We watched it last night, and I was wondering the same thing. I had no idea that she’s been sick.
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I’m so sad at what she’s had to endure.
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From SF Chronicle Instagram
La Victoria bakery in SF Mission District prepares for Dia de Los Muertos
SF WEEKLY/SF EXAMINER.
SF Fall Restaurant Week runs Nov 1 through Nov 9
Mike Lim eats lunch at Bodega SF, 138 Mason St., serving Northern, Central, and South Vietnam dishes.
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KQED 9
On Thursday Novemer 6 at 7:30 pm, Check, Please! will air a special behind-the-scenes episode on how the 20-year-old show is put together.
Excerpt:
On November 6, the show will break from its traditional panel-style format with a documentary that looks back at 20 years. From casting to studio tapings to filming on location, the show’s producers spill the tea on what it takes to pull each episode together.
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Kaitlyn Bui finally catches two keeper Dungeness crab
on SF Ocean Beach at opening of recreational crab season (not commercial, no pots). Limit is 10 per day.
@kaitlyn_bui WAKE UP!! CRAB SZN IS BACK!!⭐️🫶🦀 #crab #crabbing #dungenesscrab #catchandcook #fishingvlog ♬ original sound - Kaitlyn Bui
Deseran in SF Standard -
Old-school SF restaurants are having banner years - Bix, Braxen Head, House of Prime Rib, Tadich Grill, Sam’s Grill, John’s Grill
excerpt:
Sam’s Grill, which opened in 1867, still looks and feels like a lunchroom for bankers: white tablecloths, dark wood paneling, crab Louie, waiters in bow ties. But owner Peter Quartaroli says he has watched the clientele subtly shift. According to him, there are more women, more younger diners, more people who “want to touch something authentic.” And, though he declined to share specifics, he says business is nearly at its peak. “We’re as busy as we’ve ever been."
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Luke -
SF Filipina pie lady is making maple pili nut pies for the holidays.
Edalatpour in East Bay Express -
Lulu, Cal- Palestinian, opens at 1106 Solano in Albany.
excerpt:
We also tried Baba’s Breakfast ($29). This reinterpretation of a crowded brunch plate included: scrambled eggs, a healthy length of lamb sausage, fuul mudamas or stewed fava beans, a scoop of fresh labneh , triangles of pita bread, pickled carrots and turnips, and harissa tots—the undeniable star.
SF Weekly/Examiner
The story of the family behind Crustacean at 195 Pine SF -
Behind the scenes of 20 years of Check, Please!
New reopening date set for San Francisco’s Cliff House
Signs of change are slated to appear around the iconic site within 30 days
from KQED and NPR -
7-minute interview with Nite Yun who discusses her new My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook.
Vote for the East Bay 2025 Nosh awards -
Kizuki Ramen in Stonestown
From 1949 - Life in the Central Valley of California
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I saw this story in today’s NYT. I never read this thread, but wanted to make sure that it wasn’t already posted by someone else. Had no idea you @Google_Gourmet were/are in the biz and certainly hope you didn’t have to resort to robbing banks. It is surely not an easy venture.
From Oaklandside Nosh
Momo Chang writes about the Masala dosa at Vik’s Chaat, 2390 Fourth St, Berkeley
Vietnamese rice cake omelette in Lion Plaza, 1818 Tully Rd, San Jose
from CBS/KPIX 5 -
Westfield Mall on Market St in SF, formerly a $1B property, just sold at auction for $133M and is 95% empty. One of the few remaining businesses is the Panda Express in the basement.
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Westfield opened right when I moved to San Francisco. The newspapers crowed about it, especially about the spiral escalator. I began to wonder what kind of hick town I’d moved to, where a shopping mall could generate so much hype.
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Indoors malls are rare in SF. Before Stonestown was enclosed, it was open air…and in that part of town sort of a mistake or unwelcoming. Fog and rain use to be a bigger deal in SF. Stonestown was the first enclosed mall in SF, after the renovation, and considered a bit low brow and literally on the other side of town. Some might consider Embarcadero Center a mall but I think of it as office space with some shops.
Generally speaking, if a place doesn’t have something, when it does get it, it’s kind of a deal. Human nature. SF Centre was also a big redevelopment project, so chamber of commerce hyped it. That area is still pretty messed up if you walked 2 block from Market to Mission to 6th St….the whole nine yards of urban blight…junkies, human waste on ground, yada, yada. Gets sketchy once you get to the Chron building.
Personally I dislike enclosed malls because they are artificial and simply a manufactured “downtown” based on retail commerce. The interiors make me sick and when you understand the design tricks, it makes you sicker. The great demise and disposability of malls all over the US more or less confirms that malls are the perfect example of US consumer culture. When you done or it’s out of fashion…dump it.
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