SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer to Restaurants: Ban Parfumes Although he brought this up over a year ago, SF Chronicle's Michael Bauer needs discuss it again. Because nothing has been done about it. What on earth are we talking about? Perfume stink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Behold the Bauer After making a TV appearance at some sort of Minnesota State Fair, Eater kicked off a search for famed SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer's elusive visage. (Oh God. Speaking of TV, did
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 100: Bauer Giveth, Bauer Taketh Away San Francisco Chronicle food scribe Michael Bauer came out with his annual Top 100 this weekend. California and American restaurants, as expected, weighed heavily on the list. A few new additions were Jack
misc Meet the Parents! Commenter Neil posted up his two cents on Bauer's blog and wrote up his detailed instructions on getting through the dreaded affair: It depends on whether the priority is going to dinner or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Still Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass! The bay area Michelin Guide 2008 is out, and there’s not much changed from last year: the French Laundry is the only place with 3 stars (the most) in the wider bay
Arts & Entertainment Bauer On LAist On Bauer? Food Flap! You know how sometimes we point out when an out-of-town publication takes an outside-in look at our fair city? We've pointed to such pieces in the L.A. Times and the Economist even
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section (Abbreviated) Round Up Roasted Chioggia beets with nectarine juices & marjoram. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here is our short and sweet favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Michael Bauer eats
Arts & Entertainment Boo Friggin' Hoo: Food Critics Want To Take Their Ball And Go Home The Chron ran an article on Sunday that we really, really wanted to write some commentary on after reading it. "Food bloggers dish up plates of spicy criticism"; subhead "Formerly formal discipline of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Thomas Keller Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass!* Every food critic is shocked, shocked!, to discover that a bunch of out-of-town restaurant reviewers disagree with their own taste. The Chron's Michael Bauer does not understand why the Michelin did not reprint
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Taqueria Round Up SFist Mary gives us the tasty carne asada filling to the Chron's grand tour of burrito joints in town! News flash: Chronicle's Bill Addison eats lots of tacos and burritos as "research." Today's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Tamed Madness Bernard Loiseau was a sad casualty of a similar debate: this French chef committed suicide, alledgedly because the Michelin was going to take his third star away (on a scale of three). His
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 Another Fine Trimethyldioxypuri...Oh, Never Mind. So, yeah, we flaked last week. Holiday weekends are always a good excuse, right? We've always been of the opinion that people who do an excess of reviews (movie critics, people employed as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Does Anybody Read 7x7? Sam Breach of Becks & Posh bravely opened up a copy of 7x7 magazine (San Francisco's answer to society mag New York Magazine) only to find her own name in it! Of course,
