In the daunting world that is the restaurant industry, the few restaurants that succeed beyond their first half decade have clicked with some specific formula. The formula might be as a tourist trap where the attraction is an enormous aquarium wall, or it might be about the exciting nature of a completely changing menu dailyContinue reading “The 200th Article: Restaurants: Range, San Francisco”
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Plat du Jour, Tuesday November 6, 2012: Your Romney and Obama Election Dinner
As the results come in on this Election Tuesday evening, let’s imagine a dinner put together by both candidates most beloved foods. Start by with the finger foods, snacking on hummus and pita chips like Governor Romney would, and President Obama supports trail mix and chips with guacamole. We start with Governor Romney and hisContinue reading “Plat du Jour, Tuesday November 6, 2012: Your Romney and Obama Election Dinner”
Plat du Jour: November 2, 2012: The Perfect Sandwich, The Not-So Perfect Restaurant Location, and Menu Terminology
It’s the first weekend of November and APO is very much in the air. This time of year always brings such wonderful produce and comforting treats from autumnal ingredients. The past few weeks I’ve been delighted by the exceptional brussels sprouts dishes on menus (usually with bacon, guanciale, or pancetta involved), the pumpkin beers onContinue reading “Plat du Jour: November 2, 2012: The Perfect Sandwich, The Not-So Perfect Restaurant Location, and Menu Terminology”
Cocktail of the Week: The “Emerald Monk,” Dosa on Fillmore, San Francisco
You’d be forgiven for ignoring the cocktail menu upon arriving at the spectacular, grand second outpost of the modernized Southern Indian inspired restaurant Dosa, on Fillmore between Japantown and Pacific Heights. It has to be at least twice the size of the cozy original on Valencia on the Mission. The lengthy food menu will mesmerizeContinue reading “Cocktail of the Week: The “Emerald Monk,” Dosa on Fillmore, San Francisco”
Plat du Jour, November 1, 2012: Food and the November 6 Election
The election is now just five days away and the campaigns now intensify even more with the calendar having turned the corner to the month of November. Foreign policy, the economy, balancing budgets, values, and individual rights are all of course taking their appropriate positions as the headline subjects the Presidential candidates are covering inContinue reading “Plat du Jour, November 1, 2012: Food and the November 6 Election”
Happy Halloween!
From your spooky friends at Trev’s Bistro, we wish you a most safe and happy Halloween!!! May it be full of wonderful cheer, costumes, and many tricks and treats. So far, I’ve avoided the candy in favor of sampling more pumpkin ice creams, but a Snickers bar is staring me down from across the table.Continue reading “Happy Halloween!”
Urban Wineries? Yes, Just the Grapes Aren’t Urban
When you think of Wine Country, the rolling hills of Sonoma County, the chateaus of the Loire Valley countryside, and the (congested) floor of the Napa Valley come to mind where happy grapes grow for happy wine drinkers. There, visitors sample the eventual product of those aged and stomped grapes in the adjacent tasting rooms.Continue reading “Urban Wineries? Yes, Just the Grapes Aren’t Urban”
Tuesday’s Project: Pumpkin Caramel Whoopie Pies
On this Halloween Eve, the nation’s A.P.O. (Autumnal Pumpkin Obsession) reaches a fever pitch level. Pumpkin lattes with pumpkin muffins and pumpkin bagels covered with pumpkin cream cheese for lunch. Pumpkin bread with pumpkin sage soup then for lunch with a pumpkin smoothie from Jamba Juice. Then for dinner, perhaps a pork tenderloin with pumpkinContinue reading “Tuesday’s Project: Pumpkin Caramel Whoopie Pies”
Monday’s Neighborhood: Dogpatch, San Francisco
Last week we covered the ballpark district around San Francisco’s AT&T Park, where the baseball crowds, diners enjoying some of the city’s premier restaurants, start-up venture workers who occupy slivers of renovated warehouses with no heat, and computer programmers who fill airy loft office spaces mingle together for one of the country’s most dynamic neighborhoodsContinue reading “Monday’s Neighborhood: Dogpatch, San Francisco”
Plat du Jour October 29: Your 2012 World Champions
Matt Cain might not have thrown another perfect game in last night’s Game 4 of the World Series, but after ten innings, his San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series for the second time in three seasons. How should we celebrate? Last week the bartenders at Hiro Sone’s outstanding AmeContinue reading “Plat du Jour October 29: Your 2012 World Champions”
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