San Francisco’s Cask, on Third and Market Streets, is a worthwhile stop for lovers of spirits. The snug, wood-paneled store is managed by a group that presides over a local cocktail bar empire (Bourbon & Branch, Swig, Rickhouse). Its genial proprietors have run bars, distilled spirits, brewed beers and tasted every bottle on [...]
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Press Club, a San Francisco Wine Bar
Visitors to San Francisco in search of an early evening respite from shopping in Union Square or museum-browsing South of Market would be hard-pressed to improve on Press Club. An elegant stairwell off Yerba Buena Lane (adjacent to the Four Seasons) leads to a spacious warren of hardwood tables, lounge chairs & comfortably subdued [...]
The Bay Lights of San Francisco
The Bay Lights have been lit, providing yet another reason to visit San Francisco. This monumental light sculpture, inspired by the 75th anniversary of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, consists of 25,000 white LED lights that swim and dance in a range of mesmerizing patterns across the western span of the bridge. Organizers believe [...]
San Francisco’s SFJAZZ Center Opens
Jazz fans have a new destination in San Francisco with the opening this week of SFJAZZ Center, a unique performance hall and cultural hub built specifically for and dedicated to jazz. The $64 million 35,000-square-foot structure, built on the site of a former auto repair shop, houses a 700-seat auditorium, an 80-seat rehearsal space, a [...]
The San Francisco Culinary Empire of Traci Des Jardins
As noted in this month’s Hideaway Report, Traci Des Jardins is the chef and co-owner of Manzanita, the superb signature restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe. Originally from a farming community in California’s San Joaquin Valley, Des Jardins is of French-Acadian and Mexican descent. She apprenticed as a prep cook at Joachim Splichal’s 7th Street Bistro in Los [...]
Family-Friendly Cavallo Point Lodge, Sausalito
Cavallo Point Lodge hides in plain sight; it sits squarely in the middle of a happily buzzing national park with glorious San Francisco views, yet manages to feel very peaceful and removed. The property occupies a serene warren of former officers’ quarters at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, and is managed as a [...]
San Francisco’s Boulevard Restaurant Wins a James Beard Award
On my recent trip to San Francisco, I made the wise decision to book a table for dinner at Boulevard, located just by the Ferry Building. I have long admired the cooking of Nancy Oakes, who teamed up with noted designer Pat Kuleto to open the restaurant in 1993 (hard to believe!). With [...]
San Francisco’s Tadich Grill
There is a long and circuitous origin myth on the menu of the Tadich Grill, which sits in San Francisco’s Financial District three blocks off the Embarcadero. Suffice to say that it’s been around in one Croatian-American guise or another since 1849, when it began as a waterfront coffee tent during the [...]
Notable August Events
August 6-7: During the Livarot Cheese Fair, this town in Normandy, France, celebrates one of France’s greatest contributions to gastronomy. Festival-goers can of course sample numerous cheeses and other gourmet products, but this event is hardly the sole preserve of stuffy gourmands. The “Pig Call” and “Biggest Livarot Eater” competitions always draw delighted crowds. August [...]
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