SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Would You Pay $11 For A Candy Bar? We Did. Candy bars are meant to be consumed during your walk from the liquor store to your apartment's front door. Typically after having too many beers. But what about an $11 candy bar? When
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Some Thoughts On The New Dolores Whole Foods It's been about a week since San Francisco's newest Whole Foods, its seventh location, opened on Market and Dolores. Located directly across Market Street from Safeway, which is in turn located across Church
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tricky 'Mefistofele' At SF Opera Arrigo Boito's opera Mefistofele is an odd duck to open the season. It clocks at three and a half hours (thus an eternity before getting to the post-performance opening-night parties). It's not a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: We Players' 'Macbeth' Here's the first thing you should know about Fort Point after dark: even if you've been sweating like porcine on one of San Francisco's hottest weekends, come nightfall you will still be shrouded
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Trouble In Tahiti' & 'Winterreise' Two one-act mini-operas staged in April by Ensemble Parallele (Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Barber's Hand of Bridge) at Z Space showed couples wallowing in conjugal misery and midlife crisis. Yet, through
Arts & Entertainment In Honor Of Her S.F. Appearance, Patti LuPone's Scathing 2006 Palace Hotel Review You feel that? It's in the air. It's LuPone. Patti LuPone is in San Francisco, folks -- specifically, at the Rrazz Room from March 17-24. And we couldn't be more exciting/scared. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Peer Gynt And Marnie Breckenridge Two reviews from shows last week, Peer Gynt at the SF Symphony, and a recital by soprano Marnie Breckenridge at the Conservatory. Peer Gynt started off as a collaboration between two 19th century
Arts & Entertainment 2012 Gays In Review In a city that, let's face it, isn't as welcoming to the gays as it once was, Marke B. turned out a joyous and thoughtful review of LGBTs in 2012, touching upon both
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Review: The Bacon Shake By Jack In The Box Wow. That was horrific. Don't get us wrong: We are not (that much of) a food snob, one who loudly sings the praises of "The Laundry," the latest obscure Mission District restaurant, or,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eating Taqueria La Cumbre's Nacho Burrito More taquerias should be inspired by Taco Bell. No, not by the fast-food chain's suspect ingredients or testosterone-fueled ad campaigns, but for the unique gastronomic constructs that Taco Bell uses to produce their
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Beyond This Place' with Live Score by Sufjan Stevens and Ray Raposa (By Angela Zimmerman) A lot of people have fucked up parents. As cinematic subject matter, the emotionally resonant relationship between father or mother and son or daughter has been explored and dissected more
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Corner Store Food Critic: Milano Melts Welcome to Corner Store Food Critic, where we select an item typically found at any number of corner stores in San Francisco, bring said item home in a carefully wrapped bag, and then
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over Laura Beck's wildly addictive installment of vegan dishes worth creaming your culinary pants over. Soyrizo Breakfast Sandwich at Little Bird Coffeehouse - 835 Geary Street (at Larkin) This fairly new coffeeshop in the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Then There Were Seven: Bauer Downgrades Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton Proving that, regardless of accolades and fame, no noted chef is safe, Michael Bauer nixed the Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton today from the esteemed four-star club. In fact, he downgraded it to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Magazine Compares Michael Mina to Horrifying Spider-Man Musical Noted food critic Josh Sens of San Francisco Magazine recently compared noted chef Michael Mina to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, one of the worst-reviewed musicals of all time. Sens writes: A meal
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Barn Owl Uses Atmospheric Doom Metal Brutality To Swoop In At KUSF's Defense by Erick Pressman Back in December, there was a bit of a panic attack moment that was had. It turned out that on the same night Wild 94.9 threw their epic Wild
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Wild 94.9's Wild Jam A Woman Beater, a Phenom, a Pleasant Surprise, and a One Hit Wonder: SFist's Erick Pressman reports back from Thursday night's Wild 94.9's Wild Jam at HP Pavilion. by Erick Pressman While
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Composer John Adams Berkeley composer John Adams's oratorio El Niño had its US premiere at Davies Symphony Hall ten years ago next month. The reviews were unanimously enthusiastic. El Niño, like Handel's Messiah, is a musical
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bauer's Zero Star Update (for Food) Goes to... Morton's We mentioned yesterday that Chronicle food critic Michael Bauer would update a review with zero stars for cuisine today. His target: Morton's Steakhouse on Union Square. Ahem: "When I finally did start on
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <em>Giant Bones</em> It was pointed out to us that the seating at Exit Theater down in the Tenderloin is reminiscent of one of those Medieval Times restaurants, where suburban crowds are treated to Applebee’s
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More HRD Gooddness: Spicy Kim Chee Burrito Your SFist Editor does not enjoy burritos. Alas. For our money and tongue, they're just too large, gloppy, tinfoil-y and overloaded. Also, we were forced to eat them twice a week in our
SF News SFist Reviews: Newsom for Lieutenant Governor - State Convention Video The video begins in full bullshit mode similar to an episode of Barefoot Contessa (e.g., the one where Ina Garten pretends to break into her gay male friends' tacky Hamptons home to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: HRD's Mongolian Beef Cheesesteak Sandwich When your editor is in a rank mood, we forgo our daily lunch of lemon wedges and a Correctol, and instead head to Little Skillet for a chicken and waffle box. That is,
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Sketchfest's 'Celebrity Autobiography' After checking out SF Sketchfest's Celebrity Autobiography at Cobb's on Saturday night -- a glorious evening of comedians reading bizarre autobiographies of equally bizarre celebrities -- it's easy to see how Rachel Dratch
