quick on the draw with that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foodies Donate Know-how to Help Tsunami Victims In what has to be the most delicious way to help those who lost their lives, loved ones and communities in the Tsunami disaster, a group of foodie bloggers from around the world
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Gets It Right the Second Time It's like drinking "green." It's vibrant, a little raw, and really just . . . different. Strong, but not oppressively so. Pungent. Piny through the middle; a nice, fresh finish. Perhaps some elucidation is in order.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Closing Time Assemblymember Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) tried to get similar legislation passed several years ago, with the approval of the Board of Supes, but used an economic argument instead. His idea was that if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Mission Statement (Of Sorts) From Your Trimethyldioxypurist After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Does Anybody Read 7x7? Sam Breach of Becks & Posh bravely opened up a copy of 7x7 magazine (San Francisco's answer to society mag New York Magazine) only to find her own name in it! Of course,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luna Park Snark Gawker's all hot and bothered that Luna Park, the Valencia street eatery which expanded to hell-ay, is now making the move to the loisaida. That's right, it will soon join uber-good Katz's Delicatessen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drink This Coffee NOW. A directive from your Trimethyldioxypurist. There are times when we of modest writing ability are in bliss, for we find a subject that seems to write itself. Additionally, there are times when a Trimethyldioxypurist is in bliss, mostly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Goes Shopping Gah. Crowds. Who can stand them? Oh, sure, we'll wait a few weeks before we make all our holiday returns and exchanges. Oh, yeah, Union Square will be like a walk in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Staggering Through Fog When the weather gets as ugly as it's been recently, you just gotta find a place that feels like home. No, not that 200 square foot dump you call an apartment. We're talking
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zegnatronic! Adriel Hampton reports on his blog that Alex Clemens, the mastermind behind SF politics must-see site Usual Suspects, has proudly bought ad space on the back of Frank Chu's "Impeach Clinton/12 Galaxies"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Over the Counter With the Trimethyldioxypurist Much like our experience in Boston, the nasty weather lately speaks to the needs of convenient caffeine. With buses running behind, traffic slowing, or possibly just a desire to stay home and keep
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Drives Thru Does the concept of a drive-thru window for your morning coffee sound odd? Not so odd in Beantown. It's an interesting juxtaposition. The Boston and San Francisco areas have many similarities -- they
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hope She Didn't Steal The Shoes Shoplifting, Courtney-Love-drug-sharing, indie-rock cradle robber Winona Ryder went all Lebowski at Hayward's Holiday Bowl last week as she and Joseph Fiennes filmed scenes for their upcoming movie, The Darwin Awards (it's about insurance
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Size Matters to The Trimethyldioxypurist When reviewing a cafe or coffee shop, the Trimethyldioxypurist's typical modus operandi is to order a straight-up cup of good ol' American drip, nothing fancy -- a good benchmark to measure the general
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker While we don't want to seem a shill for any business enterprise, Scharffen Berger's catchphrase of "America's Finest Dark Chocolate...From Bean to Bar" is really pretty accurate. This is damned good chocolate,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Lark in the Morning Without a doubt, the coolest place in the Cannery: Lark in the Morning. It's a place where music is serious and music is fun. Classic instruments, like guitars, mandolins, recorders, xylophones, bongos, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: It's a Noun, It's a Verb, It's a Present So maybe you need a present for your ardent younger sister with the stars in her eyes who just finished her first-year winter finals at UC Santa Cruz. Or maybe you sport kitsch
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An SFist Christmas Well, we just heard Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on the radio the other day (the kickoff song for the season), so it's official -- Santa Claus be coming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Ghirardelli Chocolate Company Founded in 1852 in San Francisco, the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is a well-known San Francisco institution and is also known worldwide, in the company of other prominent local names like Gap, Williams-Sonoma, Lucasfilms,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Moments in Trimethyldioxypurism Ritual. It's very important in our society. A ritual can be more powerful than its components -- after all, don't we all know that person who drinks the dreaded in the morning, claiming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: The Buena Vista I know, I know -- today's hip, cultured SFist wouldn't be caught dead so close to the wharf. But there's some really cool stuff down there; places from the past that have stood
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Urban Forage No More Where will we get our tempeh kabobs now? We've gotten a tip that the vegan wonderland restaurant Urban Forage has suddenly closed all three of its San Francisco locations for good. The restaurants
