Not-to-miss dishes

Lampredotto sandwich: Elmira Rosticceria 154 McAllister Street (at Hyde), 415-551-7332 Chef Marc Passetti’s version of this Florentine peasant dish made from the fourth and f... Read More

New & Notable

Try authentic Seattle-style teriyaki at Glaze on Fillmore

By Julie Mitchell

When most people hear the term “fast food,” visions of grease-laden burgers and fries or pizza may still come to mind. But what with food trucks and healthful prepared ... Read More

Wine World

Ordering wine in a restaurant

By Jeannine Sano

One of the questions I am asked most often about wine is this: How do you pick a wine from a restaurant wine list? There are people who love looking at wine lists — people who st... Read More

The Tablehopper

Lots of activity on Polk Street; fall is full of new openings

By Marcia Gagliardi

Ready to wear your new back-to-school outfit? You have many new restaurants to check out. One of the biggies will be Gianpaolo Paterlini’s 1760 (1760 Polk Street); the team h... Read More

Hungry Palate

Buster’s in North Beach: The quintessential cheese steak joint

By Ernest Beyl

I’m a patron of Buster’s, the North Beach cheese steak joint on Columbus and Vallejo. It’s my go-to place when I crave a cheese steak, a burger, or a hot dog. I&#... Read More

Coastal Commuter

A Giants lifer upholds the faith when in LA

By Michael Snyder

One of the few pitfalls of residing in Los Angeles for months at a time is the constant barrage of Dodger Blue that I have to endure throughout baseball season. A significant impet... Read More

Business

Strike three

By John Zipperer

If you follow Facebook feeds for any length of time, sooner or later you will read some inane political debate on the Facebook page of one of your friends or contacts. A couple mon... Read More

North Beach Journal

A good whistleblower, a Pagoda Palace performer, and the Filbert gardener

By Ernest Beyl

Hero worship comes naturally to me — perhaps because I’m nonheroic. But I’m a late bloomer so I still have a chance. Here are three of my North Beach heroes, past and... Read More

Police Blotter

Crime on the beat

By From the officers of Northern Station

The crimes below are a small snapshot of what the officers of Northern Station are doing. For a more comprehensive list, visit www.sf-police.org; under Compstat, there is a link to... Read More

Captain’s View

Preparing for fall, for kids and adults

By capt. greg mceachern

We are winding down on our event season and gearing up for the return to school for our students. As our students return to classes, I ask that you be particularly aware of the chi... Read More

The In-Box

Letters to the Times

Keep The Arboretum Free Recipe for Theft of the Commons. Serves class interests of a few thousand. Hire well-connected lobbyist Sam Lauter. Pay him hundreds of thousands for years.... Read More

News

3rd annual Marina Family Fest

By Lynette Majer

If you’re looking for a family-friendly event in the neighborhood, look no further than the third annual Marina Family Fest, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 29. Once again collab... Read More

Dishing

Dishing with Chef Michael Rotondo

By Susan Dyer Reynolds

Like Kinch, who combines respect for ingredients with an unmatched innate culinary creativity at Manresa, Scott, who pioneered today's gourmet sandwich craze at Myth Café, and Huff, who blended his laid-back surfer style and strong Japanese influences to coax incredible depths of flavors from deceptively simple dishes, Michael Rotondo, the new chef at Parallel 37 in the Ritz-Carlton San Francisco, is a gifted cook with unique talent and style — something that, in a town known for its restaurants, is surprisingly rare.... Read More

Back Story

The evolution of San Francisco newspapers from 1846, Part 2

By Ernest Beyl

On July 9, 1846, Commodore John D. Sloat, commander-in-chief of United States Naval Forces in the Pacific, arrived at what would later be called San Francisco aboard his sloop of w... Read More

Sports Corner

The Giants: What went wrong

By Steve Hermanos

When your team wins a World Series one year, and then the next year it loses a lot more games than it wins, the question presents itself: what happened? In the tradition of those w... Read More

Issue September 2013