Kicking off food porn Wednesday? Foodhoe's lascivious, big-pixel exploration of the newly expanded Best-O-Burger. Look, and feel the awesome power of the LDL surge.
On the Daily Feed, Bunrab gets all tight focus on some izakaya dishes at Ozumo Oakland. Is it just us, or do the Snake River Kobe beef thingies look like a bit like Mayor McCheese?
Hoodscope coughs up a shot of the freak-you-out apple fritter from Bob's Donuts. Good thing we're not high -- unlike anyone who actually shows up at Bob's after about 9 p.m.
Bay Area Bites' Stephanie Im lets us peek inside her Cuisinart, part of a recipe exploration of a summery soba noodle dish. Very Food Network, only without all the Paula's Party promos. Delicious.
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Following the movie will be a reception with tapas and wines by the glass. It's happening Sunday, August 9, at 6 p.m., and costs $15 per person. Buy tickets online.
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| Farr at work: This could be your dining room table. |
Festival organizers recently published their growing list of auction items. If the Farr butchery turns you off, consider the chance to be chef for a day at Chez Panisse (don't worry -- something tells us they won't throw you on the sauté station during the lunch rush) followed by dinner for two. You can score Japanese cooking classes from Peko Peko Catering, learn how to knock out Salvadoran tamales from Maria del Carmen Flores of Estrellita's Snacks, and get a cheese-and-wine pairing in your home from the Cheese Shop of Healdsburg.
The Street Food Fest unfolds on August 22nd, along a blocked-off stretch of Folsom between 25th and 26th streets. Check out the full list of auction items at its Web site.
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To refresh: In advance of the broadcast next Monday of the S.F. episode of No Reservations on Travel Channel, we asked you all to write why you're a rabid Anthony Bourdain follower. Like geekily quoting Kitchen Confidential in the office, going out of your way to eat obscure pig parts while struggling not to grimace, maybe even saving up for a Tony tramp stamp. Whatever.
The 33 entries we received were all Tony-licious, believe us. The self-described "balls-out chick" who recalled losing it when she met him. The writer who yearned to throw back uni and gin and tonics with the man himself. Or the scribe (we're guessing English major) who called him "the reluctant anti-hero of adventure cuisine." All nice. Thanks to everyone who took the time and effort.
We'll be publishing the winning essays over the next few days, a kind of foreplay building to Monday's delicious release. First up: A story of deliverance from tempeh and fiber by Dabney Gough. Warning: Grab a tissue now -- we guarantee it'll make you all misty.
Thank you, Anthony Bourdain, for releasing me from nine years of vegetarianism. When you described slurping oysters on a boat in Brittany, and tasting the essence of the sea they came from, I realized how much I was missing out on. So I went to Zuni and slurped some oysters myself. I never looked back. Life is infinitely better.
The private event begins at 11:30 a.m. and costs $95, which includes tax and tip. Advance tickets are needed (get 'em at Toronado directly or via the online Brownpaper tickets link). In keeping with the local mantra, everything on the menu is produced by artisans within a 200-mile radius of the city. Featured local beers are from Firestone, Lagunitas, Magnolia (the cask-conditioned Aerodrome), Sierra Nevada, Russian River, North Coast, Napa Smith, and others. Full menu after the jump.
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| A kielbasa receives a squirt of mustard. |
Bacon nestles alongside the Matrix Dog ($5) and wraps around the Mexico Dog, which comes dressed with grilled onions, jalapeños, and mayo. At $5.50, it's pricier than the version you'll find on Mission at 2 a.m. on a Saturday -- then again, it's street legal. Indeed, bacon can be added to any dog for a buck. The meat-averse might try a veggie tofu dog on a wheat bun ($4.25), and for the conflicted there's the Moral Conundrum: a tofu dog wrapped in bacon ($5.50).
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A Zog Dog with Texas chili.
We chose to add Texas chili ($1 -- a commercial product Zog's doctors up with its own seasonings) to our snappy all-beef Zog Dog ($3.75), sourced from the Home Sausage Co., aka Engelhart Gourmet Sausages. It didn't make us any less homesick for Pink's in L.A., but the wait at Zog's was about two minutes -- a hell of a lot shorter than the hour or more you can wait at Pink's. Freezer fries ($2.50) were cooked to order in soybean oil. We saved two bucks on our fresh-squeezed lemonade by downloading a coupon from the Zog's Web site.
Through September 30, the museum's de Young Cafe has a special $14 prix fixe menu, $21 if you go royal with a wine carafe. An adult ticket for the discounted Tut at Twilight museum admission is $20. Youths (ages 6-17) and FAMSF members pay $15. Behold the menu for August (after the jump). Can't say it's what King Tut ate, exactly, but it does seem to take inspiration from the eastern Mediterranean.
Let's do lunch:
Watch today's televised Giants game against Houston with something altogether more delicious in your hand than the clicker. SF Weekly critic Meredith Brody suggests the house-cured pastrami on New York rye with artisan Gruyere, pickled vegetables, and fries at Acme Chophouse (24 Willie Mays Plaza, King and Third St.).
Drink therapy:
Looks like somebody's been surfing Wikipedia: Pres a Vi (One Letterman, Building D, Suite 150) is calling its happy hour "bakcheia," some Greek concept of self-liberation through the ecstasy of wine. Ponder that while sucking down $3 bottled beers and featured drafts, plus $6 cocktails and $10 wine flights, 3-6 p.m.
Like a used car dealer, John Collins (650 Gough at McAllister) is ready to roll up its sleeves and make some deals. Try $2 domestic bottles, $3 drafts and imports, and $4 wells, Guinness, and Boddingtons, plus a buck off everything else, 5-7 p.m.
