Our weekly bite explores the city's food trucks, one at a time, highlighting our favorite mobile dishes and snacks. The Truck : Smokin' Warehouse Barbecue The Cuisine : Barbecue Specialty Items : Brisket and pulled pork Worth the Wait in Line...
Brass Tacks has officially opened in the space that used to be Marlena's, for 23 years the go-to place for fancy opera gays, lovers of discount drag and, every December, fans of the world's largest collection of Santas . Hayes Valley must have been ...
Personally, we're of the "more local beer, the better" mentality. We won't be satiated until every neighborhood has a brewpub, you can meet your neighbors for a pint on every corner, and the streets run golden with tasty, fizzy elixir. Until that glo...
Cassava's beloved breakfast sandwich is staying on the menu. After closing for nearly two months for renovations and expansion, the Outer Richmond's formerly tiny Cassava Caf has reopened in nearly double the space with broader breakfast and lunc...
San Francisco is known the world over as a destination for foodies. We're on the cutting edge of the "slow food" movement, our state grows most of the nation's produce and S.F. was recently named the country's snobbiest city (you know food and snob...
Station 1 has changed its menu format from prix fixe to a la carte. For more than two years, diners from all over the Peninsula have been enjoying the three-course prix fixe menu at Woodside's Station 1 . That dining format left with spring at ...
Discussing ramen in the Bay Area brings out strong words and opinions about the different styles, broth, noodles, and that terribly subjective and overused adjective: authentic . It's a word that is abused to describe a very narrow slice of what is ...
Josey Baker at The Mill's grain mill Josey Baker has been playing with milling his own flour for a little while now, and we're finally going to get to taste it. Beginning this Friday, Baker will switch to using fresh-milled rye flour in his much-l...
Mars? No, just a Mars simulation in Hawaii. Space: the final food frontier. Or at least for NASA, which has a few major culinary projects in the works that could eventually trickle down to us earthlings. It turns out that food's actually a big pro...
For many years, the South Bay was regarded as a dead zone for craft beer. When asking for an artisanal brew at the bar, most watering holes would offer the requisite Blue Moon or other faux-craft impersonator. As craft brewing continues its surge of ...
Making a gin and tonic used to be simple: Mix your choice of gin with one of two brands of tonic water. Drink. Repeat. But in the era when we prefer fresh juices over sweet and sour, tonic has been given its due. Now we're spoiled with more choices ...
Lili "Mama" Ji just wants to feed you the food she likes to eat. In the month-old cafe that she opened in the Castro with her husband, Marv Woatla, she serves up a full menu of dim sum and Sichuan dishes, along with Belgian beer, Black Jet Bakery pa...
Replacing western SoMa's decidedly forgettable Mercury Lounge comes the Willows, a new spot from the team behind the Sycamore that's sure to brighten up your after-work monotony with video games and bar snacks with wonderfully low nutritional conten...
Hanging out in bars in expensive restaurants is like playing dress-up; it's pretend. You might not be able to afford dinner there, but you can sit at the bar and order a beer and be a part of things. You just have to make sure you don't have a credi...
Could the pain au chocolat with banana become our cronut? Find out for yourself on July 3, when Le Marais Bakery is slated to open in a former Jamba Juice space in the Marina. The pastry chef is Phil Ogiela, who had stints at Dandelion Chocolate, Az...
Aquitaine: French chef Laurent Manrique's wine bar is inspired by his home region in southwestern France, and will heavily feature wines from that area. In addition to the vin, there is a food menu that includes duck confit and oysters with bordel...
Times are good for equal-opportunity imbibers. Beers are being aged in all manner of wine and spirits barrels for added complexity. A surge of brews made with grapes are blurring the lines between beer and wine, and some of the city's best bartenders...
We've been watching the construction of the new Coffee Cultures cafe over the past six months with interest, both because it's right off the lobby of SF Weekly 's office at 225 Bush Street and because it's the only Bay Area location exclusively se...
Xiao Long Bao Shop's namesake soup dumplings. Xiao Long Bao Shop (635 Clement) is a new addition to the crowd of dim sum options on Clement Street in the Richmond District. It's strictly no-frills, with no profound whiff of newness outside of the ...
Chefs Ravi Kapur and David Bazirgan at a 2013 SF Chefs dinner at the Fifth Floor SF Chefs is back, and the food and cocktail-tastic festival is showing growth: more chances to ogle chefs & good food, more sit down events, and even free farmers'...
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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 >>