Closing out a weekend of indulgence at SF Chefs 2010 was a Grand Tasting of innovative creations that gave us a new perspective on familiar ingredients.
There were the usual suspects: Tomatoes, Corn, Dungeness crab, Vanilla and Salmon, but paired with novel flavors in unusual forms and consistencies. Like the Scallop Ceviche with Foie Gras and [...]

Gary Danko and Joanne Weir are best friends in the kitchen and in real life too. Their great dynamic made for a fantastic, fun cooking demo at the Williams Sonoma test kitchen last Saturday during SF Chefs. Weir and Danko took a controlled chaos approach to the flow of their demo, as they helped with [...]

Beyond the headline events at SF Chefs were two smaller tastings held at the Westin St Francis for the hotel’s VIP guests, KGO contest winners and event sponsors. Featuring seven to eight chefs, the parties offered a chance to sample the creations focused around a theme. Thursday evening’s event was all about Spices, showcasing a [...]

What happens when you get some of the best chefs in San Francisco together under one roof for a panel discussion? Great conversation, a mutual love for food, and energy in the room that screams, “I’m in love with what I do.”
After the indulgences of Friday’s events, guests at SF Chefs were greeted with a [...]

Early birds that ventured across Powell Street were treated to a two-on-two battle Sunday morning at the Anolon Chef Challenge: As Seen On TV, as Tyler Florence (Wayfare Tavern) and Elizabeth Falkner (Orson, Citizen Cake) squared off against Jennifer Biesty (Scala’s Bistro) and Chris Cosentino (Incanto) in an Iron Chef-esque competition. Each team had an [...]

This is what happens when you hire the David Martin House Party to play at your event, where you round up your city’s best chefs and mixologists for a bunch of adventurous people primed and ready for feast and merriment on a Saturday night. And start doing Abba covers.
That was enough for Chef Ranjan Dey [...]

After Friday’s Pork Fest, SF Chefs’s first of two Grand Tastings was a leisurely four-hour affair of light salads, gazpachos and crudos. Alice Waters’ legacy of local, seasonal, and sustainable eating had a strong presence in the abundance of tasty nibbles created out of sweet corn, heirloom tomatoes and melons at the peak of their [...]

SF Chefs 2010 has begun and Lick My Spoon was at the Opening Party filled with creations from 30 different chefs all in homage to the Pig.

It was the best of times…it was the best of times. Because apparently there are no worst of times when you’re graced by the presence of these two culinary legends.

Chefs Thomas Keller and Hubert Keller have won the hearts, minds, and stomachs of the people – and after their showing at last [...]

As featured in Bay Area Bites, August 10, 2009.

To quote Mayor Gavin Newsom, “Aspen, eat your heart out.”
An epic event 2 ½ years in the making, SF Chefs. Food. Wine. was like a food-lover’s Disneyland with over 200 of the Bay Area’s finest chefs, 450 wineries, and mixologists aplenty strutting their stuff. [...]