Food Ad FAIL: When Bargain Eating Attacks!
| Hopefully you'll still be able to eat sushi after seeing this. |
| Hopefully you'll still be able to eat sushi after seeing this. |
| Clean up your own mess afterward. |
Our favorite morsels from the blogs.![]()
rhondawinter/Flickr Brits get a taste of Sexy Soup Lady.
Urchin report: London's Financial Times gave readers a taste of San Francisco Saturday. London restaurateur Jacob Kennedy begins at Boulevard and finds his way (via chef de cuisine Ravi Kapur) to Nopa for the best pizza Kennedy says he's had outside of Rome, and service "of a standard we can only dream of in Britain." But it's reporter Tracey Taylor's sidebar about S.F. street food that captured the most pungent local flavor (including a quote from yours truly). Taylor offers a competent summary (with the odd quaint spelling) of last year's cart-food milestones ― like this (after the jump):
| T. Palmer |
| Eat your vegetables. |
School gardens: We love them, we love them not. Even if mulching in chemistry class isn't your thing, drinking, eating, and dancing probably are. At Food From the Heart, a celebratory event going down at the Ferry Building this Friday, Napa Valley vintners and Marketplace vendors will be doling out pours and bites at reasonable prices, as live bands churn out salsa music for wine-warmed dancing feet. Proceeds from the evening will send a local farmer to Slow Food's Terra Madre next fall in Turin, Italy, and benefit Slow Food San Francisco's garden projects in public schools. Be sure to check out the French chocolate painter from Recchiuti and, funds permitting, buy a custom creation, your own likeness, perhaps, to give to your loved one as a token of your esteem ― for yourself. Details after the jump.![]()
Freshness is important. So why is there a whole festival devoted to beers that, even if they were stamped with a born-on date, would proudly show that they were six, nine, or sometimes more than 12 months old? Barrel-aged beers are increasingly popular among the craft beer set (there's even a panel discussion on the subject tonight at the S.F. Courtyard Marriott, 299 Second St. at Folsom).
Brewers are experimenting with maturing strong beers inside wood vessels and discovering aging embellishes the contents in unique ways. Tomorrow night's event at Berkeley brewpubs Triple Rock and Jupiter will feature several dozen beers of all styles aged in a variety of spent spirit barrels. You'll definitely find an imperial stout aged in used bourbon barrels (contributing vanilla, toffee, and oak flavors) and might see anything from a double IPA aged in tequila barrels to a chocolate porter aged in Zinfandel casks. More info on Tuesday's events after the jump.
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Jeff M./Yelp
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| J. Kauffman |
| Palate by Humphry Slocombe, palette by Calvin Klein. |