misc Week In SFist: Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair! "Gimme head with hair/ Long beautiful hair/Shining, gleaming/Streaming, flaxen, waxen..." In 1906, we had the Big One. In 1989, we had Loma Prieta. In 2004, we had the Winter of Love.
Arts & Entertainment The Chron Kicks Michelin's Michelin Ass. Point taken, we will scrupulous a lot more, indeed. Picture of former mayor Willie Brown with Bibendum, from SF environment, because where there's controversy, there's Willie
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Thomas Keller Kicks Alice Waters's Michelin Ass!* Every food critic is shocked, shocked!, to discover that a bunch of out-of-town restaurant reviewers disagree with their own taste. The Chron's Michael Bauer does not understand why the Michelin did not reprint
SF News Emporium Reopening The new Westfield will host the city's first Bloomingdale's (which will be the largest on the West Coast), a fancy Burke-Williams day spa, will connect to the current San Francisco Centre mall (with
SF News World Peace, One Stomach At A Time Destination Dinners officially opened for business just about a month ago. Lisa runs it from her home. She's a big thinker with ambitious goals that go beyond the scope of typical business objectives
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: For Whom the Onion Rings* Indeed, a young lady was reading one night, and we had to admit: with its mostly white walls, blonde hardwood floor and table tops, Cha-Ya is a clean, well-lighted place. The high organically
SF News Everybody Loves Livermore? Money Magazine has published its annual list of "Best places to live" in these here United States, with the highest ranking Bay Area city coming at number 31. While we've never visited the
misc SFist Rants: When the Olympics Committee Comes A-Calling We’re considering booking our dream vacation now if the Olympic Games will be in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles or Chicago in 2016. Maybe it's a chance to try apartment or
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Posturing Poobahs of Positivism We say suburban, because it seems to be the beachhead for second venues of out-of-town restaurants. We've had Patxis opening there from Palo Alto, and a few weeks later, next to Patxis, Cafe
misc SFist Barks and Whines: Smiley’s Schooner Salon and Hotel Online dog resources are hardly new to the Bay Area. For years we’ve had the San Francisco Dog Owners Group and a canine focused page at citysearch.com. We have two problems
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sometimes a Great Notion So far, the idea seems to be going over well, especially among people who own cafes/restaurants. Like us, they've been wondering why they haven't been able to do it. More tables, of
misc Gastronomique: Savor for the Savvy Cook. The restaurants include Myth, thus the proud display there, but also Acquerello, the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, Farallon, the Fifth Floor, La Folie, etc. That is the crème de la crème, and
SF News Trash Talkin' Someone get Jake McGoldrick a green fuzzy costume -- he's gone all Oscar the Grouch about people who leave their big trash and recycling bins out on the sidewalk after trash pickup day.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lou's Living Donut Museum Closing San Jose institution Lou's Living Donut Museum is closing at the end of this month, due to an illness in the family of the owners, the Chaviras. The eponymous Lou of the donut
SF News It Takes a Village to Shoot Smack The plan is to post banners up everywhere in the Gulch announcing that you're in Polk Village, then making it official in three years after everybody had gotten used to it by putting
Arts & Entertainment Supersize Us Are fast food joints the blight Schlosser and company would have us believe, or are you "lovin' it"? (Incidentally, have you seen that McDonald's commercial where the prone McD's customer slides along the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Bibendum to the Rescue. If obnoxious and smelly French people show up in your restaurant and make a scene, just accommodate them kindly. It might not be the Michelin reviewer, but it might be us all the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique Shoe-Shines The Birkenstocks. The purpose of the organization is to "protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life," and we cannot agree more. However, in its fight against fast
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Never Leave Home Again But then GrubHub let us know that they've started a Bay-Area-based site. According to the email they sent us: We called 8,361 restaurants in the Bay Area (which, by the way, is
misc SFist Answers: Blah Blah Blah TG Writes: Will I get pregnant in the next three months? Reply hazy -- ask later. See, folks, sometimes we need more info to give a better answer than that. Of course, with
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Chinese Restaurants: Latin Passions</i> Long-time SFist readers will remember that we were so inspired at last year's SFIAAFF by "Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents" that we gave it our prestigious Best Film We Saw On SFist award for
SF News Wikipedia Dumps 'Marina Girls' A battle has been raging behind the scenes at Wikipedia. No, it's not over copyrights or veracity or how well an article explains its premise. It's over whether or not the entry on
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Joyeux Anniversaire to Us! And we want to hear from you guys too, like which place we should check out, who we should talk to, what juicy tip you want to whisper in our ear, what we
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Myth's a Myth. The interior design is stunning: a wide square room with an open kitchen is lined up with bench against the opposite wall, and sleek booth on one side. Behind the booth sits a
misc More Redevelopments In J-Town San Francisco Japantown's seen a lot in the last 100 years -- from the influx of Japanese-American immigrants after the 1906 earthquake and the development of an ethnic community, to its forced displacement
