Category: Intro Letter

April 1, 2019

This Issue:
— Carmel Three Ways: Weekending in the Carmel region, from a coastal retreat amid sand dunes to a luxurious Carmel Valley escape, complete with food and drink recommends.
— Two of Bangkok’s Best Bars Seat Less Than 20 People: My interview with Niks Anuman-Rajadhon of two of Bangkok’s most notable cocktail bars.

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March 15, 2019

This Issue:

— Unusual Fine Dining: From the back of an SF cafe/wine shop to a single seating communal table for upscale Korean food in Palo Alto, these are 6 unique special occasion meals you don’t know about.
— 22 of The World’s Best Bars: Plus interviews with Denver’s Spirit Hound Distillers and Chad Michael George of The Way Back.
— Toronto’s Top Bars: My latest for Gin Magazine on 10 of the East Coast Canadian city’s best watering holes.

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February 15, 2019

This Issue:

— Top Openings of the Month: The most exciting, unique new tasting menu in town (that feels like a dinner party); an innovative modern Asian bakery; and Italian redux.
— Inside The Pawn Shop: SoMa’s new hidden restaurant/wine bar feels plucked out of Miami or Latin American, is already drawing crowds and a little controversy.
— Eat Clean at These 8 San Francisco Restaurants: Eight spots that will help with healthy eating goals… but still taste great.

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February 1, 2019

This Issue:
— Quince’s Saline Solution Library: A forward-thinking cocktail bar and bartender at a 3 Michelin-starred restaurant.
— Top Openings of the Month: Include modern Hawaiian, seafood/raw bar goodness, Bollywood Indian and gastropub comfort.
— Your Curated Guide to SF Beer Week: Standout events like sour beer or Norwegian kveik and Maltøl beer throwdowns.

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January 15, 2019

This issue:
— Top 12 New Restaurants of 2018: My Time Out feature on this year’s best newcomers worth visiting in 2019.
— How SF Chefs Are Shaping Global Dining: My WhereTraveler print article on San Francisco chefs’ innovation across cuisine categories and dining levels.
— 10 Top Charleston Bars: Plus interviews with High Wire Distilling Co. distillers & James Bolt, owner and bar manager of The Gin Joint.

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January 1, 2019

This Issue:
— Top 12 New Restaurants of 2018: My Time Out feature on this year’s best newcomers worth visiting in 2019.
— Seafood with Cocktails: Union Square’s notable new raw bar, seafood restaurant and drink destination, Ayala, inside the new Hotel G.
— 5 San Francisco Restaurants to Revisit Now: New menus, new chefs, new concepts at 5 special places worth returning to.

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December 15, 2018

This issue:

— Hawaii in SF: Michael Mina’s new Trailblazer Tavern, a restaurant collaboration with chefs Michelle Karr-Ueoka and Wade Ueoka from Honolulu’s MW Restaurant.
— 5 San Francisco Restaurants to Revisit Now: New menus, new chefs, new concepts at 5 special places worth returning to.
— The Top New Restaurants of the Month: Not one but two new openings in sleepy Marin County, a charming German cafe in the Castro and casual Caribbean on Fillmore.
— 10 Holiday Cocktails on Menus Around the US: From SF to NYC, Milwaukee to Fayetteville, LA to Detroit, national standout cocktail menus now.
— Latest Print Issue of Time Out: My latest restaurant and bar reviews and a feature on sake: best places to drink it and local sake breweries.

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November 15, 2018

This issue:
— 8 Historic SF Restaurants Where the Food Is Still Good: From souffle master to 1970s-era red sauce Italian, 8 of SF’s classics I hope live forever.
— The Top New Restaurants of the Month: Seafood and meat glories from a 3 Michelin-starred chef, check box menus of “new school Italian” food and burgers made by robots.
— 8 Top Scotch Cocktails Around the US: From Albuquerque to Portland, 8 crushable whisky cocktails on menus now.
— Top 5 Whiskies at WhiskyFest 2018: American and Irish whiskey… and plenty of Scotch.

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November 1, 2018

This issue:
— 10 Top Italian Restaurants in SF: There are dozens of superlative Italian restaurants in the Bay Area covering regional Italian, American-Italian and SF’s forward-thinking New School Italian. Here are just a few of the best.
— Inside Anthony Strong’s New Prairie: Check off your menu when ready to order, sip kitchen-collaborated cocktails (plus highballs from a straight-from-Japan Suntory highball machine) and look for an Elon Musk flamethrower in the kitchen.
— 10 Best Bakers in San Francisco: Some of the best in the baking capitol of the US.

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