Pican's Southern Charcuterie Plate, via inuyaki/flickr A lot of restaurants have been changing around their hours and service lately, and it's getting confusing even if you are paying attention. Let's try to get those recent changes in one place:...
Tablehopper brings good news this week with word that E & O Trading Co, which had been closed after a fire at the beginning of the month, is back open. On the other hand, Coi will close its doors...
MenuPages contributor Alexis Wright attended a screening last night of Food Inc., the new documentary from director/producer Robert Kenner (The American Experience, The Blues). She brings us this review today, in advance of the film's release June 12. At...
Nearly half of San Franciscans surveyed recently would be willing to pay higher taxes to fund better school lunches in public schools. Lincoln High students recently asked 471 people if they would shell out $40 more a year, and...
Here are some links and events and stuff that we wanted to share but quite couldn't justify full stories. Check these out while you run out the clock on this Friday afternoon. Have a good weekend! • Dog Patch's...
The architects responsible for designing and building the Taste Pavilions and other event spaces for Slow Food nation have won a special achievement award from the American Institute of Architects San Francisco chapter. Bragging rights go to "20 architecture,...
Spring is here, which means it's peak season for one of our favorite Bay Area food field trips. Between now and the end of April (and the end of oyster season), you have to do the following day out,...
Local offal-master Chris Cosentino's work with heavy-duty innards such as brains, organs, and bones, might make his style of cooking seem inaccessible to the lay person. Even if you have the nerve to prepare guts, making them as palatable...
We knew you were wondering, so thought we'd pass along the word: The reason Chris Cosentino doesn't serve lamb face in his offal-centric restaurant Incanto, is that he can't. He recently told The Feedbag, "'I can’t legally buy skin-on face...
Dear Mr. Lincoln et al, Thank you for being presidents of this great country, where ne'er-do-wells like us can have full-time work doing little besides opining on junk food and figuring out ways to name-drop 40-year-old war movies. Your...
Love is in the air as Valentine's Day approaches, except when it's not. Sometimes you need to gently snap Cupid's little arrow over your knee, and this time of year can really rub that in. With that in mind,...
Technically astute foodies are just the freaking best, aren't they? Right now we're a little in awe of Chowhound regular P. Punko, who created an incredibly detailed region-wide map of where to get your banh mi fix. Banh Mi, of...
So as you know, the Super Bowl is coming up, and you've got to get ready for that party. Why did we assume you are having a party? Because according to Visa, you probably are. The credit card company...
The only question that remains in the world is, why didn't we know about this, and why didn't we post something on it sooner? Naturally, you've already read on Serious Eats about the availability of Animal Style fries at...
Did you participate in the Eat Local Challenge, in which you eat only local foods for a whole month? Yeah, us neither. Because it's hard and you have to keep eating the same four things all month long. While...
It's rough out there, no denying. Friends in the media, hospitality, finance, credit, and seemingly every other field are getting laid off or having their companies fold under them. What are you going to do? Well, if you happen...
This year, goofy holiday fun is out and sober thriftiness is in. No company holiday parties, minimal gift-buying, scrooge-like shunnings all around. Man, things suck. But not at this house: Our new favorite SF food blog, Beer and Rap,...
There are some real food scholars out there. Plenty of people, many of them right here in the Bay Area, some of them writing this text at this very moment, know a good deal about food and restaurants and...
This is a very exciting time of year for us, but probably not for the reasons you'd expect. It's not the imminent family visit, or the loads of candy, or even the fact that we get to abstain from...
