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Food & Dining

The only Michelin-starred restaurant in the East Bay belongs at the top of the heap for its versatility alone
By on August 20, 2017
Nothing reveals the Michelin guide’s metropolitan bias quite like the fact that there is but one restaurant east of Treasure Island with a star to its name. Plenty of places »

Review: Taco night at SF County Jail No. 5
By on July 16, 2017
The dinner (served around 3 p.m.) on the menu for roughly 500 inmates in San Francisco’s San Bruno jail on July 7 was soy-based meat substitute tacos with two yellow »

Seven years in, Sons & Daughters remains
By on July 9, 2017
I think — I hope — we’re emerging from the anti-carb backlash. Sitting down to the tasting menu at Sons & Daughters, you don’t get bread while idly perusing the »

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KQED doc a charming profile of food pioneer Jacques Pépin
By on May 25, 2017
Jacques Pépin has said, “I don’t know what my last meal will be, but it will be very, very long.” That joie de vivre is evident throughout “Jacques Pépin: The »

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Commonwealth is not that common
By on May 14, 2017
For all the fervor that the Mission’s restaurant scene has generated in the last decade or so, only five restaurants in the neighborhood currently hold Michelin stars: AL’s Place, Aster, »

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Srijith Gopinathan’s Campton Place holds two Michelin stars, but the landscape for contemporary Indian food is changing fast
By on April 16, 2017
It’s been a busy winter and spring for contemporary Indian food in the Bay Area, with a trifecta of restaurants each leaving a strong impression that fortifies itself when all »

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Don’t be afraid to be new
By on March 12, 2017
As with early-20th-century Nobel Literature laureates, the distribution of three-Michelin-star restaurants reflects a certain bias, although it’s not as Gallo-centric as one might think. There are 26 each in France »

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Michael Mina’s FiDi flagship embodies the artistry of precision
By on February 12, 2017
The term “empire-builder” is puffed-up and grossly overused: A chef opens a third restaurant, and suddenly they’re laying siege to Gaul like a centurion? But if anyone can refer to »

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