One of two of my city bar guides in Gin Magazine, Summer 2023 edition. My Bar Guide to 8 top bars in London now:
Bars featured: Soma Soho, Seed Library, Duke’s, The Mezcaleria at KOL, Rovi, Punch Room at the London Edition, 8 at the Londoner, Tayer + Elementary Read more →
Sons & Daughters’ mignardise dessert bites. Photo by Virginia Miller. COME SEE OUR NEW HOME — The Bold Italic has a new home online, and this story has moved! Read it here: https://www.thebolditalic.com/mexican-brunch-to-upscale-indian-food-7-sf-restaurant-standouts These newcomers or new menus cover the gamut, from upscale Indian to casual Mexican food. Alongside June’s full restaurant reviews — Kiln, The Madrigal, For the Record, Rendezvous, Pizzeria da… Read more →
The Madrigal’s smoked trout dip. Photo by Virginia Miller. From one of the key cities that birthed cocktails to the world in the 1800s, San Francisco has no end of hundreds of stellar bars with stellar food. We welcome a new one from a beloved industry bartender and standout new menus at two bars we already love, all three with quality… Read more →
From May 8–11, 2023, our own Kevin Diedrich, owner of PCH (Pacific Cocktail Haven) and Kona’s Street Market — named American Bartender of the Year and PCH the Best American Cocktail Bar at Tales of the Cocktail in 2020 — quietly and quickly launched the inaugural SF AAPI Cocktail Week, an event that will be bigger next year with more… Read more →
8 SF & Oakland Spots Winning with Cocktails AND Food Heartwood’s Juice Joint with Argonaut brandy, Fino sherry, papaya shrub, garam masala tincture. Photo by Virginia Miller. These new spots or new menus cover the gamut, from Filipino-Mexican to Peruvian. Alongside my full restaurant reviews this month — for Aphotic, Daytrip Oakland, Coho Mill Valley, Palo Alto’s Naschmarkt and Ethel’s Fancy, Juniper and Starter… Read more →
Aphotic spot prawns and Tsar Nicoulai caviar. Photo by Virginia Miller. I won’t forget my first visit to Palette soon after opening in 2019 when chef Peter Hemsley grilled up rare, local coonstripe shrimp just caught that morning, buttery-fresh and revelatory… like eating our divine local spot prawns for the first time. With a cooking background ranging from Paris and New… Read more →
Cavana’s rooftop bar facing north east (Photo Credit: Virginia Miller) COME SEE OUR NEW HOME — The Bold Italic has a new home online, and this story has moved! Read it here: https://www.thebolditalic.com/latin-vibes-tunes-cocktails-food-with-stunning-sf-views-at-new-rooftop-bar-cavaña Rooftop bars are proliferating in San Francisco these days, whether the 2017 opening of Charmaine’s at the San Francisco Proper, or 2022’s Rise Over Run at the Line… Read more →
Bar Sprezzatura’s mortadella pizza (Photo Credit: Virginia Miller) COME SEE OUR NEW HOME — The Bold Italic has a new home online, and this story has moved! Read it here: https://www.thebolditalic.com/chic-new-italian-cocktail-food-haven-hidden-in-the-fidi-bar-sprezzatura Us San Franciscans don’t normally hang out downtown and since pandemic, even less so. As the neighborhoods (which make up the majority of the city) we spend most of our… Read more →
7 New Bars & Holiday Cocktail Menus to Drink Now COME SEE OUR NEW HOME — The Bold Italic has a new home online, and this story has moved! Read it here: https://www.thebolditalic.com/alongside-cocktails-at-new-restaurants-like-bar-sprezzatura-rosemary-and-pine-montesacro-marina Alongside cocktails at new restaurants like Bar Sprezzatura, Rosemary and Pine, Montesacro Marina, La Société and Tenderheart — or these 5 earlier this year, these seven bars are worth visiting… Read more →
An unexpected hit at Tenderheart: hand-held little gems (Photo Credit: Virginia Miller) COME SEE OUR NEW HOME — The Bold Italic has a new home online, and this story has moved! Read it here: https://www.thebolditalic.com/tenderheart-chef-bar-masters-work-their-magic-at-the-new-line-hotel-sf The LINE Hotel is an uber-hip line of boutique hotels only in LA, DC, Austin and San Francisco, with the latest sleek LINE Hotel SF opened… Read more →