Category: BiteClub

Luma | Petaluma

Neighborhood eatery in Petaluma's warehouse district boasts a wood-oven, SF chef and creative winelist

Meat, Braise, Love

Producing a braise in your own kitchen is a bit like making porn in your own bed: It rewards practice, because when you get it just right, it's the best you'll ever see, and all the times you don't, it's still a very long way from sucking. Similarly, there is just so much to love about the braise: Purely from a gastronomic perspective, no other cooking technique so easily employed by the home cook comes close to creating the depth and concentration of flavor than does the properly executed braise.

The Caffeine Addict: Hooked, Locally

Suffice it to say that the taste and smell of a food (for the avoidance of doubt, coffee is closer to the bottom than the top of the Food Pyramid, at least in my kitchen) changes by virtue of the food's contact with the air we breathe, and most of these changes are not for the better.

The Caffeine Addict: Palate Fail

I have a Coffee Mea Culpa and it is this: I like bad coffee. Not awful coffee - I care not at all for the taste of two-day-old-and-tasting-of-burnt-gym-socks coffee, of low-grade beans apparently canned sometime during the early days of the Cold War, of Dunkin' Donuts or McDonald's drive-through "Cafes" - but coffee that is, in some objective sense, not ideal.

Help Starts in the Kitchen

YWCA raffle fundraiser spearheaded by food businesses help tots who've faced serious problems.

Fish Story | Napa

Seafood-centric restaurant from the Lark Creek Restaurant group opens in Napa. Sustainable and delicious

Martini House Sold

After a rumor popped up this morning in Napa that Pat Kuleto was selling Martini House in Napa, SF Eater has confirmed that the restaurant will, in fact, shutter on October 30 — at least in its current form. The purchasers of the restaurant are Paul Fleming and Brian Bennett. Fleming is best known as owner […]