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A Tale of Two Yoshi's: Oakland vs. The Fillmore

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Published Aug. 17, 2009 at 4:15 p.m.

Oakland on the left, San Francisco on the right: compare the bars (above) and the dining rooms (below). A fascinating case study could be ...

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SF Ranks 5th In Felinophobic 'Pet-Friendly Cities' Survey

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Published Aug. 7, 2009 at 3:55 p.m.
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credit: gazelystare ... Another day, another publicity-driven top-ten list. Today, San Francisco came in fifth place when it comes pet-friendly U.S. cities. (That is to say, pet pooch -friendly U.S. cities; canines seem to be the main, albeit horrifyingly biased, focus here.) According to Rent.com (via Consumerist), "San Francisco boasts plenty of pet-friendly dining in addition to off-leash beaches and outdoor areas. Pets are even welcome to ride in the cable cars or walk alongside their

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Fine wine is Mina's co-star at RN74

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Published June 28, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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There's a seminal shift in housing styles in San Francisco. We're becoming a city of high-rise apartments, and that's creating changes in dining. It also gives restaurateurs space to create a vision without the constraints of pre-existing buildings. Charles ...

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King Tut movers give artifacts royal treatment

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Published June 16, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Lesson No. 1 from the new King Tut exhibition in San Francisco: Moving the artifacts of the tomb of the pharaoh is nothing like moving your dining room set across town to a new apartment. An impressive entourage of curators, art experts and museum officials ...

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Streetside dining options

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Published May 26, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Here are some selected street food vendors. Creme Brulee Cart and Magic Curry Kart, Dolores Park and other Mission District locations, San Francisco. (They're currently taking a break for a wedding.) <> ...

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San Francisco's Nonstaurant Trend, Where to Find One Near You

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Published May 14, 2009 at 3:29 p.m.
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Mission Street Food (back when it was in a truck) by Tom P./Yelp ... Lessley Anderson (senior editor at CHOW and our former colleague back in the day) sent us this map denoting the sports where you can find the current "nonstaurant" trend in the Bay Area. It's pretty damn handy for those of you who prefer to get your gastronomic fix from a taco truck ... What's a nonstaurant? Well, according to CHOW, they are "food ventures operating out of trucks, carts, other people's restaurants, shops,

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The Shutter: On the same week that kabobs...

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Published May 5, 2009 at 12:04 p.m.

On the same week that kabobs are voted to be one of the most glaring absences in the San Francisco street food dining scene, we're sad to bring the news that Polk Street's De Afghanan Kabob House has gone dark ...

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Week Around the Ists

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Published May 3, 2009 at 1:30 p.m.
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Photograph of a Boeing 747 and a fighter jets flying near lower Manhattan by istolethetv on Flickr ... Gothamist's week started off with a slight shock—the Boeing 747 that's used as Air Force One, plus military fighter jets, flew without warning over lower Manhattan, causing people to evacuate buildings ... It turned out to be a badly-planned photo op for White House files and the FAA told local and state authorities not to tell the public ... Torontoist covered a multi-day protest by

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Opening: Michael Mina's RN74

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Published April 24, 2009 at 2:00 a.m.
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Michael Mina's RN74 may just usher in the next phase of California cuisine. The dining room and wine bar opened Friday in San Francisco's Millennium Tower, but unlike Mina's eponymous four-star restaurant in the Westin St. Francis this one sheds the white- ...

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SFist Eats: Midi

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Published April 22, 2009 at 7:09 p.m.
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Chef Michelle Mah’s brasserie-style menu and a freakin’ off-the-mother-flippin’ hook pot de crème is a nice fat cushion as well ... Beginning with the end, our host, server, and a really cool guy named "Aaron" chose the pot de crème for us. And we admit to initially feeling a little ho-hum inside because, seriously, how many menus in this damn world have pot de crème? Most of them. However, this little trifle was topped with a thick, ridiculously delicious layer of salted caramel. It

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