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SF Cocktails Transcending the 21st Floor
Tony Abou-Ganim, Joel Teitelbaum, and Marco Dionysos prepare their signature cocktails. By Celeste Noche, Epicuring Through an act of serendipity, Harry Denton’s Starlight Room reopened just as San Francisco Cocktail Week ended. Although the two events were planned separately, both seemed to commemorate a milestone in San Francisco’s bartending culture. In its fifth year running, the city’s annual festival paid homage to its thriving cocktail scene while the Starlight Room’s reopening brought together the best of the old and the new. This week the iconic lounge welcomed a new era while commemorating its past 15 years on the 21st floor of Kimpton’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel on Powell Street…
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From Seed to Table: The National Heirloom Expo
By Emily Shartin, Epicuring Tagged as “the world’s pure food fair,” the first-ever National Heirloom Exposition* sought perhaps a deeper response to the popular foodie question of late: “Where does your food come from?” This three-day agricultural festival in Santa Rosa celebrated heritage food breeds — those unique, flavorful and often colorfully-named varieties of fruits and vegetables that have often been passed over as farmers opt instead for breeds that will withstand the rigors of travel and supermarket stocking. The festival featured seeds and gardening supplies for sale (it was organized by Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, which has an outpost in Petaluma), guest speakers (including chef Alice Waters and seed-protection…
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Foodie Roadtrip Find: Caviar-Like Limes in Santa Monica, California
Early Fall means finger limes – a new breed of citrus in California, originating in Australia – arrives in Southern California farmers’ markets. The newspapers and magazines have discovered these gems, today featured in the Wall Street Journal. Here’s a full post and video about this fabulous discovery when I tasted the finger limes last fall. Plan Your Epicuring Outing: Where & why: You can meet the farmers and taste the limes at the Saturday Santa Monica farmers market. It’s not often that a fruit can entertain kids like these pop rock-like limes. (They’d be super fun mixed with popping pomegranate seeds!) How much: Last Fall the Shanley family was…
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Great Foodie Father’s Day Ideas
Father’s Day is on Sunday and we’ve got lots of last minute ideas and gifts for your pops. Why not take him Epicuring? Hit the U-Pick Farms in Brentwood –take a picnic, and spend a leisurely morning picking and eating cherries.What’s your favorite–bing or rainer? Take a Drive on the Marin Cheese Trail. Bring some bread and thou. Tour the Private Urban Farms in Oakland-Berkeley with the Center for Urban Homesteading. On Saturday, take the whole family to Strawberry Family Day at Red Hill Ranch in Petaluma. On a budget? Take him to the Ferry Building on Saturday for a free class from CUESA, and grab a delicious burger from…
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A Perfect Epicuring Food Tour of Berkeley
{made to print / phone and take it with you} Since before the fire and before the big one, I’ve called Berkeley home, and a big part of that is the food scene. Not a going out to restaurants scene, but a mix of food factories, artisans, and joints that make me happy. Recently I took some visitors from Spain on my “perfect food tour of Berkeley,” which became more and more perfect with each hour as the tour took unplanned twists and turns. This tour is geared to budget travelers. For those not on a budget Berkeley’s many famous restaurants including Chez Panisse should be on your “must eat”…
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On the Cheese Trail in West Marin
A road trip to Nicasio Cheese Company in Marin.
