The Chatterbox

A highlight of my trip to Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2011 was the opportunity to interview chef Daniel Boulud, who was part of the Lexus Culinary Masters Team making its debut at the event. He was in good company, with chefs Michael Chiarello, Dean Fearing, Christopher Kostow, Masaharu Morimoto,…

And so dream projects really do come true. Opening this Wednesday May 11th is the Yellow Building, a stylish and unique collaboration in Dogpatch between Margherita Stewart-Sagan and Sheryl Rogat of ~PICCINO~, the ever-curated clothing store MAC (Modern Appealing Clothing) in Hayes Valley, and a new wine shop, DIG. I…

As reported last week, chef Randy Lewis is opening CRIOLLA KITCHEN in the former Bagdad Cafe space this week (although it’s Criolla, not Criollo as I originally reported). Additional partners are Stephen PV Weber, Stephen H. White, and Michael  Patterson. The menu—which traces soul food’s journey across…

I got an update from Pete Mrabe of Don Pisto’s about his upcoming noodle/raw bar (which still doesn’t have a name, but it will soon enough). It ends up he’s going to be running the pop-up restaurant out of Amante (yes, the bar)—they will operate…

The interwebs were all abuzz that co-chef David Tanis, who has been working on and off at Chez Panisse since the 1980s, is leaving the restaurant in the fall after the restaurant’s 40th anniversary parties in September wrap up. Scoop also reports he will be writing more cookbooks, and…

More changes at ~WEIRD FISH~: according to this post on Mission Local, the restaurant has been closed since April 1st, and partners Timothy Holt and Peter Hood are splitting ways. It remains to be seen how the whole thing will shake out, so the restaurant remains cerrado for now. Was…

After a bunch of rumors and misinformation and no information, Grub Street reports the official closing for TI COUZ is this Sunday May 15th. My intern was poking around and discovered a sign for Giordano Bros., home of the famous all-in-one sandwich in North Beach. An email in to Giordano’…

Thanks to buddy and girl-about-town Rebecca Chapa, I learned ~OYAJI~ in the Outer Richmond is now open for lunch Wed-Sun, and is serving a different menu than dinnertime. Now, what is on the menu currently remains mysterious since I couldn’t confirm anything before my deadline (Oyaji is closed Mon-Tue)…

Coming up this Friday May 13th (awooooooo!) is the first San Francisco Nomadic Pizza Throw-Down! Four traveling pizza ovens (Pizza Politana, Fist of Flour, Copper Top Ovens, and Casey’s Pizza) will converge on COFFEE BAR, donating proceeds to a Japanese tsunami relief fund. $12 will get you four pizza…

Were you bummed to miss the M.F.K. Fisher dinner I wrote up at ~WOODWARD’S GARDEN~? Here’s your chance to attend another cool one on Wednesday May 18th, with author Rebecca Solnit of the book Infinite City. She will be accompanied by fellow Infinite essayists and mapmakers…