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via gridskipper, six cozy restaraunts

San Francisco has a cure for what ails you: lots and lots and lots of primo high-end comfort-food joints, where no one harangues you about not being married yet, and you can drink alcohol without sneaking it into the house.

via SFgate (San Francisco Chronical)

Craigslist has dozens of help-wanted listings from the Bay Area’s top restaurants - all vying for the dwindling numbers of experienced cooks willing to put in long, hard hours for pay that barely covers their cost of living.”They say they have all these bills and have to pay the rent, and they can’t be making $12-$13 an hour,” Lahlou said.

That crunch, plus many young cooks’ expectations of the “Top Chef” high life, are just two of the factors that may make San Francisco’s unique mix of chef-owned high-quality neighborhood restaurants a thing of the past.

I hereby designate Friday as “Food Porn Friday:” go to town…

Alinea Image Gallery - Cuisine

 Thaiphoon

One word of caution: If the menu identifies a dish as hot, you better believe it.

a strange dim sum review from TimesOnline

So soon has it come to this: food that has been airlifted can’t, shan’t, won’t be considered organic. So, if you want a climatically ethical life, don’t nosh anything fresh from abroad.On the other hand, I expect those of you who want to live proper will also continue to fight ceaselessly for the cancellation of Third World debt and the tearing down of EU trade barriers that so cruelly penalise African agrarian economies, to allow them to sell their surplus cash crops freely to us. Except, of course, that they’ll have to deliver them by bike.

found in The New York Times

“I’m not sure it’s possible to behave with much dignity around seven glistening pounds of pork butt, but on a recent night at Momofuku Ssam Bar, five friends and I weren’t even encouraged to try.”

From SFGate

Compiling the Top 100 restaurants is like working a puzzle. Everything needs to fit together — varied locations, types of cuisines and price ranges. The challenge comes in finding places in all these categories that meet The Chronicle’s standards. Whether they’re in Los Gatos, San Anselmo, Oakland or San Francisco, whether you pay $150 for a meal or only $15, the restaurants have to be places where you’d want to spend your money, and return to again.

http://events.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/dining/reviews/28rest.html

“Where Only the Salad Is Properly Dressed “

Wine Spectator | Articles | Unfiltered January 31, 2007

 Flush with even more Michelin-star success, Gordon Ramsay may be taking on his greatest challenge yet. The foul-mouthed, Scottish celebrity chef just picked up two more stars in the new UK Michelin guide, released on Jan. 26, bringing his star total to 10. Never satisfied, though, Ramsay is now set to start shooting his Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares TV show in the United States next month. Unlike the culinary boot camp of Hell’s Kitchen, this show has seen Ramsay turn around failing UK restaurants, using a heavy pinch of F-words and a large dollop of butt-kickin’. The show’s producer, Fox, has been tight-lipped about where in the U.S. Ramsay will be starting off, but Unfiltered couldn’t help but notice an ad on the New Orleans Craig’s List website. The ad, which isn’t confirmed, offers failing restaurants the most mouthwatering of dishes: “GORDON RAMSAY-Acclaimed Chef, Culinary Expert & Award Winning Restaurateur IS LOOKING TO HELP RESUSCITATE & FIX YOUR RESTAURANT ISSUES!” the ad declares. With all that capitalized shout-typing, Unfiltered is beginning to think the big man may have written the ad himself.

Bistronomy - New York Times