Recent Entries in Food
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Truffle Season, It Is Here
Alba white truffle (credit: Luxury Insider) Much to our delight, La Bauer didn't put truffles on his list of things he'd like to see banished from Bay Aera menus. Then again, truffles are a seasonal delight. And people who allege to be totally over of truffles are either damned liars or use $100 bills to wipe themselves after using the toilet. Fecal humor aside, truffle season is here. But where can one get these...
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SFist Drinks: The Ginger Ante Cocktail from DOSA
In looking for good autumnal cocktails to feature, we came across this delicious ginger concoction from DOSA on Fillmore, which has been doing great stuff with pairing cocktails to their food. The Ginger Ante cocktail, created by bartender Usman Chaudhary, would be perfect as an opener for Thanksgiving dinner, particularly with some roasted pumpkin seeds to nibble on, or this stuffed snow pea appetizer that Brock likes so much. All the ingredients in the...
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Quote du Jour: Padma Lakshmi On Her Back
The phenomenal Dino-Ray Ramos met with Glitter star Padma Lakshmi, who visited Neiman Marcus SF recently, to talk about her new line of jewelry. The Top Chef hostess reveals -- at least! -- what the most beautiful part of a woman's body is. Discussing her new line of back necklaces, she informs Ramos, "The back is the most beautiful part of a women’s body, yet you never see it adorned." Until now! You can...
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SFist Does Thanksgiving: Snow Peas Stuffed With Soft Cheese
In an city saturated with aggressively rustic food, these hors d'oeuvres are a refreshingly couture treat for any Thanksgiving spread. (We should point out that this is a dish SFist has praised in the past.) Plucked from Martha Stewart's Entertaining (also known as Entertaining: A Case Study in Hysteria and Paranoia), this recipe for snow peas stuffed with soft cheese is a simple and not-too-filling preface to a carb-heavy dinner. Also, why do we...
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Wednesday Wine Tasting: Good Wines For Thanksgiving Turkey
The truth of the matter is, you can drink almost anything with turkey dinner -- most full-bodied, earthy, or well-balanced red wines, and many German, or Rhône-style whites will do the trick just fine. So many diverse flavors mean that many wines are bound to taste good with at least something you have on your plate. But every year, food and wine magazines and the food sections of newspapers around the nation revisit this...
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Bento415 Grand Opening Tomorrow
Mission Bento/Yelp Potrero Hill 9-to-5ers are in luck with this great new lunch place. Bento415, which offers cuisines from around the world packaged in cute, little bento boxes, will be making their official debut tomorrow morning. Breakfast bentos will be served, along with Blue Bottle Coffee, starting at 7:30 a.m. and lunch bentos will be served starting at 11:30 a.m. Both meals last until they run out. Bento415's regular menu currently offers four lunch...
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SFist Does Thanksgiving: Wild Mushroom Bread Pudding With Cambazola
image credit: lizelle Thanksgiving is just around the corner. (Can you feel the collective nervousness of the turkeys? That's the feeling of flavor!) And until next Thursday, SFist will post recipes we would love for you to use, if the mood should strike, for your Thanksgiving feast. What's more, some of the recipes will be brought to you by local chefs of note! Hopefully. First up? This bone-shatteringly savory and fulfilling Wild Mushroom Bread...
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Meet the Winemakers at the End of Harvest Celebration at Press Club
Do you hold your wine glass by the stem, shove your fat nose in the glass, and snort? Which is to say, do yo have a serious interest the the art of wine making? If so, head down to the Press Club, located at the bottom of the Four Seasons building, to meet the winemakers who craft the store's vino. Now that harvest season folks from Chateau Montelena, Fritz Winery, Hanna Winery and Vineyards,...
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David Chang Was Right
Maybe New York chef David "Fist Bump" Chang was right? Scroll down, folks. credit: Chris Jones/SFist If you recall, Chang got all reality show contestant on San Francisco food, saying, "Fuckin' every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate. Do something with your food." We did. We added a pear....
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Legendary McRib Returns to San Francisco?
Uh oh. Both Eater LA and the LA Times are reporting that an outbreak of McDonald's elusive McRib sandwich has ensued in the greater Southland. This naturally begs the question, when will the McRib spread to the Bay Area? According to the McRib Locator, the McRib has already been spotted in one of San Francisco's many McDo franchises. Could this be true? For those unawares, the McRib is a delectable conglomeration of pork gristle...
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Just Say No to Santa Cruz County-Sport Harvested Shellfish, Says CDPH
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) sounded the alarm today, warning "consumers not to eat Santa Cruz County sport-harvested shellfish because the clams, mussels, scallops or oysters may be contaminated with domoic acid, a dangerous toxin that is harmful to people." Domoic acid can lead to amnesic shellfish poisoning, which can lead to explosive diarrhea, coma, or death. Today's announcement, however, the CDPH goes on to say, doesn't mean you should eschew commercially...
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SFist Drinks: The Fogcutter from Smuggler's Cove
We made mention earlier this week of the imminent opening of brand new Hayes Valley Tiki bar, Smuggler's Cove. Assuming you absolutely can not wait to try some of the rummy, tropical deliciousness that will be served up there beside the indoor water features, we went straight to the source, bar manager/owner Martin Cate, for a recipe. Here's what he gave us: This is the Fogcutter as it will be served at Smuggler's Cove....
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Sugar Rush: A Benefit for Spark's Youth Apprenticeship Programs
Now that autumn is in the air, the Mission is too clammy and cold, the Avenues are too foggy, and the Marina is too the Marina. So, why not spend your Thursday night in the lovely, twinkly, high-rise building-y downtown area. It simply crackles at night. And it's chic. And it has a good mix of San Francisco ilk. And there's no better venue than 111 Minna, who will be hosting some of the...
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Playboy Names Orphan Andy's in Castro One of Nation's Best Late-Night Diners
As many San Franciscans know, getting food after midnight in this town is no easy feat. We still have our share of late-night diners though, like the Grub Steak, Sparky's, Lori's and Mel's. Only one made the cut in Playboy magazine's A-list of the Top 10 Late-Night Diners in the country that "truly embody the late-night experience," and that's Orphan Andy's on 17th Street in the Castro. They note that the energy there is...
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Wednesday Wine Tasting: Good Trader Joe's Wines Under $8
Not that long ago, the idea of respectable non-jug, non-box wines for under $10 -- the kind of wine you could bring to a foodie dinner party without feeling like a cheap asshole -- was pretty unthinkable. Enter Trader Joe's and BevMo and suddenly there's a lot of truly decent cheap wine out there, and we're not just talking about Two-Buck Chuck. We're not huge wine snobs, but we do prefer our reds to...
