SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Norovirus From Contaminated Canadian Oysters Infects Dozens Across California 34 people in California have tested positive for norovirus, the state’s department of health says, and the CDC has counted 91 people in total who have fallen ill across the country, but the real number may be much higher.
SF News Drakes Bay Oyster Cleanup Shelled By Charges Of Worker Endangerment The long and salty saga of the former Drakes Bay Oyster Co. site at Point Reyes National Seashore is shucking up another controversial chapter. The now-defunct oyster farm who once provided nearly 40
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heavy Rainstorms Caused By Climate Change Could Kill Off SF Bay's Wild Oysters For Good Its populations originally decimated in San Francisco Bay during the Gold Rush and the consequent pillaging of every local source of food (more about that here), the Olympia oyster the West Coast's only
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drakes Bay Oyster Company May Finally Be Dunzo After Supreme Court Denies Case After a very long and protracted fight that attracted support by everyone from Alice Waters to the Koch Brothers, Drakes Bay Oyster Co. up in Point Reyes may be facing imminent closure after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drakes Bay Oyster Company Will Be Forced To Close [Update: Maybe Not] In the ongoing legal troubles of Drakes Bay, the company responsible for about 40% of California's oysters was denied an appeal that would have allowed the 2,500 acre oyster farm to stay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drakes Bay Oyster Co. Will Stay Open (For Now) The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted Drakes Bay Co. a temporary injunction that will keep the beloved oyster farm open. Whew. Marin IJ has more: The 9th circuit court agreed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Drake's Bay Oyster Company Goes To Court Drakes Bay Oyster Co. lost their 40-year lease on federal land back in November when U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gave them the boot and subsequent efforts to renew the lease were
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Play Hooky With Boxing Room's $1 Oysters [Update] [UPDATE: Dollar oyster special not effect just now. See below.] Whilst lollygagging in Hayes Valley during a warm-ish afternoon in August, grab some oysters on the cheap. See, Boxing Room's Chef Justin Simoneaux
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Weekend Reminder: Oysterfest, Sunday Streets Hey guys, it's the weekend. Almost. But you knew that already. (Also, ugh, Fourth of July falls on a Wednesday, so it will fell like one long late Sunday afternoon. So cruel.) Be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight Addendum: Shuck & Swallow Competition In a few minutes or so, your SFist editor (and the bassist from Whitesnake, along with a few other notable locals) will head over to the other side of San Francisco to judge
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OysterFest at Waterbar, 8/27 A tasty, slick reminder for all you oyster fans: Waterbar’s 3rd annual OysterFest cracks open on Saturday, August 27. For a mere $40, you get unlimited access to oysters, Napa wines and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Oysterfest Investigated By Health Department After Attendees Fall Ill Given the control PR ilk try to exert over food writing in the Bay Area, we're shocked (and a bit tickled) to see this story go live. See, several people fell ill at
Arts & Entertainment Waterbar's OysterFest, 8/28 Billed as a kickoff to San Francisco's Indian summer (which, well, we might not feel this year of if the glacial summer weather is any indication), Waterbar hosts the second annual OysterFest on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Slow Food's Crab & Oyster Festival (Saturday, 12/5) by Rachel Brodsky Mmm crabs. No not those crabs. I'm talking about the good kind! And, as most of you in the Bay Area now already, Maryland isn't the only place you can
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Free Oysters Tonight Leave work early if you can, folks. Tonight (and every Friday night) El Rio is giving away free Tomales Bay oysters. the protein slurping starts at 5:30 p.m. Mmm. Now go.
SF News Let Them Eat Oysters, Says Feinstein Going head to head with the Wilderness Act and righteous green folk, Senator Dianne Feinstein reformulated a bill that would allow Drakes Bay Oyster Co., California's largest commercial shellfish farm, to continue farming
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink UPDATE: On the Menu at PJ's Oysterbed: Rats and Two-Week-Old Seafood Picute of rat's ass eating delicious crab: Eater "I have no idea why people don't like this place" cries out a Yelper over PJ's Oysterbed. Well, here's one: Eater has word that, after
