SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Simple Summer Supper Great ingredients make great food, and all you have to do is get out of their way. Here's a casual summer meal we assembled for the test kitchen staff. This weekend, find your
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Fishing on Craigslist Walk around the corner, and you'll be at Market and 14th. You'd imagine the hustle and bustle to propagate half a block away. But it's almost like the video rental place with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink If You Take The Caffe Out of North Beach, Is It Truly Trieste? So, there's a new Caffe Trieste location, right smack dab on Market Street (1667 Market, at Gough). This represents the company's fourth location, but its second here in the city . . . the other one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Joe! Therefore, we'll remind y'all that the marketing Powers That Be are trying to promote some movie based on a pretty crappy (though admittedly enjoyable in parts) book by offering we worker bees a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Dinner Parties Not anymore. We've conquered our entertaining woes. And we want to help you pull off your own special dinners for friends or loved ones, because we're sure they'd appreciate the effort and kindness.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Enough For Ya? What is it with geeks and spicy food? RSA, the computer security company, and Electronic Arts are engaged in a friendly eat-off competition at the Prince of Wales pub in San Mateo to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot on the Cookie Trail. Cookies are humankind's single greatest creation. Brain surgery, motorized vehicles, the world wide web - all are helpless against the restorative power of the cookie. Surgeons forget to tie off a vein, cars
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Tries the Shangri-La Diet It's not what you think, the food is quite good. Inka must serve domestic sodas, but there you can try some Inka Cola, the Peruvian equivalent of Coca-Cola. If you were a sommelier
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Convenience, Choice, Coffee . . . Still Craving Cafe Ponte This is a tale of warning; we're sharing the very start of what's already an addiction... A few weeks ago, we attended an annual event in our neighborhood -- a sidewalk sale where
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Reads Hungry Planet They visit a struggling Sicilian family, who, when they do the accounting for the picture with a week's worth of food, is shocked to discover they spend more than $2,000 on cigarettes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Pairing Wine and Food We thought we'd share some of our wine-pairing tricks to help you decide what to drink with your next meal. There's no great mystery. Use a couple guidelines to steer you one way
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Garlic Scapes and Others Thin garlic scapes bend into graceful arcs as they emerge from the soil, creating a striking vegetable. The center becomes wooden as the garlic ages (hence the hard neck in hardneck garlic), so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Phoenix Ashes This is a tragedy, of course: the pasta store will move to a new location, at the corner of Strawberry Creek Park in Berkeley, but without the space for the restaurant, and with
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: More Beard Awards Beard Papa does not serve twinkies, but their cream puffs are driving San Franciscans to insanity all the same. Oh, no one with vanilla cream on their lips has lunged at Chris Daly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Sorrel The tapered point of a bright green sorrel leaf stands out at the market, but that leaf's tartness—from high levels of oxalic acid—stands out on the plate. Take a bite of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Zuni West That's seven, right? There are definitely worse models to emulate, we surely will not complain. We had a dinner there the week after the restaurant opened, and had they stumbled, we would not
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Goat Cheese Of course, we weren't alone in those dark, pre-goat cheese days. Thirty years ago, few Americans knew anything about this French staple. A woman named Laura Chenel went to France to learn to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Le Rouge et le Noir. Why do we whine about Le Rouge et Noir? It is actually the color scheme of Ten, a place that performed the opposite trick than that thing we cannot call cheese: It got
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Beets But even beet skeptics often cave when they taste roasted beets. The roots lose water in the long cooking time, leaving behind rich mixtures of sugars and flavor compounds. The technique is easy
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Al's Diner So Ame, the somewhat new restaurant in the Home of Al Gore, aka. the St Regis hotel, looks like a wet otter, with a see-through wooden partition with wavy patterns that they went
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beard Papa Brings Cream Puffs To SF As we were cadging a ride home from SFist Eve on Saturday night, we squealed with delight as we drove down Mission Street. Right by Yerba Buena Lane, there's a big sign: BEARD
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Bibendum to the Rescue. If obnoxious and smelly French people show up in your restaurant and make a scene, just accommodate them kindly. It might not be the Michelin reviewer, but it might be us all the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zed to Zed Twenty five restaurant visits and over a year after we first began eating our way around San Francisco in alphabetical order on a bi-weekly basis, we have reached the end of the road.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: <i>On Food and Cooking</i> The SFist test kitchen staff has a tiny list of essential food books. At the top you'll find Harold McGee's . Our copy's tattered cover and stained pages broadcast our love for this accessible
