SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Business Spotlight: Ritual Roasters "Our friends pitied us when they saw this place," says Eileen Hassi, co-proprietor of red-hot Mission District cafe Ritual Roasters. "They told us we were doing everything wrong." Jeremy Tooker, her co-proprietor, agreed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Shoe-Shines The Birkenstocks. The purpose of the organization is to "protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life," and we cannot agree more. However, in its fight against fast
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Norooz Mobarak The Iranian New Year is traditionally celebrated on the vernal equinox, which was this Monday. San Francisco, though, always fashionably late, is throwing its Norooz party tonight at City Hall. Iranian-American Ross Mirkarimi
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finalists In The Bay To Breakers T-Shirt Contest Remember when we told you guys about the Design The Bay To Breakers T-Shirt contest, and SFist Eve suggested a cartoon of Chris Daly throttling a naked runner? Well, we're all disappointed she
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Never Leave Home Again But then GrubHub let us know that they've started a Bay-Area-based site. According to the email they sent us: We called 8,361 restaurants in the Bay Area (which, by the way, is
Arts & Entertainment Y to Zed Y is for Yuppy Marina which is where four girlfriends travelled to check out a fairly new sushi bar that we had read good things about . Yuzu is a modern, minimalist and sleek
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Kumquats Winter is on its way outyou can tell by the storms and hailbut before you bid adieu to citrus, hunt down some oh-so-cute kumquats at your local market. The tiny fruits
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Say It Isn't So! No one can really replace Patty, but making a very impressive effort, we find Marcia Gagliardi of the TableHopper newsletter. It comes out on Tuesdays, cutting the grass under the feet of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beach Blanket Babylon <i>Again</i>? Wow, Gavin Newsom must really like big hats. (Yes, commenter Matt, we know you like big hats too.) Leah Garchik reported in yesterday's The In Crowd that when CSI: Plumpjack made their triumphant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3.14159 Day What are you doing today, March 14, at 1:59 p.m.? Celebrating irrational numbers, we hope -- that's when the Exploratorium, San Francisco's science museum, will be kicking off their 18th Annual
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Are Courageous (For Trying This Coffee) So, get this -- Cafe Gratitude has coffee. It's not brewed, but instead, per the cafe's menu, "infused for 48 hours in cold water." Organic beans, no less, from a company known as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Blogger Roundup The food blog world is aflutter over the biggest awards ceremony of the year. The Oscars? Don't be silly. It's all about the food, baby. The 2006 Independent Food Festival and Awards are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Joyeux Anniversaire to Us! And we want to hear from you guys too, like which place we should check out, who we should talk to, what juicy tip you want to whisper in our ear, what we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink X to Zed Sometimes we discuss the possibility of spending a night in the W hotel. It's no more than 2 miles from our house but the allure of their perfectly comfortable beds beckons to us
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Lemons Even though the SFist kitchen staff is at a writing conference, we're giving you some homework for the next two weeks: Swing by a local farmer's market, pick up some lemons, and give
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Just Take Me With U And that's why the Gothamist Brain Trust has brought us mobile versions of all your favorite -ist sites, SFist included. Just go to http://www.sfist.com/pda.htm to see us in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gavin + Sofia: Democracy In Action Gavin Newsom + Sofia Milos! We can't get enough! So, like the New Yorker cartoon caption contest, this is where get involved. We've scientifically picked the six finalists in the Name That Couple contest
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Called On The Carpet When the Chron bites, it bites down hard -- check out today's editorial about Gavin Newsom whining about his love life. Funny, he didn't seem to mind the publicity when he was posing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Myth's a Myth. The interior design is stunning: a wide square room with an open kitchen is lined up with bench against the opposite wall, and sleek booth on one side. Behind the booth sits a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: W♥WL Chef Daniel Patterson -- whose new restaurant Coi is about to open downtown -- wrote an op-ed in the New York Times, pointing out the influence of Alice Waters of Chez Panisse. Hers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sofia Milos Newsom? Gavin'll try anything to lower the crime rate around here! Leah Garchik triumphantly reports that Gavin was seen kissing CSI: Miami detective Sofia Milos goodbye at a North Beach cafe last Monday morning,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink An Obsession With Coffee? Oh, and you can consider the above set of links the Trimethyldioxypurist's guide to getting started as an enthusiast. Obsessive is a whole other level, and you'll know it if you're there*, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist in the Kitchen: Rancho Gordo Beans As soon as the weather presented a semblance of winter, we headed straight for the Rancho Gordo stall at the Saturday Ferry Plaza Market, where Steve Sando sells his excellent dried beans, explaining
Arts & Entertainment Rain On, Ride On So what's a fat tire to do in the Bay Area for a little wet-weather action? You could brave the conditions and hit the trails anyway, or you could look for some lower-impact
