One of the city's four ostensibly anonymous food critics, the Guardian's Paul Reidinger, vacated his post last week. And now he reveals his photo to the Scoop, discusses his novel-writing career, and takes a moment to compare the local food...
If nothing else, we will miss Paul's flirtations with handsome young servers.
Kauffman only likes the iron-skillet mussels, which they also serve at The Stinking Rose and the Franciscan.
Jonathan Kauffman falls in love this week with a Brazilian tamale called a pamonha (pah-MOAN-yah), which is served at Pamonha's Brazilian Cuisine (6005 Mission) in Daly City. The restaurant claims to be one of only two in the States to...
Paul Reidinger is uncharacteristically quick to make it to the new Bluestem Brasserie, and he finds himself in agreement with Bauer on at least one thing: It's all about pastry chef James Ormsby's desserts. While he finds the halibut pretty...
Does Reidinger really need to bother at this point?
Reidinger digs the fried stuff at Straw; Kauffman compares the frequency of Fifth Floor's PR releases to Kardashian tweets.
Why does Reidinger bother going downtown?
Well, it's not often that Paul Reidinger gets first dibs on reviewing a place, so we should give him some credit this week. The Guardian scribe hits up Criolla Kitchen in the Castro (formerly known as Bagdad Café), and comes...
Like Bauer did on Sunday, Jonathan Kauffman offers up some similarly qualified praise for Locanda today, writing "many aspects of the restaurant are still gawky and fumbling," but quickly adding, "the vision behind the restaurant is sure, and enough of...
Kauffman reviews his first bar!
Jonathan Kauffman is less impressed than easier to please Patty U. with the new food offerings at Terminal 2 at the airport. Plant Cafe Organic handed him some sad, gray vegetables over steamed quinoa for $13; Andalé took fifteen minutes...
Jonathan Kauffman sounds mighty impressed with Nojo, saying that he might have skipped it were it not for chef Gregory Dunmore's resumé (which includes Ame and Terra). "Nombe, Ippuku, Chotto, Izakaya Sozai, Kasumi, and 2G Brasserie have all opened in...
Jonathan Kauffman observes that after 30 or 40 years of French food becoming less exotic and more integrated into what we call California cuisine, we can now more than ever appreciate the humbleness of bistro cuisine on its original terms....
Jonathan Kauffman, while pretty well versed in the cuisines of Asia, sounds sincerely surprised at the discoveries he made at Dong Bei Mama — the restaurant formerly known as Panda Country Kitchen at Geary and 11th Avenue. The cuisine comes...
Jonathan Kauffman is the first to give a full review to the new dinner service at Brenda's French Soul Food that kicked off in March. He's pretty pleased with the broiled oysters, served four different ways, and especially recommends the...
This week our buddy Jonathan Kauffman decides to pair up two pop-ups that have taken root in two neighborhoods, in this 2.0 or 2.5 wave of the phenomenon. First there's Vinyl up on Divis, opened by Saison wine guy Mark...
Reidinger doesn't have much of an opinion about the savory fondue he tried, but he loves the Happy Trails chocolate one.
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...