SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gavin to 49ers: Hit the Road, PlumpJack! Wine was flowing freely, and Gavin was having his fair share. We mean, he had a lot to get over with. Which explains we could overhear him say such things as: If I
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: Lying + Cheating=Lychee-ting? We'll still tune in tonight to on Bravo -- but last week's episode was pretty annoying as far as we were concerned. Is the sheen off the apple, or was this crappy episode
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Jujubes We're not sure why Chinese dates, as they're also called, haven't made more inroads into Western cuisine, though some historians think that Homer's lotus-eaters were riding a jujube high. The chalky texture of
Arts & Entertainment Parties We <i>Were</i> Invited To: Burritophile's TV Debut We were invited to attend a party celebrating the ascension of the gang at Burritophile into the Rulers of All Media. Indeed, after appearing on these esteemed pages, then being quoted extensively by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Why the Caterer Needs Some Chill Time We need to relax, pronto! A killer gig of taking care of other people -- otherwise known as catering -- leaves us with sore muscles, red eyes, and a smile on our face.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: The Attic Halloween is a special time. Not only is it perfect for carousing in purely ridiculous get-ups (when else can you go out of the house with a giant penis on your head?), one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chocolate. Yummy, Yummy Charles Chocolates SFist braved a visit to Emeryville to check out the happenings at Charles Chocolates. There we learned a bit about tea, a bit about chocolate, and a whole lot about how the two
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: We Left Our Knives In San Francisco Man, we loved last season of . So much so, that we're gonna keep writing about it, even though it's made the move to Los Angeles. Top Chef, for those who don't know, is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Lettuce These days, it's not easy being greens. No sooner had newspapers tired of the spinach-borne onslaught than another Salinas company issued a voluntary recall on its lettuce. Photo by Melissa SchneiderE. Coli
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CHOW Down Seeing what's new at CHOW offered us a chance to eat Bruce Hill's food, while finding out what’s new in the CHOW/CNet/Chowhound world. The menu included: Tomales Bay oysters, Serrano
Arts & Entertainment It's the Great Pumpkin Festival, Charlie Brown! The 36th annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival kicked off Saturday morning to much fanfare and a crapload of pumpkins and pumpkin paraphenalia. Several blocks of the fog-shrouded farming community-cum-tourist giftshop's Main Street
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Nicky Love's The difference between Rouge and its predecessor was the addition of Nick's Crispy Taco, which quickly became a neighborhood phenomenon, with lines still out of the doors on most nights. We haven’t
Arts & Entertainment The Chron Kicks Michelin's Michelin Ass. Point taken, we will scrupulous a lot more, indeed. Picture of former mayor Willie Brown with Bibendum, from SF environment, because where there's controversy, there's Willie
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Thomas Keller Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass!* Every food critic is shocked, shocked!, to discover that a bunch of out-of-town restaurant reviewers disagree with their own taste. The Chron's Michael Bauer does not understand why the Michelin did not reprint
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pan Sauces 101 Every cook wants their guests to swoon over the food, and few things induce fainting spells like a velvety, savory sauce. A good sauce transforms a dish from simple to elegant, but few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Amnesia Good Lord Almighty, we can barely remember anything. Maybe it's something in the food, maybe we're trying jam too much information into our tiny little brains, or, heaven forbid, we're just getting old,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Jade Bar Ok, we're ashamed to say we are a bit of a new-ageist. Sometimes, even in the middle of a noisy drinking establishment we can feel the ebb and flow of the natural forces
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Get your Beer & Burger on at Toad’s SFist Mary Ladd, contributing
Arts & Entertainment Where's Our SFiS? Editor & Publisher reported that the t-less "SFiS" will feature writing by SFisT cult fave society writer C-Big, fashion editor Sylvia Rubin, and feature writer Carolyne Zinko -- and it was supposed to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: The Doña Tomàs Cookbook. We tried three, and we can safely say that Thomas Schnetz and Dona Savitsky's batting average with the clumsy home cook is a respectable .667. We had a decent success with the budín
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Little Star Is Born Oh, and the one waiter we talked to needs to be re-trained: we asked if it was as good as the divis shop, and he replied: the menu is the same. He should
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use? Please excuse us. We need to take issue with an article, "French roast brews, sip for sip" in today's Los Angeles Times. Why were we reading the L.A. Times, you ask? We're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Specs' So, um. We really want to like North Beach. It's got its fancy European panache, a tribe of passport-holding Italians and you can get a real cup of espresso, but sadly there are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Taqueria Round Up SFist Mary gives us the tasty carne asada filling to the Chron's grand tour of burrito joints in town! News flash: Chronicle's Bill Addison eats lots of tacos and burritos as "research." Today's
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Operates in the Park. --Friday was the Opera opening night at the opera house, and I was one of the penguins there, in that March of the Penguins. --I read in the paper there was a report
