• Last week on KQED's Forum, several players involved in the current battle between food-truck operators and downtown brick-and-mortar restaurant owners gathered to debate the city's new street-food permitting policies. Basically, this war isn't likely to end soon. [KQED, Earlier]...
Also, Sens reviews Bottle Cap, and Boer reviews Cypress in Walnut Creek.
Check out a flurry of new dishes around town that just might become your new addictions.
Tomorrow night at Absinthe, chef Adam Keough is doing a special three-course menu ($82 per person) featuring ingredients sourced from George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch in Marin. The full menu and details are below, but the star of the show will...
The Absinthe offshoot looks very little like it used to, when it was Citizen Cake.
The New Orleans-inspired restaurant in the former Citizen Cake space is on schedule.
Is shark's fin prized for its texture, or because it's a mark of status to be serving it?
Mission: Yamo (3408 18th Street) has raised their ultra-cheap prices, to $6 a dish. Quoth Uptown Almanac, "Next thing you know, you'll be able call in an order to Yamo and they'll actually remember to make your food." [Uptown Almanac]...
Michael Bauer pays a visit to Twenty Five Lusk, and begins — as anyone would, really — talking about the design by architects Cass Calder Smith: "if Bix channels all that was good in the 20th century, this restaurant does...
And one more chef shuffle to add to the end-of-year shuffle-fest: Pastry chef extraordinaire Bill Corbett is leaving Coi/Plum to take Luis Villavelazquez's place at Absinthe. Filling Corbett's shoes at Coi will be Deanie Hickox, who's been working there since...
Bauer gives new chef Adam Keough the three stars Jamie Lauren never got.
Justin Simoneaux recently left the Moss Room to open his own place, and it turns out that place is the new Absinthe off-shoot, Boxing Room, in the former Citizen Cake spot at Gough and Grove. As the Scoop further reports,...
Also, the new chef starts at Absinthe tonight.
A Michael Mina restaurant vet, Adam Keough, takes over August 17.
The former Top Chef-testant is looking forward to the change.
See the menu at this new monthly cocktail party.
Saturday night is your last chance to taste Jamie Lauren's food at Absinthe before the onetime Top Chef finalist takes off for L.A. She's still not saying if she's got any jobs lined up down there... [Tablehopper, Earlier]...
The Absinthe folks appear to have chosen a name for their casual cousin in the Citizen Cake space: Boxing Room. Update: Grub Street has learned via the team's publicist, Brigid Finley, that the name derives from the building's history. "In...
