Here is some rather good news to start off the week: San Francisco is expanding its grease recycling program to become the first city in the country to process, and convert to fuel, even the nastiest waste oil that...
Just five months ago, Anthony Myint was a somewhat restless line cook at Bar Tartine, but over this fall and winter, what started as a side project has become a full-fledged happening known as Mission Street Food. Tuesday was...
We've been wondering what to do with ourselves each Wednesday morning now that we can't do a roundup of the San Francisco Chronicle food section. The solution right now appears to be to roundup the tidbits of note for...
So as you know, Denny's was giving away its Grand Slam breakfast from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. We have to wonder: Was it worth it to stand in line for about $5 worth of pancakes, sausage, bacon,...
For those of you following the ongoing scrape over the Tonayense truck near John O'Connell High School in the Mission, you'll remember there was supposed to be an appeal hearing tomorrow at which owner Benjamin Santana would plead his...
It's not easy to be a restaurant right now. Everybody's broke, and even if they're not, they're terrified they will be soon, and therefore don't spend any money. Many places are offering deals to get customers in the door,...
In the face of constant tidings of general financial apocalypse, not to mention the death of things like venture capital and luxury spending (aka restaurant dining), something seemingly unlikely happened on Friday: A VC-funded, restaurant-oriented technology took the first...
This banner hung on Valencia Street forever, it seems Restaurants close all the time in this city. Sometimes they just suddenly go dark, sometimes they fade out in teary farewells, and sometimes they get allegedly forced out of business...
Heads up! If you took MP: Chicago's advice back in October and bought $25 gift cards for $2 from Restaurant.com, check your credit card bill. Consumerist reports that a company affiliated with the site has been charging a $14.95 monthly...
The San Francisco Chronicle reported today that the empty shell of the former Pagoda Palace theater, which has been the focus of some intense squabbles between developers and preservationists, last night moved a step closer to owner/developer Joel Campos's vision...
Let's start the year off right, with a story about a waterlogged paint-job that has landed the owners of The Sherman — a steamship converted to a Burlingame restaurant — in the soup. From the San Mateo County Times:Both...
SFist is all over this story about MillerCoors pulling all the fun ingredients from the canned insanity that it calls Sparks. Seems none other than San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera helped lead the charge to get this boner of...
An update on the saga of the Tonayense truck that is taking a stand in the Mission District. It seems that, after supervisors passed a law banning such vendors from operating within 1,500 feet of schools, the old-school burrito-slinger...
View Larger Map SFist is reporting, via Curbed, that the weirdly shaped restaurant at the corner of Market, Sanchez, and 15th streets is on the chopping block, to be replaced by an "over-50-foot-tall mixed-use building with ground-floor commercial, 22 residential...
Don't you love it, just after Labor Day, when that parade of wacky, dusty vehicles starts rolling in from Burning Man? Yeah, we could take or leave it, too, but there's one art car we'd be proud to pilot,...
A couple of green city policies that made news last year may go state-wide, if a proposal from the California Ocean Protection Council meets with any success. Despite some grumbling, San Francisco's ban on Styrofoam takeout containers went into...
You know, a couple of restaurants have caught fire over the last year or so, with varying degrees of damage, but none of their cooks had blogs, so even though last weekend's fire at Nopa seems to have been...
Dang! Why, oh why couldn't MPSF have waited a week to report on Mission Street Food truck? Perhaps we could have witnessed the dust-up last night between "James the Hater," as Burrito Justice has dubbed him, and the unflappable...
It’s Monday and we haven’t quite adjusted to the concept of a workweek, but luckily we ran across some funny food news to start the week off right. As you may have read in this morning's FYI, Iran last...
Holy Crap! Gawker has a frightening item on an Albany, NY food critic who was beaten up as he left a restaurant. He believes he may have been targeted, but stops short of saying why, or by whom. Still, all...