Eat & Drink

10 Tasty Eats Under $15 in San Francisco
San Francisco offers a variety of affordable, handheld meals, including croissants, savory pies, piroshkis, omusubi, and empanadas, all under $15.

Broke-Ass Recipes: Stovetop Pizza
BY JAMES CONRAD Although people from Detroit, Chicago, New York City and especially my hometown of New Haven each have very hard-and-fast rules about what pizza is and isn’t, the dish has existed in one form or another since the 6th century B.C.E. and is not specifically exclusively Italian in

What’s Local and Seasonal, and Who the Hell Grows It?
A look at some of the local farms in the Bay Area and what they’ve got available during these weird winter months. Tender perpetual spinach. Lucky Daisy and Kishu mandarins. Fractal Roman cauliflower. All of them grown in the same fog that you can see from your kitchen window. We

Wonderful, Culturally Rich Events in SF
KQED is hosting a series of events in San Francisco this winter, including Fixit Clinics, Dungeons and Dragons Live, Chinese New Year Parade Viewing Party, Hella Asian: Bridging the Bay, and The Flavors of the Levant, all of which offer live journalism, performance art, and community-building activities.

Zeitgeist Fries Returning in 2025
A dive bar lives a thousand lives, sometimes in one day. But over the years, Zeitgeist was known for two things: delicious fried food and good live music. And then the inspection happened. Wait, before you freak – they passed all other parts of the inspection. But the outdoor kitchen

Broke-Ass Recipes: Beef Stroganov
To be sure, Beef Stroganov most certainly does not refer to a lewd act committed with cattle. As a matter of fact, it is a hearty dish of Russian origin defined by the sour cream and Dijon mustard that go into its proprietary sauce and damn good eating on cold

Dungeons, Dragons, and Drag Queens: Let’s Ride
Not your average—if there is such a thing—game of D&D. These magical queens take things to the next level at Rockridge Improvement Club monthly. Roll for Shade Rockridge Improvement Club 5515 College ave, Oakland CA December 8, 2024 It’s not every day you get to watch a drag queen wielding

Behind-the-Scenes with the Talented Cast of the Dickens Fair
The Great Dickens Christmas Fair and Holiday Market is a massive immersive theatrical experience made possible by hundreds of actors, musicians, artists, cooks, cleaners, carpenters, and chestnut roasters, including Mark Montgomery French, Sean Owens, Polly Amber Ross, Brendan Getzell, and Kerri Jones.