I recently joined Twitter, and while I might not be the ardent anti-twitter fanatic I once was, I’m not quite yet 100% sold on the medium either.  That balance is slowly shifting though, as I find the sweet spot for how twitter can be most useful. For example, when about to head out to a Giants game, [...]

I’ll get strait to the point: foie on a stick!     Actually it’s not just foie – there is also a duck heart and mushroom on there too. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s go back to the beginning.  This week, MSF played host to Jordan Grosser and Ted Fleury, the [...]

  Yes, the rumors are true. Today I found myself doing the unthinkable: signing up for a Twitter account. I’ve resisted the siren song for so long that it almost feels like giving up to give into the mass of twitter, yet here I am, diving in to the twitter-verse, and all of the twatting that [...]

This past weekend brought out unusually hot weather again.  The solution: cool off with a scoop from Humphry Slocombe.  It turned out we weren’t the only ones with this idea, and it had been a record setting day for the local ice cream shop.        After a scoop to cool down, we continued down Harrison to [...]

     The Mission Beach Cafe‘s Beer Dinner with Shmaltz Brewing was a great success. Tom and his kitchen crew did a bang up creating dishes that reflected creativity in beer and food pairings. Nearly every dish featured components that were brined, marinated and infused with beer and beer ingredients.  He managed the difficult task [...]

On a cold, windy San Francisco night, German cuisine can be just what you need to warm your insides, and steel your body for the cold German winter ahead. OK, so maybe we won’t be facing real winters here in California – or the Russian army for that matter – but German food still has [...]

  The farmer’s market this week revealed a special treat: teensy-winsy baby beets, with adorable little beer greens attached on top. These miniaturized beets are perfectly balanced with sweetness coming from the minuscule beet roots, and slight bitterness from the attached greens. With them being so photogenic and colorful, i kept them whole.  In doing so, I avoided [...]

Mission Beach Cafe specializes in local, sustainable and seasonal food, prepared simply but elegantly.  They’re the ideal sort of San Francisco neighborhood restaurant, with large architectural art, and polished wooden tables with arts and crafts style construction. Everything about the place prays at the alter of Slow Food. In addition to the fine savory creations, they have [...]

    I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Draft Magazine for the Beer Director’s Blog. Rick and I talked about how to get the best beer pictures possible with the camera you already own, and some what to do to take your pictures to the next level.  It gets pretty technical, and [...]