SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Jay to Zed. Blue Jay is a little brother to Emmy's in many ways: It is in an upcoming location, at the fringes of some difficult neighborhood; it serves nicely priced tasty food; it makes up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Interviews Nina Zagat The Zagat 2006 is out, and it's the 20th anniversary of the SF edition. So we got to hang out with Nina in her suite at the Four Seasons. She did not wear
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: What's that Almodovar Movie Again? Let's take a look behind the scenes at the Gastronomique production studio. The question that we get all the time (email us your questions, comments, or suggestions here, btw, we want your input)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Miscellaneous Awards also went to Julie Kaufmann, of the Merc, for best food section, and to the Chron’s Miriam Morgan, Linda Murphy, Carol Ness, Michael Bauer, Craig Lee for best food section, best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: the Buns on GQ's Cover She kindly pre-digested the list for us, so we don’t have to actually purchase GQ and the NYTimes to hide Jessica's skin in the fold. Here it is:... Picture above courtesy of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: the Richmond's Rich Richmond. Two food blogs, Life begins at 30 and Locavores have been organizing the Eat Local Challenge, an effort to support local producers and encourage awareness of what is on our plates, by eating
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Where We Got Crabs. Kepiting hitam manis means: fried Dungeness crab served with the house special black pepper sauce. We had chosen it on our first visit, as we saw it handwritten on the special board. We
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: You Can Ride Our Tail Any Time Last week’s roundup covered quite a few places in the Mission: Pizzeria Delfina, the resurrected Window, the Thai-French fusion at Baku, dim-sum at Big Lantern, and Crazy Sushi. We thought it was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: New Mission Round-Up Today's places, below the jump, are Pizzeria Delfina, The Window, Baku de Thai, Big Lantern and Crazy Sushi, all of them between Duboce and 18th and Mission and Dolores.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Soup in the 'Fly It is no wonder that, when stealing the word amuse-bouche from the vocabulary of French cuisine, Americans commonly take only the first part, and unceremoniously dump its trailer. The First Amendment covers the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Happiness is a warm broth. We must mention that, post-blues, we found comfort in the best spanakopita, a Greek phyllo dough square stuffed with spinach. We saw it displayed in the window at Dino's, and it was so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Living to the Fullest Live food was all the rage two years ago. Everybody was oooh and aaah-ing at Roxanne, a haute cuisine place which did not cook its food. Everybody who could afford it, as the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Mangeurs d'ail, et fiers de l'être. Bouchon is Keller's other restaurant, the French bistro sidekick to his French Laundry's and his Per Se's haute cuisine. The French Laundry, in Yountville in Napa, is arguably the best restaurant in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Inventory à la Prevert Goat Hill pizza for all-you-can-eat Monday nights after the jump.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: It must be Siegfried, because it's not Roy. Trader Joe's has become a weekend ritual for us. We really can't admit this without shame. Weekends used to be times to climb mountains or party endlessly. Now, we must wake up early
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: My Fair Lady Sushi Zone is a few steps up from the corner of Market and Octavia. Right now, the construction area on the east side of market, not yet connected to the new freeway off-ramp,
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Cedric Westphal From the get go our venerable editor, Jackson West, had a vision for SFist to become a cultural force. Key to his plan for cyber domination was forging strong ties with capital C
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: C'est quoi, Koi? Ooops, maybe the Outback people did not know that the week-end dim sum crowds park in their lot. Maybe they look back and forth at the dining room and the lot and think,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Sous le Soleil Exactement Café du Soleil opened last week in the space formerly occupied by Movida. For the neighborhood, it seems like a win-win situation: le Soleil still serves the wine-and-beer under the same license as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Odeon Gone, What's Still Fresh? We have to admit being sad to see the Odeon disappear. While the bar did not leave up to the bourgeois sophistication of its French name, we will miss it. We still have
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: A Guide for the Guides The guide book which got us waxing nostalgic about the internet bubble was Chowhound's guide to the San Francisco. Chowhound is one of our favorite places to waste time on-line, and an iconic
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Dan Leone, Part II Any changes to the Top 5 places from the list you gave for the 10th anniversary last year? Dan Leone: Um, I’ve since discovered a soul food place called Your Neighborhood Restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: An Interview With Dan Leone. Before we talk with Dan, let's wrap up the Yucatan definitely-not-yuck-a-thon: since last week we had the opportunity to sample City Blend Cafe's cochinita pibil. City Blend is a coffee shop on 16th,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Cancun Pigs Before we introduce the participants, a few words on the rule: we did a one-on-one comparison, which we judged based on two dishes from Yucatan, the peninsula at the bottom right of Mexico
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Canteen One of the cool perks of writing about food in blogs is that you get to meet people who write about food in blogs. And they are quite a few food bloggers around
