We told you earlier this month how this was the first season in a couple decades when San Francisco Bay herring have been available in local restaurants and markets, and now the Chron has an update about a few dishes...
They say they should just be happy to be in the guide.
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One of S.F.'s most respected chefs is branching out to the East Coast for the first time.
The restaurant moving into 7th and Mission will feature "affordable fine dining."
The 'GQ' critic says the Bay Area is now the region to watch for restaurants of 'ambition and imagination.'
Also, Bar Agricole wins 'Best Fancy Retro-Modern California Cuisine Cocktails,' whatever the hell that means.
The food at Rose Pistola is an improvement on a few years ago, but still not as good as when it opened, Bauer writes.
Look out for the tourists to take up a bunch of reservations at these nine restaurants this summer.
Also, the battle over food trucks in Santa Rosa wages on.
Tartine's on there twice but Una Pizza Napoletana doesn't make the cut? We call bullshit.
Will it be one the James Beard Award favorites too?
• Food & Wine travel editor Jen Murphy lists her ten best dishes from travels around the world last year, and one San Francisco entry makes the grade: the cinnamon mille-feuille and cardamom marshmallow with burnt honey ice cream at...
Jonathan Kauffman writes that Cotogna is "beautifully realized — translating everything that is so refined about [next-door big sister] Quince into classic California simplicity." He loves the garganelli with rabbit and artichokes, which he describes as "pasta that rewarded the...
He couldn't quite whittle the list down to ten.
We're totally bad at planning ahead ourselves, so we feel you if your New Year's plans are still kind of up in the air. But all is not lost! We have a few semi-last-minute suggestions for you below, ranging from...
Michael Bauer calls Commonwealth "the pacesetter" in the trend of finding high-end food in more casual settings — we would argue that's Saison, but maybe by S.F. standards that's not casual enough. Like he did with Saison, Bauer gives Commonwealth...
Danny Bowein and Anthony Myint say Popeye's is the best thing they ever ate in the Mission.
