Critics Made Mission Chinese Jump Shark?
'Food critics don't help readers find restaurants anymore. They RUIN them.'
'Food critics don't help readers find restaurants anymore. They RUIN them.'
'Bon App' editor Andrew Knowlton just got back from taking the chef on an eating tour of China, and there's a video.
Also, Masa's celebrates 30 years with Thursday deals.
It's all twinkling Christmas lights and tight shots.
Though the Bay Area dominates in the California region, L.A.'s Michael Voltaggio is most likely to win this popularity contest.
Also, Beretta and Bar Agricole get "long-listed" in the bar category.
In case you missed the full list this a.m., Alan Richman has crowned his top ten of new restaurants, and like Michael Bauer he's reached back to 2010 for his S.F. pick: Mission Chinese Food. (The national love for MCF...
They're taking a former takeout spot on Orchard Street.
• Anthony Myint at Mission Chinese Food shares his recipe for twice-fried Popeye's chicken. It might make you love fast food again. [SE] • Regarding the recent changes at Nick's Cove in Tomales Bay, which after some ownership changes have...
Five of the ten restaurants were not, technically, new as of 2011.
One of them opened over a decade ago!
Martha does a segment with chef Danny Bowien about the "new Chinese cuisine."
John Birdsall tackles the subject of the 'new generation of Asian Fusion' and we wish the term would just go away.
Bon App's top ten best new restaurants in the US for 2011.
Check out the Numbing Lamb Face Biang Biang Mien.
• Legendary New York restaurateur George Lang, owner of Café des Artistes from 1975 to 2009, has passed on at the age of 86. [NYT via Grub Street NY] • Don't know what kind of wine to BYOB of to...
The long nightmare of ma po tofu deprivation has ended as Mission Chinese Food reopened over the weekend, following a three-week vacation to China for Danny Bowien, Anthony Myint, and the Lung Shan crew during which time they also...
The 'GQ' critic says the Bay Area is now the region to watch for restaurants of 'ambition and imagination.'