The Comfort Food of Strangers
At first I think we might have come to the wrong address. When my cousin Dave and I ring the bell of a Bartlett Street duplex
Sir and Star at the Olema: Life, Death and Rebirth of a Restaurant Legend
On a foggy Sunday in January 2007, several weeks after a fire razed Manka’s Inverness Lodge in Northern California, hundreds of mourners poured into the
Pastrami: Discuss
Notes from the first-ever Deli Summit Noah and Rae Bernamoff’s The Mile End Cookbook: From Hash to Hamantaschen, which came out earlier this month, contains more
Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen
A real-deal Jewish deli in San Francisco has always been as tough to come by as a California-style burrito in Manhattan. There have been a few fleeting attempts, but none have stuck. Leo Beckerman and Evan Bloom aim to change that with Wise Sons Jewish Delicatessen.
Passover Goes Gourmet
Why was this night different from all other nights? For starters, there was a bar. And not a bottle of Manischewitz behind it. Guests were actually drinking wine — good wine — before the first of the traditional four glasses was poured.
