Michael Bauer may have clicked his ruby-slippered heels and gone on vacation to Kansas this week, but Jonathan Kauffman remains in town, and he's really loving Red Wings in the Richmond this week. What do they have there? Korean chicken...
Kauffman likes just about everything at Plate Shop, especially that it's not Cal-Med.
The 'Weekly' critic thinks the 'Chron' could be a little less Cal-Euro-centric.
"I do a pulled pork with a Carolina-style mustard vinegar sauce. The brisket's out of Texas, and I do ribs my way."
Jonathan Kauffman points out that, traditionally, good barbecue is like a well-kept, off-the-grid secret. Thus "there's something fitting about the fact that Facebook-enabled San Franciscans like me have spent the past few months hunting down mobile smokers with high aspirations...
Continuing to make amends for his review of Atelier Crenn, Jonathan Kauffman posted a Q&A with chef Dominique Crenn delving into her history, and asking what the deal is with her menu's tagline, "poetic culinaria." She says of her menu,...
Kauffman calls the beauty of some of Crenn's dishes "eviscerating," but walks away hungry.
We daren't suggest that we know what makes Reidinger tick, and for some reason this week he decided it was time to review Frances — the place has been open about fifteen months, everyone and their mother, including Esquire, has...
Jonathan Kauffman writes of Citizen Cake's move up to Pac Heights, "Delay aside, all the signs boded well. And then I had a few meals at the new place, each one leaving me bemused and somewhat taken aback." His first...
Is shark's fin prized for its texture, or because it's a mark of status to be serving it?
Kauffman's especially fond of a humble, brothy salmon and rice dish at Kasumi.
Oh Reidinger... we thought you liked bearded guys best!
Jonathan Kauffman decides to take the whole heart theme of this impending holiday literally, and he tours the city hunting the blood-pumping organ of the offal realm. "I'd even argue that hearts are entry-level offal," he writes. "There's none of...
Also, Kauffman says Deanie Hickox's new desserts at Plum are "spectacles in themselves."
Reidinger nonetheless likes the food at Mission Chinese...
Also, the coffee drinks aren't that great.
At least Reidinger stays (mostly) on topic this time.
"Who can resist a nice pig knuckle?" — Jonathan Kauffman, who as part of his 'Black Hole Dining' series pays a visit to old-old-school German joint Schroeder's in the FiDi, where they still have polka nights, and where they still...
