The 17 restaurants new to the Top 100
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] Seventeen new restaurants made my Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants list this year, which was three fewer than in 2014. It’s not that last year had better...
View ArticleMamacita still deserves its Top 100 status
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] Only two days after my Top 100 restaurant guide was published in May, I got an email from Luiz Contreras, the chef at Mamacita, telling me he was moving...
View ArticleThe best Bay Area restaurants of 2015 (so far)
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] Since we’re more than halfway through 2015, I thought it would be a great time to look back on what’s happened in the last seven months. As I peruse the...
View ArticleCommonwealth is uncommonly good
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] I have to confess I inadvertently did something that was very unfair when I showed up at Commonwealth. It slipped my mind that that chef owner, Jason...
View ArticleTop Contenders for the next Top 100 list
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] It’s been six months since the 2015 version of the Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants was published. If I were compiling the list today it might look a little...
View ArticleThe 19 restaurants added to the 2016 Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] At this time of year — when I’ve made all my revisits and finished the annual Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants guide — I look back and assess the dining...
View ArticleMy reasons for removing 19 restaurants from the Top 100
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] The most difficult challenge of formulating the Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants each year is not just what to include, but what to cut. Obviously for every...
View ArticleInside the Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants
[See image gallery at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com] In many cities producing a Top 100 restaurant guide wouldn’t be a difficult proposition. In San Francisco and the Bay Area we have so many options that...
View ArticlePress executive chef Trevor Kunk moving on from St. Helena steakhouse
Chef Trevor Kunk. Photo: Pete Kiehart/The Chronicle 2014 After 2.5 years of running the kitchen at Press, executive chef Trevor Kunk has told Inside Scoop that he will leaving the restaurant in early...
View ArticleThe Chronicle celebrates the 2016 Top 100 restaurants in SF
On a May evening in Ghirardelli Square, guests gathered to toast the release of the San Francisco Chronicle’s annual list of the Top 100 Bay Area Restaurants. The owners, executive chefs and general...
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