SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Notable Restaurant Closures: Orson, and Charanga This afternoon's mail brings with it news of two restaurant closures that might come as sad news to some of the millions who call themselves foodies in these parts: According to Tablehopper, Charanga,
SF News Confirmed: 25% Tipping Standard Bogus, Could Still Sting Local Tourism Recall last week when we dubiously picked up on a story from the Contra Costa Times that claimed some workers in "high-class" San Francisco restaurants wanted to make a 25% tip the standard?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Waitstaff Want to Make 25% Tip the Standard, Claims Food Columnist After the Michael Bauer stirred up controversy by suggesting the city's Healthy SF program was to blame for San Francisco's crappy tipping, some members of the service industry are pushing to make a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu, the Best Restaurant in America? It is if you're David Chang. See, in a recent Wall Street Journal piece, the noted chef opined that Benu, SoMa's modern restaurant of well-executed divinity, could very well be the next El
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Healthy SF to Blame for Bad Tipping? In the recently-launched Zagat SF/Bay Area 2011 Restaurant Guide, San Francisco ranked the worst when it comes to tipping. (Side note: Is $2 too much for a $10 cab ride? Please advise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gary Danko Tops Zagat Restaurant Guide (Again) Last night at Park Tavern in North Beach, Gary Danko, Google's Marissa Mayer, and your very own SFist editor, among other gastronomic/media types, eschewed SF Cocktail Week's kickoff to attend the the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foodie Quote Of The Year: Mission Murders Are Cool The disparity between real life and the city's increasingly out-of-touch gastronomic set came to light over the weekend when Mission Local published a revealing article about the overlap of foodies and gangs in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Does An iPad Belong In A Restaurant? Yes. Michael Bauer's exceptional Between Meals feature has provided thought-provoking fodder as of late. Why, just the other day he asked readers if iPads have a place at restaurant tables. Which they do not,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prix Fixe Madness at 25 Lusk and Bourbon Steak After a long day at work, you know what's nice? Alcohol. You know what else is nice? Not having to decide what to eat. Which is why we love a comparatively easier prix
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mobile Spinach Offers Food Discounts Without Asking Restaurants Mobile Spinach, a Groupon-like site based in San Francisco, offers restaurant deals that seems too good to be true. Which just might be the case. Grub Street reports that the coupon site offers
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Important Carnitas News: Nopalito Expanding West With Forthcoming 9th Avenue Location Nopalito, the bustling little hermana to Nopa's well-loved Californian establishment, is about to get another sibling restaurant in the Inner Sunset. As the ever-vigilante and always hungry Tablehopper reports this afternoon, the purveyors
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Man Trying to Eat at Every S.F. Restaurant You've heard of the woman trying to drink at every bar in San Francisco. You've heard of the guy trying to stomach every Chinese restaurant in San Francisco. Now meet the man trying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer De-stars La Terrasse It's been quite some time since Chronicle food critic of note Michael Bauer yanked the star from a ho-hum restaurant. Updating his initial two-star review of the Presidio-based food joint La Terrasse, Bauer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Hookah Lounges Done, Banned Over the past year, the San Francisco Health Department has tirelessly worked to shutdown the scourge known as hookah lounges. For those not in the know, hookah lounges are a rite of passage
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chez Papa Resto, Perfect Summer Booze, A-16's Beer Month Tablehopper strutted her stuff on Folsom this week, checking out Sightglass Coffee Bar & Roastery. (We initially read that as a coffee and roasted chicken mashup, which for us sounds pretty damn divine.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High/Low: Flour + Water Wild Boar Series; Coffee Bar BBQ Rib Throwdown HIGH: Noted ginger/chef wunderkind Thomas McNaughton will host a series of Wild Boar dinners at flour + water. Thomas' menus will focus on using the whole animal and "a connection to the most
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Adesso Happy Hour, Deer Heart Tartare, Lucky Peach Eyeroll And the winner for Best Happy Hour in Oakland goes to... Adesso. Secret's out. [Bay Area Bites] In yet another show aimed at men who grill cook, Chris Cosentino's unaired television show, called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Q Restaurant Boasts Charming Buster Posey DL Mural As the Giants drop (ever so slightly and briefly!) to second place, we have something to cheer up irked fans. And Buster Posey too! Cartoonist Andy George created this mural in honor of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Better Than New York, Says Alan Richman Grub Street picked up the latest issue of Gentlemen's Quarterly only to discover that Alan Richman, the most awarded food writer in history (14 James Beard Awards!), put his esteemed foot down in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over Laura Beck's wildly addictive installment of vegan dishes worth creaming your culinary pants over. Soyrizo Breakfast Sandwich at Little Bird Coffeehouse - 835 Geary Street (at Larkin) This fairly new coffeeshop in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bar Agricole, Chronicle Early James Beard Winners Before tonight's chef and restaurants awards are handed out at the 2011 James Beard Awards, early technical awards in the non-chef categories (i.e., books, broadcast, journalism and restaurant design) were bestowed Friday
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Be a Guest on 'Check, Please! Bay Area' The lovely Michele Mandell brings word that noted KQED restaurant-review show Check, Please! Bay Area is looking for a few good reviewers. Might you be one of them? The rules, in addition to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Breakfast hedonism at Sunnyside Cafe in Berkeley.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Booted From Sparkling Water's Top-50 Restaurant List San Pellegrino, the fizzy bottled water located below the Vitamin Water and Lipton Brisk at our nearest corner store, revealed their annual World's Best 50 Restaurant awards today. The kicker? Annual favorite the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seinfeld 'Soup Nazi' Coming To Fisherman's Wharf Al Yeganeh, the man who inspired the "Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld, is coming to San Francisco. Well, his chain of soup store will come here, anyway. "The Wharf outpost of The Original SoupMan
