SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 2 S.F. Restaurants Among Top 50 Newbies, Declares Bon Appetit Bon Appetit's Top 50 Best New Restaurants of 2012 unleashed itself upon a hungry, list-loving world today. Among their favorite rookie joints: AQ and State Bird Provisions. The mag's restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 3 Tasty Ways To Celebrate Julia Child's 100th Birthday There are better ways to honor Julia Child's 100th birthday (born 8/15) than by braving Tu Lan (pictured on their menus, she was a fan of the Vietnamese joint back in cleaner
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Friday: Cloaked Behind Screen, Michael Bauer To Appear In Live Interview Though his face is more and more recognizable in these our modern smartphone times, Michael Bauer remains one but a few anonymous restaurant critics left in the city. On Friday, August 4, Bauer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 5 Gentrifiers On Divisadero As San Francisco changes with its influx of money and its penchant for microhoods (and saying such cringe-worthy dreck as "microhoods"), we here at SFist want to give you the top-drawer suspects of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 7 Scenes From Last Night: Beer-Biased Abbot's Cellar Opening Next Week "This is totally an Instagram type of place," Tighe Flatley, who escorted us to Abbot's Cellar, a new Valencia Street restaurant slanted toward a beer-drinking crowd, exclaimed when we arrived. He meant that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Only 1 Bay Area Eatery Makes 'Forbes' List of Highest Grossing Restaurants Have you heard of Rickey's Restaurant? Well, the Novato joint was the only Bay Area eatery to land on Forbes list of highest grossing restaurants in America. Last year they pulled in a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hungry During the Witching Hour? Tablehopper Launches Handy Late-Night Dining App One glaring issue with San Francisco is that our sidewalks tend to roll up at 10 pm. More to the point, our city's lack of a late-night dining scene bugs. Sure, there's Sparky's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area's Best Food Under One Tent (and Elsewhere) at SF Chefs Festival The annual gastronome bash SF Chefs at Union Square (and other venues, but it's really all about the scene under the tent) approaches. In the past years at SF Chefs, we've seen Fleur
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink City's Best Chefs Turn Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Into Swank Soiree Sunday And we're off. The summer fetes celebrating the current season's harvests will dot the Bay Area for the next few months, and we couldn't be happier. And so should you. For starters, the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink End Of Foie Gras Dining: 5 Picks For Maximum Ducky Succulence Well, well. Here we are. At last. As we already mentioned today, California's foie gras ban won't really stick when it goes into effect on Monday, July 1st. But you'd be a down
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Dixie Let's see, what's the food sect ballyhooing over this week. Let's see... ah, here we go: Joseph Humphrey's Dixie. Continuing the trend of southern comfort cooking, Humphrey's new joint in the Presidio features,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Mezcal Mule At West Of Pecos The newest restaurant in the restaurant ghetto of Valencia Street is West of Pecos, and it's a southwestern affair from the family that owns Woodhouse Fish Co., the MacNivens including Tyler MacNiven, who's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fior d'Italia Closes After 126 Years Billed as the oldest Italian restaurant in the country, North Beach staple Fior d'Italia closed its doors for good, reports the Chronicle. The restaurant survived several disasters, including the Great Quake of 1906
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Etiquette Week: How To Dine Out Without Being A Jerk Yesterday we taught you how to walk on city sidewalks, and on Monday we explained the unwritten rules of riding public transportation. Today, as part of SFist's ode to National Etiquette Week, we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boulevard, Pastry Chef Emily Luchetti Honored At James Beard Awards After eight nominations and no wins, Nancy Oakes and Pat Kuleto's American-French Boulevard nabbed 2012's Outstanding Restaurant honor at this year's James Beard Awards. A well-deserved (and somewhat tardy) win, Boulevard beat out
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Dining Out For Life At Bisou Bistro On a very tardy edition of Eat Here Tonight, we suggest that you head over to the Castro for Dining Out For Life at Bisou Bistro. Hosted by Bill Hemenger and Rebecca Prozan,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Michael Bauer Said Unto Quince, 'Rise Up' Following Benu's ascension into the four-star sphere of Michael Bauer's gastronomic Paradiso, Pacific Venue's Quince also rose to heavenly heights over the weekend, joining the small list of four-star restaurants in the Bay
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink One Night Stand: Taj Campton Place & Restaurant Behold, SFist's newest feature, One Night Stand, ready to help Bay Area locals plan a getaway inside San Francisco or within a 71-mile circumference thereof. How did this come about? Well, being SFist,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Poll: Which Bay Area Restaurant Has The Worst Name? After scores of entries poured in for our query asking for the worst named restaurant in the Bay Area, we have arrived at a cringe-worthy group for you to pore over. One commenter
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Nine People Secretly Filmed Using Toilet At Pac Heights Restaurant A former employee at a Pac Heights restaurant stands accused today of filming patrons using the bathroom. SF Examiner reports: "Between Feb. 12 and 20, according to court documents, [David] Talavera is alleged
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Which Bay Area Restaurant Has The Worst Name? While the Bay Area is home to some of the finest gastronomic houses of swell repute, we are also home to some of the silliest and most pretentious restaurant names. Take, for example,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: Il Cane Rosso At Galette 88 Typically a trendy albeit tasty place to grab buckwheat galettes or sweet crepes during the lunch hour, Galette 88 opens its door tonight to chef Lauren Kiino and her team at Il Cane
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat Here Tonight: 1/2 Price Wine At Luella's Starting tonight and every following Tuesday, all bottles of wine on Luella's wine list will be 1/2 price all night. Hardly a hipster haven (thank god), Luella's stands as a decent neighborhood
Arts & Entertainment Christie's To Auction Eddie Rickenbacker's Tiffany Lamps You know Eddie Rickenbacker's, right? That downtown place where you go after work to get trashed while remembering Mr. Higgins? (May he rest in peace.) Well, Christie's will auction off some of the
