Tag Archives: San Francisco

Recipe: Acme Olive Bread I

Acme Olive Bread is an interesting creature. It combines the astringent bite of salt cured olives with a tender, almost fluffy crumb. We have posted several olive bread recipes and they’re all good, but a close rendition of Acme Olive … Continue reading

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A visit to Educated Palate in San Francisco

Educated Palate is a bakery operated by the students in the Culinary Arts and Hospitality program at San Francisco City College. It is only open on Thursdays, between 9:30 and 11:30 am, and by chance we were there on the … Continue reading

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A soup noodle tour of San Francisco

The Bay Area Eats (dine-in / take-out) Facebook group came into existence on April 2, 2020, in the very darkest early days of the pandemic. As the world turned upside down it became a culinary lifeline, chronicling what restaurants and … Continue reading

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Buying crab off the boat in San Francisco

On my February trip to San Francisco I was able to buy a live Dungeness crab directly off the fishing boat at Fisherman’s Wharf. This is news: first because the crab season is frequently curtailed by insufficient breeding stock (this … Continue reading

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The ultimate In-N-Out cheeseburger

To experience the ultimate In-N-Out cheeseburger you need to eat in the facility, vs. ordering to go. The public space is jammed, seating on hard plastic benches is uncomfortable and you have to wait for a table. But the presentation … Continue reading

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Award-winning San Francisco Pizza goes “up in smoke”

On arrival for a few days in San Francisco, we discovered an interesting project. Tony’s Pizzeria Napoletana, perennially ranked as of the world’s best pizzerias, has teamed up with Jeremy Fish for a collaboration called “Up in Smoke”. Order Tony’s … Continue reading

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Good Better Best

We had a local (upstate New York) discussion last week about Rogue River Blue, chosen as the world’s best cheese at the 2019/20 World Cheese Awards. Two respected friends and food lovers concurred that was their favorite cheese and wished … Continue reading

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This Thai beef soup is the best thing I have ever eaten

What’s the best thing you have ever eaten? To me it would be this Guay Tiew Ruer Nuer Puir—#3 Thai soup with beef stew—at King’s Thai #1 on Clement St. I have a list of must-eats whenever I return to … Continue reading

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The hunt for MegaChef

  We had avoided crossing the Bay Bridge on our previous Bay Area food crawl because I did not want to pay the one-way toll when I returned to San Francisco. It’s only $6 but if you are driving a … Continue reading

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Street food crawl of the Bay Area, March 2021

Back in the Bay Area after a COVID-mandated absence, we resolved to make up for lost time by hitting as many ethnic eating spots as possible. This was literally street food because most indoor dining rooms were still closed—so the … Continue reading

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