Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
Arts & Entertainment A New Chef at B Oakland's B Restaurant (or just "B," apparently), promised to be such a place. Since the establishment's doors opened across its refurbished 120-year-old mosaic tile floor in 2005, reviewers have unanimously noted the New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mangia, Mangia The Chron went around and asked a bunch of restaurants about how all of these fees are going to affect them. A lot of restaurants have said that the measures passed has already
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Friday night may have kicked off the 14th Annual Kung Pao Kosher Comedy soiree, but it was our first. Though we're clearly members of the target audience for a December night of comedy
SF News ...And A Protest In A Pear Tree Hark! The herald angels at Left in SF heeded our plea and forwarded along some pictures of last night's singalong Christmas carol protest of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's holiday party. As you
SF News Now Bring Us Some Figgy Pudding Well, never let it be said that the progressives in town don't come up with some entertaining protest ideas! So get your top hat and/or velvet bonnet, warm up those vocal cords,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau 2006 We have always been a sucker for organizations that do good in the community and are perceived to be fiscally responsible. The wine's importer, W.J. Deutsch & Sons Ltd. made a seven
SF News <strike>Everybody</strike> 50.34% Of District 6 Hates Chris When does the RCV count begin -- in the District 6 election! And as promised earlier, this week's episode is indeed titled: Everybody Hates The Wait. --Man, it sounds like we the Dalys'
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Incanto's Whole Roasted Suckling Pig with its "Nasty Bits" We can't think of a better way to spend a birthday (our husband's) than eating an entire animal with seventeen fellow carnivores at Incanto Restaurant's private room, in Noe Valley. This is a
SF News Guilfency Bump Watch! You can find some more pictures from the same day here, captioned "Kimberly Guilfoyle and husband Eric Villency Sighting in Soho After Lunching at Bar Pitti Restaurant -- July 16, 2006." There's also
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Writes Stinking Prose...Wait, Stinking Praise. Having garlic infused drinks, garlic spread on your bread, garlic appetizer, garlic entree and garlic ice cream: we fancy all these once in a while. But stringing all these into a meal sounds
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Sustainable Seafood Salon So if you are concerned about having good fresh local wild seafood on your plate instead of tasteless overly pink antibiotic loaded farmed fish, you can go and attend the discussion, moderated by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Fishing on Craigslist Walk around the corner, and you'll be at Market and 14th. You'd imagine the hustle and bustle to propagate half a block away. But it's almost like the video rental place with the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Combing the Beard's Results. Our side of the country still hold its own in the award count. Running in the 100m dash of these Olympics, Thomas Keller won a gold medal for Outstanding Restaurant. That means the
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: Send in the Divas DivaFest at Exit Theatre Exit Theatre's DivaFest features female artists who actually have talent to back up their diva title. (Though you may find a transvestite in the mix.) Leading the festival is
misc S to Zed We detected a wave of excitement fluttering through San Francisco when news broke that the Mission District was going to be home to a new Indian called Dosa, devoted to cuisine from the
misc The 'Fisties: All Winners: The Best of New Bay Area Restaurants We were going to award the Best New Restaurant award of 2005, to Jack Falstaff which opened exactly a year ago, and which we reviewed here on SFist after our third visit. Although
misc The 'Fisties: Best Fancy Restaurants Campton Place won our heart almost a year ago, in our pre-SFist life, when we ordered a four course meal which ended up an eleven plate effort, with so many freebies thrown in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Splurges like a Hog We ordered a $100 steak at Olivetto. Bistecca alla Fiorentina, it was described, "Niman Ranch Beef Porterhouse Steak with 'bianca di Spanga' beans and Spinach, White Truffle Butter (for two). $100" We found
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Val's Restaurant & Lounge Amazing what getting in the wrong turning lane will do for you. After a movie at the Century 20 Daly City — about which theater, the less said, the better, but let's just note
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Celia's Mexican Restaurant We have our habits, and one of them is a powerful hankering for kickass Mexican food. Now, the Bay Area's abundance of taquerias and taco trucks is well-documented, and we have developed real
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Dan Leone, Part II Any changes to the Top 5 places from the list you gave for the 10th anniversary last year? Dan Leone: Um, I’ve since discovered a soul food place called Your Neighborhood Restaurant
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Opinionated Loudmouth: Nick’s Seashore Restaurant Remember in when Henry Hill's talking about how he and the other gangsters used to take their wives out on Friday nights? They'd go out for a nice dinner, and maybe there'd be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Represent: Three World Class Restaurants! Of course, our first thought was how did we do against the other 'ists? Well, we beat the crap out of LAist, with a series sweep at three to nothing, and that's what
