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Updated : Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:02:22 PST
Peter Jackson takes such joy in creating menu items that asking him to describe dishes from just two weeks back is a bit like asking a lane-splitting Harley to switch into reverse. You can almost hear the mental gears...
   
  
Publ.Date : Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST
It used to be when a restaurant opened for business, it was open for business - as in a fully trained staff and a fully realized menu. These days, with more relaxed dining becoming the norm, it's common for diners to...
Author : food@sfchronicle.com (Carey Sweet, Special to The Chronicle)
Publ.Date : Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:00:00 PST
I have a confession that might sound familiar: I loved Kentucky Fried Chicken as a kid. Finger-lickin' goodness aside, it was usually the first meal we'd have when my father visited from Paraguay, where he was stationed...
Author : jhu@sfchronicle.com (Janny Hu, Chronicle Staff Writer)
Publ.Date : Sun, 11 Sep 2011 04:00:00 PDT
Japan and Mexico converge at Hecho, Joseph Manzare's new Financial District sushi restaurant and Tequila bar. The restaurant in Joie de Vivre's Galleria Park Hotel features a dining room upstairs, and a lounge and sushi...
Publ.Date : Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:00:00 PDT
Long before San Francisco's Westfield shopping center opens its doors, Lark Creek Steak, on the upstairs Restaurant Dome floor, is bustling. On a Wednesday morning late in the summer, chef Ismael Macias is quietly...
Author : food@sfchronicle.com (Lisa Wallace, Chronicle Staff Writer)
Publ.Date : Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:00:00 PDT
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Updated : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:10:11 PST
A specialty beer bar in Old Oakland, the Trappist was opened by Aaron Porter and Chuck Stilphen in 2007 and has been packing in crowds ever since. Modeled after pubs in Belgium, the bar, in an 1870s building, is long and narrow, with exposed brick walls, tin...
Author : 96hours@sfchronicle.com (Karen Reardanz)
Publ.Date : Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:00 PST
You don't need a flashlight or legs of steel to eat and drink at Txoko (pronounced CHO-koh) anymore. Ryan Maxey and chef Ian Begg have given their young North Beach restaurant a mini-makeover, with new lighting, bar seating and a reorganized menu. The result?...
Author : jhu@sfchronicle.com (Janny Hu)
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 PST
Papito: Chez Maman and Chez Papa have a new addition, though he bears little resemblance to his French elders. Papito, as the name suggests, is an organic Mexican bistro, and owner Jocelyn Buelow's latest entry to the Potrero Hill dining scene. Here, the...
Author : jhu@sfchronicle.com (Janny Hu)
Publ.Date : Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
Publ.Date : Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:00 PST
Oakland's Uptown continues to thrive. Named after a Jack London short story, Make Westing was opened by East Bay residents Chris Foott and Glenn Kaplan in late August. It offers good drink, savory bites and an awesome indoor bocce ball court seven days a...
Author : kreardanz@sfchronicle.com (Karen Reardanz)
Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 PST
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Updated : Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:21:55 PST
Publ.Date : Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST
The Mexican Museum has been invited to join the Smithsonian Institution's Affiliations Program. The arrangement will allow the Mexican Museum to borrow objects long term from, and lend to, the largest museum network in...
  
Author : kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic)
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:00:00 PST
Hidden in every urban environment is a world unto itself. Among the buildings and varied landscapes, there are secrets and cryptic lexicons that skirt the boundary between the magical and mundane. This is the idea that'...
Author : 96hours@sfchronicle.com (Nirmala Nataraj, Special to The Chronicle)
Publ.Date : Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:00:00 PST
Since I first encountered it at Ampersand a year ago, the work of Oakland artist Randy Colosky has begun turning up all over the place. Now he has a solo show that nearly bursts the intimate Museum of Craft and Folk Art...
Author : kennethbaker@sfchronicle.com (Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic)
Publ.Date : Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:00:00 PST
Douglas Schneider describes many of his paintings as being inspired by dream theory. "We go into REM sleep, and our synapses fire images like snapshots from multiple sources," he says. Archetypal images, daily...
Author : 96hours@sfchronicle.com (Nirmala Nataraj, Special to The Chronicle)
Publ.Date : Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:00:00 PST
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Brides and grooms to be, rev up your engines for San Francisco's wedding event of the year on February 9th. It's our very own Wedding Event at the St. Regis, an elegant evening that's an intimate alternative to the hustle and bustle of traditional wedding fairs. It brings together the best of local wedding fashion, cuisine, cocktails and bubbly with expert designers to inspire your own special day. read more
Publ.Date : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:01:18 +0000
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:17 +0000
You're probably going to be doing a lot of drinking this weekend. read more
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:02:20 +0000
Looking for something awesome to do this weekend? We've seen a lot of cool things around SF in our days, but this one takes the cake. read more
Publ.Date : Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:00:47 +0000
Two years ago, I sent my 10-year-old son Kapp to the Philadelphia suburbs for a week with my brother and his family. Being from the land of the Liberty Bell and the Philly cheesesteak, Kapp’s cousins couldn’t wait for him to tuck into a greasy hunk of beef and cheese dripping with fried onions. “What’s a cheesesteak?” Kapp asked innocently when his cousins told him about the hometown classic. read more
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000
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