SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Weed Company Names Strain After French Laundry, French Laundry Sics Lawyers on Them An LA-based pot company thought they’d have a laugh by naming one of their products “French Laundry,” until attorneys for the famed Yountville restaurant had some blunt legal threats.
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 Chronicle Does List of Best Splurge Restaurants, Snubs French Laundry, Manresa, and Quince A big-city newspaper critic has to deal with the big-name, Michelin-starred places eventually, and it seems that Soleil Ho's tour of the Bay Area's more acclaimed, pricey spots is finally complete.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sally Schmitt, Original Chef at The French Laundry, Has Died at Age 90 A Bay Area legend in her own right, Sally Schmitt will be remembered as a pioneer of California Cuisine, before such a thing was even being talked about. Schmitt died at her home in Philo on Saturday at the age of 90.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Thomas Keller Flees Twitter After Series of PR Gaffes, Criticism Over Huge PPP Loans and Trump Ties It's been a rough year, PR-wise, for French Laundry chef and restaurant empire-builder Thomas Keller, and it looks like he's finally decided to abandon Twitter on account of the fact that he can't stop saying things there that piss off large swaths of the American public.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Received $2.4M in PPP Loans, 17 Times What Most Bay Area Restaurants Got In another revelation from recently released data on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) from the Small Business Administration, the French Laundry received $2.4 million in two separate loans last spring, ostensibly to retain over 160 employees.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Says the 'Criticism Is Fair' Over Her French Laundry Dinner Mayor London Breed responded Thursday to an outcry this week over news that she had dined with a group of unrelated people at the French Laundry four weeks ago, and says, "I need to hold myself to a higher standard."
SF Politics SF Mayor Called Out for French Laundry Dinner; San Jose Mayor Apologizes for Thanksgiving Gathering We all know that not everyone is following pandemic isolation recommendations to the T these days. But when the leaders who daily try to drill the rules into us violate the rules themselves, it's a recipe for a whole lot of exasperation and outrage in the media and on social media.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 'We Should Have Modeled Better Behavior': Newsom Called Out for Attending French Laundry Dinner Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism that he and his wife attended a 12-person dinner at the French Laundry for the birthday of a political advisor last week at which members of at least three households were present.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meadowood, French Laundry Reopen Following Wildfires Two of the Bay Area's six Michelin three-star restaurants, The Restaurant at Meadowood and The French Laundry, were impacted by the wildfires last week and had to shut down as the entire Napa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry Wine Thief Gets 15-Month Sentence The Modesto man who pleaded guilty in December to the heist of over a half million dollars worth of wine from The French Laundry in Yountville was given a sentence of 15 months
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Plots A French Laundry Hotel Chef-restaurateur Thomas Keller opens up to the Wall Street Journal Magazine today about the ongoing, four-year-long renovation project at the French Laundry in Yountville, something that he says began just with a rebuild
SF News Man Pleads Guilty To $550K French Laundry Wine Heist Wine snobs across the nation can breathe a bit easier today knowing that one of the men behind the infamous 2014 Christmas day French Laundry heist has pleaded guilty to his involvement. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Lawsuit Naming The French Laundry And Thomas Keller Alleges Discrimination Against Pregnant Employee In a lawsuit filed in Napa County on September 26 against The French Laundry, the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group, Thomas Keller, and his New York Restaurant Per Se, a woman named Vanessa Scott-Allen
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Opens Up About Terrible NYT Review, And His Upcoming New Project French Laundry chef and one of the fathers of the Bay Area's current fine dining boom, Thomas Keller, admits in a new profile in Town & Country that he was "devastated" by New
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Wine Thieves Who Allegedly Struck The French Laundry Arrested Two alleged thieves who went on a spree of wine burglaries in the cellars of high-end restaurants around the Bay Area in the last few years were arrested Wednesday, as the Chronicle is
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thieves Who Stole $300K In Wine From The French Laundry Still At Large A quick update in the wine theft case that rocked the food world back in December: As mustache twins Matier & Ross report, the thieves responsible, and the wealthy wine collector in North
SF News Day Around The Bay: French Laundry Stays In World's Top 50 A new report released Friday breaks down the housing numbers that would be impacted with a Mission development moratorium. [Examiner] Remember the case of Tom Smith, the BART Police officer who was accidentally
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The French Laundry Returns April 7, And There Are Tons Of Tables Available For A Change This may only be the case for a few more hours, but as Eater and Inside Scoop point out, the reservation books have opened for The French Laundry, post-winter-hiatus, and there are two
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Wines From December French Laundry Heist Recovered In North Carolina The huge cache of pricy wine that was stolen from The French Laundry on Christmas Day has mostly been recovered according to a new statement by the Napa County Sheriff's Department. As the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [UPDATE] French Laundry Robbed Of $300,000 Worth Of Fine Wine On Christmas Day Famed Napa Valley restaurant The French Laundry fell victim to a Christmas Day heist that only wealthy wine snobs can appreciate the gravity of. As Inside Scoop reports, a thief or thieves made
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink French Laundry To Close For Several Months, Will Reopen With New Ticket System [Updated] The iconic French Laundry in Yountville has confirmed dates for a planned closure and major renovation, and the plans are a fair bit more ambitious than originally hinted at. As chef-owner Thomas Keller
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Sometimes You Need A Little Finesse, The Store; Sometimes You Need A Lot Thomas Keller, he of French Laundry fame, has opened his very first retail property, christening it Finesse, The Store. The name brings to mind two important things: 1) comma audacity and 2) this.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink And Now, Thomas Keller In A Car Rental Commercial This new artisan Avis ad, featuring Thomas Keller, lays it on thick. It's got winding roads, dead fish, music that belongs in a Cymbalta ad, tender mushroom foraging, and more. Keller, a noted
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Responds To Bizarre 'Vanity Fair' Criticism "Did you do any research on me whatsoever? I'd rather just talk about what you really want to know" French Laundry chef Thomas Keller delightfully quips in a recent interview with Huffington Post
