Well Fed On the Town

Every so often I get a hankering for a good plate of hummus. I mean hummus, not chipotle sundried tomato garbanzo bean spread from a plastic box on the supermarket shelf. I’m talking about a plate of hummus with a well in the middle shaped by a tablespoon, drizzled over with spicy olive oil and […]

Vegan baked goods are an odd lot. Without butter and eggs, they are like photocopies of a photocopy of a photo — pale imitations of the original. I do enjoy trying my hand at vegan baked goods, and have managed a pretty decent cornbread, but I’ve often wondered about those vegan goodies one sees in […]

Shuna “Fish” Lydon is known and loved by many people in the foodblogging community, bloggers and readers alike. She is admired in the blogosphere for her professional perspective on food, as well as her sensual prose. I have taken several cooking classes with Shuna and found her to be an engaging and knowledgeable teacher, encouraging […]

When you live in San Francisco, you often wind up milling amongst the clam chowder shacks and tacky t-shirt shops of Fisherman’s Wharf. Not necessarily because you want to, mind you, but because anyone who visits you insists on going there. To me, San Francisco is all about the Castro, the Haight, the houses along […]

Hiro’s Sushi and Grill is a relatively new addition to Oakland, California’s array of restaurants on College Avenue. Don’t let its location fool you. You can almost walk right by the weirdly pink shopping area housing Hiro’s near the bottom of College. But something calls you back. Maybe it’s the rice paper screens, a menu […]

I am so, so sorry. My apologies to all the readers who cannot order Claire’s flapjacks on the web. Sadly, these wonders are too delicate for long distance travel. Those readers outside the San Francisco Bay Area can console yourselves with a pack of Clairesquares–buttery shortbread cookies covered in caramel and chocolate.
Those of you who […]

David’s Deli, a San Francisco Jewish-style deli featuring towering sandwiches and mile-high pastries, is celebrating its 55th year in business with a 55 percent discount on selected menu items.
Throughout March the restaurant, a theater district institution, is discounting some of its famous sandwiches and entrees and all its pastries. For example, David’s is charging just […]

The Kissing Bridge at the University of California
In a quiet little neighbor hood of cottages and small natural markets, LaLime’s is a destination for local cognoscenti. Once a post-war working class area, the California cottages now sell for upwards of $700 a square foot (for example a 2 bedroom 900 square foot house sold […]

Following the opening of a friend’s art show near San Francisco’s Union Square, we popped into nearby Biscuits and Blues for a bite of dinner. Biscuits and Blues is probably known internationally as the place to go for a good blues show in San Francisco. But how’s the food?
Well, it’s Southern, naturally. Biscuits, cornbread, fried […]