Arts & Entertainment Passport To Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma's Wine-Food Bacchanalia, Approaches Time to shed this grizzly winter of ours, yes? Oh wait, no. It has not been a glacial winter. Not at all. It has, in fact, been downright balmy this winter season of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Winemakers Pushing Booze On Unsuspecting Chinese Middle Class Over in China, the Wine Institute, an association of California wineries, is using the Golden State's effortlessly cool image to sell mid-range wine abroad. As the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports, the Wine
SF News Would You Kill a Redwood for a Pinot? Aren't there enough wineries in Northern California? Do we really need another? Especially when it could mean the death of a redwood forest? As the LA Times reported in August, Codorniu’s Artesa
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink R Image Market Knows What's Up In a neighborhood rife with $14 wine-filled mason jars or bartenders who give you the stink-eye upon ordering unhip vodka cocktails, it's nice to see a bit of the old Mission District shining
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Starbucks Wine In A Cup The kids at Laughing Squid have come up with the perfect use for the new Trenta sized cup at Starbucks: covert wine drinking. At 31 ounces, it perfectly holds an entire bottle of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Champagne Party In The Castro This Thursday Swirl Wine Bar, which has gained a solid reputation for serving excellent varieties of grapes and spirits (and then some), will throw what promises to be an authentique champagne party on Thursday. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Several Bay Area artists will be showing their work at the group exhibition, Above the Plane, which will "navigate the viewers through a habitat of art away from the traditional wall hangings
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pacifica Gets Its First Wine Bar Now the fine folks in Pacifica can know the pleasure of paying for Sauvignon Blanc by the glass (with one ice cube, please, since we like to keep things real!) to get nice
SF News Schwarzenegger Visits China, Looks at Bridge Section, Sells Pistachios Where has Gov. Schwarzenegger been during the San Bruno fire disaster, you ask? In China! The former movie star cum California politico headed East to sign part of the East Span of the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Press Club Gets a Nod from L.A., Wins Restaurant Design Award Press Club, the 9,000 square-foot "urban wine tasting bar" on SoMa's pedestrian-oriented Yerba Buena, took home an award tonight in Los Angeles at the Dwell on Design conference. Organized by the American
SF News Video: Lady Destroys Liquor Aisle at Richmond Delano's The sanity-estranged who roam among us. Where would we be without them? This "crazy Russian lady" went on a rampage at a Richmond store over the weekend. ManicVulva captured the tail-end of her
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, Addendum Excuse us for only finding out about Outside In #4 at the last minute. Dishes by eighteen San Francisco street food and local underground chefs will be paired with eighteen Portuguese wines and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight THEATER: It's the preview night of Scalpel!, a killer comedy featuring wealthy New York socialite and soon-to-be divorceé Jacquelyn Blithers, whose nightmares start coming true after her new face lift. 8 p.m.
SF News California Wineries Get New Standards in Sustainability by Jerry James Stone Figuring out if your California wine is 'green' or not isn't a simple task. Distinguishing between red and white is easier. You almost need to be a wine maker
SF News Good News: Alcohol Content in California Wines on the Rise by Jerry James Stone Here in California, a "table wine" has an alcohol content below 13-percent. But those wines are becoming rare. Sorry, light-weights. One reason is that the higher-alcohol wines take less
Arts & Entertainment Wine & Rope Tasting Oh wow. Do you like wine? Do you like being tied up in a sexually-charged manner? Who doesn't. Which is why the ladies, if you will, of Femina Potens (a public arts programs
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Top 100 Wines Revealed SF Chronicle's Jon Bonné released the Top 100 Wines list for 2009. This year's angle was that more wines under $30 made the list. Which, of course, is fantastic news here at SFist
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: It's the first annual Passport, in which the SF Arts Commission invites the public to stroll through one of San Francisco’s neighborhoods to create their own limited edition art book by
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Seasons Bar Reduces Wine By Half Eater has word, via Thrillist, that the Four Seasons bar, succinctly called Seasons, has reduced the price of their wines by half until the end of September. (Blessed be!) That is to say,
SF News Whole Foods Wine Robbery Stopped Plug 1 of What I'm Seeing came across this scene at the Whole Foods located a block away from SFist HQ, over on Fourth Street and Harrison. He explains: According to one of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Eats: "Small Bottles / Small Bites" at the Ritz Bar That's right. SFist classed up its act last Friday when we jumped into a cab, threw our hair back, and deadpanned to the driver, "Take us to the Ritz." Yes, we went to
misc Help an SFister Land That Sonoma Wine Job News of Sonoma County’s “Really Goode Job” first hit SFGate on April 28. Since then, hopefuls coveting the $10,000/month, half-year gig for Murphy-Goode have been applying online and uploading videos
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tax Relief Party: Free Glass of Wine Today at Bin 38 Wine Bar Via City Dish, FuncheapSF, and Eyes on Blogs: Get a free glass of wine in the Marina this afternoon from 4 to 8:30 p.m. at Bin 38 Wine Bar (warning audio)
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink BevMo! 5-Cent Wine Sale Ends Monday Stock up for Easter and the impending apocalypse (you can use the wine for bartering with looters) during BevMo!'s "Buy One Bottle Get the Second for $0.05" sale this weekend. The
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Wine Still Recession-Proof, At Least the Cheap Stuff Americans drank 467 million gallons of California wine the past year, up 2% from the previous fiscal year, despite the deepening recession/depression gripping our great, drunk nation. Retail value of CA bottles
