PHOTOS AND WORDS BY ANDY SAMWICK I have been noticing the growing trend toward tasting menus some restaurants are taking. At Marlena, my companions and I indulged in an exceptionally lavish encounter with the restaurant’s current prix fixe menu. My friends were from out-of-town but had once lived here a

Say you have one day left to live (or worse, you have to move back to Missouri). Which San Francisco restaurant would you visit on your way out? I fished recommendations from multiple Reddit threads and Twitter arguments so you didn’t have to. Feelings about these eateries may shift faster

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last several months, you probably know that inflation in our country is at it’s highest point since 1982. Seriously, the last time inflation hit this hard, Olivia Newton-John was singing about Jazzercise and E.T. was phoning home about it. Prices are

I’ve got a dirty little secret and it’s an unpopular opinion for most servers to have: I am a fan of separate checks. Let me clarify. As a server, I’ve had several credit cards tossed in my general direction at the end of service with customers assuming I have kept

In a little more than one week, Contra Costa County customers will have to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test if they want to eat inside a restaurant, drink in a bar or work out in a gym, among other things. San Francisco and the city of

Everyone remembers how the COVID-19 economic relief PPP loans were taken advantage of by large corporations, and big companies beat out small, local businesses to get a bigger pile of that money. A New York Times analysis of loan data found that “Black- and other minority-owned businesses were disproportionately underserved

San Francisco nightlife is back, and that means the return of Date Nights for all of us fully vaccinated hotties. If you want to buy your date a fabulous full-on Michelin Star dinner but you’re on a COVID-challenged budget, we’ve calculated the 5 cheapest Michelin Star-awarded San Francisco restaurants and

As the weather warms up and more Covid vaccinations are getting into arms, plenty of people are feeling more comfortable venturing out into the world of restaurant dining. However, staffing those restaurants has become a huge challenge. The New York Times, CNN, and NBC’s Today Show have all written about