SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chez Panisse-Inspired Fashion, A Gavin-esque Brasserie, John's Ocean Beach Alice Waters inspires a lot of things: White House veggie gardens, edible schoolyards, general mirth, etc. — but this line of Chez Panisse-inspired fashion that popped up in the Chronicle's Sunday Style section is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Umami Burger, Pot-Infused Wine, Trivializing Julia Child If you're looking to get a taste of Los Angeles glamburgers at the freshly opened Umami Burger on Union Street, InsideScoop recommends you plan your visits strategically, as the place has been packed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: $13 Cocktails, Avocado Chaos, Discolandia Sign Stays Pig & Pie owners keep Discolandia sign at the head-in-the-sand request of neighbors. Meanwhile, two more "eateries" will open up in the Mission soon. Cool. [Grub Street] Michael Bauer draws your attention to
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Locavore Improves, Bi-Rite Hires Bouncer, And... Fried Bubblegum Haighteration, in conjunction with a newfangled app, will host a happy hour next Wednesday, 9/14, at Mad Dog In the Fog. If you've got their special app or have a Lower Haight
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Texas Top Chef, Top Coffee Shops, Bauer on Breastfeeding SF Weekly is all about Top Five lists these days. Today's listage takes on the city's allegedly best five coffee spots. Four Barrel takes the top spot. Can you guess the other four?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Brian Wilson Loves Gary Danko, Juanita More Eats, Pa. Joint Bans Kids Gary Danko, you are one lucky man. Noted Giants closer and all-around meaty stud Brian Wilson sang your titular restaurant praises on Monday night. Which, well... it doesn't get much better than that,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Adesso Happy Hour, Deer Heart Tartare, Lucky Peach Eyeroll And the winner for Best Happy Hour in Oakland goes to... Adesso. Secret's out. [Bay Area Bites] In yet another show aimed at men who grill cook, Chris Cosentino's unaired television show, called
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digest: Restaurant Bars, Bauer on Hecho, Fifth Floor Goes Northeast 7x7 picks up on what SFist has been saying for years. Restaurant bars soar above and beyond restaurant dining rooms. Yes, they do. Yes they do! And with that, here are a few
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Original SoupMan, Alice Waters Interview, Pizza at the Mall You have no reason to toss shade at Alice Waters. You don't. And if you do, you're probably a jealous virgin who can't drive. (Unless of course, Waters continues to refuse to answer
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digest: Mario Batali Puts Ice in Wine, Doggie Diner Doomed, PBR Tanks Former Doggie Diner in the Outer Sunset is set for demolition. Alas. [Ocean Beach Bulletin] Breaking news: Mario Batali enjoys an occasional ice cube in his rosé. Vindication? We feel you. And naysayers?
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Mecca Part III, Grasshopper Tacos, Betty's Kitchen Guess what we stayed up all night doing? Come on, guess. Wrong. We watched hours of Betty's Kitchen, that's what. (Hat tip: Fauxjob.) We soaked up around, oh, say, 30+ episodes -- without
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Accarrino, Salt Win; TyFlo Could Lose After SFist editor declared Matthew Accarrino the best chef in San Francisco, the SPQR wunderkind nabbed top honors at Sunday's Cochon 555. Coincidence? Probably. We couldn't make it to the pork party. But
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Melted Cheese, Turtle Brains, Tapas Galore Flip Camera creator Jonathan Kaplan, along with the gastronomic prowess of Michael Mina, plans to launch a chain of 500 grilled cheese shops called The Melt. (Yikes. We do not like that name.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: New Food at AT&T Park, Tapas at Masa, and Mysterious Balls Escape From New York Pizza just opened a shop at Harrison and Third in SoMa today, right in the old Goat Hill Pizza spot. That means cheap pizza by the slice! Located just
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Cocktail Week, Pig Trotters, S'Mores Tacos Calling all alcoholics artisan cocktail aficionados! San Francisco Cocktail Week kicks off today, and there's no one finer, more knowledgeable, or more likable than Alcademic's Camper English. Allow the noted cocktails and spirits
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Foodie Kids, Fleeing Ladies, and Refreshing Chè What in heaven's name is chè? Jonathan Kauffman explains. Some sort of XX chromosome chef migration is afoot downtown. First, according to Grub Street, Jennie Lorenzo leaves Fifth Floor, and then Erica Holland-Toll
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Authenticity In LA, TyFlo, Pony Abuse Michael Bauer spews out 2.5 stars to Wayward Tavern, the new venture of Applebee's/Wish-Bone salad dressing spokesman Tyler Florence. The place, it seems, "has a masculine American look" and "is bringing
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Michael Mina, 9/11, Short Rib Sandwich A daily review of local food-related musings. Inside Scoop talks about chefs who twitter and the ones that follow them. Tyler Florence, whose initial foray into the world 140 character or less was
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Chiarello's Water, Castro Bans, Cupcake Castration A daily review of local food-related musings. Troy Patterson of Slate delivers a stellar (and necessary) thrashing on the "yipping lap dog of baked goods," cupcakes. Suffer, inappropriately frosting-to-cake ratioed sweet treats, suffer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: Hospital Parfait, Boulette's, Taco Bell Kills Foodies' Souls A daily review of local food-related musings. Taco Bell is the stuff hangover-remedy days are made of. Also, it's tasty. Now we have another reason to adore the fast food chain. Starting this
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Digests: DIY Sushi, Ceilings, and Happy Endings A daily review of local food-related musings. Let's Roll, a new sushi outfit in the Sunset could be the city's first "roll your own" sushi restaurant. Isn't this why we pay sushi chefs,
