Rise Over Run solarium and rooftop view. Photo by Virginia Miller. The Tenderloin’s (TL) roughly 7-by-5 blocks get a massive amount of bad press as the center of San Francisco’s worst drugs and homelessness. As it has everywhere, pandemic has made conditions worse as Tenderloin’s decades-old issues have expanded a few blocks. But the TL remains a tiny part of our… 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 →
These newcomers or new menus cover the gamut, from Sebastopol (Sonoma County) treasures in Thai and pizza to SF gems in Creole/Cajun, Japanese and elevated bar food. Alongside this month’s full restaurant reviews of these exceptional spots, these seven are also worth visiting, with last month’s standouts here (as always, I’ve vetted, visited or ordered from each place reviewed): Read more →
FRIDAY FIVE Photo: Courtesy of Canela (@canelasf) While we await the reopening of unique, queer-owned favorites like The Bull Valley Roadhouse in the East Bay, we savor Humphry Slocombe’s good-time Pride flavors, like the current Harvey Milk & Honey Graham. 5 Places in the Castro to Check Out This WeekendSan Francisco’s gayborhood is a mecca for all the things — each with… Read more →
My dining column at print and online magazine, Bob Cut — column details and my philosophy here — covers both standout newcomers and longtimers we want to keep supporting.
During shelter-in-place pandemic times, the column is in takeout/delivery mode:
February brought more notable openings, including another two beer-centric restaurants — Fermentation Lab and Woods Outbound (Woods Beer’s outer Sunset location) — as well as two major cocktail bar openings, Rusted Mule and Over Proof inside ABV (my Liquor.com feature on Over Proof here). Standout restaurant openings of February were Glena’s, Bayou Creole Kitchen & Rotisserie and ROOH. I have… Read more →