Restaurant magazine released its list of World’s Best 50 restaurants today and there’s a lot of attention focused on the top. For the third year in a row Noma in Copenhagen was No. 1, a remarkable achievement for chef René Redzepi. But my attention was drawn to No. 98, Berkeley’s own Chez Panisse, back...
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It appears celebrity Chef Guy Fieri’s looted Lamborghini is no longer on the lam. You’ll recall the bright yellow lambo, valued at $200,000, went missing in March 2011. It was quite a spectacular heist, with the thief or thieves rappelling into the high-end dealership in San Francisco where it was parked, busting a door lock...
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The popular Sam Wo restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown may not have served its last supper after all. The restaurant is a Chinatown staple famous for serving up solid Cantonese fare as well as being the stomping grounds of the late Edsel Ford Fung, a no-filter kind of guy who would sometimes insult customers...
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Big news out of San Francisco’s Chinatown. The San Francisco Chronicle’s Inside Scoop section reports that owner David Ho confirms the place is closing down after service Friday. Even if you’ve never been to San Francisco or its Chinatown, you may have heard of this tiny restaurant sandwiched into a sliver of a building. It’s...
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I am loving a story that is developing today in the world of food criticism. It began when Grand Forks Herald columnist Marilyn Hagerty reviewed the new Olive Garden that has just opened in town. The article is headlined, ”THE EATBEAT: Long-awaited Olive Garden receives warm welcome,” and I take away two things from...
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Gung hay fat choy, people. Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, celebrated by a number of Asian cultures. And recently, since everybody likes a good party, I’ve noticed it’s been creeping into the mainstream. I am all for this. The holiday usually falls at the end of January/beginning of February...
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I’ve got a little secret to tell you about cooking beans from scratch. You know that whole “soak beans overnight,” thing that is guaranteed to make you turn the cookbook page? Well, you don’t have to do any such thing. Just check through the beans for stones and then cover them in a good...
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Fast-food franchise managers have shown a little fast thinking in San Francisco’s Happy Meal toy ban brouhaha. Starting this month, restaurants are banned from putting toy giveaways in kids’ meals that don’t meet nutritional standards. So, no more Happy Meals with a cheap plastic toy in them right? Not exactly. Local McDonald’s franchises no...
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The food revolution met Occupy Wall Street over the weekend when about 30 people protested outside the The French Laundry in Yountville. Napa County Sheriff’s Sgt. Doug Wilkinson told the Napa Valley Register that a SWAT team was called in case they were needed for crowd control. But, in fact, the Friday night protest, believed...
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