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. Mock Meatball Hero at The Slice of Life in Sebastapol Sebastapol is northern California small town picturesque. That means: country
SF News Calif. Women's Group Files Complaints Against Hooters for Sexual Entertainment of Minors California NOW (National Organization of Women) plans to file complaints today against local Hooters venues for violations of state and local laws covering sexual entertainment and minor children." For those of you not
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. Pecan Bourbon Sorbet at Scream Sorbet Scream Sorbet recently opened a store front in Oakland’s Temescal district and we’
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hanukkah Noshing & More Inaccurately (yet so amusingly) mistaken as Jewish Christmas, the annual Festival of Lights begins at sundown tomorrow, Dec 1, and ends on Tuesday, Dec 9. But what ever shall you do? Let's see:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dining Out: Bay Area Thanksgiving Feasts Can't cook? Won't cook? Don't want guests? Have no friends to call guests? Don't worry. These Thanksgiving feasts in the Bay Area (ranging from expensive prix fixes to freebies) will have your turkey
SF News Martin Yan To Open Noodle Shop at Westfield "America's original celebrity chef" Martin Yan plans on opening a noodle shop at the Westfield San Francisco Centre, reports Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi. The new Chinese joint, to be called Martin Yan's Noodle
SF News Lighting Up On Restaurant Patios Now Illegal In SF Although approved by the Board of Supervisors in March, a law banning smoking on restaurant patios went into effect this week. "Restaurants must not post signs advising customers they can only smoke at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Public House/Mijita Stats During World Series Here are a few stats from the first two games of World Series service at Public House and Mijita, Traci Des Jardins' restaurant and taqueria, respectively, at AT&T Park. Over 5000
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Where to Watch the Game Near AT&T Park The hogs at Salesforce.com rented out Pete's Tavern tonight and Thursday. If you're looking to go to the popular sports tavern located just across the street from AT&T Park, you're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood Receives Three Michelin Stars; Chez Panisse Goes Supernova The French Laundry no longer stands as the only Michelin three star restaurant in the Bay Area. Oh no. The Michelin Guide 2011, which comes out today, anointed Christopher Kostow's work at The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over by Laura Beck Sesame Meatless Chicken at Jasmine Tea House (3253 Mission) Ah, Sesame Meatless Chicken, one of the reasons we get out of bed in the morning. The perfectly coated and deep-fried
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Cocktail Week, Pig Trotters, S'Mores Tacos Calling all alcoholics artisan cocktail aficionados! San Francisco Cocktail Week kicks off today, and there's no one finer, more knowledgeable, or more likable than Alcademic's Camper English. Allow the noted cocktails and spirits
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Willie Brown Slams Tres Agaves Former S.F. Mayor and SF Chronicle dilettante Wilie Brown recently supped at Tres Agaves, Sammy Hagar's Mexican food in SoMa, and was less than pleased. It turns out management didn't press their
SF News Board of Supervisors Approve Booze Fee, 7-3 During a fun-filled Board of Supervisors meeting last night -- featuring a packed City Hall, curse words, and a cardboard cutout for an absent Newsom -- the board approved the controversial alcohol fee,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over by Laura Beck Fried Idly at Udupi Palace Fried Idly are little pucks of lentil and rice mashed up and then deep fried and covered in chopped veggies and spicy tastiness. They taste
misc The Wrath of John Barleycorn Supporters Carries On Contraband Coffee, which was set to open in Nob HIll at Larkin and California in the former John Barleycorn space in July, has experienced some speed bumps with regard to their permitting. John
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Green Wire at Locanda da Eva Local food writer and avid CHOWhound Robert Lauriston recently opened his own restaurant in Berkeley, Locanda da Eva (2826 Telegraph Avenue), featuring Italian cuisine from chef Huw Thornton (formerly a sous chef at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dining With Children Former SFist writer Mary Ladd just wrote this wildly helpful article about taking your little blessings to restaurants. Her thorough recommendations? Pick a noisy place, take the monster(s) outside if they act
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Café Gratitude Spreads the Good Word Down South Raw/vegan eatery Café Gratitude is spreading the love down to SoCal, with a new location opening in Hollywood, as Grub Street LA and NBC are reporting. The often odorific (both in food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Secret to Getting a Good Restaurant Seat? Invest. Today, Lord Bauer gives us the lowdown on how to snag a seat at the "hottest" favorite restaurant. The secret? A mere $25,000. He says, "Generally, if you’re an investor (and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pac Heights Bittersweet Chocolate Cafe Closes Shop Oh no. A tipster tells us that the Pacific Heights Bittersweeet Chocolate Cafe, a great gem that focused on "small batches, custom roasts and responsibly grown cacao" closed shop without any warning. Our
Arts & Entertainment Dine About Town Starts Today Today marks the start of the two-week long Dine About Town, in which finer participating restaurants across the city offer a specially prepared 2-course lunch for $17.95 or a 3-course dinner for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Now Open Realizing that we here at SFist subsist on a 75% dairy diet, the American Grilled Cheese Kitchen (1 South Park Avenue) opened shop this week around the corner from us, just off South
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen Rumored to Open Tomorrow The much anticipated gourmet grilled cheese outfit, The American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, is rumored to be opening their doors tomorrow for lunch. They'll begin serving breakfast and dinner at some point in June.
