Just to reveal my bias upfront: Few things on earth bring me more pleasure than a plate of juicy pork dumplings straight from the steamer, something to keep in mind during my assessment of... Read more about this restaurant >>
If you ask long-term San Franciscans what they go to Sixth Street for, almost all of them would say, "Tu Lan!" (For a small percentage, it might be prostitution or drugs.) After an absence of... Read more about this restaurant >>
We'll avoid the tired "you enter into a different world" cliches, but there's something amazing about being underwater on the Sonoma coast. Paddling out into the rough surf, the sun just starting... Read more about this restaurant >>
The smell of grilling meat and sizzling onions, the calls of vendors enticing you to try their food, the hustle and bustle of a busy market or thoroughfare — street food, in the popular... Read more about this restaurant >>
It's 4:30 on a Saturday morning, and Marla Bakery proprietress Amy Brown is already working hard at a nondescript commissary kitchen at 15th and Florida in the Mission. She rolls lavender... Read more about this restaurant >>
It was a dream come true for Bay Area beer geeks when Chuck Stilphen, of Oakland's Belgian beer temple The Trappist, announced that he was opening a new San Francisco bar with Denmark's famed... Read more about this restaurant >>
Ian Flores and Annabelle Topacio, better-known as Mr. and Mrs. Miscellaneous, are masters of more than just ice cream. On a recent visit, while doubling up on scoops of Buttermilk Lime with... Read more about this restaurant >>
Beretta bar manager Adam Wilson had a trick in his Vegas days, back when he managed the bar program for Mario Batali's three Sin City restaurants. Batali had a monstrous pork chop on the menu, a... Read more about this restaurant >>
It's not like Biergarten needs any more press; a visit to the Hayes Valley beer garden (a spinoff of uberpopular Suppenkche down the street) on a sunny afternoon will tell you that. There are... Read more about this restaurant >>
By now Paula Deen's "Lady's Brunch Burger" (aka a beef patty wedged between two glazed doughnuts) is old news. Social media buzz about a ramen burger made with fried ramen noodles instead of a... Read more about this restaurant >>
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For me, homegrown Oakland businesses have a "Let's put on a show!" energy that is cute mixed with arrrrrghh. "It'll be a performance space! We'll have farm-to-table nibbles! Local artists will… More >>
Art museums are like high school reunions: The idea sounds horrible until you actually get in there and wander around ... and eventually you leave with a positive life-affirmation. The… More >>
The Beer Hall: This mid-Market bar and bottle shop is certainly poised to get traffic from the nearby Twitter headquarters. 20 California beers tap, a few wines, and a cool-looking… More >>