SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Food Blog Round Up Cheers, baby! Photo courtesy of Something in Season. We're salivating over two tasty events next week. The StarChefs Rising Stars Revue on Tuesday the 19th and Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight If you can't make tonight's reading (7 p.m.), they're in town through Friday, reading at Get Lost in SF tomorrow night and Book Passage in Corte Madera on Friday. They've probably already
Arts & Entertainment 3 Questions For Digg's Kevin Rose You know who Kevin Rose is, right? He used to be on television quite a bit. Now, he's all over the podwaves, co-hosting, behind the scenes, and making guest appearances. And he's the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Menuism: Like Yelp With No Content, More Bugs, And Superfluous Features It's really nice that folks with a new product or service like to bring stuff to our attention. In the spirit of being forthright, we'd advise you that you should have a fairly
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink A Cafe in Need is a Cafe Indeed He writes, In the past, we’ve tried comedy, live music, wine events, family nights, and various “get-something-free” promotions. ... In our perfect world, we’d find some sort of evergreen event that is
SF News Everybody's Gone Sidewalk Parking The issue, like most things, is that there's not enough enforcement out there. Must be those lazy Gen Xers again, to concerned with playing video games to want to be a parking officer.
Arts & Entertainment All We Meant To Do Was Get A Burger You may know by now that we prefer our meat grass-fed, pedigreed, pasture raised, and without ooky hormones, antibiotics or other additives. So when we had a craving for a burger the other
misc Bring on the Bio Diesel Buses How this will work is that the city will buy two trucks, hire a bunch of drivers, and go around the city collecting grease. Talk about a fun job. According to the SFPUC,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink What’s There To Love About the East Bay? Lots! A Penny-Pincher’s Guide to Albany You wouldn’t know it from the property values or the chi chi restaurants on Solano Avenue, but Albany has many a cheap option that can accommodate our miserly lifestyle. Option #1: Albany
SF News But Wait! There's More! What will dog owners do now? Currently, the little plastic bags aren't biodegradable but can be recycled-- it's just that it's really hard to get them recycled. Or, at least this is true
SF News No Soup For You According to Executive Director Kevin Westlye, the members of the association are thinking about closing for one day to make a point. And it won't be on a late sunday too, it'll be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Get Your Fat On Some cities in California have already taken it upon themselves to ban trans fats including –yes- America’s first Trans Fat Free City, our own Tiburon, California. Sure the annual income of Tiburon
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Worth The Wait? Bi-Rite Creamery Saturday--the sun was shining, Dolores Park was full to the brim, and evidently everyone else had the same idea we did: "let's get some ice cream." Bi-Rite Creamery, which opened only a few
Arts & Entertainment Dinner First, and then TheaterFIRST in Old Oakland There's a little theater company doing some pretty big plays on 9th Street in downtown Oakland AND offering dining discounts at neighboring restaurants for ticket holders. Part philosophical exploration, part 11th-Century Middle Eastern
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Sonoma's VinOlivo Festival SFist spent last weekend luxuriating in the unseasonably warm weather in Sonoma doing what one does in Sonoma-- drink lots of wine and eat super-yummy food. The occasion? Sonoma's VinOlivo Festival. Last Saturday,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mangia, Mangia The Chron went around and asked a bunch of restaurants about how all of these fees are going to affect them. A lot of restaurants have said that the measures passed has already
SF News The San Francisco-New York Neighborhood Comparison Table Quick -- which one of those pictures above is of Valencia Street in SF and which is of Williamsburg in Brooklyn? Bay Area blogger Overstated has put together his list of what New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Your Cool Web Sites For the Day First up is Menutopia. Ever want to go to a restaurant but not sure if they'd have anything you'd like? Or want to plan ahead in advance? You could go to Citysearch but
misc Bay Area Wanderer: The First Morning * Bay Area Wanderer: Balboa and 42nd Ave, San Francisco Homeward-bound down Balboa, the first morning looks like a success. Blue overhead and crisp to the skin. A foghorn sounded off in the distance.
SF News Happy Days Are Here Again? Now for those of you thinking "wha?" here are the reasons given: -My, look at how clean downtown looks -Look at all those happy, smiling shoppers shopping -Aren’t those fancy, schmany restaurants
SF News SFist Leanne's 2006 Best Of Best Live Shows This might be one of the best shows I've ever been to. The place was jam-packed with testosterone, walls of speakers and pot smoke. I felt like I was trippin'
SF News Today In the Board of Supervisors: the Results Are In Pot decriminalization: Passed the bill and pass the roach. Styrofoam in restaurants: Buh-bye Foot patrols: Better luck next time, Gavin. Phew. Big winners? Dope Smokers! Big losers: Gavin, the SFPD, the POA and
misc Dine Around on Wednesday The interesting thing is that the main sponsor is Zephyr Real Estate, not exactly a company most people will have the warm fuzzies for. But whatever-- it's a great thing and for a
SF News Say Goodbye to Polystyrene Pam The reason? Styrofoam has polluting chemicals in it and has a tendency to stick around landfills and other things as they're not biodegradable. That is bad. The ban is probably going to pass
Arts & Entertainment We Survived Being On Local TV (So Far): A True Story Despite our apprehension at having done so, we think it's really cool that there is good, quality local programming available in our area. A sort of televised equivalent of SFist, no? And of
