Category: restaurants

The French Laundry Garden

French Laundry reservations are notoriously hard to get, and if you do get in you will pay a bundle for your good meal. But if you enjoy gardens you…

Lukas in the afternoon

We stopped in a Lukas taproom and lounge in Oakland on a recent weekend afternoon. It’s not a bad time to visit — it wasn’t too crowded. In…

Taqueria Castillo

Taqueria Castillo is a little hole in the wall place near where I work in Civic Center. As you can see from the sign, this is Taqueria Castillo…

Tavern on the Green NOT coming to San Francisco

Okay, it will be called Tavern on the Green (I guess). Okay, it will be a branch of the pretentious New York restaurant (more frequented by tourists than…

Belgian beer by the bay

For a few years running I printed books in Belgium (today the exchange rate is too unfavorable), and I developed a taste for Belgian beer, as one will….

How to get French Laundry reservations

If you have several hundred dollars that are eating a hole in your pocket — slowly — and you want to make a reservation to eat at the…

Beach Chalet

B in the D, the Beach Chalet at the ocean end of Golden Gate Park housed a sketchy pool hall. But the place has been restored and turned…

Dim Sum

Gridskipper recommends the following Dim Sum restaurants in the city. What are they forgetting? Maybe as time goes by it will be possible to add to this list….

Best new restaurants in SF

Esquire magazine’s 2007 list of the best new restaurants in the U.S. includes two from San Francisco: LarkCreekSteak, and Cafe Majestic. I haven’t tried either of these. Does…

Fire at Original Joe’s

I was at the main branch of the SF Library when this dubious-looking character begins to strike up a conversation. One adopts a veneer of reserve after being…

Tu Lan

How could Gridskipper post a feature on San Francisco’s best hole-in-the-wall restaurants and not mention Tu Lan? I mean, this place defines the term hole-in-the-wall.To begin with, it’s…

Top 10 Affordable Restaurants in San Francisco

According to RealTravel, this is the list: Park Chow (Inner Sunset) Taqueria Cancun (The Mission) Magnolia Pub & Brewery (Upper Haight) Shangrila Vegetarian Restaurant (Outer Sunset) Sparky’s 24…

Gridskipper’s Culinary Picks

The Bay Area’s culinary reputation has been taking some hits lately. “Alice Waters and sourdough bread aside,” Alan Richman wrote in GQ, “the Bay Area has contributed surprisingly…

Link Roundup: San Francisco Area Restaurants

Here are some links to Bay Area restaurants that have been showing up lately: Marin Dining Guide Chowhound Late Night SF Dining Suggestions Edible San Francisco Menu Pages…

Weirdest San Francisco Menu Items

No, not another hangtown fry item. Instead, we’re talking about items such as dessert soup made from coconut milk and pureed mung beans; finanziera of cockscombs, duck tongue,…

Deconstructing Casa Sanchez Salsa

Casa Sanchez, based in San Francisco, makes some of the best chips and salsa around. They have a restaurant at 2778 24th Street (which has been getting some…

Burrito Eater

photo from www.burritoeater.com Burritoeater.com is an incredibly thorough guide to the city’s taquerias and burrito restaurants. Through today it has reviewed 454 burritos since New Year’s Day 2003….

Model Bakery, St. Helena

The Model Bakery, a fixture of St. Helena’s Main Street, continues to serve up pastries, cookies, and breads made fresh daily with organic flours and natural sourdough starters….

Flying Fish Grill, Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay is a foggy coastal community of about 17,000 people located about 30 miles south of San Francisco at the intersection of highways 1 and 92….

Tamarindo Antojeria

I had a chance to eat at Tamarindo Antojeria the other day. It’s located 468 8th Street in downtown Oakland. (The nicely restored brick-walled restaurant is in the…

Chicago-style Pizza

Robin Slomkowski blogs about Chicago-style pizzas in San Francisco: I actually got to have good Chicago Style Pizza in SF at Little Star. I tend to categorize Chicago…