Michelin Inspector Gets Hit On While Dining Alone on V-Day; Jamie Oliver Finds a Jackpot
...And, the world's first ski-up Starbucks!
...And, the world's first ski-up Starbucks!
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine strikes again with their annual publicity blitz.
• Anthony Myint has been slowly redecorating Lung Shan/Mission Chinese Food, and he's raising money to buy a 60-foot long Chinese New Year dragon for the ceiling. [SFoodie] • A tech startup in Austin, TX has raised over $2 million...
The new poster for the Edible Schoolyards program puts "Eating" above "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic."
• The Bay Area has become a hub of the national tequila trade. [Chron] • A sexual assault was reported last night behind the Beach Chalet restaurant. [KCBS] • An Australian cookbook has to be reprinted after a type-o refers...
• Michael Mina is considering cloning RN74 in downtown Seattle. [SFoodie] • An obvious answer for making cheap American wines better: we should do more blends. [Gray Market Report] • Everything is wrong with Fillmore Mexican Grill, starting with the...
• A brief guide to finding Easter treats in SF, including Christopher Elbow Chocolates. [Bits & Bites] • Nightlife advocate Terrance Alan, chairman of the city's Entertainment Commission, is resigning his post. [Chron] • Koko Cocktails is doing a Bourbon...
"Oliver’s better-eating-and-living-through-wartime-rationing cant doesn’t hold up to common sense or hard wartime truths, ...[which] included the quite unhealthy consequences of more than one-half-million British war dead and lengthy periods of nightly Nazi bombing raids on London and other British cities."...
• Some jealous lady in Texas thinks In-n-Out has gone downhill since she was a kid growing up in California. Wtvr. [Eats/Dallas News] • Chef Annie Somerville at Greens is going to be feted on April 10th for 30 years...
The "naked" chef teaches a classroom of six-year-olds what an eggplant looks like.
Major wine bar to open sooner than expected; Kauffman enters the picture; free beer at Gracias Madre; Jamie Oliver gets an apprentice to confess to a huge crime.
• Demystify tofu with a tour of the new Hodo Soy Beanery tofu factory in Oakland. [SF Chronicle] • Trader Joe's has lots of good wine for less than $10. [SFist] • The Hanukkah celebration at Judd's Hill winery will...
• Some Northern California wineries with macabre themes and names do a booming business right around Halloween. [AP/Mercury News] • California food banks are starting to use local produce direct from the farm. [NYT] • Diane Feinstein is leading a...