SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What’s There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! A Penny-Pincher’s Guide to Albany You wouldn’t know it from the property values or the chi chi restaurants on Solano Avenue, but Albany has many a cheap option that can accommodate our miserly lifestyle. Option #1: Albany
Arts & Entertainment Boo Friggin' Hoo: Food Critics Want To Take Their Ball And Go Home The Chron ran an article on Sunday that we really, really wanted to write some commentary on after reading it. "Food bloggers dish up plates of spicy criticism"; subhead "Formerly formal discipline of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Pollan Cares About the Farm Bill (And You Should Too) No longer a little-known piece of farm legislation that would dictate agriculture funding and policy while no one was paying attention. This year, food and farm advocates are pushing hard to publicize the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Sunny Weekend: Thai Brunch in Berkeley (Yet Another Reason to Visit the East Bay) It can get pretty crowded in the cafeteria-style seating area, but on warm weekends it’s nicer to sit outside on the lawn outside of the temple anyway. While the lines to get
Arts & Entertainment At Least Go Buy Us A T-Shirt Remember those days? My parents went to blah-blah-blah and all I got was this stupid... Well, if you go to Oakland's Bulldog Coffee Shop today from 6-7:30pm, not only will you get
Arts & Entertainment A Little Bite of This or That? <i>¡Qué Bueno!</i> Small plates are certainly très chic these days (even if our propensity for mixing foreign phrases is not), but usually, the price tag is not quite as nice of a fit. Not that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <i>Survey Says</i>? 'Who Cares!' (Or, Please, No More News About McDonald's Coffee!) (Though we recommend you read The Shot's take on it, and all things coffee, of course) The type of person that goes to fast food places for coffee is generally looking for caffeine
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yolk on Our Face First, a clarification. The egg yolks in the center of the moon cakes that prompted your concern, and presumably the concerns of many others (statistically, for every letter written to a congressperson, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Goes to the Oyster Bar at the Farallon Restaurant Every once in awhile, SFist likes to get out of their little burrtito ghetto and enjoy the finer things of life. Like the new oyster bar at Farallon. Put into the restaurant in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Worth The Wait? Bi-Rite Creamery Saturday--the sun was shining, Dolores Park was full to the brim, and evidently everyone else had the same idea we did: "let's get some ice cream." Bi-Rite Creamery, which opened only a few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Refrigerate Your Moon Cakes? Did you know that Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days? The last day, March 4, 2007, is the Lantern Festival. So, we're not too late in getting this crucial holiday food
Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Heart Heritage Pork You may not yet be familiar with the concept of "heritage" animals (a.k.a.: Why does my pork have a name?). Let us enlighten you: It's the same as "heirloom" but for
Arts & Entertainment A New Chef at B Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Modern Alchemy: Jim Woods And Mateveza Yerba Maté Ale We've seen some hideous examples of what can happen when a product attempts to combine several things into one. We've also seen some pretty good examples. Well, now there's a pretty stellar one:
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Sonoma's VinOlivo Festival SFist spent last weekend luxuriating in the unseasonably warm weather in Sonoma doing what one does in Sonoma-- drink lots of wine and eat super-yummy food. The occasion? Sonoma's VinOlivo Festival. Last Saturday,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mangia, Mangia The Chron went around and asked a bunch of restaurants about how all of these fees are going to affect them. A lot of restaurants have said that the measures passed has already
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Stick A Fork In It; It's Done Hey, folks, welcome to our weekly opinions on the past week's , which we hope will spur you to watch tonight's episo-- What? Last week was it? No after-season wrap-up where they contestants yell
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cocola is a No-No-La. . . At Least For The Coffee There are many fine examples of patisseries and boulangeries that make wonderful coffee. Cocola, located in the Westfield, that wondrous new monstrosity of a shopping complex, is not one of them. While we're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Celery Root The fruit and vegetable world overflows with deceptive names, from English's lemongrass—there's no lemon in it—to French's pommes de terre—they'r'e not really apples. But you'll find no trickery in celery
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up Photo courtesy of I'm Mad and I Eat. In the WTF category, some of the blogs we tried reading and wrangling were not available. The message we received: Blogger and Blog*Spot are
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: It Takes More Than A Little Paprika To Make Me Cry Geez -- itself might make us cry. But you know what's really interesting about Top Chef? Even though it's come off the rails, it's still pretty compelling. However, the wind has been further
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: The Bald Truth--It Ain't About The Food A lot of stupid crap for a show where the mantra has been "it's all about the food." We still enjoy the show, but believe that the producers should (and will) be a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parties We <i>Were</i> Invited To: Good, Good, Good, Good Hydration The scene: everyone is standing around the bar, taking sips from wine glasses--but they aren't filled with wine. One of the attendees comments that she can't believe that a room of (mostly) journalists,
