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Beginning tomorrow, Maialino will be getting an earlier start on the day. Danny Meyer's Roman-style trattoria will have a breakfast soft opening tomorrow, and then officially commence service on Monday. Brunch will follow on Dec. 26.
It's a big day for gay marriage across the nation. In San Francisco, Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker has ruled that a potential legal revolution to overturn Prop 8 will not be televised live, though it will be YouTubed. The judge will preside over the federal trial, Perry v. Schwarze ... More >>
The US Supreme Court has pulled the plug on broadcasting the historic Prop 8 federal trial, beginning today in San Francisco. Last week, Judge Vaughn Walker made the decision to allow delayed televised coverage of the trial. Video coverage was to be available regularly on YouTube, though Wal ... More >>
The year's NYJFF pushes the familiar aside
Will the spirit of James Beard smile upon New York chefs?The James Beard Foundation announced its list of semi-finalists for the annual James Beard Awards today, kicking off the food world's very own Oscar season scrum. The semi-finalists were selected from a pool of 21,000 online entries; th ... More >>
Beth Ann Simpkins (left) and Ruth Kaplan are at the helm of Pulino's pizza program.When Pulino's opens next Monday, it will doubtless draw a stampede of pizza obsessives intent on making their own pronouncements on the pies that emerge from the restaurant's vast ovens. But while plenty of peo ... More >>
"Jeez! This place is gigantic," a friend exclaimed as we stepped inside Blue Bottle. (Click on the pictures for a better view.) It being one of the nicest days of the century, a friend and I decided to go to Williamsburg to check out Blue Bottle Coffee, Oakland, CA's contribution to the New ... More >>
"Jeez! This place is gigantic," a friend exclaimed as we stepped inside Blue Bottle. (Click on the pictures for a better view.) It being one of the nicest days of the century, a friend and I decided to go to Williamsburg to check out Blue Bottle Coffee, Oakland, CA's contribution to the New ... More >>
"Jeez! This place is gigantic," a friend exclaimed as we stepped inside Blue Bottle. (Click on the pictures for a better view.) It being one of the nicest days of the century, a friend and I decided to go to Williamsburg to check out Blue Bottle Coffee, Oakland, CA's contribution to the New ... More >>
Pomp, circumstance, product placement, and varying levels of inebriation all converged at Avery Fisher Hall last night for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Many white men were awarded large gold pendants that dangled from green sashes. It was a particularly good night for New York, wit ... More >>
It's not (quite) as scary as it sounds: Human -- and pet -- hair is being collected around the country to make homemade brooms, mats, and barriers that will go to help protect Louisiana's coastline from that nasty oil slick in the Gulf. This genius and, yes, amazingly gross plan was initiated ... More >>
Do you know what a TechCrunch is? No? Well then: it's a site run by a guy out of San Fransisco for San Fransisco tech geeks, and unless you work for FourSquare or you're a venture capitalist with a few hundred thousand to peel off, don't worry too much about it. All you need to know is that T ... More >>
BaohausBang, pow, bao.After his unhappy discovery last month that a new San Francisco food truck had appropriated the name of his signature Chairman Bao pork bun, Eddie Huang may get his change at revenge, of a sort. The Baohaus proprietor e-mailed us to say that a San Francisco chef has offe ... More >>
BaohausBang, pow, bao.After his unhappy discovery last month that a new San Francisco food truck had appropriated the name of his signature Chairman Bao pork bun, Eddie Huang may get his change at revenge, of a sort. The Baohaus proprietor e-mailed us to say that a San Francisco chef has offe ... More >>
FlickrWin a trip to this slope-y, geologically suspect metropolis. Hoarding your artisanal pickles for yourselves and your friends? Have a killer bit of handcrafted charcuterie you've been waiting to unveil to the world? Well, today's your day: The San Francisco Chronicle announces the first ... More >>
via San Francisco ChronicleAwwww. Today in cat news: Jack Daniels, a nearly blind black cat, was somehow stolen from the San Francisco SPCA a year ago, and was found in Harlem last week. No one knows how exactly he got there or why -- catnapping! -- but after being discovered by animal contro ... More >>
Phil Ross, a San Francisco-based chef and artist, hosted an insect-based meal at Brooklyn Kitchen this past weekend, as a means to promote a tasty, sustainable diet of animals you can raise yourself at home. [NY Times] Less than a month after Eataly was unleashed on New Yorkers, a roundup of ... More >>
Le bam. Le pow.It has now been more than 48 hours since the second coming of Le Fooding, which took over the grounds of P.S.1 on Friday and Saturday nights. Although this year's theme was a staged battle between New York and San Francisco chefs supposedly driven to blind, combative rage by a ... More >>
Back in 1999, I was sent to San Francisco to interview Patty McCormack onstage at the Castro Theater, which was filled with gays and straights and drag queens and all sorts of people, there to worship the nasty girl from The Bad Seed all grown up. Here's a newly posted clip of the preparatio ... More >>
New York is about to receive yet another caffeine infusion, but this time, its origins are a bit more far-flung than San Francisco or Portland.
L.A. and San Francisco about to get lucky, too.LuckyRice, the Asian food festival that debuted in New York this year, has plans to return next year and will also expand to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Per Crain's, the five-day Asian food fest will run from May 4 to 8, 2011.
L.A. and San Francisco about to get lucky, too.LuckyRice, the Asian food festival that debuted in New York this year, has plans to return next year and will also expand to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Per Crain's, the five-day Asian food fest will run from May 4 to 8, 2011.
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 25, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 47 History of a hype: Worm in Big Apple By Maureen Orth New York is dead, everyone complained. The last thing to hit town was "Jesus Christ Superstar," and it was so unbelievably crass. The major art op ... More >>
This obscure restaurant near the corner of 16th Street and Seventh Avenue -- which advertises a combination of Sichuan and Vietnamese food -- was declared one of the best Chinese restaurants in the country in the inscrutable "Top Chefs & Owners" category. This past Sunday, correspondent Bil ... More >>
animalpicturegallery.netBeautiful, but dumb. Atelier Crenn opens today in San Francisco, the new project from former Luce chef Dominique Crenn located in the Marina. The place will exhibit the usual farm-to-market ethos, but kicked up a notch. The chef has forged an alliance with Scrivner Hop ... More >>
S.F. ChronicleNorman Jay Hobday, fern bar creatorNorman Jay Hobday, the man credited with inventing the leafy breed of swinging singles bar called the "fern bar," died last week at the age of 77 in San Francisco. Originally from upstate New York, Hobday ended up in San Francisco after the Kor ... More >>
S.F. ChronicleNorman Jay Hobday, fern bar creatorNorman Jay Hobday, the man credited with inventing the leafy breed of swinging singles bar called the "fern bar," died last week at the age of 77 in San Francisco. Originally from upstate New York, Hobday ended up in San Francisco after the Kor ... More >>
get1car.comIt was like a scene from Mission Impossible IV: In the early morning hours, a thief descended by rope into a luxury car dealership on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco and stole the pride of Guy Fieri's 10-car collection - a fever-yellow Lamborghini valued in excess of $200,000.
Although last year's Le Fooding proved that in a San Francisco-New York smack down, almost everyone lost, at least one man has done his bit to incite a new skirmish in the non-existent battle.
Uh, yikes. A man was "mysteriously engulfed in flames" at a porn shop (or, "adult bookstore") on Sixth and Mission Streets in San Francisco and has been hospitalized with third-degree burns that are said to be life-threatening. It's unclear how the man caught on fire, but police said he'd bee ... More >>
A food blog has introduced a food-cart walking tour, charging $40 to take participants to some of the city's most talked-about mobile vendors. [NY Post] Underground food markets are cropping up around the country, allowing vendors to avoid hefty fees for health permits and insurance. [NY Tim ... More >>
Go nuts for MGM Grand
There are two kinds of porn lovers--avid ones and liars. And there are two kinds of porn movies--ones with elaborate plots and tons of dialogue and ones where they just open the door and get it on. I picked up a bunch of both types at the birthday party for Gawker's Brian Moylan the other n ... More >>
San Francisco street mural, artist unknown The popular Mickey D's just east of Cooper Square has been flaunting a new DOH inspection sign - and it looks like they made it themselves.
SavoredVillageVines, the online restaurant discount site that sounds vaguely like the bottle of $3 Chardonnay found in the back of grandma's cupboard, has undergone a makeover and now finally has a name that sounds like it's at least related to food. It'll now be called Savored. And with a ... More >>
A one-stop pizza place in the West Village tries to give you everything
You might be smiling, but the kids sure won't be.Kids are out of luck at the mostly West Coast burger chain Jack in the Box -- they'll no longer be receiving a free toy along with their children's meal, following new laws in San Francisco and Santa Clara County that require such meals to meet ... More >>
You might be smiling, but the kids sure won't be.Kids are out of luck at the mostly West Coast burger chain Jack in the Box -- they'll no longer be receiving a free toy along with their children's meal, following new laws in San Francisco and Santa Clara County that require such meals to meet ... More >>
Forget the fear of laws changing - people lined up to see him the first day he came out! So why not their spouse?Some people have asked us: If same-sex marriage is here to stay, just why exactly do couples have to get married the first day, anyway? Isn't it a waste of money for the cash-strap ... More >>
Does your dog look like this? San Francisco's got us beat when it comes weird food events, at least at this point in time. Fork in the Road's Bay Area correspondent Tracy Van Dyk spotted this poster, which advertises a dinner under the stars for humans and pugs, who always look hungry with ... More >>
Working hard and playing harder
Go cruising with Hunx and His Punx
Go cruising with Hunx and His Punx
Three chances to see Girls
Three chances to see Girls
Three chances to see Girls
The Kinsey Sicks is the San Francisco-based drag troupe that specializes in spoofy tunes that add twisty, sometimes unclean thoughts to your most beloved traditional works of music. In this lively clip, "America's favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet" zigzags through a bunch of Christmas stand ... More >>
Two former San Francisco health inspectors have been accused of swapping cash in exchange for okaying hundreds of restaurants' food safety qualifications, the Associated Press reports. The ex-inspectors are said to have sold up to 350 health certificates since 2007, charging several hundre ... More >>
Tomato bisque, the first course. Hey, are we in a Burger King? Why are those people wearing paper crowns? It's been a decade since I went to Medieval Times with Michael Musto and Lynn Yaeger. I wrote a feature, but it was killed. Now some friends (including FiTR San Francisco correspondent ... More >>
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