SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Combing the Beard's Results. Our side of the country still hold its own in the award count. Running in the 100m dash of these Olympics, Thomas Keller won a gold medal for Outstanding Restaurant. That means the
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 What Strikes Gastronomique's Fancy. We are titled Gastronomique, and have to once in a while live up to the quiet sophistication of haute cuisine. So we went to the Fancy Food Show with great expectations. These were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Melts in Your Hand. We do eat out on V-day, as we don't need much incentive to eat out, but we only go to places which offer the regular à la carte, not a "special" menu, where
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Overdosa Since Sam wrote such a great review, we eschewed our second visit, and will just give some quick notes of our first impressions. Overall, we were quite pleased with the place. The hostess
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Scooping Inside Scoop. If you wanted to know the latest gossip in the SF restaurant scene, you wouldn't come here. Not yet: we are convinced we will start receiving FAT JUICY TIPS --just any second now--
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Our Top 10 of The Year Note that like both writers I quote, when looking back at the food landscape of 2005, we have you, the readers, on our minds. One writer acknowledges ignorance of and dismisses her readership
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads, Late Edition: The Boulevard Cookbook. It is not a surprise that such a successful restaurant spawned a cookbook, aptly named Boulevard, following the path of many of the top restaurants in the Bay Area: Chez Panisse, Zuni Cafe
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: How 'Bout Some Christmas Falafel? In the market Safeway (please let us know if you have seen this elsewhere in comments), a 10 feet tall cardboard structure depicts a cartoonish Santa on a sleigh holding cartoonish snack packages:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Splurges like a Hog We ordered a $100 steak at Olivetto. Bistecca alla Fiorentina, it was described, "Niman Ranch Beef Porterhouse Steak with 'bianca di Spanga' beans and Spinach, White Truffle Butter (for two). $100" We found
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Deep Dish Dissent. That would be Patxi's, a Palo Alto institution which just bore an off-spring in the city. Patxi's, like Little Star before, is filling a big void in the SF culinary landscape: the equivalent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Would You Like Some Cicciolina With That Wine? An advance edition due to the upcoming holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to you all! We cannot find a link to it, so take it with a grain of salt, but we read recently that,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Tamed Madness Bernard Loiseau was a sad casualty of a similar debate: this French chef committed suicide, alledgedly because the Michelin was going to take his third star away (on a scale of three). His
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Meta Food Post We are living vicariously this week, but those who do get to eat belong to four different media, in some kind of meta-food marathon. On the menu: a newspaper article, a magazine, a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Battle Thai Part II A short PSA: yesterday we (aka. SFist Sam) investigated the food of Provence. Since no one has done more for the PR of the Provence area than Peter Mayle -- except maybe for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Battle Thai Part I There are two categories of Thai restaurants, nowadays: the lounge-y kind, with black clad petite waiters and waitresses, ambient music with a techno beat, sleek furniture. The traditional kind, also known as kitschy,
Arts & Entertainment Gastronomique Interviews Julie Powell Julie Powell first got her fifteen minutes of fame as the author of the Julie/Julia Project. She decided to cook every recipe in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking over
