SF News North Beach Restaurant American Bites Facing Backlash After Hosting Virulent Anti-Trans Event A Soleil Ho opinion piece in the Chronicle brought attention to an anti-trans dinner party at a North Beach restaurant, but now the restaurant itself is getting a barrage of bad press and one-star Yelp reviews for hosting the event.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Is Stepping Down as Chronicle Restaurant Critic After Four Years Four years, a James Beard Award, and a pandemic later, Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho is relinquishing the post — and without a whole lot of explanation.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink We Now Know Why the Chronicle Doesn't Think The French Laundry Is Worth the Splurge Anymore Three years in, Soleil Ho drops a review of The French Laundry, and now the details emerge about why the Chronicle's restaurant critic left Thomas Keller's famed restaurant off a recent list of best splurge restaurants.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Soleil Ho Asks 'Who Is Michael Mina and Why Is His Name Treated Like Gold In This Town'? It's got to be hard when you move to a new town and get tasked with critiquing its sacred cows. And this week finds Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho getting back to that business with a review of Michael Mina's whole local empire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Chronicle Publishes a New Top 91 Restaurants In Four Parts, Ignores Wine Country In the quest to do best-of lists at the Chronicle Food Department without actually replicating Michael Bauer's once-popular Top 100 Restaurants list, there have been some false starts since Soleil Ho began her tenure as critic two years ago.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Launches a Bizarre 'Top 25' That Will Be Updated Quarterly, Kind of Like the Eater 38 It's seemingly been a struggle for the Chronicle food department and restaurant critic Soleil Ho in assuming the albatross of Michael Bauer's Top 100 list ever since Bauer retired and Ho took his place.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Food Critic Notes Poor Reviews of Quarantine Food at Travis Air Force Base San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic Soleil Ho is bound to be getting bored at work during this unfolding public health crisis, and so she's likely to keep being creative with the columns like this week's.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle's 2019 Rising Star Chefs Include A BBQ Pitmaster, a Thai-Food Acolyte, and Berkeley Pop-Up Chefs The last year and change in the Bay Area food scene has felt like something of a recession — or at least a course correction. But the release today of the Chronicle's Rising Star Chefs is a testament to all that's good about our current food culture and local dining options.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Food Critic Soleil Ho Thinks You Should Be Eating Better Chicken Sandwiches Than Popeyes As the nation goes mad for Popeyes' new fried chicken sandwich, the Chronicle's critic has weighed in, and she calls it "delicious for what it [is]," but also "a cheap product where the true cost is carried by marginalized people and animals besides the consumer."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Chronicle Food Critic Unveils A Notably Different Top 100 The Chronicle Top 100 has just gotten a major update in the hands of new critic Soleil Ho, and the omissions include some local sacred cows and Michelin-starred destinations like Saison, Boulevard, Frances, and Octavia.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Hates In-N-Out's Fries, Got Nasty Letter About Her Chez Panisse Review From Mimi Sheraton It was just Week 2 for Soleil Ho at the Chronicle — in print at least — and we now have the second edition of her Bite Curious newsletter, as well as her latest Sunday review.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Chronicle Critic Soleil Ho Drops a Doozy of a Review of Chez Panisse, Calls It 'Stale' I actually called it wrong yesterday when I said the chances of a take-down review of Chez Panisse from the Chronicle's new food critic were "slim to none." Oh, she went there.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Here's What We Know So Far About New Chronicle Food Critic Soleil Ho Will the country's newest big-city critic go after a sacred cow like Chez Panisse in her very first set of reviews for the San Francisco Chronicle?
