The menu at Chicago's Moto is also a dish We've seen a couple of unique pricing gimmicks in the last few weeks with Fish & Farm's single-price menu and Urban Tavern's pay-what-you-feel experiment, but almost all restaurants use more...
Even though it may cost someone a million bucks, a San Francisco writer broke — and MenuPages Chicago confirmed — the overall winner of Bravo's Top Chef Masters (Do Not click the links if you don't want to know). GraceAnn...
We have to give Roadfood author Michael Stern credit for not being too obvious with his Bay Area pick in the list top 15 list from he and Jane Stern's new guide, 500 Things to Eat Before it's Too...
Psycho Donuts' Massive Head Trauma After thumbing his nose at his detractors for not wanting to debate him in public, Psycho Donuts owner Kip Berdansky will get his chance to bicker engage with one of the many mental health...
The Ad Hoc at Home: Family-Style Recipes blad just landed in the offices of our parent publication, and Grub Street has a post with the the touching back-story to Keller's simpler approach: The chef's father died during the early...
Every year, Zagat's informal army of citizen reviewers reports to headquarters on their dining and drinking experiences, and the job falls to San Francisco editor Sharron Wood to compile those experiences, along with her own findings into a neat...
Food, Inc. opens today, and while the documentary on our nation's food industry may be the summer's most virtuous blockbuster, the New York Times also called it the "scariest," and Hearst reviewer Amy Biancolli wrote, "I might never want...
It's kind of a wackadoodle Friday over at DailyCandy today, as the girly-frothy daily e-newsletter interviews Gary Wiviott in promotion of his new barbecue cookbook Low and Slow. It's pretty much what you'd expect from the interviewee/demographic matchup, with hard-hitting...
Stephanie Izard — Top Chef winner, emcee extraordinaire, and now cookbook author. Eat Me Daily reports that Chronicle Books has picked up Izard's cookbook pitch for a Fall 2011 publication. The book, tentatively titled How to Think, Shop, and Cook...
• Meredith Brody visited RN74 to find uneven service and food. When it hits, apparently, it hits, but it seems to miss just as often. [SF Weekly] • Michael Bauer revisited Walnut Creek stalward Prima, to find it as...
The inimitable, hilarious, gloriously profane Chicago Gluttons are the subject of this weeks' NewCity cover story, penned by none other than Michael Nagrant. Described variously as "the bastard Internet writing stepchildren of Richard Pryor, Chris Rock and Sarah Silverman" and...
Gaslight took Best French and Zaftigs Delicatessen Best Brunch in local blog Gastro Speak Boston's ambitious First Annual Gastro Awards. The anonymous bloggers offered readers several nominations in each of nineteen categories and allowed write-ins (Newton's BOKX 109, winner...
Of all the thousands of restaurants in New York, Brooklyn-based singer Santigold told Blackbook today that her favorite place is Samovar Tea Lounge in San Francisco. "They should bring it to New York!" she says. We disagree. She should...
It was a rough night for Boston's own Michael Schlow on last night's premiere of Top Chef Masters. The Radius co-owner came in dead last with 13.5 out of a possible 25 stars. Ouch. During the Quickfire, the cheftestants had...
The biggest star of last night's Top Chef Masters was Gladware, for sure. Little opaque boxes with blue tops made cameos in just about every kitchen shot on the show, including taking up whole bookshelves in the tiny Pomona...
The debut of Top Chef Masters airs on Bravo at 10 p.m. tonight. Each episode features four chefs, only one of whom can move on to the season finale. Tonight's episode features Boston's own Michael Schlow (of Radius, 606 Congress,...
Tonight's Top Chef Masters premiere (Bravo, 10 p.m.) gets our locals on screen right off the bat with Hubert Keller, of Fleur De Lys, going up against Boston's Michael Schlow (Radius, 606 Congress, Via Matta), New York's Christopher Lee...
For a little food porn rendering of one of our hot new mobile eateries, check out Chrysanthemum's post from yesterday. Cocochanelella took the camera down to the truck after her night at 1015 Folsom (note: the truck is down the...