SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: The Bigfoot Lodge Take Sasquatch for example. Perpetually bashful, unashamedly fuzzy, Bigfoot has been a major source of bar banter since his first sighting in 1811. While the wayward biped may just be a big hairy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: San Tung Chicken Wings Evidence Item A? The crazy four hundred pounds a week they go through. That's five eighty pound boxes for you, food and beverage cost analysis types. San Tung's fried chicken can be ordered
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: a Palace for the SF Queens. Some go boring: pick the address, and voila, Campton Place, Hawthorne Lane, etc. Some go eponymous, which rhymes with non-adventurous, pompous and presumptuous: Gary Danko, Michael Mina. Some think too much, and pick
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Sadie's Flying Elephant With its scribbled over fallout shelter walls, Sadie's is a fine choice to prepare for the end of days. But even with the air-raid shelter feel it's charming nonetheless, with a long oak
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Islands On Islands Go to the Forbidden Island in Alameda. Billing itself as Alameda’s “first and only tiki lounge,” it’s a first-class joint for picking up drinks with props. More importantly, however, these drinks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Incanto's Whole Roasted Suckling Pig with its "Nasty Bits" We can't think of a better way to spend a birthday (our husband's) than eating an entire animal with seventeen fellow carnivores at Incanto Restaurant's private room, in Noe Valley. This is a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: This Bull Got Teeth. Bullshead has big shoes to fill: it occupies the space of Tallula, the Indian-fusion restaurant in the heart of the Castro. Tallula was such a sophisticated, refined place that the big shoes were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Anatomy of a Burrito(phile) Dan Johnson of Burritophile wants to meet up at Taqueria El Castillito, on Golden Gate Avenue, just a stone's throw away from City Hall. This SFist knows this to be a good thing,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Summer Sorbets You can buy sorbet, but a little effort will give you the chance to try bold new flavor combinations. We recently made white peach-ginger sorbet, and friend of SFist meriko told us about
Arts & Entertainment Libation Liberation: Owl Tree Knowing very little about why people obsess over the things they do, this tongue-thick reporter believes the owl isn't a bad choice when you come right down to it. We've always had a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: For Whom the Onion Rings* Indeed, a young lady was reading one night, and we had to admit: with its mostly white walls, blonde hardwood floor and table tops, Cha-Ya is a clean, well-lighted place. The high organically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Civic Center Eats: The Jury Goes to Lunch Jury duty makes us hungry. All that acute listening and analyzing, served up with long stretches of waiting causes the most diligent Legal Eagle to experience serious hunger pangs. Thankfully, there are scores
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: Amber Eyes always peeled, nose always to the grindstone, corpus madidus Nico has noticed a disturbing trend in our fair city recently: a resurgence of the mustache. Odious as it may be, its staunch
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: How Greens Is Your Vino? The tasting took place in the awesome private dining room at Greens, in the corner of the Fort Mason building, with spectacular views through windows on the Bay from two sides. We'd be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Tomato Taste Test We used tomatoes from the Grand Lake Farmer's Market and stored them at room temperature overnight to keep their flavor at its peak. We sliced them just before the tasting, since the best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Libation Liberation: John Barleycorn And they hae taen his very heart's blood, And drank it round and round; And still the more and more they drank, Their joy did more abound. ~ From The Ballad of John Barleycorn
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Writes Stinking Prose...Wait, Stinking Praise. Having garlic infused drinks, garlic spread on your bread, garlic appetizer, garlic entree and garlic ice cream: we fancy all these once in a while. But stringing all these into a meal sounds
Arts & Entertainment Who Wants To Be A Non-Local Superhero? So the premise of is that Stan Lee, of Spider-Man and Fantastic Four and X-Men fame, is picking the best action hero character, and the winner gets a comic book issue dedicated to
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Smells Fishy. Panel members were moderator Patricia Unterman, chef and owner of Hayes Street Grill and Examiner food critic as well; Steve Fitz, a salt-of-the-earth Half Moon Bay sand dabs fisherman; Tom Worthington, from Monterey
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Garlic But there are 200 or more strains of the famous aromatic, and each tastes different from its cousins. Some have more heat, some have less. Layers of taste can suggest spices or herbs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let’s Get This Picnic Started Insider Tips: steer clear of melty items like chocolate, candy, and frosted cakes. Don’t bug out, either; store food in airtight containers to avoid ants taking over. Seeing ants swarm all over
Arts & Entertainment Mountain Biking: Freewheeling it Festival-Style in Fairfax It's hot. No, it's freakin' hot. So what goes well with scorching heat? If you answered bands, bikes, beer, and bitchin' trail riding, then you might want to wheel yourself out to Fairfax
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You've Got To Cool It Now: Heat Wave Edition SFisters are forced to lighten up our menus as the warm weather continues. The burning questions on what to eat and drink looms large. Our answers: Eat it: blender soups, savory or sweet.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Sustainable Seafood Salon So if you are concerned about having good fresh local wild seafood on your plate instead of tasteless overly pink antibiotic loaded farmed fish, you can go and attend the discussion, moderated by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Posturing Poobahs of Positivism We say suburban, because it seems to be the beachhead for second venues of out-of-town restaurants. We've had Patxis opening there from Palo Alto, and a few weeks later, next to Patxis, Cafe
