SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: See's Candies See's Candies was founded in L.A. in 1921, but they've had stores here in San Francisco since 1936. While the company became part of Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway empire in 1972, there's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Vitamin Express Okay, so it's off the beaten path. But this is EssEff, what would be more appropriate? Vitamin Express is a great place for vitamins (duh), supplements, healthy snacks, lotions, aroma therapy, gum, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Holiday Gift Guide: Rainbow Grocery The inagural entry in our shopping guide goes to Rainbow Grocery. We've made no secret of our fondness for Rainbow in the past, but wanted to bring it to your attention as a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Viva La Trimethyldioxypurist Holy crap, man -- pass the sweetener! Straight up, before anything else is mentioned about Cafe Macondo, it must be known that this is a super dark, wickedly bitter cup of coffee. This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Culinary Piracy Our idea of being a foodie outlaw is eating ribs in front of a vegetarian or putting chicken on pizza (which we're still not entirely comfortable with). Cheap thrills, we know -- but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nectar of the Gods [] Now that Thanksgiving is over and done with, there are only about eighteen gazillion other reasons to throw a party and drink yourself into oblivion this holiday season. Should you be invited to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Trimethyldioxypurist Holiday Survival Guide Steel Cage Match: Caffeine v. Tryptophan Turkey contains an amino acid called tryptophan, which makes you sleepy. Coffee (thanks to trimethyldioxypurin, natch) perks you up. So one should counter the other, right? Yeah,
Arts & Entertainment They Want Two States Further amplifying the rivalry between here and there, the San Francisco Convention and Visitors' Bureau has launched a new website, called Not in L.A., supposedly to lure Angelenans up what they call
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Look Upon the Trimethyldioxypurist, Ye Mighty, and Despair A good, strong cup is always a priority -- but it's not always the whole story. Take Cafe Abir, for instance, a stand-out coffee joint (and more) in the Western Addition (1300 Fulton
Arts & Entertainment Season of Hate We're just blamelessly living our idyllic lives out here: blue skies, a Democratic mayor, a modern art museum that doesn't cost $20 to get into, a panda bear coming to Oakland..... when suddenly,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yet More Free Stuff From SFist! SFist is proud to welcome our first local advertiser, Westside Organics! You may have noticed their handsome banner up there. We gave them a break on price because, well, we need the money
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Trimethyldioxypurist Doubleshot Man, the Trimethyldioxypurist is cranky lately. Even after he's had his coffee. The sheer overproliferation of certain stores in San Francisco these days is frightening. You can't spit downtown without hitting a Subway
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Even Sweeter Science In the darkness of midnight, boats from Bodega to Half Moon Bay loaded up their traps and headed out to sea as the opening of the local crab season has officially begun. What
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Spot the International Superstar No, not that choad in the middle -- dude on the left, Iron Chef Rokusaburo Michiba! Hell, if we'd known you get to fly all-expenses-paid to Japan to meet Michiba-san (and eat at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cares About Literacy SFist knows we're awesome so we find it really sad that some people can't read us. It would be one thing if people read us, but there are plenty of people who can't
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Medical Marijuana -- Mmmm Mmmm Good Sorry hippies, but your beloved marijuana plant is being poked, prodded and perverted by evil scientists trying to unlock the mysteries of its benefits beyond "getting" 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a fascinating
Arts & Entertainment GTA: San Andreas Review - San Fierro Edition [Be sure to check out the coverage of Los Santos on LAist!] We loved the last Grand Theft Auto, Vice City. The eighties music and cars, the neon glow of faux deco, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Has Great Mexican Food. Psych! New York is such a big city full of bright lights and superstars, and you can get anything (and we do mean anything) you want delivered to your door at almost any time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Takes A Smoggy Bullet For You You've got three options: the 5, the 101, and the 1. For this article, we drove down on the 5 and then hurried back up on the 101. We skipped the 1, even
Arts & Entertainment In Levi's World Wrangler is King The rodeo, livestock show and other related events lasted the whole week, but we showed up at the end for the event finals. We don't know much about the rodeo -- everything we
Arts & Entertainment Silver Lining Well, on the bright side, at least someone around here won . The only good thing about the Bush victory is that our adorable editor SFist Jackson won 1115.org's electoral map contest! SFist
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Trimethyldioxypurist Gallery Cafe is at the corner of Washington & Mason, right across from the San Francisco Cable Car Museum. Here, they dispense with the questions about "which bean" or "which blend." Your choices
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Untacky Tiki Technology Ah, if only. Trader Vic's - now a global chain, but in the 1930s the world's first Tiki restaurant - doesn't skimp on the atmosphere. You feel it in the wallet, of course,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Cares After sitting around this morning nursing hangovers, wounded egos and sad souls, we realized that life must go on and for many people in the area life is already tough and will only
Arts & Entertainment Comic Relief Getting the Boot Annoyingly, Christmas seems to come earlier every year -- an egregious example of this being that new flick with Ben Affleck and Tony Soprano. However, we'd like to spread the word about an
