• Good news for fishermen: The number of salmon returning to San Francisco Bay and swimming up the Sacramento River to spawn this year is way higher than expected. [Oakland North] • This past weekend the Chron's 49 Square Miles...
• What do you get when you merge organic, California-style tacos, which include ingredients such as roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli, syrup-sweetened sweet beans and apple salsa, with two-wheeled delivery? Hot Bike! [7 x 7] • If you needed any...
Also, Sous Beurre Kitchen has their own prosciutto now.
• Reason to boycott some jelly beans? The Jelly Belly factory up in Fairfield is playing host to a rally and fundraising dinner today for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. [Vacaville Reporter] • Berkeley-based organic pasta maker Annie's made its...
• In honor of National Women's Month, Presidio Social Club bartender Pipi Ray Diamond created a cocktail in honor of famed San Francisco socialite and mascot of the Fire Department, Firebelle Lil, a.k.a. Lily Hitchcock. Money from her will was...
• Regarding the ongoing debate on pairing cocktails with food, should you or shouldn't you, and where in San Francisco the concept works best. [7x7, Earlier] • In conjunction with this past weekend's reopening of Meadowood, the Chron has this...
• Pop-ups are still popping: The Journal delves into the economics and ongoing popularity of pop-ups, and Wise Sons plays a starring role in the piece. [WSJ] • Local soda maker SodaCraft, which makes regular appearances at Ferry Building farmers'...
Also, Diamond Foods is still in trouble.
Also, how do they get the salt inside in-shell roasted peanuts?
• Pleasanton looks like it will be getting a Wal-Mart grocery store, replacing a vacated former Nob Hill Foods, and the residents there seem broadly in favor of it. [Tribune] • Today's subject du jour on the Bauer blog, via...
• Tomorrow night, Bachelor Ben Flajnik will be hosting a walk-around winemaker dinner/tasting at Marengo on Union with his Envolve Winery. We can't confirm there are still tickets but you can email here to find out or they're $75 at...
• Here's a roundup of the best "rainy day" cafés in town where you can bring kids who are "climbing the walls." [7x7] • Regarding some of the better egg dishes of greater Sonoma. [BiteClub] • Yesterday's Datebook featured a...
• Chris Beerman and Cheryl Burr, the friends and business partners who co-own Citizen's Band and Pinkie's Bakery, discuss the secret to their popular burger. [SFoodie] • 7x7 gives their take on State Bird Provisions, and says to "expect the...
• Activists descended on an abandoned factory farm in Stanislaus County housing 50,000 starving, dead, and nearly dead chickens and managed to save about 4,600 birds, which are now being put up for adoption. The owner of the farm had...
• People are talking about star-rating systems for restaurants ever since the L.A. Times decided to drop theirs, and Jonathan Kauffman says he doesn't care much about them. However a friend of his makes the valid point, "If restaurant critics...
• Inspired by a pop-up in Dublin called Crackbird, here's a St. Patrick's Day menu that centers around chicken, instead of the traditional corned beef. [Chron] • Mario Batali and partner Joseph Bastianich had to pay out $5.25 million last...
• With the upcoming opening of Joseph Humphrey's 10,000-square-foot (!) Dixie in the Presidio, and the early success of the spacious AQ, the Business Times says big restaurants are back. [Biz Times] • Following on Kauffman's review of State Bird...
Also, a review of Park Tavern's brunch.
• An art show called "Land, Use" at the Hazel Wolf Gallery (2150 Allston Street, Berkeley), a joint show from artists Fernando García-Dory and Amy Franceschini, depicts whimsical, futuristic agrarian ideas like an urban farm with pedal-powered wheelbarrows. [SFBG] •...
• It's Super Tuesday! And food writer Michael Procopio presents this recipe for a Santorum Cake that makes no direct reference whatsoever to, ahem, santorum. [Food for the Thoughtless] • "Seeing as how the annotated list is the defining form...
