SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After Terrible Review From New York Times Critic, Locol Founder Roy Choi Takes The High Road Chef Roy Choi does not clap back. Of course the team behind the ambitious, healthy-but-still-cheap-and-supposedly-tasty fast-food venture Locol was going to respond when New York Times food critic Pete Wells panned not just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Times Critic Pete Wells Savages Locol In Oakland New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells has given us another surprise Bay Area review in his intermittent mission to survey the national food scene, and it's a review of Daniel Patterson and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rings In 30 Years As Chronicle Critic, 5,320 Reviews Later This week Michael Bauer is marking 30 years at the Chronicle, where he's served as food editor and restaurant critic since 1986 after moving the Bay Area from Dallas. As part of his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Opens Up About Terrible NYT Review, And His Upcoming New Project French Laundry chef and one of the fathers of the Bay Area's current fine dining boom, Thomas Keller, admits in a new profile in Town & Country that he was "devastated" by New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lord Stanley Lands On <i>Bon Appétit</i>'s Best New Restaurants At #3 Coming off a year of local accolades and a fresh-out-of-the-gate Michelin star, Polk Street's Lord Stanley has just garnered some new national attention that is sure to make it a tough reservation to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Brie Is Not A Pizza Cheese' And Other Thoughts On Ping Pong Bar SPiN The Chron's drinks writer Esther Mobley and cheap-eats scribe Anna Roth ventured to check out the food and booze options at SPiN, the new SoMa ping-pong bar opened in May by Susan Sarandon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Halal Guys In SF: An Admittedly Early Review A lot of people, but especially recent New York transplants, are pretty psyched about the arrival of The Halal Guys in San Francisco something we've known about for a year now, but which
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Rediscovers The LA Dining Scene, Checks In On Some Former SF Chefs In lieu of a Sunday review, Michael Bauer has written a larger piece about dining in Los Angeles for this Sunday's paper, which you can read online now. He writes generally about the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter Of Tadich Grill Family Talks About Being Disowned For Marrying A Black Man, Yelpers Respond En Masse A story with local implications broke on Sunday via the Washington Post, and it's already spelling some trouble for a storied local restaurant, via Yelp. Terri Upshaw, born Terri Buich into the family
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide 2016: Manresa Gets Three Stars, AL's Place, Californios, Octavia, Kin Khao, Mourad All Get One Well, the Michelin Guide updates for 2016 just arrived ahead of schedule, and Inside Scoop jumped on the new star listings, which turn out to be a lot more newsworthy than I thought!
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin Guide Update Arrives Next Week; 12 New Restaurants Become Bib Gourmand Picks For what it's worth, the Michelin Guide is the most respected and comprehensive guide to local dining curated and edited by a non-local entity, and the go-to source for restaurant picks for globe-trotting
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AL's Place Named Best New Restaurant In The U.S. By <i>Bon Appetit</i>; Rintaro Also Makes Top 10 No sooner had I sang the praises of Aaron London's first solo restaurant AL's Place in the Mission, Bon Appétit's Andrew Knowlton has just bestowed the big honor of naming it the best
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Epic Roasthouse Becomes Epic Steak, New Bar The Treasury Debuts, and More Guess who's in town this week? The great Jeremiah Tower has been stopping in to see friends like chef Mark Franz at Farallon, resurfacing after parting ways with Tavern on the Green in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Jessica Largey Leaves Manresa, Vive La Tarte Opens In SoMa, And More There were two pesky issues in the Castro this week: Quickly following Mandu shutting down for health issues (and reopening as Janchi, their second rebranding in three months) we had news that Posh
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Tried To Make It A Top 150 This Year, But The Chron Refused Every year for at least the past five Michael Bauer has lamented the cuts he has to make in order to keep his Top 100 Restaurants list down to 100. And, once again,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Tartine, Sons & Daughters Pruned From Chron Top 100; Lazy Bear, Liholiho and (Finally) Atelier Crenn Added For the second year in a row, the Chronicle is trying the thing where they entice people to pay for online subscriptions by publishing the updated Top 100 a week early on the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Empire Room Arrives This Month, <em>Top Chef</em> Is Coming, And More Besides this week's big openings of Aatxe and Octavia, and the big news that Del Popolo is getting a brick-and-mortar spot on Nob Hill, here's what else has been going on, food-wise, around
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Sous Beurre Kitchen Debuts, Chef Shuffle At Game, And More The news around the local food scene has been picking up lately, with openings and closings aplenty this past week. The three big openings, previously mentioned: Hawker Fare, Liholiho Yacht Club, and Mourad.
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 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 This Week In S.F. Food: Etoile Shutters In Napa, Cafe Des Amis Calls It Quits, and More Happy New Year, everyone. Though we've got a bunch of good stuff to look forward to, restaurant-wise, in 2015, the last week of the year brought with it its usual surprise closing announcements.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week In SF Food: Opening Nears For Mourad, Gussie's Chicken and Waffles Closes, and More Despite it being a holiday week in a half-empty town, a few things are still happening in the food scene, right down to the wire of New Year's Eve (see also our quick-and-dirty
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: Jack's Oyster Bar Debuts, Huxley Opens In September, and More The big opening of the week is across the Bay at Jack London Square, and that would be Jack's Oyster Bar. It's a fish shack/raw bar concept from Bocanova owners Rick Hackett
