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Q&A with Traci Des Jardins: Happy 15th Birthday, Jardinière Restaurant
Traci des Jardins and Willie Brown at Jardinière anniversary party. Photo courtesy of Chris Gaede This month in Hayes Valley, Jardinière Restaurant and chef-owner Traci Des Jardins celebrate 15 years...
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Aileen Suzara Cracks Open Filipino Cuisine in Coconut Cooking Class
Coconut is the new pomegranate. Touted for its health benefits, it’s popping up everywhere. Electrolyte-rich coconut water has replaced Gatorade as the new sports drink and claims abound that coconut...
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Eat Real Festival Day 1 + Meatopia
Flaming bacon for BLTs from Big Bob Gibson BBQ at Meatopia All Photos: Wendy Goodfriend Another weekend, another all-day outdoor food festival. Thanks perhaps to the mellow, lovely Night Market last...
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2012 Eat Real Festival: Day 3 Highlights
Milk-Fed Brunch booth at Eat Real Festival. All Photos: Wendy Goodfriend Coi chef Daniel Patterson isn’t usually a five-bucks-a-plate kind of guy. Il Cane Rosso in the Ferry Building, his most casual...
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An Interview with Charles Phan, Author of “Vietnamese Home Cooking”
Charles Phan. Image courtesy of Eric Wolfinger. Getting a reservation at the Slanted Door is a constant challenge for both locals and tourists which shows the power of home-style Vietnamese dishes...
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Q&A with Chef Adam Dulye of Abbot’s Cellar
Adam Dulye. Photo: Melissa Fuller When Abbot’s Cellar opened this summer in the Mission, the initial buzz was that it may become something more than a gastropub. The restaurant is considered a local...
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Q&A with Mourad Lahlou, Chef and Culinary Diplomat
Mourad Lahlou. Photo: Deborah Jones Self-taught chef and restaurateur Mourad Lahlou is the one name repeatedly whispered at industry events as someone who is innovative and daring. Lahlou’s first...
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Maui Rides Another Culinary Wave
Many mainlanders head to Maui for the natural beauty not the food. Photo: Sean Timberlake Before the 1990s, the Hawaiian Islands had a reputation as a culinary backwater — the land of SPAM and...
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Q&A with Iron Chef Jose Garces
Chef Jose Garces. Photo credit: Jason Varney Iron Chef fans, you may want to keep those peepers on high alert. This week, the Bay Area hosts Iron Chef and James Beard Award-winning Chef Jose Garces,...
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Book Q&A with Saveur’s James Oseland
James Oseland. Photo: Darrell Hucks The famed fireplace at Camino restaurant will sizzle this Saturday, November 10 for a book luncheon featuring Saveur’s James Oseland. He may be familiar for his...
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Q&A with Pastry Chef and Chocolate Expert Yigit Pura
Yigit Pura. Photo courtesy of Frankeny Images. After winning the first season of Top Chef Desserts, pastry dynamo Yigit Pura set his sights on opening his own Tout Sweet Pâtisserie. The sweet shop is...
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Pop-Up Cafe Rice Paper Scissors Share their Vision (Video)
Rice Paper Scissors - Valerie Luu and Katie Kwan Small food business partners Valerie Luu & Katie Kwan of Rice Paper Scissors, a pop-up cafe serving Vietnamese food located in San Francisco, share...
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Cooking Up Refinement with Jacques Pépin’s New Complete Techniques
As an English major and culinary school grad, the idea of consommé both enchants and terrifies me. In stacks of novels, elegant ladies sup on consommé served in fragile bone china bowls before...
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Everything You Need to Know About Bruce Aidells
Bruce Aidells. Photo: Luca Trovato Bruce Aidells deserves the title of “King of Meat” after years of crafting delectable meaty goods and founding an eponymous sausage company in 1983. Aidells is widely...
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Ancient Ethiopian Cuisine Honored with a Limited Run At Guest Chef
Selome Haileleoul cooks traditional Ethiopian dishes served on injera I’m perched on one of five bar seats with a ringside view of the open kitchen at The Guest Chef in Oakland, where Selome...
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Q&A with Michael Recchiuti about Chocolate Lab and the Holidays
Michael Recchiuti. photo credit: Tom Seawell Photography At the new Chocolate Lab dessert café from Michael and Jacky Recchiuti, there is a bounty of sweets — adult sundaes, chocolates, caramels,...
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Tamale Class at La Cocina — Just in Time for Christmas
Tamales at La Cocina's Tamalada Forty hungry people with sticky hands and tamales on their minds rotated through four tables at La Cocina’s Tamalada event last Wednesday evening, learning how to make...
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Top Food Stories and Trends of 2012
Photo collage by Wendy Goodfriend Delicious, or disgusting? The top food stories and trends of this year offered plenty of both. While the rest of the country worried about pink slime and contaminated...
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Interview with Nopa’s Jeff Hanak
Jeff Hanak. Photo courtesy of Yanni Kehagiaras. Since it opened in 2006, Nopa restaurant has received stellar reviews for food, service, cocktails and late night hours—a rarity in San Francisco. The...
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KQED’s Forum: Charles Phan on Home Cooking
Charles Phan. Image courtesy of Eric Wolfinger.Charles Phan fled Vietnam with his family during the fall of Saigon when he was just a boy. But he didn’t leave behind his love of Vietnamese cuisine. The...
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