SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Nashville Hot Chicken At WesBurger 'n' More At the Mission's newest burger spot, the first brick-and-mortar location for Wes Rowe's longtime burger pop-up WesBurger, burgers are of course front and center on the menu are all well worth trying when
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Nancy Oakes Pens Ode To Duarte's Tavern In Pescadero In-the-know locals and those bent on exploring likely all know of Duarte's Tavern down the Peninsula in Pescadero, one of the oldest and most beloved restaurants in the Bay Area clocking in at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Chicken Soup At Little Gem We're hitting a springtime pattern of warm, sunny days and cool, windy nights this week (though there might be a spot of rain this afternoon), and whether you're getting a bout of seasonal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Fried Chicken And Egg Sandwich At Salumeria's Brunch Sure to make any new list we make of the city's best sandwiches, and part of one of SF's top brunch menus, is this little piece of high-cholesterol heaven at Salumeria on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Chef's Menu At Cadence, Now Open On Mid-Market Things on mid-Market are certainly worlds different than they were just a few years ago. With the arrival of restaurants like Alta CA, Bon Marché, and The Perennial, the era when all you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Executive Chef Matthew Kirkley's New Seafood Menu At Coi As announced last summer, executive chef and owner Daniel Patterson has decided to step away from the kitchen at his flagship, Michelin two-star restaurant Coi in order to focus on his family and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Do This Thing: Tamale Party At Hecho For many in the Latino community, Christmas is all about tamales. And tonight you can either hop in to Hecho in the Castro for a prix fixe tamale feast, or take a dozen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Vegetarian 'Pancake' At Old Bus Tavern Old Bus Tavern is not so much a tavern as it is a food-centric brewpub whose food transcends brewpub standards though there is a stellar example of beef chili on the menu, if
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Octopus At Petit Crenn At Dominique Crenn's three-month-old casual prix fixe spot in Hayes Valley, Petit Crenn, the star of the show is always a whole roasted fish. The restaurant is Crenn's homage to her homeland, specifically
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Churro Doughnut Holes At Hecho As of June, there's been a new executive chef in charge of the kitchen at one-year-old Hecho in the Castro, and that's Cory Armenta, who had previously worked in the kitchens at Rose
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Derbie Pie Shake At ShakeDown Ice Cream In a town where ice cream flavors tend toward the simple and seasonal, "Pennsyl-tucky," an offering from relative newcomers ShakeDown Ice Cream, skews more toward wacky Ben & Jerry's than Bi-Rite. Williams-Sonoma's blog
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The Tasting Menus At AL's Place After three years off the scene and presumably out of practice, it might have been tempting to assume that chef Aaron London was going to need some time to reacclimate to having his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Poutine With Beef Cheek Gravy At KronnerBurger Open as of two weeks ago in Oakland is KronnerBurger, the long-awaited brick-and-mortar from chef Chris Kronner formerly of Bar Tartine, Serpentine, and Slow Club. Kronner launched KronnerBurger as a pop-up at Bruno's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Filet Oscar At Burritt Room + Tavern We're almost at the end of Dungeness crab season here in the Bay Area, but you can still see crab in various forms on menus all over town. One of the more inspired
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Beef Tongue Steam Buns At Liholiho Yacht Club At chef Ravi Kapur's new restaurant, Liholiho Yacht Club, you are going to impressed by how effortlessly different Asian dishes and ingredients mix and mingle. Much like the pop-up of the same name
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Kanpachi Crudo at Californios Brand new Mission restaurant Californios is a truly tucked-away, romantic little spot that could end up being a runaway hit. After opening just after the new year, former Sons & Daughters line cook
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Pineapple Guavas At Bi-Rite Market Some Californians might be familiar with the little green fruits known as pineapple guavas, which are native to Brazil but thrive here in Northern California. But after fourteen years here I had never
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Wild Flounder Grenobloise at Gaspar Brasserie Gaspar is the new, Paris-inspired, old-school brasserie that opened a few weeks back in the space formerly home to Midi, Hecho, and long ago, Perry's, at the Galleria Park Hotel (185 Sutter Street)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Lumpia at Chino The cocktails are really good at the new Asian spinoff of Tacolicious, Chino, and I've only gotten to try a couple of the dishes so far the place has been packed, by the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Smoked Fondue at Dirty Habit I can't think of a kitsch 1960s hors d'oeuvre that's been most in need of a makeover as much as fondue, and though I've seen a few versions pop up here and there
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Grilled Squid With Green Strawberries at Plum Fans of chef Kim Alter's food at Haven in Jack London Square were sad to learn that she was no longer in the kitchen there as of last fall. But owner Daniel Patterson
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: 'Arroz con Pollo' at La Urbana Eight-month-old modern Mexican restaurant La Urbana has won over a diverse clientele on the Divisadero corridor, both for its casual but lively atmosphere and its inventive spins on Mexican flavors. The food is,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Yum Yai Salad At Kin Khao Kin Khao has been quietly earning some early raves since opening three weeks ago in the base of the Parc 55 hotel (the restaurant is in the former Smooth Thai space at Mason
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: The 'Bunny's Pleasure' Piroshki at Anda Piroshki Over at the new Second Act Marketplace (1727 Haight Street), which is part of an actual second act for the former Red Vic Theater owned by a couple of the original proprietors of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Bialys At Alta CA What's a bialy? You must not be from New York or L.A. A bialy is an Eastern European yeasted bread product, akin to but not quite like a bagel, that has an
