Food and music are only part of the spectacle at Outside Lands. As regular festival-goers well know, watching the people who show up -- in costumes, facepaint, and their birthday suits -- can be just as fun. So to accompany your crowd-gazing at this ...
Aliment: Taking its name from an ancient word for nourishment, this new restaurant serves upper-crust comfort food including hanger steak, fried chicken with charred escarole slaw, and fried Brussels sprouts with fish sauce. 786 Bush. Dogpat...
Last year, Outside Lands sent a very clear message to the music festival industry: concert-goers can have nice things. The Bay Area won't settle for soggy fries doused in neon nacho "cheese." When we reach for crispy taters at one of the festival's ...
A buzzer rings in an apartment of a three-story building in the Mission. A school-age boy with bedhead gets up from the living room couch to prop open the door. A minute later, Omar Mey, 32, who is from Ticul, Yucatan, walks in from the street. H...
The 24th Street BART Station is the least rustic place in the city -- well, after 16th Street, maybe -- but Rustic pizza is looking to change that. The Neapolitan pizza itself, with a perfectly chewy crust able to withstand lots of greasy topping...
Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. If you managed to get yourself a set of tickets to this weekend's food/beer/wine/music spectacular, then you already know that the...
Last year, Outside Lands sent a very clear message to the music festival industry: concert-goers can have nice things! The Bay Area won't settle for soggy fries doused in neon nacho "cheese" -- when we reach for crispy taters at one of the festival...
We're showing you the view from the 36th floor window because we don't want to out any restaurant critics. Saturday morning as the fog rolled back towards the coast -- and the fog following the early morning dance-offs at the SF Chefs Rollin with ...
Twinkies: Call it a comeback. After Hostess Brands went into liquidation at the end of 2012 , we despaired that we'd never again know the taste of Twinkies. But now that the rights have been purchased by private equity companies, the treats are s...
See also: Outside Lands Food Curator Ari Feingold Talks Vendor Selection, Logistics, and What's New in 2013 The Best Things We're Eating and Drinking at Outside Lands 2012 Rosamunde Of course, Rosamunde is going to be there. The Nuernberger...
Travelers have been enjoying the food at SFO's recently remodeled Terminal 2, but now, you don't even need a plane ticket to enjoy some of the Bay Area's best food at the airport. Off the Grid now is bringing a pair of food trucks to SFO every Th...
Before you read this, ask yourself, "How much do I want the Tonga Room to change?" If the answer is "A lot," you're going to be disappointed. You're also a joyless buzzkill. The tiki palace that looks like David Lynch's afterlife destination burie...
I hesitated as I stood in front of the door, like a nervous, awkward kid gathering enough courage to ask out someone clearly out of his league. I was wearing a t-shirt, jeans, and four days worth of facial hair, the point at which the wild mix of thi...
Wild Hare's Deluxe Burger: Two comfort foods for the price of one. By now Paula Dean'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 noodle...
We've noticed a few things while out in the field doing copious amounts of confectionery research (strictly for the people) this summer. We've been getting serious Eighties Ovaltine flashbacks because dessert vixens are using malt a lot right now. A ...
A sample monthly box from Juniper. A woman-owned, San Francisco-based company called Juniper offers a subscription of monthly deliveries of chocolate, gourmet snacks, and the recipient's feminine product of choice from major brands for the cleve...
Imagine a garden right behind the center field wall. Here's some news that's soooo S.F.: AT&T; Park is building an edible garden hopefully set to open in advance of the 2014 season, the Chronicle is reporting . The so-called Giants Garden will b...
Origin stories for restaurant dishes have the same mythic proportions as those of political victories and love affairs; over time, they begin to seem like something predestined rather than a lucky series of coincidences. Any restaurant that creates ...
Now why didn't someone think of this sooner? Mission-based Frozen Kuhsterd food truck has come up with the ultimate neighborhood treat: the Mission Style Dynamo Donut Sandwich ($6.50). The sandwich was the idea of Frozen Kuhsterd founder Jason An...
In the era of Facebook, where I basically have reconnected with everyone I have ever worked, studied, lived, or had sex with, seeing an old friend probably doesn't have the same cachet it used to. However, what if that friend never got on Facebook? ...
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Aliment: Taking its name from an ancient word for nourishment, this new restaurant serves upper-crust comfort food including hanger steak, fried chicken with charred escarole slaw, and fried Brussels sprouts… More >>
I took one look at the Anchor Brewing Company joint at SFO and was immediately hit with a cliché: Oh how the mighty have fallen. It looked like a Subway… More >>