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Cupola review: Pizza among Bay Area’s best
At this time of year I plan my shopping weekends around the best places to eat. You have Betelnut on Union Street, A16 on Chestnut Street, Va de Vi in Walnut Creek and, at Westfield San Francisco Centre, a newer place:…

La Costanera shores up service, food to match view
Now that the tourists have taken their kids back to school, it’s time for the locals to get out and explore. While I generally head north on my leisure forays, it’s sometimes nice to go south where in only about 20…

Atlas Cafe

Excellent soy lattes and vegan food

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Dottie’s True Blue Cafe: Original Joe’s isn’t the only San Francisco staple to reemerge in bigger and shinier environs. Tenderloin veteran Dottie’s True Blue Cafe closed its 18-year-old Jones Street location in December…

Michael Mina Bourbon Steak update: less intriguing
I’m a fan of restraint on a menu, especially if a chef tends to go wild with superfluous ingredients and garnishes. However, I feel just the opposite about Michael Mina’s Bourbon Steak, where the menu now seems less…

Park Tavern review: A worthy successor to Moose’s
Taking over the space of a famous restaurant like Moose’s is a gamble. The previous tenant, Joey and Eddie’s, made a valiant effort but never built much traction, even though it was advertised as Bronx Italian, and the…

Cypress review: Contemporary by way of classics
The Cal-Med food movement swept through restaurants like a tsunami, sweeping dessert trays, lobster Thermidor and tuxedo-clad waiters into a forgotten heap. Yet even the broadest sea change can’t completely remake the…

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Hamro Aangan review: Nepal dishes the best
Hamro Aangan’s dining room showcases a street scene from Kathmandu, its mountainous backdrop a quiet reminder of Nepal’s grandeur. The artwork’s seven luminous panels by local Nepalese painter Yuvak Tuladhar have a…

Citizen Cupcake

sounds good-but….

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Mojitos

mojitos is great

Cafe Zoet

Great little cafe!

Cafe Zoet

Great little cafe!

Mighty SF

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Atlas Cafe

Excellent soy lattes and vegan food

The Eight Ball Bible

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Mighty SF

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V: Ladies Night

Ladies Night Wednesday

What’s New: Fancy Food Show favorites
More than 17,000 attendees nibbled, munched and sipped their way through 80,000 specialty food products at last week’s 37th Winter Fancy Food Show at Moscone Center. Organized by the National Association for the…

The Dubliner" on a Tuesday Night

Quite place to read a book and enjoy a drink.

Lunar New Year dishes stir up fond memories
I’m still getting used to the idea that it’s a new year. We’re just a few weeks into 2012, and now the new lunar year – the Year of the Dragon – begins Monday. I am nowhere near ready. I will have to avoid sweeping so I…

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outside cafes and coffee shops.

Mateo’s Cocina Latina review: Soulful Mexican food
Mateo Granados started his restaurant career as a dishwasher in San Francisco more than 20 years ago. Through hard work and talent, the Yucatan native worked up to chef de cuisine at Masa’s under Julian Serrano, and…

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Mission Pie

Yumm…Banana Creamy Goodness

Locavore review: Huge improvement in 8 months
Eight months ago, I paid a visit to Locavore, a new restaurant in the Mission that specializes in local food. It’s a name – and a concept- that may be unusual in other parts of the country, but is common in the Bay Area,…