Lured In

Lot 7's way with fish and chips

Burritos have always been the sub-$10 meal of choice in the Mission. But now there is some competition. At newcomer Lot 7, the two-hour-long "happy hour" yields a cheap-eats glut:...

A Tale of Two Panisses

A humble chickpea fritter is poised for a revival

In this part of the country, the word panisse is usually modified by chez. But in the South of France, panisse has an altogether different connotation, referring instead to...

Smoke Show

Barbecue in the California tradition

California has always provided safe haven for iconoclasts. This is good news for Pamela Schafer and Richard Park, chef-proprietors of Cathead's BBQ, because Cathead's menu draws...

Black Gold

A Yucatecan soup to stop for

If you're going to dodge the hustlers on 16th Street, there had better be a good reward. The relleno negro soup at Ku'u Up is that payoff. At the three-month-old Yucatecan...

A Place to Roost

State Bird Provisions gets it right

We don't like to throw around the word "perfect," but State Bird Provisions comes close. From the moment you enter Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski's exceptional...

Hogging the Spotlight

A pork dinner every week of the year

Whole-hog dinners have been the sole province of Italian restaurants for too long: Oakland's Oliveto, Mozza in Los Angeles and New York's Il Buco all host annual pig outs. But...