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 Thomas Keller Sued By Ex-Employee Who Says She Lost French Laundry Job Because She Was Pregnant A former employee of Thomas Keller's restaurant group is taking Keller and other company employees to court this week after she lost her job three years ago shortly after they found out she was pregnant.
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 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 [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 News Day Around The Bay: A Gingerbread Bouchon Bakery This pastry chef made a perfect gingerbread replica of Bouchon Bakery as a job application. [Eater] A violinist was pepper sprayed and robbed of instrument in the Mission. [Mission Local] These new traffic
SF News Day Around The Bay: Thomas Keller Gets Dissed Meet Jirayut Latthivongskorn, a Thai national who is UCSF's first undocumented med student. [National Journal] Ten years in, Eater NY says, Thomas Keller's Per Se is “showing its age” and its “luxuries have
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 French Laundry Chef Thomas Keller Quizzed About Doing Actual Laundry On Dorky NPR Show French Laundry and Per Se chef Thomas Keller, who has earned three Michelin stars for both of those restaurants, appeared in a quiz segment on the syndicated NPR show "Wait Wait Don't Tell
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
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Only Rap Video Ever Made About Wine Country This video, produced by and for "connoisseurs of fine wine with a gangsta sensibility," has all the rap video tropes we could ask for: gold chains, babes writhing sensually, unnecessary black-and-white shots, and
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Black Truffles Are The New Foie Gras, Says The French Laundry Despite reassuring reports that fattened duck liver would still find its way onto plates across California even as the state's ban on the stuff went in to effect July 1st, noted French Laundry
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Thomas Keller's American Express Ad Makes Us Want To Visit Yountville, Plant Trees Inside Scoop's Paolo Lucchesi brings our attention to a new ad for American Express featuring French Laundry founder and Reese's Peanut Butter Cup lover, Thomas Keller. The commercial, drenched in music written by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Name Thomas Keller's New Candy Bar Lauded French Laundry and Ad Hoc chef Thomas Keller recently revealed a new candy bar that, according to Inside Scoop, is only available in New York. For now, anyway. What's in it, you
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bakery Catches Fire [Updated] The esteemed French Laundry chef's Bouchon Bakery outpost in Yountville was hotter than ever this morning. Unfortunately, it wasn't because of the macarons. A one-alarm fire broke out in the attic above the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Creates, Sells New Gluten-Free Flour Noted French Laundry chef Thomas Keller's philosophy goes something like this, "To make people happy...that’s what cooking is all about." Which is why, in part, he now has his own brand
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller, NY Giants Shortstop? Instead of concocting the world's best fried chicken (and, let's face it, any kind of food product his hands touch), Thomas Keller could have been chewing spit tobacco and rearranging his crotch in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thomas Keller Heading to London for French Laundry Pop-Up Yes, we know. Pop-ups are over, but as with most things at Thomas Keller's exemplary French Laundry, this tidbit is of a slightly higher quality than most. Today's update from the Keller-verse comes
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Combing the Beard's Results. Our side of the country still hold its own in the award count. Running in the 100m dash of these Olympics, Thomas Keller won a gold medal for Outstanding Restaurant. That means the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Bibendum to the Rescue. If obnoxious and smelly French people show up in your restaurant and make a scene, just accommodate them kindly. It might not be the Michelin reviewer, but it might be us all the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gastronomique: Mangeurs d'ail, et fiers de l'être. Bouchon is Keller's other restaurant, the French bistro sidekick to his French Laundry's and his Per Se's haute cuisine. The French Laundry, in Yountville in Napa, is arguably the best restaurant in the