foodies

28 Jul 2023

The Best Persian Food in the Bay Area

It’s safe to say that I love Persian food. I love the olives, the lamb and that crunchy rice stuff. It is also safe to say I do not know a lot about Persian food. Luckily, I know two incredible humans who deep dive into the world of Persian Cuisine

Vita Hewitt 0
31 Oct 2018

We wanna send you and your foodie friend to see Magnus Nilsson!

Join Swedish chef and photographer Magnus Nilsson, featured in the Emmy-Award winning The Mind of a Chef and Chef’s Table, as he shares his explorations and images of the rich food traditions and landscapes of the Nordic region. Nilsson has traveled extensively throughout Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

illyannam 0
08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

BAS Editorial Team 0
27 Feb 2018

We ate it so you don’t have to: McDonald’s Szechuan Sauce

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY BENDER’S BECAUSE THEY ARE BADASS. DROP BY AND MAKE SOME BAD DECISIONS WITH SOME GOOD PEOPLE! Welcome to, “We ate it so you don’t have to.” While some are prepping for St. Patty’s Day and the already released Shamrock Shake, some are still celebrating the Lunar New Year.

illyannam 0
02 Feb 2018

We ate the Taco Bell Nacho Fries and it wasn’t the worse thing in our mouths.

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY BENDER’S BECAUSE THEY ARE BADASS. DROP BY AND MAKE SOME BAD DECISIONS WITH SOME GOOD PEOPLE!   Welcome to, “We ate it, so you don’t have to.” By now, we should all know that Taco Bell’s answer to Mexicanizing something is to add nacho cheese sauce to it.

illyannam 0
25 Jan 2017

Hawker Fare Oakland to Close

OFF MENU IS SPONSORED BY EMPEROR NORTON’S BOOZELAND THE TENDERLOIN’S NEWEST HISTORIC DIVE.  HAPPY HOUR NOON – 7PM   It appears as if I’m losing another one of my favorites. This time it’s in the shape of a plate piled high with intensely seasoned som tum/tom sum/tum mak houng; that’s green papaya salad

illyannam 0
18 Sep 2015

The California Burrito Dispute and Why Arguing About Food is Dumb

Off Menu Screed: Two distinct camps: those who champion the Mission Burrito and them who wave the flag for the San Diego version

Fatt Mink 0
12 Dec 2014

How They Celebrated Xmas in Old San Francisco

In The City That Was, Bohemian Archivist P Segal tells a weekly story of what you all missed: the days when artists, writers, musicians, and unemployed visionaries were playing hard in the city’s streets and paying the rent working part time.

P Segal - Bohemian Archivist 0
07 May 2010

Limelight Marketplace Opens

So this is fucking weird.  And it makes me feel really old.  The very first ‘club” I was ever “up in” in my life has become a sort of haute-bourgeois foodie mecca and it opens this weekend.  The first place I ever saw real live drag queens and heard real

BAS Writers 0