SF News Suspect and Possible Cult Member Makes Court Appearance In Vallejo Killing as Further Links Revealed to Other Murders We've only just begun to see the unraveling of the strange case of the Zizians, as we'll call them for now, a purported "death cult" with links to the rationalist movement, whose alleged activities the last two years have led to a total of six deaths to date.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Weekend’s Bizerkeley Food Fest Set to Serve Up ‘Meat Eater-Approved Vegan Food’ The Bay Area’s big Labor Day weekend street fair will be Sunday’s fourth annual Bizerkeley Food Fest, with samples and delicious dishes galore of eats “made by vegans for a meat eater's tastebuds.”
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Chef From SF's Baia, a Former Boyfriend and Business Partner of 'Bad Vegan' Sarma Melngailis, Says She Deserves Second Chance If you watched the Netflix series 'Bad Vegan,' you may have noticed a chef's name that should be familiar in SF vegan circles — Matthew Kenney, who is the celebrity chef behind SF's two-year-old vegan Italian restaurant Baia.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan-Friendly Middle Eastern Restaurant Saha Reopens In the Tenderloin After Three-Year Stint In Berkeley A well-loved, semi-secret spot for Middle Eastern tapas, lamb curry, and plenty of vegan options, Saha Restaurant, has returned to San Francisco to the same spot in the Hotel Carlton where it had been for 12 years before closing in 2016.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alicia Silverstone Wants Ghirardelli Chocolate To Go Vegan. As If! Actress and activist Alicia Silverstone has sent a letter on behalf of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to ask Ghirardelli Chocolate to bring back its original dairy-free recipe for
SF News Hippie Vegan Techies Convert Half Moon Bay Farm To Animal Sanctuary After retiring from her role as a dairy goat at another farm, Nibblets came to Sweet Farm near Half Moon Bay to rest out her golden years. Now Nibblets, or Mama Goat as
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Food Truck To Hand Out Free 'Impossible Burgers' At Dolores Park Sunday You've likely heard about the Impossible Burger by now, chef Traci Des Jardins's plant-based creation under the auspices of Impossible Foods that, miraculously, "bleeds" just like real medium-rare beef. SFist's Eve Batey and
SF News San Francisco BBQ Festival Disrupted By Animal Rights Activists Attendees at this weekend's 2nd annual San Francisco BBQ Fest got a little scolding along with their braised ribs as a group of animal rights activists showed up to the ticketed event and
SF News Berkeley Passes Resolution Banning Dog-Eating Festival... In China Oliver, rescued from Yulin, China Dog Meat Festival, appears at Berkeley City Council #berkmtg pic.twitter.com/KwDFYniUnU— Tom Lochner (@tomlochner) September 21, 2016 Tuesday's meeting of the Berkeley City Council featured a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Activists Storm Chez Panisse In Very Berkeley Protest At the end of August, animals rights group Direct Action Everywhere took up their cause at Eat Drink SF, a San Francisco food festival organized by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. While animal
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Vegan Protest Group Attempts To Disrupt SF Food Fest Where Foie Gras Was Being Served Vegan protest loudly interrupts Eat Drink SF 2016 merriment https://t.co/xd0GAE00Gv pic.twitter.com/7i5ElRqig4— Eater SF (@eatersf) August 29, 2016 An animal rights group called Direct Action Everywhere staged a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 19-Year-Old Herbivore Closes Last And Final Location On Valencia Herbivore, the 19-year-old vegan restaurant that at one point had two locations in SF and one in Berkeley, is now officially dunzo as Mission Local reports that Monday was the last day for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Saha Restaurant Reopens In Original SF Location After Move To Berkeley 2019 Update: Saha Restaurant is back open in the Hotel Carlton at 1075 Sutter Street after a hiatus and three-year relocation to Berkeley. Original post below: A Mediterranean spot especially popular with vegans
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Local Vegan Community Up In Arms Upon Learning That Gracias Madre Owners Eat Meat Now Unfolding over the last couple weeks has been some MAJOR DRAMA on social media over the revelation not altogether new that Cafe Gratitude founders and owners of SF's Gracias Madre are now, after
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: Mark Bittman On His Bay Area Turn From The Times To A Vegan Food Startup "This isn’t about ‘veganism,’" writes Mark Bittman in an essay published today on the website of the Purple Carrot, the food startup he's joined as Chief Innovation Officer. Moving on from his
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Herbivore, Now Closed On Divis, Remembered In One-Star Yelp Reviews The bell has tolled for Herbivore Divisadero, whose best years, most agree, were well behind it. And in 16 of those years, there were definitely some better ones — or so I've heard. Nonetheless,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Indochine, A New Vegan Spot From Sunflower Team, Opens On Valencia; Also, What's Up With Sunflower? Though popular Vietnamese spot Sunflower remains closed in their prime corner location at Valencia and 16th the team, who still has another restaurant on Potrero Hill, remains cagey about why it abruptly closed
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Authors of 'Thug Kitchen' Can't Take Heat, Cancel Bay Area Appearances Since the authors of f-bomb-friendly vegan cookbook Thug Kitchen revealed themselves to be a white couple from Hollywood, a firestorm of controversy has brewed around the possible racist implications of the book's title.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Weird Fish Is Closing At The End Of The Year Eight-year-old Mission vegan mainstay Weird Fish, beloved for years for its "Buffalo Girls" and seitan "fish and chips," is shutting its doors at year's end, and this is likely to upset people. The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Song for Vegans It's a parody of Katy Perry's "Roar." But, uh, it's called "RAWR," and the star of this little video proudly sings about her veganism, with the refrain, "I don't eat like a tiger.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The 9 Best Vegan Restaurants [Update] While some vegan places are affiliated with a fucked cause or gross or both, San Francisco is awash mighty fine vegan establishments that will make you rethink food. Here are our favorite places
Arts & Entertainment One More Roundup From the 'Sh*t ___s Say' Meme We know. There are at least ten of you out there who are SO OVER this you could die and you've just lost some modicum of respect for us. But chances are we've
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'S**t Vegans Say' We mentioned last week that this meme didn't seem quite yet ready to die, and alas, here it is again, this time poking fun at vegans! But of course, the lad responsible for
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink PETA's Open Letter to Mayor Lee: Calling for a Less Cruel Name for the Tenderloin With everyone in town already weighing in on Twitter's tax break, the attention-grabby folks at PETA have figured out a way to insert themselves in to the conversation: by calling for an end
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Three Vegan Dishes Worth (Temporarily) Ditching Meat/Dairy Over by Laura Beck Sesame Meatless Chicken at Jasmine Tea House (3253 Mission) Ah, Sesame Meatless Chicken, one of the reasons we get out of bed in the morning. The perfectly coated and deep-fried
