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senior editor food & wine @sfchronicle | send tips and pitches to [email protected]
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Joined September 2009
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:
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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?
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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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Was your favorite restaurant left off the Chronicle's Top 100 list? Here's your chance to tell us about it! https://t.co/Je9ykJlwBy
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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. https://t.co/2qa0UYNgFD
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The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area, from 100 to No. 1. See what’s on the list.
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We're throwing a party to celebrate the return of Top 100. You should come.
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After a five-year hiatus, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Top 100 restaurants list is...
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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
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We’ve been furiously working to bring back the Top 100 restaurants list — and for the...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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! https://t.co/QEN8YZW4BE
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“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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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:
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“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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