Well. Every December when I do these "year in review" posts, I conclude with something my grandfather used to say: "Always be...

I made a decision this year to split my "favorite dishes" list between Miami and elsewhere. You can see the 25 best things I ate i...

In Situ , the new restaurant in the recently refurbished and reopened San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , is a bundle of contradictions. T...

Quince Restaurant is something of an anachronism. In these days of bare tables and and backless stools and leather-aproned servers, here t...

This was not an easy one. The fact is, I had two exceptional meals back-to-back during our most recent brief visit to the west coast. In Car...

There's a passage in Daniel Patterson's book " Coi: Stories and Recipes " that I found almost painfully evocative. The ch...

A vacation has taken me off the regular posting cycle, but after two weeks tooling around the Bay Area (including moving Frod Jr. into U.C....

There are few meals I've looked forward to with as much anticipation. Between the reports from trusted friends both virtual and flesh an...

When we started our Cobaya "underground" dinners, there was no pretense of originality; we were very deliberately copying thin...

Three years ago, New York chef David Chang (of the Momofuku empire) caused a bit of a ruckus when he declared: " Fuckin' every res...

I keep lists of restaurants for just about any town I might conceivably visit. I don't get to do nearly as much culinary tourism a...

They smelled good. They were topped with bacon. When I asked if he wanted to know what he was trying before he took a bite, he declined. And...

I wanted to love Zuni Cafe . I really did. The Zuni Cafe Cookbook is one of my all-time favorites, not merely a compendium of recipes but ...

For a place that's been able to maintain a high reputation for several years, Fifth Floor sure has had a revolving door in the kitchen....

Our trips to Northern California always seem to start the same way. The non-stop flight from Miami gets us into San Francisco around noon, a...