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Pennies, Meet Pride! 5 Establishments Where Your Check Supports LGBTQ+...
More on Pride Around KQED It’s that time of year again: Pride month! Chefs and restaurant owners all over the Bay are celebrating the month through food and drink, so this is an update to last year’s...
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Food, Art, Community: In a Changing SF, Can SOMA’s Palette Serve Up All Three?
Feast Your Eyes on These Tucked away on Folsom and 4th Street is a combination restaurant, art gallery and artist workshop with one caveat: it was created to be torn down a year later. When asked about...
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Celebrity Chefs Recipes: Traci Des Jardins’s Quick Pickled Spring Mushrooms...
More Spring Recipes This spring vegetable recipe yields products that are particularly beautiful if they are arranged and pickled in the jar. Depending on the variety of mushrooms, they can be exotic,...
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Trying to Go Meatless? Try These 5 SF Restaurants
There are a lot of reasons why going vegetarian or vegan has become more and more popular. One of the most obvious is the reported overall health benefits of reducing meat in one’s diet (like a lowered...
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First Taste: At Sushi Nagai, true minimalism allows the fish to star
By Sarah Chorey Whether you’ve actually traveled to Japan or are just obsessed with sushi, you’re likely familiar with omakase, those multi-course meals prepared at the discretion of the chef, made...
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Square Pie Guys Lands Brick-and-Mortar in SF with Pies, Burgers and Floats
In January 2019 (just 4 months into their pop-up at Vinyl Coffee & Wine Bar), Square Pie Guys duo Marc Schechter and Danny Stoller told the SF Chronicle that they were looking at spaces in the East...
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First Taste: AL’s Deli serves up Israeli street food and Jewish classics by...
by Sarah Chorey Aaron London, owner of the lauded veggie-centric restaurant, AL’s Place, is taking the basic daytime diet of sandos, salads, and sides from mundane to must-have at his new AL’s Deli,...
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First Taste: Tartine Bakery brings its classic offering to the Inner Sunset
More Bread to Chew On by Sarah Chorey We can just barely remember the early days of Tartine, when it was but one small corner bakery located in a neighborhood in the midst of transition. It could have...
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Dog-Friendly Bars, Restaurants And More Near You
More on Dogs Last year, Bay Curious asked, “Are There Really More Dogs Than Children in S.F.?” The answer was yes! Despite that, it seemed to me and some of my colleagues that there weren’t as many...
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International Flavor, Local Ingredients: Get Your Mochi Donut Fix in the Bay
More Mochi to Munch On Cupcakes, cake pops, and cronuts have all had their 15 minutes of fame in the food world. But these days, social media is filled with images and mentions of the mochi donut. The...
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Are These the Best Dumpling Spots in the Bay Area?
More Dumplings Dumplings! We know them, we love them and we all have our favorite spots for them. What constitutes a dumpling, you ask? Dumpling (n.): a rounded mass of steamed and seasoned dough,...
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First Taste: Kin Khao sister restaurant Nari bursts with flavor and...
More on Pim from KQED by Sarah Chorey The words “let’s go for Thai” are typically happy-making. Who doesn’t love to dip into a platter of peanut-y pad Thai noodles or a rich, steaming bowl of red...
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First Taste: You won’t miss the meat at Cow Hollow’s stylish plant-based...
More Vegan News by Sarah Chorey We’ve all jumped on a wellness trend or two—a new workout class, a few steps of a Korean skincare routine, periodic conscious disconnection from our devices. If eating...
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Can You Take the Heat in the Bay Area’s Nashville Hot Chicken Movement?
At World Famous HotBoys, I once felt the sweat beading on my forehead just from watching someone eat their “hot”-level fried chicken sandwich. To personally consume a “hella hot” sandwich would mean...
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In Male-Dominated Pizza Circles, Women Are Grabbing A Bigger Slice Of The Pie
Bay Area Pizza Spots When Laura Meyer won the World Pizza Championship for pan pizza in Parma, Italy, the Italian judges called her the male word for champion. Despite her first-place victory, she was...
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First Taste: Reopened Aziza Dishes Moroccan-Spiced Happiness in Outer Richmond
By Sarah Chorey Closures of beloved restaurants have become a way of life here in the practically-impossible-to-do-business Bay Area — we miss the likes of Jardinière and Commonwealth, and will soon...
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Head for the Himalayas: 5 Nepalese and Tibetan Restaurants in the Bay Area to...
Of the dozens, if not hundreds, of dumplings styles from around the world, momos certainly have one of the most fervent followings in the Bay Area. Whether they’re compact, juicy ones filled with...
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What Is a Dumpling? Here Are 6 Interpretations in San Francisco to Try
A few weeks ago, we set out to make a crowd-sourced guide to the Best Dumpling Spots in the Bay Area. We provided a definition of a dumpling and let the comments on our social media outlets speak for...
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At the Bayview Bistro, Local Food Entrepreneurs Nourish Community Resilience
More on Food Entrepreneurs and Community Resilience If you walk near Bayview’s 3rd Street corridor around lunchtime, you’ll catch whiffs of barbeque before noticing the Bayview Bistro. You’ll see...
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Fresh Farmers Market Picks for Your Holiday Table
Other Holiday Tips From CUESA Who says the winter farmers market is a quiet affair? In California, we are blessed with a bounty of cool-season crops and locally made goodies to make your holiday...
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