Food & Drink
A hyped Cake Picnic sold out in one minute. Excluded bakers are throwing their own parties.
‘It was easier to get tickets to see Taylor Swift than the Picnic’
Hedge Coffee is brewing up a cafe and roastery over on Shotwell Street
The coffee company got its start at a mobile coffee cart 10 years ago
An SF food reviewer asks: Is a place ‘worth the hype or do just white people like it?’
Amber Richele is going TikTok viral for her honest takes on San Francisco’s hottest spots
Do Park Rangers really need to be fingerprinting hot dog vendors?
Amid a terrifying national deportation crisis, San Francisco is still trying to crack down on immigrant vendors, to little avail
Saying goodbye (temporarily?) to Sam Wo, a Chinatown institution
The beloved little restaurant, which first opened around 1912, is losing its chef-owner after four decades
A humble church cookbook from Stockton defined Cantonese home cooking for a generation
The St. Mark’s cookbook, first published in 1966 to raise funds for a Methodist church in the Central Valley, remains a cult classic across California
Activist group exposes lax enforcement of animal cruelty laws at San Francisco’s live animal markets
A San Francisco Animal Care and Control representative told Gazetteer SF they don’t have the resources or authority for proactive policing
I can’t stop thinking about this local news anchor’s pizza meatloaf
KGO-TV anchor Dion Lim knows the dish she posted to Facebook doesn’t look appetizing, but says it tasted damn good
Acclaimed Hamburger Project chef steps down after haranguing influencer over TikTok review
Geoffrey Lee, the celebrated head chef of Hamburger Project, is at the center of an online firestorm after his response to a TikTok influencer’s review of the place
SF’s only Cheesecake Factory proves one thing: Union Square isn’t (quite) dead
The masses are lining up at Macy’s to eat at a corporate franchise — and it’s almost worth the wait