SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Former Chronicle Critic Michael Bauer Still Insists He Went Mostly Unrecognized at Restaurants, Says Dining Is More Fun Now Three years out from the end of his 32-year tenure as the San Francisco Chronicle's resident restaurant critic and de facto chief of the food department, Michael Bauer has given his first interview from semi-retirement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Launches a Bizarre 'Top 25' That Will Be Updated Quarterly, Kind of Like the Eater 38 It's seemingly been a struggle for the Chronicle food department and restaurant critic Soleil Ho in assuming the albatross of Michael Bauer's Top 100 list ever since Bauer retired and Ho took his place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Black Restaurant Week Continues, Californios Gets Four Stars, Scotch Bonnet Launches Brick And Mortar Assuming you weren't sickened by a massive vegetable recall, you had plenty of food news to chew over this week: The (delayed) SF Michelin guide revealed that we now have more three-star joints
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Legendary SF Chef Jeremiah Tower Reopens Old Wounds, Calls Michael Bauer A 'Twit' In honor of the release of the documentary Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent (see SFist's review here), Chef Tower was in town doing a few interviews and sat down with Eater's Ellen Fort
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Adds La Taqueria, Ju-Ni, And 20 More Restaurants To Chronicle Top 100 It's the big announcement day for the Chronicle Top 100 Restaurants something that the paper, in previous years, took great pains to keep under wraps until the physical Sunday paper arrived in early
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Navi Kitchen Nears, Commis To Get A Next-Door Bar, And More It's a challenge to round up the food news this week, as we're still all in carb comas after compiling our best San Francisco bakeries and are suffering from hangovers after our final
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Salt & Straw Nears, Bauer And Sens Disagree On The Wolf, And More This week we brought you pics from the new downtown watering hole Tequila Mockingbird, and news of the city's first EDM bubble tea shop. Local chef Dominique Crenn continues to put sexist haters
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Bauer Blesses SingleThread With Four Stars, Mezes Shutters In The Marina, And More This week we chose our favorite wine bars in the city, followed the case of some toxic Chinatown tea, and were relieved to see that the end of Pauline's Pizza is not yet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Loló Cevicheria Shutters, Bauer Revisits Zarzuela, And More The biggest news this week is arguably the long-awaited opening of Chinatown food and retail megaplex China Live, right? Also opening was Old Kan & Beer Co and, next week, a Grocery Outlet
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Just Wrote A Deadly Serious Rave Review Of Taco Bell's Naked Chicken Chalupa Some Chronicle staffers apparently thought it would be "fun" if longtime restaurant critic Michael Bauer "climb[ed] off the pedestal of high-end dining to review Taco Bell’s Naked Chicken Chalupa," which just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rings In 30 Years As Chronicle Critic, 5,320 Reviews Later This week Michael Bauer is marking 30 years at the Chronicle, where he's served as food editor and restaurant critic since 1986 after moving the Bay Area from Dallas. As part of his
SF News Chronicle Columnist Hypes Same Website Under Scrutiny For Potential Conflict Of Interest With Paper We're probably going to have to chalk this up to longtime Chronicle columnist Leah Garchik's lack of awareness, but in her latest column she happens to be hyping the same rich-people-experience site, IfOnly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mag Raises New Questions About Chronicle Food Critic Michael Bauer's Boyfriend Great night (last nite)at the @FlavorNapa 'Young Guns' dinner - paired with beautiful wines of @inglenook1879 with my pal @angela_jackson84 + MB A photo posted by Michael Murphy (@curiousmikie) on Mar 19,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Critic Michael Bauer Gets Salty In Scathing 1-Star Review Food critics, love them or loathe them, generally avoid doling out negative reviews. When you have nothing nice to say, as the say, don't go back to the restaurant. And yet, from time
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Drops Gialina, AQ From Top 100, Adds Petit Crenn, Trestle, And 17 More A couple of weeks earlier than usual, Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer has unveiled his Top 100 Restaurants in the Bay Area a longstanding Chron tradition that serves as a kind of locally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rediscovers The LA Dining Scene, Checks In On Some Former SF Chefs In lieu of a Sunday review, Michael Bauer has written a larger piece about dining in Los Angeles for this Sunday's paper, which you can read online now. He writes generally about the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Someone Launches 'Impeach Michael Bauer' Campaign, Offers $2K For New Chronicle Critic 7. Hell ya @californiossf keep it posted and spread the word that #thisdudesucks #whostakinblameforthestormyweather A photo posted by I'd Pay $2000 For A New Critic (@impeach.michael.bauer) on Feb 8, 2016 at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo Du Jour: Michael Bauer, Incognito Arguably anonymous Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer took another step toward non-anonymity with an on-camera interview recently. This interview with The New West's Will Hearst appears to have been posted last month, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Berkeley Restaurant Removes Signature Portobello Fritters From Menu, Diners Revolt At Rivoli in Berkeley, there have been some portobello mushroom fritters on the menu that were introduced by chef-owner Wendy Brucker back in the '90s that became a signature of the restaurant. They're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Tried To Make It A Top 150 This Year, But The Chron Refused Every year for at least the past five Michael Bauer has lamented the cuts he has to make in order to keep his Top 100 Restaurants list down to 100. And, once again,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine, Sons & Daughters Pruned From Chron Top 100; Lazy Bear, Liholiho and (Finally) Atelier Crenn Added For the second year in a row, the Chronicle is trying the thing where they entice people to pay for online subscriptions by publishing the updated Top 100 a week early on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Jeremiah Tower Calls Critic Michael Bauer A 'Troll' Back in February, Chronicle critic Michael Bauer took a trip to New York to check in on longtime SF chef Jeremiah Tower's work revamping Tavern on the Green. He posted a mini-review on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Hapa Ramen Closed, Chef-Partner Richie Nakano Out In a somewhat surprising twist, chef Richie Nakano, who launched his Hapa Ramen brand through a series of pop-ups and a Ferry Plaza stand starting back in 2010, has been fired from his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Aster Opening Shortly, Horsefeather Headed To Divisadero This week saw the opening of the new, Proxy-esque beer garden and pre-game venue next to AT&T Park, The Yard, as well as the announcement of the closure of Cafe Claude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Chef Won't Take Michael Bauer's Criticism Lying Down Every new printing of our menu gets a new fun fact. Today's is a real gem A photo posted by Richie Nakano (@linecook) on Mar 14, 2015 at 6:02pm PDT When some
