SF Restaurants, Food & Drink While You Wait: Tosca (By Lauren Sloss) Apparently, people in San Francisco like waiting in lines for food (a lot). Sometimes, that wait is worth it. Introducing While You Wait, a guide for how to pass the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Gets Its Own Burger The already blessed citizenry of eastern SoMa score yet another choice burger to cram down their throats, this one from the Umami Burger on King Street. The Caprese Burger, billed as SoMa's very
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Awards 2014 Semifinalists: Trick Dog, Tyler Florence, Tosca Cafe, & More The James Beard Awards announced its short list this morning. The Cavalier, Coqueta, and Tosca Cafe are mentioned as prospects in the Best New Restaurant category, while Trick Dog and Hard Water could
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'Top Chef' Alumna Heading To Saison The star-chef wattage in SoMa just got brighter, at least for those of you who consider chefs celebrities. Grayson Schmitz, who appeared on season 9 of Top Chef's Texas cycle, can now be
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are Under The Table Bag/Purse Hooks Only For Dorks? Chron columnist Leah Garchik is one of the coolest people I know, so I was disturbed to discover that I've been breaking one of my former colleague's cardinal rules: using those beneath-the-table/bar-hooks
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Restaurant At Meadowood Joins The Five Diamond Club The only reason this seems important is because the Five Diamond Club appeared as a major plot point in Ocean's 13, the lesser of the revamped Ocean's trilogy. Anyway, you will be pleased
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tips For Jesus Leaves $3,000 Tip In S.F., Pays For Table Next To Him Tips for Jesus stopped by noted Japanese joint Roka Akora in Jackson Square last night and left a whopping $3,000 tip on a $147 bill. Impressive. But wait, that's not all. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurants That Bilked Employees Will Pay $2M In Delinquent Healthy SF Surcharges The final tally is in for the dozens of local restaurants being investigated for withholding money earmarked for employee health care. Under City Attorney Dennis Herrera's special enforcement plan, which offered 50 percent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink For the New Year, Delfina Made This Fun Video. Maybe You're In It. To celebrate the end of another year the beloved Mission restaurant's fifteenth, in fact Delfina commissioned this swell day-in-the-life-of-the-restaurant video. It begins at 4 a.m., with the guy who shows up to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Why Restaurants Are Exempt From Spare the Air Days It turns out that despite some confusion about this, restaurants that use wood-burning ovens and grills for cooking are exempt from the wood-fire ban on Spare the Air days, because, of course, complying
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Watch Chef April Bloomfield Working On the Revamp Of Tosca Cafe There's a brand new segment of the Bourdain-narrated PBS series The Mind of a Chef featuring chef April Bloomfield. The series talks with, and follows around chefs, delving into their craft and processes,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 21 Best Things We Ate In 2013 For this year's final Best Of, SFist staffers looked back on their 2013 dining experiences to pull out a few of their personal food favorites this year. Some of the restaurants and pop
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Apple Is Patenting An OpenTable Killer We didn't know Apple wanted a foothold in the restaurant business, but it looks like they do! They're in the process of patenting an all-in-one reservation, wait list, ordering, and menu recommendation software
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 12 Best Comfort Dishes In San Francisco As the holiday blues wrap around you like that damp, raggedy bath towel you haven't washed in weeks, we suggest hitting the fork hard this season. Here now are our writers' favorite spots
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kitchen Fire Threatens Annual Thanksgiving Dinner At The Tenderloin's Little Henry's One of the remaining un-gentrified businesses of the deep Tenderloin, Little Henry's restaurant at Larkin and Post, suffered a one-alarm kitchen fire on Saturday morning. The restaurant is known, among other things, for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Battered: Bad News, Press For The Battery Yikes. What started out as an innocent private club/restaurant for the wealthy and unique has all but nosedived into a signifier of the current tech bubble and disastrous PR. We are, of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Quince Rings In Ten Years With Big-Name Guest Chefs It's a big season for Quince. Not only did they garner a second Michelin star last month and land on the cover of Food & Wine's holiday issue (with a rib roast), but
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 9 Best Restaurants For When Your Family Is In Town Great. Mom and dad are in town. They won't walk up all those hills. They insist on staying at your place. And they won't eat anywhere weird. "You're not taking us to that
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hi Tops Owners Expanding With New Castro Mexican Spot The runaway success of Hi Tops, the one-year-old gay sports bar in the Castro that has become so much more than that to a generation nay, several generations of local homosexuals, has laid
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Opening Tonight: TBD, The Casual Spinoff Of AQ Make no mistake, that is the name. TBD. It's kind of a joke, you see, and a play on sister restaurant AQ two doors away AQ being the abbreviation you sometimes see on
Arts & Entertainment The 9 Best Ways To Splurge In The Bay Area While most of us rely on budgets and think of Whole Foods as a pipe dream, there are those of you who can get what you want whenever you want with a simple
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Maverick Fire Displaces 8 Residents The fire that started at Maverick last week ended up displacing eight adult residents from the above units. It also caused heaps of damage to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
SF News Morning Fire Damages Maverick In The Mission Friday morning in the Mission, a fire ignited at Maverick located at 3316 17th Street. The blaze, which caused severe damage, sparked in an oven inside the restaurant, according to reports. "It started
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Halloweating: Mystery Night Dinner At Maverick [Updated] UPDATE: A fire occurred at the residential building where Maverick is located. Both the restaurant and residents were affected by the blaze. We'll update as soon as we know more. Here's an excellent
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meanwhile, At Quince... Michael Tusk and his team celebrate their additional Michelin star with this festive Instagram pic. Downright adorable, these guys. This make Quince the Bay Area's seventh two-star Michelin joint. You best try to
