Arts & Entertainment More Than Gizzards And Brains: Incanto's Got Grape Alder at Vinography is in the process of reviewing every darned wine bar in town -- 14 of the 26 have been reviewed so far. What surprised us a little -- we hadn't
SF News He's Declared Thumb War Chronicle book review editor (and proud member of the SFist Gentlemen's Auxiliary) Oscar Villalon is the reigning three-time thumb-wrestling champ at 826 Valencia. In his honor, the fey letterpressers who bring you McSweeney's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Chocolatier Michael Mischer at Fog City News We like what we saw and heard from Fog City News owner Adam Smith and suave Chocolatier Michael Mischer today on our lunch break. Fog City News is a nice, clean space on
Arts & Entertainment Hot Stuff: Anthony Bourdain Meat and Greet We’ve got our things-to-be-thankful-for list ready. Easy peasy! One item shines a bit brighter than others. That would be hanging out with author/chef/TV personality Tony "Cast Iron Stomach" Bourdain after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink CHOW Down Seeing what's new at CHOW offered us a chance to eat Bruce Hill's food, while finding out what’s new in the CHOW/CNet/Chowhound world. The menu included: Tomales Bay oysters, Serrano
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Um, Yeah, But What Kind of Grinder Did They Use? Please excuse us. We need to take issue with an article, "French roast brews, sip for sip" in today's Los Angeles Times. Why were we reading the L.A. Times, you ask? We're
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Taqueria Round Up SFist Mary gives us the tasty carne asada filling to the Chron's grand tour of burrito joints in town! News flash: Chronicle's Bill Addison eats lots of tacos and burritos as "research." Today's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: San Tung Chicken Wings Evidence Item A? The crazy four hundred pounds a week they go through. That's five eighty pound boxes for you, food and beverage cost analysis types. San Tung's fried chicken can be ordered
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hot Stuff: Incanto's Whole Roasted Suckling Pig with its "Nasty Bits" We can't think of a better way to spend a birthday (our husband's) than eating an entire animal with seventeen fellow carnivores at Incanto Restaurant's private room, in Noe Valley. This is a
SF News Copper Thieves In The Mission? Last night, it was weird to see an unmarked white work truck show up on our street after 10 p.m. We have long held fantasies about being a private investigator or lately,
Arts & Entertainment That Burning Man Feel: Slip 'N Slide in Dolores Park Sounds like it will be cheap, fun and crazy. For only five bones, take endless rides on a custom built (!!), giant Slip 'N Slide, rumored to have more curves and thrills than any
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Let’s Get This Picnic Started Insider Tips: steer clear of melty items like chocolate, candy, and frosted cakes. Don’t bug out, either; store food in airtight containers to avoid ants taking over. Seeing ants swarm all over
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You've Got To Cool It Now: Heat Wave Edition SFisters are forced to lighten up our menus as the warm weather continues. The burning questions on what to eat and drink looms large. Our answers: Eat it: blender soups, savory or sweet.
SF News Kepler's Update SFist Mary-Lynn's on vacation, but we're sure she'll be thrilled to hear that the white knights of Menlo Park may actually be coming to the rescue of beloved independent bookstore Kepler's! A group
Arts & Entertainment Kepler's Rally Save Kepler's! The Menlo Park community is rallying around the storied independent bookseller, who recently announced that it would have to shut down due to increasing rents. SFist Mary-Lynn was one of the
SF News Political Junkie: We Care Too! SFist Cares is a great, great feature, profiling various ways you can volunteer or give back to the Bay Area community. Plus, SFist Mary-Lynn's funny as all get out. Political Junkie, by contrast,
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows or Saturday's sold
SF News Doing More Shortly after the terrible tsunami in the Indian Ocean, SFist Mary-Lynn put together a great SFist Cares feature. But as the extent of suffering has begun to become fully apparent, we felt that
Arts & Entertainment So That's How they Make Cameron Diaz Ugly Not geeky enough? If your Wednesday (next) is free (SFist has book club, sorry), check out "The Making of Shrek 2" presented by the SF Bay Area Chapter of the ACM. The presentation,
SF News Introducing SFist Listens This week SFist Mary Lynn recommends the following as a means of coping if you haven’t yet fled to Canada and are down about four more years of W: "Tragedy" by the
misc Crazy About Cats, or Just Plain Crazy? SFist loves animals. But even we got a bit of an allergic sniffle when we read about the more than 80 cats taken from a home in San Carlos on Friday. Achoo! And,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Political Parties So tomorrow you'll have done your homework, stood in line, gotten your sticker and have been a good citizen. Now you just need a drink. On Election Day there are Parties (Democrat, Republican,
Arts & Entertainment Dead Heads to Palo Alto We have to go into the back of our closet for our tie-dye, but if we can locate some by Saturday, the Jerry Garcia show at Art21 in Palo Alto might be worth
