as it is in NYC. Well it isn’t. I find this phenomenon (people zealous about their local cuisine) to not be one that Londoners have exclusivity on. People who live in San Francisco are always raving about the local food but...

's going to happen tomorrow. For those of you who post on Boards like San Francisco or New York, remember, not all the boards are that active. The Midwest board is pretty slow-moving; I don’t follow it daily or even weekly...

come away satisfied, even satiated. And frankly, I don’t care whether Frasca or Mateo or the Flagstaff House or the Trattoria on Pearl or The Kitchen or any of Boulder’s other fine restaurants could “make...

I just use Open Table for 3 different restaurants for my visit to CA. I didn’t have a bad table, bad service, or a bad meal thanks to the wonderful advice of the 'hounds on the San Francisco boards. I also use OT every NYC...

I took a stance. My stance is that breakfast is equally important in every city and country I’ve visited. I’ve lived in Dallas and I’ve spent extensive time in NYC; never saw a difference. I’ve lived in...

-leaf-wrapped sticky rice before taking the $5 Trailways bus home to New York. I lived in big shared homes for many years in San Francisco as well, and lived eight years in the Mission District, where it used to be hard to find a...

In the San Francisco Bay Area: Dungeness crab, especially cracked crab and crab Louis, and seafood of all types. Chinese. Italian. Southeast Asian. California cuisine. The Joe’s burger. And, of course, sourdough French...

Thanks you guys! I was writing that mainly for people who don’t live in London or Manhattan or San Francisco and might not be able to get certain ingredients without lots of trouble and expense. Therefore, it’s nice...

Maria Lorraine and I talked about the Slanted Door in San Francisco and how they’ve made a (very) short list of wines that match admirably to the food there. Mark Ellenbogen made the effort to think harder, and it shows....

So name a good chain. A chain that, were it to open a branch in San Francisco or New York or another big city, you would post about on the local board (if you could), saying, if you don’t eat there because you are...

The Four Seasons in San Francisco uses beautiful hand made glass martini glasses for tails. Unfortunately, their collection is on the decline because people steal them. Not because their servers are clumsy and drop them, but...

was surprised to find on my return home that both of these are available on the San Francisco wine market for retail prices less than on the list here. The amuse was a bisque of crustacae presented in an heavy earthenware cup that...

Manhattan’s not like most places. Stan Sesser, former restaurant critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, once said that when he told San Franciscans that he ate out six nights a week, they’d ask, “How can you...

That is like comparing cup of soup to home-made chicken soup. The link below is from the San Francisco board where Melanie Wong has been reporting about ramen for the past few years. She has some stunning pictures too. At this...

Although I’ve never had a problem getting poached eggs, it does seem that traditional eggs benedict is becoming a thing of the past, at least here in the San Francisco area. Seems that every restaurant has a new variation...