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 Suite Foods Waffle Shop Opens Saturday On Bernal Whatever you're doing Saturday morning, cancel it. Yes, even morning cartoons. Suite Foods will open its very first waffle house on Cortland, featuring made-to-order sweet and savory Liege (AKA Belgian) waffles. They'll use
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Spencer Badly Damaged During Fire Chez Spencer, 11-year-old French restaurant in the Mission, suffered "heavy damage" after a two-alarm fire early this morning. Laurent Katgely, owner/chef of Chez Spencer, sent out the following tweet today: There was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Boulevard (Duh) What else did you think we were going to suggest? In light of last night's eight-years-in-the-making climactic Outstanding Restaurant win at the James Beard Awards, why not check out Boulevard before swarms of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Food Critics Debate Restaurant Stars Two of San Francisco's (increasingly rare) faceless critics, the Chronicle's Michael Bauer and SF Weekly's Jonathan Kauffman, face off today regarding the star system for restaurant reviews. Why? Because the LA Times (who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYE 2012 Dining Pick: Jardinière's Prix Fixe Don't let those artery-slicing Christmas blues get you down. One week after Christ's alleged birthday, you will have a fresh new holiday sure to blacken out the drudgery of yuletide cheer. We are,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Heartbreaking Hamburger News: Spork, And Their Quirky Burgers, To Disappear Soon Spork, the Valencia Street establishment that has been elevating comfort food for five years now, has reached the end of their lease Ms. Tablehopper reports. Friday, December 23rd will be the restaurant's last
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pop-Up Alert: Preview of Reform Club at Specchio This Sunday Conceived during a festive round of post-shift cocktail swilling, chef Allyson Harvie (chef de cuisine at Citizen Cake, formerly of Ragazza and Starbelly), bar manager Dion Jardine (bartender at Slanted Door & Heaven's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top Chef Masters Menu at Jardiniere Tonight A few days before this season's finale of Top Chef Masters airs, Traci Des Jardins will serve some of the dishes that landed her in the final three. Made under pressure and without
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Bar Bambino Cafe at New ODC Space Gets New Name Bar Bambino, the little 16th Street Italian joint that could, is opening a second location. And, according to Inside Scoop, that new location, smack-dab in the under-construction ODC Theater at 17th and Shotell,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ike's NOT Closing Today Although The Bay Citizen, The Chronicle, and other outlets have reported that that sandwich shop in the Castro (the one that loves unwarranted media attention almost as much as making tasty food) is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fondue Cowboy Opens This Week After a patient year-long wait, Fondue Cowboy (1052 Folsom), SOMA's ode to melted cheese and more, will open its doors to the public on Wednesday. This past weekend, Fondue Cowboy owner Dave Mur
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Waffle Mania Kiosk Open for Business Chowhound brings word that a waffle kiosk has opened up next door to Show Dogs. Oh yes. Waffle Mania will serve waffles at 1022 Market Street (at Golden Gate Avenue) from 8 a.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tyler Florence And Sammy Hagar Unite In what could be the fist bump heard around the world, majors bros Tyler Florence and Sammy Hagar have plans to open a restaurant in Marin. Dude. According to Eater, the Food Network
SF News Fire On Kearny According to KRON 4 News, a restaurant is on fire at 919 Kearny, between Drummond and Jackson Streets. Columbus is backed up to the tunnel. "Traffic is a nightmare" in the area. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fondue Cowboy: Comfort Food Comes to SOMA After white-knuckling a Tablehopper absence -- Marcia Gagliardi, you see, is in the process of writing a book, hence her two-week sojourn offline -- we were relieved to find her waiting in our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: "Small Bottles / Small Bites" at the Ritz Bar That's right. SFist classed up its act last Friday when we jumped into a cab, threw our hair back, and deadpanned to the driver, "Take us to the Ritz." Yes, we went to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monday Munchies: Waterbar 'Monday Munchies' returns. Yay! Also, if you can't afford to eat / be seen at Waterbar, calm down and listen: We have a review of Jollibee's, ready for your reading pleasure later this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sign of the Times: Bong Su, Anyone? by Ted Weinstein Are there any foodies out there feeling particular daring? Want to start a restaurant? Looks like you can grab the keys and drive one right off the lot, according to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Chefs Among James Beard Award Winners The Oscars of the food world were held yesterday in New York, and among top honorees were San Francisco's Nate Appleman of the restaurants A16 and SPQR, who won Best Rising Star Chef
SF News Search for Missing SF Restaurateur Ends Paolo Dominici, owner of the Noe Valley restaurant Bacco Ristorante, went missing over the weekend while sailing in Hawaii. He never returned. Today, sadly, the search for him was called off today. Our
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 12 Galaxies to Become 'Blue Macaw' Restaurant According to Tablehopper, 12 Galaxies will go from affectedly creative Mission nightspot to affectedly chic Mission restaurant. She reports, "Moving into the 12 Galaxies space in the Mission will be the ~BLUE MACAW~
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: Elizabeth Falkner by Tiffany Maleshefski 2008 was a tough year for pastry chef superstar Elizabeth Falkner. Citizen Cupcake, the small cafe located on the third floor of the Virgin Megastore closed. Meanwhile, Orson, her highly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Il Borgo by Tiffany Maleshefski Mention Il Borgo to most folks in San Francisco and they get all warm/fuzzy inside recalling their evenings spent at this cozy little Italian eatery in Hayes Valley. We'd
SF News Dining Out's Death: January '09 Eater is a fantastic spot to read what's opening and hot in the Bay Area's gastronomic scene. We all know that. But these days, and we really do hate saying this, it's pressing
