• Two thieves waltzed into the new Rock Candy Snack Shop (521 Cortland) in Bernal Heights, and while one asked the owner for a glass of water, the other ran off with her laptop. Happy holidays! [Bernalwood] • A 25-year-old...
• The number of affected customers in that identity theft scandal at Lucky Supermarkets that we mentioned earlier this week has shot up from an originally reported 20 to at least 500, as more people call to claim their accounts...
• Several Financial District restaurants including Portico and The Plant Café are going to the City's Board of Appeals today to fight the permit that was given to Doc's of the Bay, a gourmet burger truck, which they say creates...
• Writer Josh Ozersky pens a semi-satirical (but maybe sort of sincere?) essay about trying to design a restaurant specifically for fat people. First, it should be cold, and there should be no mirrors, and no hint of sexuality whatsoever....
• Two people were shot Sunday night at the Burger King on Middlefield Road in Redwood City. Their condition is not known. [San Carlos Patch] • Writing now for CHOW, John Birdsall discusses his "conflicted" feelings about Chipotle as a...
• A handy primer on Dungeness crab, and the height of the Bay Area crab season, which is now. Interesting note: Though you'll see crabs well into spring in markets and on menus, 80 percent of local Dungeness gets consumed...
• Zero Zero is now offering flash-frozen pizza to go. [Feast] • Remembering the beauty of the Nob Hill Cala Foods, which closes on Saturday, and which will hopefully look similar when it reopens as a Trader Joe's. [SFist, Earlier]...
• A roundup of various thoughts on S.F.'s first and only Umami Burger, from critics and CHOWhounders alike, including reviews of the house-made ketchup. [Eater] • A whole lotta chefs are forgoing fussy restaurant recipes and releasing books about cooking...
• In honor of the holidays, CHOW makes "the turducken of cheese balls," which is a cube of washed-rind cheese covered in about a dozen layers of other stuff. [CHOW] • Two weeks after Dungeness crab season officially opened, crab...
• Stacey Finz at the Chronicle penned a story for the Sunday paper about restaurants that have felt harmed by the growing food truck scene, and the Golden Gate Restaurant Association's efforts to limit the permitting process. Jonathan Kauffman at...
• Local food banks are experiencing record need as the holidays approach this year, and one food bank in San Leandro got some attention from several Oakland Raiders, who dropped by to help sort donations. [ABC 7] • Groupon's stock...
• A quick-fingered thief robbed a grocery store in Portola Saturday night in less than two minutes and in what's being called the "Thomas Crown of grocery store heists" ... except he wasn't wearing gloves. [Examiner] • Here is the...
• Brazen sommelier-turned-art-thief Mark Lugo, who pleaded guilty last month to the July theft of a Picasso drawing from Union Square's Weinstein Gallery, will be appearing in court today to receive his sixteen-month (+/-) sentence. Also, the gallery will unveil...
• Top Chef All Stars champ (who may or may not still hate everything he does) Richard Blais stopped by In-N-Out in Marin on his way up to Flavor! Napa Valley yesterday, and tweeted a photo of the menu. [MobyPicture...
• Jardinière chef-owner Traci Des Jardins discusses her love of mortars and pestles, skis, and her obsession with "all things coffee." [Food & Wine] • Range pastry chef Michelle Polzine talks about her favorite fruits to work with, and her...
• Oakland is slowly coming around to legitimizing food truck gatherings, with a preliminary resolution that will allow them until the law banning them can be officially revised. [EBX, Earlier] • Verve Coffee co-founder Colby Barr discusses how coffee industry...
• Over at Eater, they just handed out the prize for the city's finest restaurant toilet facilities, and the big honor goes to Japantown's Bushi-Tei. [Eater] • The San Francisco Food Bank was one of many recipients of a new,...
• Dungeness crab season is tentatively set to open Tuesday, with this year expected to be about as bountiful as last year. [Chron] • Plum Bar bartender Scott Beattie discusses the importance of measuring your cocktail ingredients. "The difference between...
• The Michelin three-star Restaurant at Meadowood up in St. Helena is expanding their garden operation, leasing land from an adjacent Montessori school, and expanding from a half acre to three. Also: They will be raising their own goats, and...
• It's now cool to carry food and drinks into the theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and they say this is following a national trend of allowing theatergoers to not ditch their beverages after intermission. [Garchik/Chron] •...