SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eating For The Ages Yesterday we were honored to witness a true battle for the ages, a record that is sure to stand the test of time, and a new standard for all that is right in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noah's Turns 18, Invokes Jewish Symbolism Noah's Bagels are similar to other pale imitations of a superior product: they are akin, say, to low-carb anything, sugar-free candy, Tofurkey, etc. Of course, there are decent examples of situations in which
Arts & Entertainment SFist Eats: Mission Pie Yay, everyone wins! Students get good job skills, the owners give back, and we get some yummy organic pies in the neighborhood. Plus -- Mission Pie stays open late! (until 10 p.m.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Organic Mani-Pedis In The East Bay? So, you San Francisco folks have it made. With places like Polished Lounge and Le Crème Spa, you can go get a "natural" manicure and pedicure in a big puffy chair with lots
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Eats: Can't Stop Eating Those Free-Range Burgers Another stop on our East Bay tour of the best burgers made from "naturally-raised" meat: Luka's Taproom & Lounge. Just look at the picture. Need we say more? Note the little cup of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Night At The Tadich Grill There's a lot to love about the Tadich Grill, that venerable San Francisco institution. We've eaten there many times before, and there are some things some folks don't get about it that we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pinot Noir Aplenty: Pinot Days 2007 At Fort Mason Because some of us need a warm-up of sorts for July 4, "Pinot Days," a celebration of wine made from that particular varietal, is coming to Fort Mason June 29-July 1. More than
Arts & Entertainment Party In The Junkyard, Dawg! New Jersey-based blogger "Serge the Concierge" has the goods on a pretty cool local party venue -- a junkyard! In line with fulfilling everyone's secret inner childhood fantasy to hang out with Fat
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Insidious Jam Makers Admit To Eating Nearly Extinct Apricot We always thought that a story regarding an organization called "welovejam.com" would be NSFW. No, this is actually pretty innocent. Delightfully so. These two fellows, Eric Haeberli and Phineas Hoang, started an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Farina We really enjoyed our sweet milk fritter! (above.) It was like a cream puff encased in sugar. Mmmwah! But we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. So hey, did you see they opened
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lunch of the Future! (Or: What I was handed coming off BART This Morning) When we were in elementary school, perhaps during the Reagan presidency (and the accompanying jellybean zeitgeist), we imagined that in the future, all food would be in pill form. Here we are in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Ouch! Tres Agaves appears to have slipped. Who wants "watery tequila jus flavored" chicken?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Bother Learning About Wine--Use Technology! We're all for technology that simplifies and informs, but sometimes we see a new service that sounds a little silly to us. eWine Match, a service of Foster's Wine Estates in Napa, allows
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For The Founders Of Yelp We enjoy Yelp quite a bit. During our rare moments of free time, we often have fun slogging through the site's multitudes of oft-useful, oft-comedic opinions on local services, establishments, and especially restaurants
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up Cheers, baby! Photo courtesy of Something in Season. We're salivating over two tasty events next week. The StarChefs Rising Stars Revue on Tuesday the 19th and Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Like Tamagotchi For Wine Enthusiasts Have you heard of Crushpad? It's a relatively new company whose product is akin to an adult version of one of those tamagotchi pets -- except that when you're done, instead of a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Carbon Footprint Off The Dinner Table "Low carb diet" had a lot of buzz in the past few years. Perhaps "low carbon diet" is next. A while ago we wrote about the possibility of saving the world through cuisine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indian Man's Love Of NoCal Wine Sparks Successful Venture Back Home We find something inherently charming about falling in love with something (especially wine), and making your passion into your life. All the more charming that the dream's genesis was here, and it traveled
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Masters of Bacchanal Administration? Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, already offers an undergrad degree in wine business -- but now the school is expanding its program. Graduate students cam now earn an MBA in Wine Business.
Arts & Entertainment Top Chef: We Told You So Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons, and often-guest (and apparent season 3 regular) Ted Allen were there to judge. At stake? $20k to charity of the winning team's choice. All this one was missing was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up Duck meatballs from the Oakland Tribune. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. It's short but suh-weet. SF Chronicle: Breaking bread with neighbors
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Menuism: Like Yelp With No Content, More Bugs, And Superfluous Features It's really nice that folks with a new product or service like to bring stuff to our attention. In the spirit of being forthright, we'd advise you that you should have a fairly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3 Questions For A Gelato Slinger The other day, we told you our impressions of Naia Gelateria (nutshell: pretty good overall; you should particularly dig it if you enjoy having a ton of varieties to choose from). We wanted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Naia Gelato: Local, Innovative, Cavalcade of Flavors Okay, so nobody ever accused us of being especially observant, but we only recently recognized that "Naia", at 451 Castro Street, was a gelateria. See, the sign only says the name, and there's
