SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Parsnips Given the odd carrot colors on display at the country's most upscale market, you'd be forgiven for thinking that parsnips are nothing more than beige carrots. They are cousins, but parsnips have a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Coffee Follow-Up: Take A Pill, People (Or Not) Hey, folks, your Trimethyldioxypurist is back with a quick follow-up to the review of Meth Coffee we posted yesterday. We saw something related on the wires this morning. We're tempted to just link
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Buzz About 'Meth Coffee' Gets Your Trimethyldioxypurist Off His Ass Hey, folks. It's been a while. Accordingly, we should probably reprint our mission statement: Or something like that. Your Trimethyldioxypurist has been very happy with his coffee-related life; we're utilizing our good brewer,
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> We Eat Our Words (Forgive Us For Our Sins) While we'll maintain our stance that his sensibilities don't always align with ours, Chef Tom's, or the spirit of the challenges, we're going to eat whatever detrimental words we've said about the "cheftestant"
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Mamma Mia, There She Goes . . . Hey, folks! Been a while! But since we only post our thoughts on Bravo's on the day a new one's coming out, this review is anything but fresh. Hopefully it'll help you recall
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Cheese Fondue When was the last time you dunked bread cubes into a simmering soup of liquid cheese? Fondue went out of fashion in the 1980s, but only after it had been in fashion so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Have An "Art Shell" For American Football Spectacular This New Year's Eve The Art Shell drink works like this: * Drop a shot of Jagermeister into a pint of O'Doul's. * Toast to Art. * Slam it. * The drinker of the beverage must then hold a stoic Art
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Treasure Hunt: Balut Welcome back to our new SFist feature, Treasure Hunt, as SFist Natacha scours the city and outlying areas for things one definitely cannot find at your average Walgreens. When visiting your republican parents
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Bay Area Daiso! Daiso (or "The Daiso," as its website occasionally refers to it) is a cult-fave upscale Japanese 100-yen store -- like a dollar store, but stocked with awesome Japanese houseware items. We cannot overemphasize
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Onions But in the cold snap of winter, root vegetables come to the front. Gone are the vibrant, ripe tastes of summer produce; gone are the warm, mellow flavors of fall. The intense, peppery
Arts & Entertainment Harry Denton and Donna Sachet's Drag Brunch Yesterday's Sunday's A Drag ($30+) brunch at Harry Denton's Starlight Room mainly filled us with cheer, laughter, and decent food and drink. Brunch with entertainment, emceed by Donna Sachet (pictured above)? Sign us
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef:</i> My God, What The Hell Is Padma Wearing? And, wow, last week's ep. was pretty fun! First comment: how is it we've avoided talking about Padma's strange outfits heretofore? Cuz, dude, she's really smokin', obviously, but we think the ladies from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Chocolatier Michael Mischer at Fog City News We like what we saw and heard from Fog City News owner Adam Smith and suave Chocolatier Michael Mischer today on our lunch break. Fog City News is a nice, clean space on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Getting in the (Holiday) Mood Music: may be the most important element and is the backdrop for our decorating. Drag out your favorite holiday songs be they Snoop Dog, Snoopy-themed, or the likes of Steve Earle, King Missile,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Sections Around the Bay We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. These are our favorite tidbits from today's offerings: SF Chronicle: Tasty homemade food gifts that are ea$y on the budget (dark, milk &
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Ancient Secrets Of the Four-Hour Thanksgiving Salad Oy, gee. We're sick today. We feel like grade-A crapola, and it may color our review of the last episode of just a tad. Not to mention that we're about 10 lbs. heavier
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Risotto We remember the late 90's when every food magazine offered the definitive risotto technique. Writers trudged to Italian villages to learn how rural matrons made this popular dish. Even as newbie foodies, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wake Up and Smell the…Gentrification? So, we were surprised a couple of Monday mornings ago to see what seemed to be a hipster oasis that sprouted up over night on 24th St near Bryant. It's a spacious venue
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Noc Noc Noc Noc is the establishment. At 557 Haight (between Fillmore and Steiner) some industrious folks have created a room to satisfy your inner Flintstone, er, your inner Flintstone hopped up on heroin speedballs,
Arts & Entertainment Hot Stuff: Anthony Bourdain Meat and Greet We’ve got our things-to-be-thankful-for list ready. Easy peasy! One item shines a bit brighter than others. That would be hanging out with author/chef/TV personality Tony "Cast Iron Stomach" Bourdain after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2006 We have always been a sucker for organizations that do good in the community and are perceived to be fiscally responsible. The wine's importer, W.J. Deutsch & Sons Ltd. made a seven
Arts & Entertainment Front Porch Serving Southern Hospitality, Mission Style We have another new writer starting with us this week, SFist Christina. She's going to be doing sort of a jack-of-all-trades thing for us, starting off with this restaurant review. So, please welcome
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Miscounting Calories; Discounting Viewers (Let us state up front: it's only because this show can be, is often, and should always be so freaking good that these missteps get to us). Let's give credit to some of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Chestnuts Peeling techniques and dish suggestions after the jump. Photos by Melissa Schneider
