SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Mistakenly Tweets Dining Destination, Continues To Insist He Can Be Anonymous In the wake of the big announcement last week that LA Times food critic Jonathan Gold was giving up the ruse of being anonymous after years of maintaining it both at that paper
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Brace Yourselves For More $40 Main Courses At SF Restaurants While some restaurants are throwing in the towel due to the combination of high rents, mediocre business, and the hike in the minimum wage, others are going to have to suck it up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Savages New Embarcadero Chinese Spot Crystal Jade Following on a fairly terrible review by SF Weekly critic Anna Roth, the massive new multi-million-dollar Crystal Jade at Embarcadero Center gets an even worse and snarkier review from the Chron's Michael Bauer,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Calls Lazy Bear A 'Millennial’s Version Of Chez Panisse' In Sunday's Chronicle, resident food critic Michael Bauer lavished some hefty praise on the new Mission restaurant Lazy Bear which also happened to figure on our Best New Restaurants list last week. He
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Burma Superstar Arrives On Valencia, Loco'l Finds A T-Loin Spot, And More December is a season of celebration for most restaurants, and 'tis the season of lists, like our roundup of the best new restaurants of the year. But it's also a season when we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Remembering Judy Rodgers, Troya Closes Its Original Location, And More Did our sandwich roundup make you hungry? Because I'm pretty full. Anyhow, in addition to the openings of Cockscomb and Indochine this week, here's what else has been going on about town, food-and-beverage-wise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Do Younger People Just Not Care About Making Reservations? Michael Bauer is back on the peeve beat in today's Between Meals blog post, and the topic: restaurants that only take reservations for parties of six or more. (The topic of no-reservation restaurants,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In S.F. Food: Doc Ricketts Arrives, Emmy's Spaghetti Shack Expands, and More The big news this week (besides the opening of Bandidos) is the arrival of Doc Ricketts (124 Columbus), a new restaurant, and Doc's Lab, a new comedy and music venue that's opening in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Food Writers Bemoan Overcooked Burgers, And The Ongoing 'Reign of Michael Bauer' Eater SF has adopted one of the conventions of Eater NY's 'Shitshow Week,' which is the anonymous Airing of Grievances by local food scribes. Among the common themes in this roundup of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Still Thinks Restaurants Need To Listen To Old People And Quiet It Down This week Michael Bauer returned to one of his most favorite pet peeves (and therefore favorite blog topics): noisy restaurants. Regular readers of his columns will know that in recent years, Mr. Bauer's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Would Like You To Know He Lost 11 Pounds Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer, about twice a year, has to remind his readers that he does not, in fact, weigh 300 pounds, and that despite his occupation, he maintains a svelte figure.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Finally Gives Saison Four Stars Though many in the food world have been raving about Saison and chef Joshua Skenes' cooking for years, local critic Michael Bauer was slow to come around to it in the beginning, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Give Michael Bauer A Piece Of Your Mind On Twitter Today At Noon Longtime Chronicle restaurant critic Michael Bauer will be hosting (is that the word?) a Twitter chat today starting at noon, in part to discuss this year's Top 100 and to prove that the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Previews New Top 100 Restaurants Online; Michael Mina, Spruce Nixed [Updated] In a departure from previous years' methods of drumming up interest in their inky printed news publication, The Chronicle and Michael Bauer have decided this year to release the stalwart critic's newly revised
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Obliterates Mission Chinese Food A James Beard Award, its own beer, and a slew of long lines later, Mission Chinese Food is a shadow of its former self. The Chronicle's esteemed food critic, Michael Bauer, is the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Tech Culture' Is Now Ruining Five-Hour Dinners Too "Tech Culture" — that nebulous boogeyman currently haunting San Francisco — is there anything it can't ruin? Esteemed San Francisco Chronicle food critic and lifestyle blogger Michael Bauer is on a rant over on Inside
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Gets New iPhone, Hopes His Food Photos Will Be Less Martha Stewartesque Local food hounds can breathe a collective sigh of relief this week upon learning that Michael Bauer has invested in a new iPhone 5S. He says he's "hoping to get better photos in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Bistro Aix, Incanto Pruned From 'Top 100' On Sunday, Michael Bauer unleashed his annual Top 100. A total of 21 restaurants were dismissed this year, either due to closure (Cyrus, Masa's) or because the noted food critic fell out of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 21 Joints Added To Michael Bauer's Top 100 Few critics can make headlines in other publications based solely on their reviews. Michael Bauer is one of them. (He can even prompt less than stellar restaurants to crumble and revert to their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Mediocre Bauer Review, Hutong Becomes Betelnut Again Well, now here's something you don't see happen with Yelpers: after receiving a middle of the road, two-star review from Chronicle Food Critic Michael Bauer, Asian street fare newcomer Hutong will quietly be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Gives Hakkasan Only Two Stars Heh. Michael Bauer, SF Chronicle food critic of note, rewarded the high-glitz of Hakkasan, a sparkling $7 million restaurant at Kearny and Market, with just two stars. The food? He gives 1.5
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jardinière Changes Menu, Prices; Is Bauer to Blame? As Jardinière comes up on its 15th anniversary next week, the swanky Hayes Valley spot has announced some big changes: namely, a wholesale revision of its food menu, complete with drastically reduced prices.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Damns Boil-in-Bag Cuisine How dare he. We don't know what the hell is wrong with Michael Bauer, but the noted SF Chronicle food critic done tears it with this piece damning boiling-in-bag cooking (or, "sous vide"
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gratuitous Carb Consumption And Pretentious Iced Tea: Michael Bauer's Instagram Reviewed Michael Bauer, the San Francisco Chronicle's esteemed and obfuscated food critic is (like everyone else) totally in to Instagram these days. In this new, occasional feature column, we review Bauer's own photographs according
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Friday: Cloaked Behind Screen, Michael Bauer To Appear In Live Interview Though his face is more and more recognizable in these our modern smartphone times, Michael Bauer remains one but a few anonymous restaurant critics left in the city. On Friday, August 4, Bauer
