PK's Lauren Bowne remembers her grandmother, the namesake of her and husband Jon's business:
While the next Top 100 won't be published until next April, I want to keep you updated on new, interesting places that will likely make next year's list. These have been recently reviewed. Click on the name to find the review: Marlowe, S.F.
Say what? While it seems that Marlowe is the list's de facto post-facto101st entry, Mr. Bauer's note suggests the restaurant is actually the first new addition to next year's list. Although, either to keep some small remnant of suspense, or as a kind of warning to Marlowe that, tasty burger or not, they haven't exactly been canonized. Not yet.
That leaves us with a question. If, say, Commis put a burger on the menu, could it, too, sneak onto 2011's pre-list?
As a daily windup to the Weekly's Best of S.F. 2010 on May 19, we've teased out 92 of our favorite local dishes that taste like here. All the tasty details after the jump.
We procured a jar of this sizzling arbol chile, crunchy garlic, and onion condiment the next day and proceeded to throw it on just about everything, from eggs and nachos to chow mein and soup. We eventually ended up just eating it straight out of the jar with a spoon, which is actually highly recommended for heat fanatics.
It was just as we'd given up on the need to create a vehicle for this addiction (other than straight freebasing it) that an easy and inspiring Chile Crunch recipe came along.
Howard sounded stoked. "I've got some new toys to play with," he said: a rotisserie and pizza oven, from which will emerge gratins and sides, roasted vegetables, and meat specials like prime rib, pork, and duck. "I haven't worked in a place with a pizza oven for probably 10 years," Howard said.
We sampled seven widely available beers shrouded in paper bags; each was scored on a 1 to 10 scale and given a sum total. Once tallied, we saw the most disparity out of the four blind tastings we've conducted so far. That shouldn't be surprising for a style that's deemed middle-of-the-road. Behold the ranking, from best to worst (after the jump):
