María Isabel, the latest from the owners of acclaimed Mediterranean restaurant Dalida, opens March 3. Here's what diners can look forward to: www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Mexican army kills 'El Mencho,' Mexico's most-wanted drug kingpin

"The state of affairs for our business, Oakland in general, we just can't go on any longer." www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

"Every time you get a new one it becomes a part of yourself" sounds more like Persona than Pokémon tbh

Decir God Bless América y nombrar a todos los países del continente fue lo más chingon. Solidaridad hoy más que nunca

A puro gabacho rancio no le gusto el halftime show

How much beer is enough for Super Bowl Sunday? Here's how San Francisco's oldest operating sports bar is stocking up 🍻 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

We had a Pharrell sighting in SF last night at a cult-fave Chinese restaurant www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Thought I was done writing about the bullshit that outside media says about S.F. But this pair — making fun of unhoused people in wheelchairs — coaxed me out of retirement. On loving the city, and the fragility of visiting adult male Patriots fans. Gift link 🎁 www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

ICYMI: Tokyo Central has brought its vast, premium selection of seafood, dry goods and beverages to the East Bay with the opening of its new store www.sfchronicle.com/food/article...

Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein dined out at local restaurants on multiple visits to the Bay Area, according to emails in the Epstein files.

here, I am calling upon all of us to not leave Minnesota in a lurch. it's time for us to do the work to build up to a nationwide general strike so we can finally abolish ICE www.coyotemedia.org/what-we-owe-...

I had a question about ube, so I called my mom. Read what she had to say.

since we’re talking about darrell issa, don’t forget he’s always been a shady crook.

Three SF pizza heavyweights have brought frozen pies to grocery aisles. Which one came put on top of our blind tasting ? 🍕 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

this country's lack of subtlety really drives me up the wall

Breaking: The last remaining restaurant inside San Francisco's largest mall is now closed. The closing comes as retailers have been asked to leave. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Yo: Voy a dar un paseo para olvidarme del deadline. La ciudad:

New Asian grocery stores are opening across the Bay Area and are positioned as retail 'saviors'. Immigrant culture gets celebrated when it’s profitable — and villainized when it’s not. I wrote an essay about it, and about the mall that raised me: Pacific East Mall ❤️

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

No more "Millionaire Bacon" in the Mission. Here's when San Francisco brunch hotspot Kitchen Story is closing: www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

There's a clear fusion trend among San Francisco's 2025 class of new Italian restaurants. What dishes can one expect to find? 🤌🏽 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

A small but thriving community of Asian American farmers across the Bay Area grow organic Asian vegetables that you cannot easily find in grocery stores.

Someone had to say it

The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

This was a fascinating, tragic and heartwarming story to work on. What a brilliantly creative mind - now trapped inside itself by aphasia. Will he finish his masterpiece? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Photographer Christopher Anderson on the Vanity Fair photoshoot

Mariscos Aguachiles el 8, a top-tier pick for Mexican seafood, has landed a permanent location. Here's where 🦐⤵️ www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Ese wey y su colonialismo qué se vayan a chspm

It took me all these years to realize that Alexis Vega has had Cuauhtémoc Blanco's aura all along

The journey from coast to coast has forced this Bay Area skateboarder to confront mountains, deserts, winter weather and the memories of his own life.

She was the ‘mad genius’ behind a S.F. restaurant empire — then it fell apart. Can she make a comeback? www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Workers are suing the operators of La Tapatia Market in Vallejo, alleging they allowed dangerously high concentrations of carbon monoxide to persist in the store, resulting in two employees’ deaths.

The maker of Budweiser is pulling out of the Bay Area after 50 years www.sfchronicle.com/food/wine/ar...

Chris Joslin tre flipped El Toro

New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard. I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced* www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Incredible how FIFA always finds new ways to stoop even lower. In the end they need fútbol more than we need them

Very happy to have published this oral history of Latin indie label Nacional Records, which has had an outsized influence on Latin music the last two decades www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

Chill hard forever, Claude 🕊

house smell bad? sauté some mushroom in butter and thyme.

Instant Puskás award nomination imo

Standard Fare, Berkeley's well-loved destination for produce-centric lunch, is closing. Read more ⤵️ www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Might be the last time I crack one of the open =/

It's actually happening! Oakland superstar Tacos Oscar is opening a SF location. Here's where🌵 ⤵️ www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

Thanksgiving content really does assume you're in charge of the whole thing and not that your aunt is hosting, and she thinks black pepper is spicy, and half the family is bringing the same dishes they've brought since 1994 www.bestfoodblog.net/food-media-i...

“Jabón Zote”-level pun here

With the departure of management at downtown SF's two-story dining venue Saluhall, several workers will lose their jobs. Read more ⤵️ www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...