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Demian Bulwa@demianbulwa19 May 2025
Jaw-dropping read: "Thomas Keller is fidgeting on the bench next to mine in the empty courtyard of the French Laundry ... This is not something he is accustomed to doing, he says — asking a critic to leave." By MacKenzie Chung Fegan GIFT LINK: sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

This is what happened when Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry

For two decades, critics showered Thomas Keller’s restaurants with accolades. But on the night I showed up at the French Laundry, he had a bone to pick.

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Here's an incredible opportunity: The San Francisco Chronicle is looking for our next Food & Wine editor. Is it you? eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/…

Food & Wine Editor

Food & Wine Editor The San Francisco Chronicle seeks an editor to lead its award-winning Food & Wine team. This editor will lead the team’s daily operations, ensuring we are first to news on openin...

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Mario Cortez@macortez61910 Apr 2025
Was your favorite restaurant left off the Chronicle's Top 100 list? Here's your chance to tell us about it! sfchronicle.com/projects/202…

Our Top 100 Bay Area restaurants list is here. What did we miss?

What would you add to the Chronicle's Top 100 restaurants list?

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TOP 100 RESTAURANTS IS BACK! And it looks pretty different this year. sfchronicle.com/projects/202…

100 best restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2025

The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area in 2025, from 100 to No. 1.

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We're throwing a party to celebrate the return of Top 100. You should come. trib.al/lV44S6A

The S.F. Chronicle is celebrating the Top 100 restaurants in the Bay Area — and you’re invited

After a five-year hiatus, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 restaurants list is coming back — and we’re throwing a party to celebrate!

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The San Francisco Chronicle's Top 100 restaurants list is coming back this spring for the first time since the pandemic sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

Get excited: Our Top 100 restaurants list is coming back

We’ve been furiously working to bring back the Top 100 restaurants list — and for the first time, they’ll be ranked from 100 to No. 1. Plus, we’re throwing a party to celebrate.

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A huge new Korean food complex unlike anything else in the Bay Area is opening early next year. @ekadvany got the first tour sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

Food complex unlike anything in Bay Area to open soon. Here are first-ever details

A massive Korean food complex unlike anything in the Bay Area is gearing up to open in the new year. It includes a restaurant, bakery, two bars and much more.

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The best new restaurants of the year... with critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan's favorite revealed tomorrow sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

The 10 best new Bay Area restaurants of 2024

From electric Cantonese cooking to an alluring Southern spot, these are the Bay Area’s must-eat restaurants of the year.

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What does Samin Nosrat want for the holidays? We decided to ask sfchronicle.com/food/article…

The Bay Area food and drink gift guide

We asked Samin Nosrat and other food people with excellent taste what gifts they would like to receive this year.

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This driveway coffee shop story is so cute and so Oakland sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

The Bay Area’s most charming coffee popup is in this family’s driveway

One family has started a popular coffee shop right outside their front door: “Every week, it just energizes us.”

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Daytrip, one of Oakland's most buzzed-about restaurants nationally, is shutting down for good. Here's why: sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

Why one of the Bay Area’s hottest restaurants is closing

Bon Appetit named it one of the best new restaurants in the country in 2022, but this year, business has been challenging.

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@sfchronicle has a gorgeous new cookbook & we’re having a party! Hear about recipe creation & cooking tips from star columnists Christian Reynoso + Amisha Gurbani, wine critic @Esther_mobley + editor @JanelleBitker — plus try bites from the book! sfchronicle.com/events/artic…

Live event: Celebrate the Chronicle’s new cookbook with a launch party and signing

“San Francisco by Season” is a collection of our favorite recipes from the past decade of the S.F. Chronicle’s Food & Wine pages.

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Good morning, here is an exhaustively researched guide to breakfast burritos in the Bay Area: sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

I tried over 30 breakfast burritos in the Bay Area. Here are the 10 best

So many restaurants offer breakfast burritos, but only a few make truly great ones. Restaurant critic Cesar Hernandez shares where you should go for the best that the Bay Area has to offer.

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I wrote about thayir sadam aka curd rice aka South Indian yogurt rice sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

A lush comfort food gets its own Bay Area restaurant

Each bowl of Indian yogurt rice is finished with sizzling curry leaves.

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Our critic has been eating tasting menus all over the Bay Area. At last, we have the results: These are the 12 best fine dining restaurants right now sfchronicle.com/projects/202…

Best fine dining restaurants in the Bay Area - 2024

The fine dining restaurants that will be worth your money, including transportive tasting menus, inventive haute cuisine and Michelin star winners.

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Here's everything to know about the food coming to San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

All the details on the first new restaurant at S.F.’s revamped Transamerica Pyramid

An acclaimed chef brings babka, fresh pasta and more to an iconic city landmark.

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MacKenzie Chung Fegan found delicious lamb chops AND a beautiful love story at this San Francisco food court sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

There’s a secret in the basement of S.F.’s biggest mall: A truly impressive restaurant

Go down the escalator at the woebegone Emporium Centre San Francisco and, amid the slick branding of the usual mall fast-food suspects, you’ll find a corner stall that sticks out like a sore...

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Oakland. Politics. Rumors. Ice cream. sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

Beloved Bay Area ice cream parlor becomes flashpoint in crime debate

A longtime ice cream parlor has become unwittingly ensnared in local politics.

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wake me up tomorrow, i'm getting lost in these buttery swirls sfchronicle.com/food/restaur…

Dizzyingly beautiful pastries get a permanent home in the Bay Area

Tarts de Feybesse is poised to become one of the Bay Area’s most serious bakeries with fine dining technique and hard-to-find French specialties.

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Our favorite recipes from the new San Francisco Chronicle cookbook: trib.al/G8S1VOo

Our favorite recipes from the new San Francisco Chronicle cookbook

“San Francisco by Season” is the newspaper’s first cookbook in over 20 years. Here are nine standout recipes that Food & Wine staffers love to cook at home.

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