Psycho Donuts' Massive Head Trauma After thumbing his nose at his detractors for not wanting to debate him in public, Psycho Donuts owner Kip Berdansky will get his chance to bicker engage with one of the many mental health...
The Ad Hoc at Home: Family-Style Recipes blad just landed in the offices of our parent publication, and Grub Street has a post with the the touching back-story to Keller's simpler approach: The chef's father died during the early...
Every year, Zagat's informal army of citizen reviewers reports to headquarters on their dining and drinking experiences, and the job falls to San Francisco editor Sharron Wood to compile those experiences, along with her own findings into a neat...
Food, Inc. opens today, and while the documentary on our nation's food industry may be the summer's most virtuous blockbuster, the New York Times also called it the "scariest," and Hearst reviewer Amy Biancolli wrote, "I might never want...
• Meredith Brody visited RN74 to find uneven service and food. When it hits, apparently, it hits, but it seems to miss just as often. [SF Weekly] • Michael Bauer revisited Walnut Creek stalward Prima, to find it as...
Of all the thousands of restaurants in New York, Brooklyn-based singer Santigold told Blackbook today that her favorite place is Samovar Tea Lounge in San Francisco. "They should bring it to New York!" she says. We disagree. She should...
The biggest star of last night's Top Chef Masters was Gladware, for sure. Little opaque boxes with blue tops made cameos in just about every kitchen shot on the show, including taking up whole bookshelves in the tiny Pomona...
Tonight's Top Chef Masters premiere (Bravo, 10 p.m.) gets our locals on screen right off the bat with Hubert Keller, of Fleur De Lys, going up against Boston's Michael Schlow (Radius, 606 Congress, Via Matta), New York's Christopher Lee...
For a little food porn rendering of one of our hot new mobile eateries, check out Chrysanthemum's post from yesterday. Cocochanelella took the camera down to the truck after her night at 1015 Folsom (note: the truck is down the...
Season Four Top Chef champ Stephanie Izard took a day in San Francisco and ate about 40 pounds of food, which she also blogged about. She made a lot of the standard foodie stops, including the Ferry Building market,...
• Hopping across the bay not to Oakland but to Hayward, Carol Ness finds Bijou to be sleek and sophisticated, though lacking a bit of focus when it comes to the food. She gives a solid two stars overall....
Constantly on the lookout for the "next big thing," food writer types sometimes seem to cast about a little bit to spot a trend. Twitter has made this easier. In what might be looked at as an example of...
Yesterday we were amazed that in 18 hours at the 24th and Mission McDonald's, Mission Loc@l reporter Armand Emamdjomeh only managed to drop 10 tweets. We surmised he must be working on an actual piece of reporting, which he was,...
Today in questionable uses of technology: Mission Loc@l reporter Armand Emamdjomeh spent all of Saturday in the McDonald's on 24th and Mission streets and live-tweeted his experience. His first tweet went up as the place opened at 5:54 a.m:...
• Dining at Gary Danko can make one feel a little awkward, especially in these lean times, but Meredith Brody quickly got over it on her maiden visit and decided that pretty much everything there is the best ever,...
It's a good day for virtuous food media. While the New York Times informs us that Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma is back on the required reading list at Washington State University after being pulled for lack of funds, our...
Today's "Scoop" column contains three strikingly different tales of how employees and owners are dealing with shuttered restaurants. As the bad economy and just plain bad luck claim one victim after another, we're beginning to see a variety of...
Hubert Keller may stop serving foie gras at Fleur De Lys in advance of the upcoming California ban, he said today. While the state will start enforcing the ban on the goose liver pate in 2012, Keller said in...
The new Pixar movie, Up, includes a couple edible East Bay cameos, including Oakland ice cream parlor Fenton's, and the Merritt Bakery. The producer and director both live in Oakland and take their kids to the Piedmont Avenue ice...
You will not see the Slap Chop on Kitchen Gadget Girl, nor in most actual kitchens. But somebody's buying it. Thank goodness Slate gave us the inside scoop on the Slap Chop and its rival, the Vidalia Chop Wizard, finding...