9 September 2010
Michael Bauer destroys Morton’s Steakhouse with ★☆☆☆ review
When I finally did start on my main course, I realized I needed to offer a second apology to any food I’ve criticized in the past year; by comparison, everything I’ve had at other places was French Laundry quality. The steak was burned and acrid, and the lobster tail was mushy, as if it had been frozen and thawed multiple times.
The Chicken Christopher ($33) consisted of three huge cutlets coated with what tasted like sweetened bread crumbs, swimming in beurre blanc with bits of raw garlic, decorated with a limp sprig of parsley and a wedge of lemon. It looked and tasted terrible.
Creamed spinach was long on nutmeg – that was the only thing I tasted – and seemed to have no salt. Thank goodness for the baked potato, which had a crisp, slightly leathery skin and tasted great slathered with sour cream and chives.
We ate very little and took the meat to the dog.
17 August 2010
Roaming Hunger has redesigned their website, allowing you find food carts right now or in the near future around SF and elsewhere.
25 July 2010
Prospect serves beautiful, seasonal food in a modern setting in downtown San Francisco. The dishes tonight showed so much clarity; you knew exactly what Executive Chef Ravi Kapur was going for. Not a single wrong note the whole meal.
31 May 2010
The Eat Real Festival will celebrate yummy, fresh, local and sustainable food at Jack London Square in Oakland in August.
The FOR-SITE FOUNDATION has arranged what may be the first series of site-specific—some might even say site-tailored—art installations in San Francisco’s Presidio.
6 February 2010
A portrait of Clarence Williams
This is Clarence Williams. He’s 54 years old.
You can often find him where I found him last Friday morning: soaking up the morning sun somewhere on Clementina where it hits 5th street.
This is his story, or at least part of it:
He was born in New Orleans, served in Viet Nam but then came down with HIV/AIDS shortly after returning in the early 80s and left for the refuge of San Francisco, away from the taboos and stares of the south.
With nothing to his name, he signed up to be an experimental tester for every AIDS drug he could find.
“And I did a lot of street drugs, too,” he told me last Friday.
“And one thing led to another,” he admitted, “Now, I’m here.”
One day, he would like to write a book about his life.
4 January 2010
Oakland Grown is a movement celebrating and supporting Oakand’s locally-owned, independent businesses and artists.
13 December 2009
AlertSF is an SMS-based emergency notification system for San Francisco’s residents and visitors.
7 December 2009
Green Coriander is a wholesome Indian food take-out dinner service in San Francisco