SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Gitane's Castillan Cup This week's recipe is a decidedly summer libation based on the classic Pimm's Cup, and it comes to us from Carlo Splendorini, bar manager at Gitane (6 Claude Lane). The original Pimm's Cup
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michael Bauer Goes to the Bathroom There are two ways to best judge a restaurant's quality: the soup and the bathroom. Both signify a venue's subtle, yet overall, attention detail. Visiting a new restaurant's bathroom is one of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Drinks: Range's Vicious Circle The recipe for this week's twist on a classic cocktail comes to us from Brooke Arthur, Bar Manager at Range: I came across a recipe for the Algonquin Cocktail, a classic from the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer to Restaurants: Ban Parfumes Although he brought this up over a year ago, SF Chronicle's Michael Bauer needs discuss it again. Because nothing has been done about it. What on earth are we talking about? Perfume stink
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Folie Wins EaterSF's Reader Poll for Best Restaurant Well, we asked you to vote in EaterSF's poll last week, and after tallying well over 1000 votes, we think we're ready to call it for La Folie. Gary Danko took an early
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vote, Baby, Vote... For Your Favorite Restaurant in SF The SF Weekly Best of 2009 Readers Poll, while clearly accurate in such categories as Best Blog, was perhaps skewed by a campaign to vault Pasta Pomodoro to the lofty position as the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Good Places to Eat Near Fox Theatre in Oakland? The Decemberists are playing a sold-out show at Fox Theatre in Oakland tonight, which we hear is lovely, and SFist commenter periqueblend (currently Top SFist User #9) posed the question on Twitter regarding
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fly Bar and Restaurant Opens Second Location in Nob Hill on Friday Uh, oh, we're in trouble. Fly Bar and Restaurant, our all-time favorite place for happy hour (see our staff bio) is opening up right around the corner from us at 1085 Sutter at
SF News Plumpjack Bans Foie Gras Just after Ross Mirkarimi's pro-life hummus breath suggested a citywide ban on foie gras - you know, in addition to the other one set to go in 2012 -- Gavin Newsom also kowtowed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hyde Street Seafood House Loves the Taste of a Triscuit From what we hear, Valentine's Day was heartbreaking for many Bay Area restaurants. Take, for example, Hyde Street Seafood House, who charged $70 for a three-course prix-fixe, but resorted to serving Nabisco Triscuits
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dine About Town Now Through the 31st For those with some spare change in their pockets and the urge to stuff themselves silly with delectable eats, check out Taste SF's eighth annual Dine About Town, which started last Thursday and
SF News SF Wants to Legislate Your Health, Fatties Gone are the days of free love, free LSD, and freedom to eat whatever you want. After last week's historic decision to make San Francisco the first in the country to ban the
SF News East Bay Restaurant Heists Continue at Scary, Steady Pace So far eight businesses in the East Bay have been held up by robbers in the past couple of weeks. Last night at around 9 p.m., two suspects hit Restaurant Furenzu on
misc Meet the Parents! Commenter Neil posted up his two cents on Bauer's blog and wrote up his detailed instructions on getting through the dreaded affair: It depends on whether the priority is going to dinner or
misc Coi and Ugbuntu Make NYT's Top Ten List Sure, these places look like the types of fine dining establishments none of us could afford. Nevertheless we were delighted to read in this morning's New York Times ("Coast to Coast, Restaurants That
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SF News Gavin Newsom: Chubby Chaser Gavin wants your fat. According to Renewable Energy Access, yesterday our dear Mayor implemented a new program that will collect fats, oil, and grease from the city restaurants free of charge.Why? So
SF News Late-Night Pizza Ban? That's Crazy Talk! Noted Pizza-Roll fans, we're not one to patronize pizza establishments in order to stifle late-night sodium cravings brought on by binge drinking. (Really, with Pizza Rolls you transition from freezer to toaster oven
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SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Dirty, Delicious Business of Reservation Scalping Eater SF uncovered something new and morally-questionable -- two of our favorite topics -- TablePronto, an online service that scalps restaurant reservations. Basically, it's a site that allows you to buy and sell
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