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Thu. 19 Feb '09
Dining
Four bold new spots in San Francisco. San Francisco is known for producing restaurants that stand the test of time. We expect these exciting new spots to stick around... more
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Mon. 26 Oct '09
Dining
DeLessio gives French toast a Brazilian bronzing . Sun, sand, cachaça: Brazil has many charms for the vacationer. But what infatuated chef Patrick DeLessio most on... more
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Fri. 15 May '09
Dining
Food truck stars head back into the restaurant . Call it a reverse culinary migration: Across the country, food-truck chefs are curbing their nomadic lifestyles and... more
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Thu. 23 Apr '09
Wine
The best of California wine country, under one roof. A quick jaunt to wine country is one of the highlights of visiting San Francisco, but you can't always squeeze in the... more
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Wed. 15 Apr '09
Dining
Top chefs moonlight with high-end sandwich shops. The recent spate of spin-off sandwich shops from great chefs proves that everyone can be charmed by the joys of a... more
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Fri. 27 Mar '09
Drinks
The sweetly sour world of Flemish red ales. Flemish red. Flanders red. Belgian red. The distinctive sweet-and-sour ales of Belgium's West Flanders region go by many... more
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Wed. 04 Mar '09
Cooking
CleanFish knows where your salmon's been. You know where your organic free-range chicken and gem lettuce come from, but what about your shrimp and salmon? Thanks to San... more
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Fri. 06 Nov '09
People
The Gray Lady goes West . It's fun to put a group of San Franciscans and New Yorkers in a room together and watch them battle over coastal supremacy based on the finer... more
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Mon. 02 Nov '09
Drinks
Apples get the bottle treatment. Black Arkansas, Pippins and Pink Ladies are currently bobbing in bins at local farmers' markets. Such fall bounty is well and good, but... more
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Mon. 02 Nov '09
Drinks
San Francisco's Blue Bottle Coffee comes to Venice. If you've ever been to Blue Bottle Coffee Co. in San Francisco, you know about the seemingly endless lines of people... more
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Mon. 19 Oct '09
Wine
Restaurants take a cue from the frat house. The idea of serving wine out of a keg isn't altogether new: Bars in Italy and France have poured wines straight out of the... more
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Tue. 21 Jul '09
Dining
Korean cuisine's biggest wrap stars . The hullabaloo about Kogi's hybrid Korean-Mexican tacos (pictured), served from roaming trucks across Los Angeles, has reached a... more
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Thu. 21 May '09
Dining
Let local insiders (and your appetite) be your guide on these culinary field trips. Scratch that Sex in the City bus tour or Duck Boat jaunt off your itinerary: This... more
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Mon. 27 Apr '09
People
A chef-winemaker snags his dream job. These days, there are lots of chef-farmers and chef-butchers. But Jason Berthold is a rarity: a chef-winemaker. At San Francisco's... more
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Tue. 07 Apr '09
Drinks
Charles Phan matches superb Chinese food with stellar cocktails at Heaven's Dog. For years, The Slanted Door's Charles Phan has shown San Franciscans just how well... more
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Wed. 11 Mar '09
Cooking
Let Boulette's Larder give your pantry a makeover. Spring's just around the corner (finally), and that means it's time to clean the pantry. But before you panic at the... more
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Thu. 19 Nov '09
Drinks
Handcrafted Tito's is the vodka drinker's vodka. Austin, Texas, is known as the home of great barbecue, a rockin' music scene and...vodka? That's right: Austin's own... more
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Thu. 19 Nov '09
Drinks
Handcrafted Tito's is the vodka drinker's vodka. Austin, Texas, is known as the home of great barbecue, a rockin' music scene and...vodka? That's right: Austin's own... more
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Thu. 19 Nov '09
Drinks
Handcrafted Tito's is the vodka drinker's vodka. Austin, Texas, is known as the home of great barbecue, a rockin' music scene and...vodka? That's right: Austin's own... more
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Thu. 12 Nov '09
Drinks
The nation's best coffee roasters are a click away. Some of us are lucky enough to live near one of the nation's top micro coffee roasters, yet want to sample cult beans... more
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Fri. 06 Nov '09
Drinks
Leopold Bros. restores the cranberry's cocktail cred . When it comes to cocktails, cranberries have had a tough go of it. Last decade's Cosmopolitan craze has left most... more
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Tue. 27 Oct '09
People
La Farm Bakery turns ten. When you break bread with Lionel Vatinet, you don't just grab a slice and eat it. You begin by squeezing the loaf to feel its crisp (but pliant)... more
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Fri. 23 Oct '09
Drinks
Midi's DIY bar ingredients have gone unsung long enough . In San Francisco, small-batch shrubbs and gums are as commonplace as fog banks at 4 p.m. But stumbling upon an... more
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Tue. 13 Oct '09
Dining
Fresh sardines are back--and they're good for you. Fresh sardines, once threatened by population decline, are experiencing a rebirth--in large part thanks to their... more
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Wed. 09 Sep '09
Drinks
Fever-Tree's new ginger beer adds a wallop of flavor to drinks. Now that bucks, mules and the ever-popular Dark and Stormy have become cocktail menu fixtures, the demand... more
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Tue. 30 Jun '09
Cooking
A chef's favorite gadget gets a makeover . Normally, where there's smoke, there's fire. But that's not the case with the Smoking Gun, a handheld gadget chefs and... more
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Mon. 08 Jun '09
Cooking
L.A. gets a taste of Boccalone's spreadable salami. Angelenos aren't fortunate enough to have San Francisco's Boccalone salumeria nearby, but we do have its newest and... more
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Tue. 19 May '09
Cooking
Black garlic has chefs going to the dark side. If you didn't know better, you'd assume black garlic spent too much time in the oven. But this little-known ingredient... more
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Mon. 09 Mar '09
People
Daniel Humm discovers a new secret weapon. Even the country's best chefs--like Daniel Humm of New York's Eleven Madison Park--are always on the lookout for new ways to... more
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Mon. 06 Jul '09
Wine
Four spots that focus on hands-off wines. Until recently, natural-wine lovers pretty much had to catch a red-eye to Paris to enjoy a glass of manipulation-free Chenin... more
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Mon. 02 Mar '09
People
Chris Cosentino turns his nose-to-tail wisdom to seafood. San Francisco chef Chris Cosentino is known for using every last vestige of the animals he cooks at his Italian... more
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Mon. 16 Nov '09
Wine
Playing favorites with the talented team at RN74. A great leader is only as good as his team, they say. In the case of Rajat Parr, co-owner of the new wine bar and... more
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Tue. 10 Nov '09
Cooking
CSKs take farm-fresh delivery to the next level. Now that we've mastered the ABCs of the CSA, get ready to embrace a new acronym in the local food movement: CSK, or... more
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Tue. 10 Nov '09
Dining
Sundance Kitchen plays to the (Hawaiian) locals . You can thank Sundance Cinemas VP Dale Friddell for saving one of San Francisco's best Hawaiian restaurants. While in... more
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Mon. 09 Nov '09
Wine
Where to buy Saison's surprising wines. Saison, the pop-up restaurant at the back of Stable Café, is a marvel wrapped in disarming modesty and extreme... more
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Thu. 22 Oct '09
People
The talent behind Absinthe's smart sweets. Many visit Absinthe for its benchmark cocktails and to see Top Chef alum, Jamie Lauren, but there's a sweeter reason to go: the... more
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Wed. 21 Oct '09
Dining
Two trends merge at a pop-up sandwich shop. Pedigreed sandwiches are all the rage. So, too, are renegade eating operations. Now, the Bay Area has a brilliant new... more
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Thu. 27 Aug '09
Dining
Canada's latest seafood export hits all the right notes. New! Sustainable! Rare! Chefs love to tout these buzzwords on their menus, which is why they've taken to the... more
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Mon. 03 Aug '09
Cooking
TT's guide to (illegal) urban beekeeping. First there was the black market for raw milk and underaged cheese, followed by the underground sassafras trade. Now, rebellious... more
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Thu. 30 Jul '09
Drinks
Bigger is better for these supercharged, high-proof spirits . When spirits top 80 proof (40 percent ABV), they're often throat burners about as tasty as paint thinner.... more
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Tue. 28 Jul '09
People
A vintage bar-book collector reprints the classics. In this classic-cocktail renaissance, it's only fair that we honor those early bartenders who paved the way for Corpse... more
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Wed. 08 Jul '09
Drinks
Craft beer and whiskey form a spirited symbiosis. All whiskey begins life as beer--or at least a beerlike liquid made from malted grain and water, which is then distilled... more
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Wed. 24 Jun '09
Dining
Gelato + brioche = the perfect portable snack. Few foods kick-start the day like an eggy brioche--except when the mercury rises. The solution: Shove some gelato... more
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Tue. 23 Jun '09
Drinks
Join timeless food and drink disputes at the Patrón Social Club. When it comes to great eating and drinking, we all have opinions. But instead of randomly sounding... more
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Thu. 11 Jun '09
Dining
When it comes to good eats, Oakland is no longer San Francisco's insignificant neighbor to the east. Here's proof.. Picán Chef Dean Dupuis of Atlanta's South City... more
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Mon. 01 Jun '09
Drinks
A new gin blends two British favorites. Is there a more quintessentially British drink than a gin and tonic? Perhaps not at the bar, but afternoon tea is as English as... more
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Tue. 28 Apr '09
Cooking
Let's Be Frank spices things up at the carts--and now at home. The Let's Be Frank hot dog cart is as well known for its homemade condiments--like bread-and-butter pickles... more
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Tue. 21 Apr '09
Cooking
Cook and consume consciously with treats from these eco purveyors. We'll use any excuse to turn a holiday into a food-focused event, especially when it aligns with our... more
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Mon. 23 Mar '09
Dining
Zoe Nathan's breads at Huckleberry Cafe. From open to close, people have been crowding into Santa Monica's new Huckleberry Cafe for co-owner Zoe Nathan's fruit-filled... more
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Wed. 18 Feb '09
Wine
A bailout plan we can all drink to. The recent stimulus package might have divided Congress, but a California winery has devised a bailout plan we can all get behind: a... more
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Fri. 17 Apr '09
Cooking
A look back at Chaya Brasserie's tuna tartare. L.A. gave the food world the Cobb salad and the French Dip sandwich, but another local culinary innovation has dominated... more
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