SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fior D'Italia Celebrates 125th Anniversary with Original Menu, Prices Be sure to heard over to Fior d'Italia (2237 Mason) tomorrow for veal sauté for a nickel, linguine and meatballs for a dime, and eggplant parmesan for $.20. Why such sanity-free prices, you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bacar to Close May 7 "The end of an era has arrived," notes Eater. Bacar, the SOMA restaurant staple with the fancy brink front, will close shop come May 7, a few months shy of its 10-year anniversary.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Overrated & Underrated SF Restaurants Tablehopper (who released the wildly handy The Tablehopper’s Guide to Dining and Drinking in San Francisco: Find the Right Spot for Every Occasion, a book we cannot recommend strongly enough) hosted a
misc John Waters Says Big Four Is 'Sooo <em>Sunset Boulevard</em>' In a new bit over on KQED's generally long-winded food blog (this is the web, people!), brilliant food scribe and former SFist contributor Mary Ladd stalks John Waters at all his favorite food
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer Unshealths Annual 'Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants' Bible This past weekend, SF Chronicle food scribe Michael Bauer released his annual 'Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants' guide. The usual suspects (RN47, Flour + Water, Frances, Barbacco) made the list during their first year
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Traci Des Jardins' Public House Ready for Season Opener at AT&T Park Taking over the former orgy of meat that was ACME Chophouse at AT&T Park, Traci Des Jardins (Jardinière, Manzanita in Lake Tahoe, Mijita Cocina at the Ferry Building) will open her
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monday Night Prix Fixe at Jardinière for $45 While Saigon Sandwich has the unmitigated gall to increase the price of its Banh mi a whole quarter -- the nerve! -- some places keep the prices real. Very real. Take for example,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Citizen Cake's New Menu Revealed Though it won't open until the end of the month, reportedly, Elizabeth Faulkner's re-imagined Citizen Cake (if you recall, she closed her Hayes Valley restaurant in order to move up to the more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The <em>Chron</em> Names Charlie Kleinman and Josh Skenes as Rising Star Chefs This past weekend the Chron's food staff revealed their picks for the Rising Star Chefs of 2010, and it's an all-male slate this time around. Last year's list had two women on it,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: Burgers, Culinary Crack by Ben Kasman There’s a reason why burgers are culinary crack. They’re perfect. Carbs, meat, cheese, and veggies collide in a voltron of flavor. C’mon, you know you want one
SF News Ferry Building Lease Shenanigans Cause Foodie Drama SFoodie dug up some dirt on Friday about leases not being renewed at the Ferry Building for places like Lulu Petite and Mastrelli's Deli, and found out that a few other tenants are
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Waiters in SF Are Very Expensive The Wall Street Journal today takes note of how expensive it is to staff a restaurant in San Francisco. Certainly having a living wage and health care benefits are important for servers and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Another Restaurant Bites the Dust: Conduit Since opening in late 2007, Conduit (15th & Valencia) has been pretty well received, both for its food -- by chef Justin Deering -- and for its award-winning interior by architect Stanley Saitowitz.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission Minis Opens Today; Rosamunde's Mission Location Delayed Say what you will about the never-ending cupcake craze, but another venue for scoring miniaturized versions of the baked treats arrives today in the Mission. Mission Minis, who already have a North Beach
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Holiday Indulgences: The 12 Days of Christmas Dinners at Meadowood If you've got the means, or if you're going to be up in Napa and need a special-occasion date place between now and December 19th, look no further than the 12 Days of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: The Ginger Ante Cocktail from DOSA In looking for good autumnal cocktails to feature, we came across this delicious ginger concoction from DOSA on Fillmore, which has been doing great stuff with pairing cocktails to their food. The Ginger
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: A Sour Mezcal Cocktail from Camino As we noted last week in the New School Cocktail Glossary, the bar program over at Camino in Oakland, just like the food, is focused entirely on local, seasonal, sustainable, organic ingredients and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bay Area Restaurants Gain/Lose Stars In 2010 Michelin Guide As Monsieur Bauer and many food blogs are reporting today, SF's showing in the new Michelin Guide is a little less stellar than last year. Many foodies would trust the much sought-after Michelin
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eater SF Unveils List of 38 Essential San Francisco Restaurants It's sure to cause controversy, which Eater SF editor Paolo Lucchesi openly acknowledges, but Eater has just inaugurated The Eater 38, a non-ranked list of the best, most beloved restaurants in the city
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ask SFist: Decent Restaurants on a Fairly Tight Budget? Today's "Ask SFist" comes from the writer of this post. It's our second wedding anniversary next week, and we're on a budget. We always dine at home, usually only splurging on sushi, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Gary Danko Tops Zagat Guide Once More We suspect that the only people who rely on the Zagat Guide in the Bay Area are recent New York transplants and elderlies who pick it up in the bookstore in Danville, but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Bill Tells Family What Waiters Thought of Daughter Eater reports on a couple of cheeky British waiters who deserve some sort of award. See, on August 30 over in the UK, two-year-old Molly Craig was acting "restless" at Halifax, West Yorkshire
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zeitgeist, Manliest Restaurant? Eye On Blogs brings this poll to our attention. Asylum, a gentlemen's online magazine that features articles like "10 Things You Should Never Say to a Girl With Huge Boobs" and "Look Glourious
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Safety Certifications Revoked for Hundreds of SF Restaurants Oh boy. We just got work from Dennis Herrera's office that the SF Department of Health will come down hard on over three hundred San Francisco restaurants today, invalidating their food safety certifications.
misc <i>Guardian</i>'s 35th Annual 'Best Of the Bay' Released; We're Not On It Not that we're pouting... certainly the good folks at Muni Diaries deserve some recognition, and we did take the Weekly's readers poll this year, so we're not sweating it either. But the SFBG
