SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Michael Bauer Said Unto Quince, 'Rise Up' Following Benu's ascension into the four-star sphere of Michael Bauer's gastronomic Paradiso, Pacific Venue's Quince also rose to heavenly heights over the weekend, joining the small list of four-star restaurants in the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finally, Benu Enters Prestigious Four-Star Club Benu, Corey Lee's "breathtaking" restaurant in the old Hawthorne Lane spot, is the eighth Bay Area joint to crack The Chronicle's solemn four-star ceiling. And rightfully so. Lee's place is, for lack of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Michael Bauer's Top 10 Restaurants Of 2011 Are... Well, they're good. No, they're great. That's for certain. Tastiness abounded in 2011. But the selection, it seems, wasn't as nearly as difficult to choose from compared to 2010. Not that 2011 sucked,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Trounces W Hotel's Trace The Chronicle's Michael Bauer used his Sunday column to throw some light shade at the W hotel's new dining experience, Trace. And what an experience it is. Taking over the old XYZ spot
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citing Denise Hale, Bauer Says "Appearance Is Important" When Trying to Snag a Table So much has been said, shouted, and ballyhooed about the 99%, so let's talk about the 1%, shall we? Specifically, the de-lovely Denise Hale. For those of you not in the know, Hale
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Has Your Dinner Itinerary Hearing our solo whines as we rip open another Amy's Organics paired flatly with our Sutter Home companion, Michael Bauer's new series “Five Places to Dine This Week” takes the pressure off decisions.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Defines a Neighborhood, Forgets His Favorite Fried Chicken Over on his Inside Scoop side blog, the Chronicle's insatiable food critic is taking a deeper look at Nopa, one of his perennial favorites today. In the five years it has been open
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer De-stars La Terrasse It's been quite some time since Chronicle food critic of note Michael Bauer yanked the star from a ho-hum restaurant. Updating his initial two-star review of the Presidio-based food joint La Terrasse, Bauer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Who Poisoned Michael Bauer? In a cruel twist of fate, the Chronicle's venerable food critic has been "felled by food poisoning." And right after he wrote about the many loopholes in California's food handling law, even. Bauer,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digest: Restaurant Bars, Bauer on Hecho, Fifth Floor Goes Northeast 7x7 picks up on what SFist has been saying for years. Restaurant bars soar above and beyond restaurant dining rooms. Yes, they do. Yes they do! And with that, here are a few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Sexy Quotes from a Two-Star Restaurant Review In the Sunday Paper this week, Michael Bauer brings back the ol' Mikey Two Stars routine and bestows two shiny ones of Sausalito's Bar Bocce. Because we'd hate to get between you, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Adds 26 New Joints to Esteemed Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants List Michael Bauer added 26 new Bay Area restaurants to the Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants list, which you should pick up on Sunday, April 3, when the guide hits newsstands. It's an annual
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Then There Were Seven: Bauer Downgrades Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Proving that, regardless of accolades and fame, no noted chef is safe, Michael Bauer nixed the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton today from the esteemed four-star club. In fact, he downgraded it to
misc What Would You Name the Chronicle's Artisan Honey? In an Inside Scoop post today, Chronicle food critic and man-of-impeccable-taste, Michael Bauer proves he's only in it for the honey. In a partnership with the Marin Bee Company and the paper's Home
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Picks Top 11 Restaurants Of 2010 Omnipotent SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer selected his favorite 11 places to slurp and burp in 2010. They are: Frances, Marlowe, Oenotri, Saison, Prospect, Ippuku, Bar Agricole, Benu, Commonwealth, Plum, and Michael
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Discovers the Tonga Room In his side-item column on Inside Scoop this week, the Chronicle's princely food critic made a trip to everyone's favorite place to take their grandmother: the Fairmont Hotel's historic Tonga Room. It's worth
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer's Zero Star Update (for Food) Goes to... Morton's We mentioned yesterday that Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer would update a review with zero stars for cuisine today. His target: Morton's Steakhouse on Union Square. Ahem: "When I finally did start on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer to Give Local Restaurant Zero Stars Tomorrow You feel that chill? That harrowing sensation? That prickly breeze? It's the sparks emanating from the Bay Area food community's nerves being ripped to shreds. Tomorrow, according to Inside Scoop editor Paolo Lucchesi,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Doles Out Rare Three Stars for Iron Chef's New Napa Effort Renowned for his skills on "Iron Chef" in both the United States and Japan, Masaharu Morimoto's newest Napa restaurant, Morimoto Napa, received a rare three stars from Michael Bauer. A few of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Funny, Because We're Michael Bauer's Long Lost Son Food criticism czar Michael Bauer has had it with rapscallions tossing his name to and fro -- especially when they don't actually know him and/or have blood ties. (And you know who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Secret to Getting a Good Restaurant Seat? Invest. Today, Lord Bauer gives us the lowdown on how to snag a seat at the "hottest" favorite restaurant. The secret? A mere $25,000. He says, "Generally, if you’re an investor (and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Unshealths Annual 'Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants' Bible This past weekend, SF Chronicle food scribe Michael Bauer released his annual 'Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants' guide. The usual suspects (RN47, Flour + Water, Frances, Barbacco) made the list during their first year
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Restaurant Gets Ninth Four-Star Restaurant His Holiness Michael Bauer bestowed an extra half star upon Christopher Kostow's Restaurant at Meadowood, making it the ninth Bay Area restaurant to earn four stars. From the moment Bauer popped a crunch,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Goes to the Bathroom There are two ways to best judge a restaurant's quality: the soup and the bathroom. Both signify a venue's subtle, yet overall, attention detail. Visiting a new restaurant's bathroom is one of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Previews Pop-Up Restaurant Before Eating There In his new column, Chron foodie Michael Bauer sounds more than titillated by the concept of Saison, a new restaurant from partners Joshua Skenes and Mark Bright that is set to begin service
