It seems like ages ago that we first touched on the barrel-aged cocktail trend you take some booze for a drink, you see, mix it together and stick in a barrel for a couple months, and it comes out...
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The list got leaked a day early, via Bloomberg.
The Bold Italic "nerds out" over Neapolitan pizza with a new listicle, complete with oven types, cooking times and temperatures, for eight of the city's best margherita pies, from A16 to Zero Zero. They do not, however, crown a favorite....
Also, he blacks out at Zero Zero. Good times.
A lot of chefs, working in cuisines from their parents' homelands, are doing stuff that can't be called fusion and it can't be called 'inauthentic' either.
Like Bauer did on Sunday, Jonathan Kauffman offers up some similarly qualified praise for Locanda today, writing "many aspects of the restaurant are still gawky and fumbling," but quickly adding, "the vision behind the restaurant is sure, and enough of...
"Later at a photo shoot, I had ten almonds, five cashews, and a late lunch of grilled chicken, a mixed greens salad, and quinoa."
A new listicle from F&W.
Places like Zero Zero have given in and started taking them.
A whopping three stars for Bruce Hill's newest pizzeria in SoMa.
It's true: San Francisco is swimming in pizza these days. And nobody's more ambivalently hip to this fact than Mr. Kauffman, who mostly sings the praises of the new major pie players before he even gets to Zero Zero, at...
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The master pizzaiolo sets a date, and tells us about his menu, wine list, and coffee offerings.
See the full food and cocktail menus for the new pizzeria and restaurant from Picco's Bruce Hill.