SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All The News You Can Booze For many of us with standard 9-5 jobs, a long weekend is coming up. Naturally, our minds turn to libations (take a look to the left for some insight into our personal plans)
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For The Burritoeater We enjoy visiting Charles Hodgkins' Web site, Burritoeater. Not necessarily for the opinions within his numerous reviews of taquerias (which can be a valuable resource), more because we just like his writing. He's
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. San Francisco Chronicle: The gorge-gorge weather makes it easy to imagine all sorts of picnics, in
Arts & Entertainment Three Questions For A Water Connoisseur We're always fascinated by people that really know a lot about a subject, even if it's not one we're usually interested in. Case in point: a few years ago, the wife dragged us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Patricia Wells Cooks We've long been a fan of her --wait for it, wait for it...-- seasonal and fresh approach to food. The idea of putting vegetables at the center of one's plate is always
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Science Catches Up To Common Sense: Sex, Wine, And Chocolate Are Good For You! Sex is good for you. So is wine. Oh, and chocolate. We think most of know this on an instinctual level, but it's nice when experts back these suspicions up. Of course, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Un-natural Food Additive Alert So, we ourselves are as naïve as anyone else on this topic, having not-too-long-ago extolled the virtues of dishes containing the latest faux-food villain at B Restaurant in Oakland... Guess what? Truffle oil
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Diego Burrito Enthusiast Talking Smack About S.F. While intra-city burrito debates are a San Francisco tradition, we were a bit shocked to come across this article from a San Diego-based pub in which a "burrito expert" of sorts totally disses
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up We're baaaack from a brief food blog round up break. Cookie Crumb and Cranky at I'm Mad and I Eat are finally settling into their new abode. They smartly combined take out and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Food-Related PSA: Free Haagen-Dazs Hey -- more free ice cream! This one's not left to chance, like that whole "Dreyer's" thing. Anyone and everyone that shows up at Haagen-Dazs on May 15 between 4 p.m. and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soon, More People Can Pay Too Much For Groceries The East Bay Biz Times is reporting that Whole Foods is planning a major expansion throughout the East Bay. Yes, soon enough, Lafayette, Dublin, and Oakland will be able to experience the "whole
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dinner with a White Slave Oh wait a minute. By white slave, we are referrring to the UK title of super chef Marco Pierre White's new tome. He's white, did a cookbook called White Heat, and has the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Brief Moment Of Personal, Soup-Related Victory It's the little things that get you through the day sometimes. After about two years of subscribing to the daily menu email of the ever-more-pricey San Francisco Soup Company, we finally won ourselves
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'I'm Really Enjoying This So-Called 'Iced Cream'' Oakland-based Dreyer's (Edy's to our friends on the right coast) seems to want to bring you closer to your neighbors . . . by making you enter a contest to win an ice cream party. Strange.
Arts & Entertainment James Beard Awards Are Good To San Francisco Media Culinary legend James Beard has some prestigious awards named for him. The winners of the Journalism and Broadcast Media awards have been announced, and the Chron came up big. Seriously, I know we're
Arts & Entertainment More Than Gizzards And Brains: Incanto's Got Grape Alder at Vinography is in the process of reviewing every darned wine bar in town -- 14 of the 26 have been reviewed so far. What surprised us a little -- we hadn't
Arts & Entertainment Fill Your Belly at Full House Café To tell you the truth, we were hesitant to share this restaurant review with you, because we were worried that you would swarm our favorite neighborhood breakfast place and extend our wait for
Arts & Entertainment Frank Chu Likes Beer Jim Woods, the man behind Mateveza, had a great time at Beer Fest this past Saturday. He was even able to get a certain Mr. Frank Chu in on the action. Nakrofenikal indeed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated for its Excellence There's a heated and productive conversation happening over in our earlier post about Muni's dangerous plan to get bus-mounted cameras with optional bayonets and gatling guns. One of the best comments (and we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up I Food U Food gets all meaty and even gives us the DL on what exactly Moishe's Pippic really means. Well now isn't that special? Feeding my Enthusiasms takes us on a visually
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: Loca! Locals eat local, on a budget of about $10 a day. For one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Seaman’s Soup Kitchen Okay, it's really NOT a soup kitchen, but if you have a boat docked in Oakland’s Embarcadero Cove Marina (down the highway from Jack London Square and across from Alameda's Coast Guard
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kelp Supplements: Not The Cure You’re Probably Looking For But some news about arsenic poisoning and kelp supplements this past week caught our eye. A study coming from UC Davis public health researchers reports on a woman who started taking kelp supplements
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
Arts & Entertainment She's Everywhere! We Talk To TWOP's Keckler, aka Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic is a culinary school graduate that writes about food and television. What's not to love? She's best known for her scathing, funny, and exhaustive coverage of several shows over
