SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ame Honors Anniversary Of Japanese Tsunami-Quake With Prix Fixe Benefit From now until March 18th, St. Regis' Michelin-starred food joint Ame honors the one-year anniversary of the tsunami and earthquake in Miyagi, Japan, with a special prix fixe dinner option. Dishes inspired by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Read Wolfgang Puck's Letter To California Restaurants Serving Foie Gras Although his gastronomic reputation has, let's fact it, been marred due to his frozen food and canned soup lines, Spago founder and chef Wolfgang Puck still has some pull. So, he penned an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Confessions Of A San Francisco Parent: Babies In Restaurants Aren't A Problem By D. Hanousek The other night, while my husband and I were enjoying a long overdue romantic dinner at Delfina (to which my husband dutifully and accurately remarked that we have done on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink AQ, Nopa, Danny Bowien Are James Beard Award Semifinalists The James Beard Awards (the CableACE Awards of food) announced their semifinalist list today. Not surprisingly, many Bay Area gastronomes made the cut. Mission Chinese Food's Danny Bowien, Thomas McNaughton of Flour + Water,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wise Sons Opens Today Challah! Whether hard or soft opening (ew), Wise Sons is sorta, but pretty much open for business starting today. We're being told it's a "soft" opening, so you might want to give them
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fluffy Grilled Cheese At Darwin Cafe For lunch today, we had intended on eating the Roast Beef Sandwich at Darwin Cafe — SoMa's not-so-best-kept secret, a small cafe/sandwich shop tucked away on Ritch and Bryant — but we were either
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Chinese Food Best Restaurant In America, Says GQ GQ recently named Danny Bowien's Mission Chinese Food one of the top ten best new restaurants in America — and rightfully so. Bowien's food, which initially began as a pop-up joint within the Mission
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Medjool To Become Rooftop-Only Establishment Fresh off of yesterday's announcement that plans are finally in the works to fix up the New Mission Theater, Mission Street tycoon Gus Murad's other holding over at Medjool announced they will be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Finally, Benu Enters Prestigious Four-Star Club Benu, Corey Lee's "breathtaking" restaurant in the old Hawthorne Lane spot, is the eighth Bay Area joint to crack The Chronicle's solemn four-star ceiling. And rightfully so. Lee's place is, for lack of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Listen & Eat: Commonwealth Club 'Meet & Eat with SF's Hottest Young Chefs' The Bay Area's continuing sanctification of chefs (what in heaven's name do you think Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham would say regarding this trend of placing cooks on such high pedestals?) goes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Restaurants Doing Pretty Well, All Things Considered After a couple of years of everyone bemoaning "the economy," we get some more encouraging news today, including the employment numbers, and this bit from the Chron about how well Bay Area restaurants
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Here's What Birthday Cake Looks Like At Benu Benu, San Francisco's Michelin two-star restaurant run by artist/chef Cory Lee, garnered raves from critics and diners alike since it opened in 2010. Rightfully so. The sparsely-decorated joint and Lee's avant-garde molecular
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Michael Bauer's Top 10 Restaurants Of 2011 Are... Well, they're good. No, they're great. That's for certain. Tastiness abounded in 2011. But the selection, it seems, wasn't as nearly as difficult to choose from compared to 2010. Not that 2011 sucked,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hipster Chef Sounds Off On Bourgeois Customers PBR-drinking chef Ron Eyester of Rosebud restaurant and Family Dog bar in Atlanta isn't keen on certain types so customers—namely, those who aren't well-versed in the delicate ways of consuming his artisan
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink NYE 2012 Dining Pick: Nojo Hayes Valley's chicken-on-a-stick-themed Nojo (pronounced "No, Joe!") stands as one of the best restaurants of 2011. Although tucked inside an aesthetically-blah apartment complex, chef Greg Dunmore's fare is anything but. The delicate Japanese
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Restaurant Inspectors Accused Of Soliciting Bribes Two Department of Public Health employees tasked with making sure restaurant employees know how to properly handle your food have been accused of soliciting bribes in exchange for faking documents that ensure every
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hooters SF Closing Down In food and mammary news, the Hooters in Fishermen's Wharf will close its doors for good this month. They're slated to put away the boobage on December 21, the store manager explained to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Penthouse Club To Provide SF With Steak, Naked Breasts In 2012 Penthouse, noted purveyor of labial entertainment, will bring "four-star dining" to San Francisco in early 2012 via the city's very own Penthouse Club & Steakhouse. While the exact space is not yet know,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Café Gratitude Asks For Help Amid News Of Closure In light of today's news that all Northern California Café Gratitude restaurants will close or be sold, owner Terces Engelhart made plea to supporters today. She asked fans and, ahem, followers interested in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Café Gratitude Announces NorCal Closures [Updated] Terces Engelhart, owner of Café Gratitude, just posted the following announcement on her Facebook page announcing the closure/sale of all Northern California Café Gratitudes locations. According to Englehart, some "aggressive lawsuits" from
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parallel 37, New Bar-Centric Ritz-Carlton Restaurant, Opens December 12 The Ritz-Carlton's new restaurant, Parallel 37, will open its doors before Christmas (say what you will about the tony hotel establishment, but its San Francisco locale is the place to go during festivities
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacon Bacon Truck Finds a Home Move over food trucks, now there's something keener... like brick-and-mortar establishments that don't require food served to you from the back of a Honda. Take, for example, noted food truck Bacon Bacon, seller
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Businesses Go 'Cash-Only' In Support of General Strike Don Harbison, owner of B Restaurant and Bar (with locations in SF and Oakland), sent SFist a list of Oakland companies taking part in today's general strike by going cash-only and eschewing credit
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Citing Denise Hale, Bauer Says "Appearance Is Important" When Trying to Snag a Table So much has been said, shouted, and ballyhooed about the 99%, so let's talk about the 1%, shall we? Specifically, the de-lovely Denise Hale. For those of you not in the know, Hale
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin 2012 Stars Announced The 2012 Michelin stars are slowly trickling in today. Chefs and restaurants are given the news via a phone call (similar to the ones semi-finalists receive on America's Next Top Model). So far,
