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Bay Area Bites Guide to 13 Favorite Burrito Spots
There’s not necessarily a ton of new ground to cover in the ongoing and comprehensive best burrito debate. It’s been vigorously discussed by both respected publications and drunk college kids for...
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Celebrate the Year of the Rooster with the Bay Area Bites’ Guide to 10...
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated on Saturday, January 28. San Francisco already started the festivities this past weekend with a mini procession and ribbon cutting ceremony in Chinatown that...
View ArticleCelebrate Black History Month at These Black-Owned Bay Area Restaurants
Black History Month can provide an opportunity to learn about and explore the various cuisines locally available at black-owned restaurants. Below we showcase a few of our favorites as well as a longer...
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Celebrate Women’s History Month at these Bay Area Women-Owned Restaurants
Each year, the National Women’s History Project declares a theme for women’s history month in March. This year, the theme is “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business.” It’s been a busy time...
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China Live Serves Up The New SF Power Lunch
The name sounds like a Las Vegas revue. In reality, the only similarity of China Live and the Vegas Strip are both are a glittery spectacle, along with the fact that China Live resides along the...
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Mestiza Brings Colorful Tacos and a Patio Oasis to SoMa
There is a new entry for two of San Francisco’s most competitive dining categories: outdoor patios and tacos. You’ll find it in SoMa at the corner of 4th and Bryant in the former Chavo’s — if you can...
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La Cocina’s ‘Voices from the Kitchen’ Speak Passionately on Race
A full house of engaged audience members learn from Voices from the Kitchen. (@JenBaxterSF) F&B: Voices from the Kitchen, La Cocina’s latest storytelling performance on April 7 at The Swedish...
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Stand in Line for Some Sweet Cold Treats at the New Salt & Straw
Generally speaking, I’m not a big fan of high-end ice cream. Dessert is often best without too many bells and whistles, and I’ve found myself repeatedly underwhelmed by the many highly touted ice cream...
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Hazel Southern Bar & Kitchen Looks to Serve Mid-Market with Casual Comfort Food
You could almost walk right by Hazel Southern Bar & Kitchen on Market Street, near Van Ness. But behind the plain bright-colored door, and past the bouncer in front, inside is a surprising spot...
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Glena’s Tacos & Margaritas Launches The Blended Margarita Just in Time for...
Lunch service at Glena’s. (Kim Westerman) You remember the sullen, watery blended margarita of yore, the one you always regretted drinking all the way to the bottom. It lost its verve after about five...
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Mid-Market’s Kagawa-Ya Gives Udon the Spotlight
Udon is trying to follow the noodle soup trend in an airy, light-filled Mid-Market space. So far, the homemade noodles are great but everything else is still in the works. Has the Bay Area’s Ramen...
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The Bay Area Bites Guide to the Best Places to Drink Beer This Summer
If it seems difficult to keep up with all the new breweries opening and closing, it’s not just you. According to the California Craft Brewers Association, there are more than 750 craft breweries in...
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The Time is Now For ‘Dumpling Time’ in San Francisco
So, you thought you knew dumplings, from the xiao long bao requiring an hour wait at Din Tai Fung to the har gow at dim sum specialists? Well, how about Xi’an dumplings? Gyoza? Pork buns? Ok, the first...
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Khai Vietnamese Nouveau Reinvents Contemporary Asian Cooking
Khai Vietnamese Nouveau, which opened on Townsend and 7th Street at the end of 2016, implies a kind of fusion food, the likes of which we’ve seen before. Maybe French-inflected Vietnamese cooking, I...
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Izakaya Rintaro in San Francisco Now Offers Teishoku (Set Meal) Lunch
Chez Panisse alum Sylvan Brackett has mastered the Japanese set meal format. Izakaya Rintaro is widely considered among the best Japanese restaurants in the Bay Area, but until late last year served...
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Would You Drink A Cannabis Cocktail?
In the Bay Area, you can consume marijuana in just about any form: high-end vape pen! Gummy bears! Cold brew! Now, a few enterprising chefs want to popularize the drug in a new form: cocktails. The...
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For a Sweet Jewish New Year: 10 Bay Area Bakeries with Honey Cake, Round...
My grandmother swore the secret to her moist Rosh Hashanah honey cake was the black cherry soda she added to the batter. Although I never discovered the origin of her quirky recipe, I have often...
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Preview: Esan Classic brings lesser-known Thai flavors to the Tenderloin
The first thing we were told when we entered Esan Classic, the new Thai restaurant on the edge of the Tenderloin for a recent media preview was “this is the most expensive Thai restaurant project in...
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First Look: DOUGHP’s Safe Cookie Dough Opens in SF’s Castro
The Bay Area has seen several dessert trends in the last decade. There was the rise and fall of the cupcake. Then there was the fancy doughnut. And who can forget the cronut and its myriad imitators?...
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Master Chef George Chen Opens Eight Tables, China Live’s Crown Jewel
Eight Tables video by Vic Chin An elaborate 10-course tasting menu invites diners into the world of shi fan tsai, private chateau-style dining. Chinese cuisine is known for elaborate banquet spreads,...
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