SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 10 Best Classic Restaurants In San Francisco Baghdad by the Bay has seen its fair share of restaurants tank with alarming speed and frequency. But some joints manage to stay at the top. They are as representative of San Francisco
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bix Scores A New Chef Bix remains one of the city's finest restaurants: it's got two stories, it's well lit, it's not in the Mission, it's located down a très charmant alley. Oh, and the food is good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fire Temporarily Shutters Marina's Castagna Castagna, a bistro serving American, French, and Italian fare, suffered minor fire damage on Saturday. Via their Facebook page, they write: Due to a fire [on Saturday], Castagna is closed for business until
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sunday Brooze Booze: Presido Social Club After a particularly debaucherous night board a Mexican Bus -- a birthday party that took your editor from the Castro to the Marina and back again, a fete of which we recall very
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Delays Reopening Looking dismayed in this Contra Costa article today, Alice Waters tells us that, sadly, the re-opening of Chez Panisse will be delayed. As we reported last Friday, parts of the Shattuck Avenue mainstay
Arts & Entertainment 2013 Rising Stars Announced: No Love For The Ladies, Again The San Francisco Chronicle’s Food and Wine staff selected five Rising Star Chefs was announced over the weekend “to find and highlight some of the Bay Area's freshest talent, those young chefs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Shorty Goldstein's Makes Warm Fuzzy PR Campaign and Pastrami Benedicts The FiDi got a some chopped liver love by way of a new Jewish deli, Shorty Goldstein’s, that just opened today across from the Crocker Galleria. And their PR campaign is downright
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Best Diners In San Francisco San Francisco is notoriously devoid of high-end late-night dining options, but in a town known for excessive alcohol consumption and bar hopping, diners boast loads of booze-soaking options from which to choose. Great
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Chef Shakeup At RN74 As of April 1, RN74 chef Jason Berthold will be replaced by Adam Sobel in the role of executive chef and partner. According to a press release, Jason is moving on to an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Luella Offering Oscar-Themed Food Package For Most Important Night Of The Year Sunday night is the most important night of the year. It's Oscar night, that's why! How much will you squirm when Anne Hathaway delivers her self-consciously kooky and over-prepared acceptance speech? A lot.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sweet Relief: The Bathroom At Saison It is said, by some, that a chef can be judged by their roast chicken. The same could be said of a restaurant and its bathroom; the place where we find relief in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards Milk It With Semifinalist Longlist As expected the Bay Area did super-duper when the James Beard Awards announced their curious semifinalist longlist. Why a semifinalist longlist? Presumably to give PR people more jerk-off material. Who knows. Fetch San
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 20 Most Influential Restaurants In The Country, According To 'Bon Appétit' In one of the most fellating pieces of food writing we've come across in eons — "Restaurants," writes editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport, "more than movies or music or literature — are this generation's arbiters of taste,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars, Booze, Bowl: Super Sunday Parties For The Big Game Low- to middle-income folks, perhaps such as yourself, have been priced out of football games. (Chronicle columnist C.W. Nevius credits the high price point for the lack of Super Bowl "sizzle" in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Finally Opening This Week The sociopathically anticipated opening of Saison, Joshua Skenes'' acclaimed restaurant, will happen on Friday. And we're thrilled. Everyone is thrilled. You should be thrilled. The new joint, moving away from the Mission, will
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Beef Short Rib Stracotto At Perbacco Spend some time downtown with the rest of your office brood. Where? Why at Perbacco. the noted joint on California, helmed by Executive Chef Staffan Terje, offers a smaller place next door (aptly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Keven Wilson Guest Stars At Naked Kitchen Can we start referring to "pop-ups" and "cameos," or is that equally or more obnoxious? Regardless, sous chef at Perbacco Keven Wilson will make a guest star appearance at Naked Kitchen (not to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What The Hell Is Wrong With The Old Mecca Space? Today news popped up that Shanghai Restaurant, located in the old Mecca space on Market Street, shuttered on January 15. To which we say: Shanghai was still open?! We had assumed it was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parallel 37 Nabs New Chef: Michael Rotondo After Ron Siegel's noted departure, over the weekend Parallel 37, the re-imagined restaurant at the Ritz-Cartlon that opened to much acclaim in 2012, announced their new chef: Michael Rotondo (formerly executive chef at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Map: Dine About Town 2013 View San Francisco Dine About Town 2013 - Restaurants in a larger map The fine folks at Google sent us this map that, from January 15 - 31, you can use to peruse
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Johnny Rockets, Chez Papa Resto Closing After two decades in Pac Heights, Johnny Rockets closed over the weekend. Inside Scoop reports: "With the windows papered up this weekend, the employees left a farewell note to the neighborhood, expressing gratitude
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ''Like A Form Of Torture,' Says Food Critic Over French Laundry Recalling their meal at French Laundry, the Bay Area's other three-Michelin star restaurant, a food critic in the February issue of Vanity Fair says, "The meal felt like a form of torture." The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Saison Not Opening Until February? [Update] UPDATE: According to the fine folks at Saison, they have a projected opening date of 1/15. So... fingers crossed for a January opening date! Gastronomes might have to wait even longer to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Softly Opens Mission Locale Now the Mission will get to feel the unadulterated dairy bliss that South Park enjoys far too often. Namely, the melty cheese-strewn sandwiches at the American Grilled Cheese Kitchen. Today, according to Grub
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Txoko To Close At Year's End Alas. The nearly unpronounceable Txoko, which took over the historic Enrico's spot in North Beach, announced that it will close this week. Though they did unfurl some damn noteworthy grub -- we slammed
