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Is Timothy Swischuk making America's most interesting sandwiches?

Disclaimer: This food review is blatantly partisan: the writer is acquainted with the owner/chef of the restaurant under discussion, and...

Farewell Tour: Sam's Burgers, Swan Oyster Depot & Zuni's Chicken

The list I had made was long and I was short on time and tight with money. The Tonga Room, Red’s Java, The Buena Vista, Farallon, The Old...

Shanghai Dumpling King: BYOB Bargain

What is it about the Shanghai soup dumpling that impels the restauranteur to affix the name "King" or "Kingdom" somewhere in the title of...

Offalmania in the Inner Richmond : The Organ Trail Part 3

The Richmond. Utter that small collection of phonemes three times in a row a la Beetlejuice and you might suddenly find yourself clad in...

The Best Places to Eat Organ Meat in the Mission

For those interested in the consumption of fine entrails, we present to you here within a weekly collection of macabre signposts pointing...

A South American Food Journal Part 3, Cock Soup at 11,000 Ft

Large, central markets situated in cities with lax or non-existent health codes always make a strong impression upon the senses of smell...

A South American Food Journal Part 4, Beef Heart of Darkness

As the latter part of the above title flat-footedly implies, this weeks article has me journeying into savage, humid environs redolent of...

A South American Food Journal Part 5, Belen Market in Iquitos, Peru

Iquitos, in case you haven't heard of it, is the largest city in the Peruvian Amazon. As such, it absorbs anything into its bloodstream...

24th Street Series: La Palma Mexicatessen

There isn't a neighborhood of any city in our union that is completely static, no urban zone where the prevailing skin tone will forever...

Ryoko's Weird Late-night Sushi

If you like eating raw fish below street level, two options come to mind. The first is Sushi Time, a tiny shoe box crammed into the...

A South American Food Journal Part 9, Guts and Glory in Salta, Argentina

The Argentinian food scene, which I had found fairly monotonous heretofore, is improved markedly the closer your proximity to Bolivia and...

Wham-Bam Burmese at Yamo

What is it about Burmese food and long waits? Burma Superstar in the Inner Richmond is legendary for the starving throngs that gather...

Toyose: Late Night Korean Haven in the Outer Sunset

Un-expected pockets of commerce are scattered like playing cards on the beat-up, grey basement table that is The Sunset District. One is...

A South American Food Journal, Part 11, Buenos Aires is Red Meat + Red Wine in Large Plastic Bottles

Buenos Aires, by most accounts, is a city. Those accounts also attach various adjectives to it such as world-class, cosmopolitan,...

The Organ Trail of San Francisco: The Best Offal in Chinatown & North Beach

Flaming kidney. Explosive intestine. Numbing uterus. Shrieking thymus gland! Are these ideas scrawled on the white board of a Spanish...