SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Morton's Takes Over Disney Store Space Fantastic news: Morton's -- the steakhouse that eschews infusions, Amy Winehouse-looking hostesses, cramped seating, and square and small plates -- is officially taking over the now-closed Disney store on Post and Powell. Eater
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thanksgiving Dining in SF For those of you with a decent chunk of change and a basting phobia, CHOW has compiled their list of top SF restaurants in which to celebrate Thanksgiving. Their top choice, Ducca, has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Gitane By Tiffany Maleshefski When you have a menu item named Bacon Bon Bons (prunes stuffed with goat cheese and wrapped in smoked bacon), the intrigue enough should guarantee a full house, at least
misc First Arrests In Oakland Takeover Robberies After weeks of relative guilt-free robberies in the East Bay, two people were apprehended last night after nail salon was shook down. Last night "two men wearing ski masks, at least one of
SF News Today's East Bay Restaurant Robbery: Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant El Cerrito played host to the most recent restaurant takeover at around 9:45 p.m. last night. Two masked men entered Yuet Foo Seafood Restaurant and stole cash from employees and patrons
SF News Hayward Restaurant Hit Much to Mayor Dellums relief -- since this means he won't have to make yet another benign, angry-man speech -- a Hayward Chinese restaurant was targeted last night in the East Bay takeover
SF News Restaurant Thieves Strike Again Two armed men struck yet another East Bay restaurant, this time in the posh Rockridge district. At least two thieves robbed a Pasta Pomodoro (someone save the butternut squash ravioli!) at 5500 College
SF News Since Dellums Can't, Guardian Angels Attempt to Protect Oakland The streets of Oakland might become a bit safer now with the addition of the Guardian Angels. Starting this Friday night, the "volunteer organization of unarmed citizen crime patrollers" will man the mischief
SF News Another Oakland Restaurant Robbed at Gunpoint In a span of 24 hours, two Oakland restaurants were robbed by three armed men wearing masks and dark hoodies. Skyline Pizza, located at 4400 Keller Avenue, was hit around 9 p.m.
SF News Cough, Cough, Says Daly: New Cigarette Ban Introduced The entertaining/controversial Chris Daly, who seems a bit quiet as of late, has a new target now: wafts of cigarette smoke. We're told that his latest push of legislation "calls for a
SF News SFist Blotter: Mission Mayhem Edition Taking a cue from the East Bay's recent restaurant robberies, an armed gunman entered Valencia Street Italian eatery Beretta (formerly Last Supper Club/Radio Free Valencia) on Tuesday morning and robbed the joint.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $20,000 Coffee at Blue Bottle Cafe In addition to finding such high-end breakfast items as "pancetta souffle ($9.50), porcini flan ($11), egg and potato torte with warm bread ($5.50) and morel poached eggs ($8)" on Blue Bottle
misc SFist Blotter Two separate shootings in the city of Richmond took the lives of three men on Thursday night. Shooting number-one occurred around 9:15 p.m. at Sahib Indian Restaurant, "located at 12221 San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zagat '08 Survey The 2008 edition is out: your nice alphabetical list of restaurants with a grade for food, decor and service, as rated by the users of Zagat. This year, it is going 2.0,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Section Round Up Berrylicious illustration from The Oakland Tribune. We gobble the various food sections up each Wednesday. Here are our favorite nibbles from today's offerings. SF Chronicle: Serious bock-bock time for those of you who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cheap, Loud, And Drug-Laden: Taqueria's Owner And Chef Busted There aren't a lot of reviews out there for Lol Tun Restaurant, on Folsom between 19th & 20th streets. The folks participating on Yelp generally say the food is good and cheap, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Vegan Macrobiotic Experience (We were only successfully completely vegan and macrobiotic -- or "macroneurotic" according to our friends -- for two weeks, but our affection for whole grains and veggies-in-season persisted.) Over time, changes and renovations
misc In Living Color The proposal calls for the building of a business park, retail stores, luxury hotel, and a movie/TV production studio. The idea of a theme park has been shelved which, sadly, takes away
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Farina We really enjoyed our sweet milk fritter! (above.) It was like a cream puff encased in sugar. Mmmwah! But we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. So hey, did you see they opened
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Un-natural Food Additive Alert So, we ourselves are as naïve as anyone else on this topic, having not-too-long-ago extolled the virtues of dishes containing the latest faux-food villain at B Restaurant in Oakland... Guess what? Truffle oil
Arts & Entertainment More Than Gizzards And Brains: Incanto's Got Grape Alder at Vinography is in the process of reviewing every darned wine bar in town -- 14 of the 26 have been reviewed so far. What surprised us a little -- we hadn't
SF News Joe Joe Alioto Alioto District District 3 3 Well, there's now two more vying for elective office -- and hey, check this out. According to Fog City Journal, Joe Alioto is running in District 3, and Joe Alioto is running in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay Eats: The Seaman’s Soup Kitchen Okay, it's really NOT a soup kitchen, but if you have a boat docked in Oakland’s Embarcadero Cove Marina (down the highway from Jack London Square and across from Alameda's Coast Guard
SF News Third Fake Question Time The tie was red, the gel was flaky, and Fake Question Time was ON! Big thanks to Luke Thomas for letting us use his photos! Check out even more amazing photos, and Fog
SF News No Soup For You According to Executive Director Kevin Westlye, the members of the association are thinking about closing for one day to make a point. And it won't be on a late sunday too, it'll be