As fashionable as Mission Street Food is in the city's dining scene, its patrons seem to be equally hip in the actual fashion scene. Demonstrating that, the blog Fashionist came out and shot pictures of diners waiting in line...
• Red, white, and green wines at the Taste of Mendocino. [Ukiah Daily Journal] • Hunting Pheasant in a Napa vineyard. [The Atlantic] • Tom Colicchio is "so over" the banh mi and thinks the next big thing in sandwiches...
Local bigshot Thomas Keller led the nation in this year's S. Pellegrino list of the world's 50 best restaurants, but in a shakeup from last year, the French Laundry fell by seven ranks, and Per Se grabbed the U.S.'s...
The last few days have seen two local pundits tackling the always-sticky service question. The consensus: Use your words, people. Tuesday, 7x7 guest blogger Ella Lawrence suggested that customers would get better wine service if they admitted their own...
Our love of oysters is well documented around here, so we've been following Robert Lauriston's $1 oysters thread on Chowhound with some relish. After posting a list of half-shell deals on SFoodie some weeks ago, Lauriston put it to the...
Conde Nast Traveler just came out with its "Hot Tables 2009" list, and of course, San Francisco is on it. But the magazine seems shockingly ambivalent about the one restaurant it includes from our 49-square-mile bubble. This time we're...
That Dinner: Impossible show gets weirder and weirder, right? And tonight's episode is no exception, but it may be worth a watch, or at least an extended stay in the TiVo, as it brings Robert Irvine to the Silicon...
The country's original craft beer sold more suds than any Bay Area brewer last year, but couldn't crack the top 10 in national sales. Our sister blog in Boston reports today that Sam Adams' parent company sold more beer...
Most of us know or care little more about In-N-Out Burger than the fact that their sandwiches are great, and they have a not-very-secret "secret menu" for those in the know. But did you ever wonder why their burgers...
People just love complaining about rushed restaurant service. In our user reviews it is always a top gripe. Our Sibling publication, Grub Street, recently generated a bevvy of comments with a post on an impatient Minetta Tavern host. Now...
It was not surprising that a whole bunch (8) San Francisco restaurants made Travel & Leisure's "50 Best New Restaurants" list, but it was kind of neat to see some small-time operations on there as well as obvious choices...
Add this to your mental list of ramps, spring onions, garlic greens, and fiddleheads. Bauer's got the skinny on a new take on an ignored spring green: sweet fava leaves. Apparently Point Reyes' Osteria Stellina does a great salad with...
Here's your midweek look at what other outlets are saying in their food sections. This week's highlights: Diners' bad behavior, Reidinger on Tropisueno, and a soul food roundup. • Diners love complaining about how badly they're treated by wait...
This year's Restaurants and Institutions list of the nation's 100 highest-grossing independent restaurants contains the same four San Francisco establishments as last year's, but their places have shifted, with The Slanted Door topping the local list. The Charles Phan...
Here are some tidbits from the world of San Francisco food news outside our little bubble. Eater reports that Woodhouse Fish Company finally opened their second location on Fillmore today. Also, that second Cafe Prague location is finally up...
Question: Can we get enough "best burrito" coverage? Answer: No. Obviously. Reason: Polling just opened in SF Weekly's Best Of San Francisco readers' poll. We got the word from the We Eating crew's twitter feed. They're hot for Papalote. Who's...
New tricks in local food journalism: The San Francisco Bay Guardian has a video feature on Youtube all about Weird Fish and The Corner. Strangely, though, there's no video footage or even names given of the interviewees. Still, pretty pictures:...
Bravo has just announced the premiere of a next-level Top Chef spinoff, Top Chef Masters, featuring already-famous chefs in a Top-Chef-style competition. Can they get mileage out of a concept or what? Our favorite twist: The judges will include...
One more note about the Chron's Top 100: Plebiscite weighed in today with the charge that it was a sort of racist move on Michael Bauer's part to cut out a relatively high percentage of Asian restaurants, and not...