SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Otaez Mexicatessen Owner Shot To Death Jesus "Chuy" Campos, owner of Fruitvale's Otaez Mexicatessen, was shot to death a little after 5:30 a.m. Friday morning. He arrived early to help out with the breakfast service. He was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Castro's Bagdad Cafe Closes One of the city's best drunk diners (i.e., late-night greasy spoons in which you can get cheap food while tipsy) closed shop last week. According to Paolo Lucchesi at Inside Scoop, "Bagdad
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: New Food at AT&T Park, Tapas at Masa, and Mysterious Balls Escape From New York Pizza just opened a shop at Harrison and Third in SoMa today, right in the old Goat Hill Pizza spot. That means cheap pizza by the slice! Located just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beretta, Bix, Ritz, Spruce Dropped from Bauer's Top 100 The power of Bauer: It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. The city's most noteworthy food critic unsheathed his annual spring revision of his top 100 list over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Sunday Brunch Alert: 10-Year Anniversary at Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay Yearning to leave the city this weekend, but not stray too far from San Francisco? Want to get buzzed on some top-drawer champagne and grub? Have a rich aunt or uncle in town?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Adds 26 New Joints to Esteemed Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants List Michael Bauer added 26 new Bay Area restaurants to the Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants list, which you should pick up on Sunday, April 3, when the guide hits newsstands. It's an annual
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over Laura Beck's bi-weekly installment of vegan dishes worth creaming your culinary pants over. Housemade bread or pizza dough at Source, 11 Division (at King), SF First, let us get this party started by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Today at 12:30 PM: Sing Happy Birthday to Italy, Get Free Cake Sorry for the last minute notice, but those who are already in the Union Square area could still benefit from this tip provided by FuncheapSF. Emporio Rulli Il Caffé, the Italian pastry, cafe,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink <em>Top Chef: Just Desserts</em> Winner Yigit Pura Names New Pastry Shop In a recent interview with Food & Wine, Yigit Pura, San Francisco-based pastry chef and winner of Top Chef: Just Desserts, revealed the name of his upcoming pastry shop. He shall chrsiten it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo du Jour "The Old In-and-Out" by Nick Fisher. (Although this goes against this editor's ancient native California spirit, here's the chain's secret menu revealed.)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over Laura Beck's bi-weekly installment of vegan dishes worth creaming your culinary pants over. Vegan Grilled Cheese Sandwich at Sacred Wheel Cheese Shop, 4935 Shattuck, Oakland There's a cheese shop in Oakland that makes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Magazine Compares Michael Mina to Horrifying Spider-Man Musical Noted food critic Josh Sens of San Francisco Magazine recently compared noted chef Michael Mina to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, one of the worst-reviewed musicals of all time. Sens writes: A meal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tablehopper Launches Sister Site: Deep Dishing Tablehopper founder and writer, Marcia Gagliardi, who singlehandedly changed the way people write about food in the Bay Area, announced today a new venture about Bay Area grub joints, watering holes, and more.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink "Tyler Florence and Jeremy Fox Split" See, it's headlines like that, Paolo Lucchesi, that get our heart strings zinging! (Say what you will about Florence, he's still the kind of guy you want inside you.) Alas, the two noted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Perbacco's Staffan Terje Slams Willie Brown's If-I-Wait-You-Pay-For-My-Meal Article Yesterday, onetime San Francisco mayor and bon vivant Willie Brown penned his most (in)famous article yet, "If diners have to wait, the restaurant should pay." That he's so blunt and Willie Brown-ish
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fly Trap, Circa 1911 Hoss Zaré, owner and chef at Zaré at Flytrap at 606 Folsom, posted this image of the same restaurant back in 1911, when it was at its former address, 515 Golden Gate Avenue.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over By Laura Beck The No Cheese Pizza at Atlas Cafe (3049 20th Street) What could sound more unappetizing than a No Cheese Pizza? Perhaps a Shit Sundae? Or a, Colostomy-Bag Omelet? Anyway, it
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Hapa SF at Bar Basic Tonight Chef William Pilz and his Hapa SF truck will park outside Bar Basic in SOMA tonight. And, yes, we know, this is a regular weekly thing. Tonight, however, he will cook for patrons
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink How Much Does It Cost To Open A Restaurant In S.F.? A lot. At least according to T.J. Jacobberger, general manager and partner of The Tavern at Lark Creek, it is. His "top-line estimates" on opening a new spoon in San Francisco are
misc Poll: Bars With A Skyline View? Where do you take out-of-towners for a cocktail and some great views? Take the handy poll! We usually go for The View, since it's the most central, and heck, it's called The View,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over Laura Beck's bi-weekly installment of vegan dishes worth your dollars and taste buds. Weekend Ruiners from A Fire Inside Weekend Ruiners are cinnamon rolls that are roughly the size of an obese baby.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chick-fil-A Backs Antigay Group You know what we've always wanted to try? A Chick-fil-A sandwich, which sounds both moist and delicious. Sadly, we cannot. Why? Because they support anti-gay and anti-freedom of religion groups. And, in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Picks Top 11 Restaurants Of 2010 Omnipotent SF Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer selected his favorite 11 places to slurp and burp in 2010. They are: Frances, Marlowe, Oenotri, Saison, Prospect, Ippuku, Bar Agricole, Benu, Commonwealth, Plum, and Michael
