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Meat Your Maker: Top Five Boutique Butchers

November 11, 2011 – 2:40 pm | 5 Comments

In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a new rock star in the culinary world: the butcher. For years this trend has been on the rise as increasingly demanding foodies pass on the pre-boxed supermarket pork …

Para Mí y Para Ti: Contigo

November 10, 2011 – 4:40 pm | No Comment

“Connection, communication, collaboration, and conviviality.” These are words that sound more like they were spoken at your latest staff meeting, rather than describing a restaurant. But it is how the minds behind San Francisco’s Contigo …

What We’re Eating Now: Askinosie Chocolate

October 6, 2011 – 10:06 am | No Comment
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Askinosie Chocolate likes to be first. They’re the first small-batch, 100% traceable bean-to-bar boutique chocolatier in the US to import cocoa beans from the Philippines in 25 years. They’re the first small-batch chocolate factory to …

Sensory Lab Plants Plantation, Melbourne

October 5, 2011 – 9:12 am | No Comment
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Some people (read: you) are just built for loving coffee. You join an esteemed group of folks that commonly congregate around Sensory Lab locales. Meet their newest collaboration, Plantation – superior specialty coffee beans packed …

Ristretto, Recycled: Slow Poke Espresso

September 21, 2011 – 9:13 am | 3 Comments
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Picture this: a cozy café that’s so inviting you’ll want to linger over your morning cuppa well into afternoon tea. Now imagine this space is completely and utterly sustainable. Enter Slow Poke Espresso.
Everything at …

Swiss Bliss: Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes

July 28, 2011 – 2:55 pm | One Comment

It was the old school vintage labels and cool, dark beer bottles with Grolsch-style flip caps that first caught my attention. Then I cracked open a bottle of La Brasserie des Franches-Montagnes – or BFM, …

Madame Truffles Pop-Up Shop, South Melbourne

July 21, 2011 – 8:32 am | One Comment

Madame Truffles loves Australian truffles. She loves them on toast with mushrooms, in scrambled eggs for breakfast, or shaved on pasta for dinner. Truffles, truffles, truffles. Happily, this year she’s sharing her zeal for these …

That’s Amore, Dude: Wood Fire Woodies, SF

July 20, 2011 – 10:29 am | 2 Comments
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Thin crust pizza cooked in a wood-fire oven inside a bright, engine red 1940s Ford Woodie. Now that’s taking the revolving food van idea up a notch.
Based out of San Francisco, Wood Fire …

The Urban Grocer Gets Hitched!

June 24, 2011 – 10:34 am | 2 Comments

It was while studying in the library at the University of Chicago during a bitterly cold winter that I first met my now fiancé, Michael. Cut to six years later and we’re looking forward to …

Pop To Make Your Mouth Pop: SodaCraft

June 20, 2011 – 3:02 pm | One Comment

In true San Francisco style, your typically banal soda has been transformed into a flavorful, handmade gem thanks to SF-based SodaCraft. Using local and sustainable produce – of course – this new boutique company brews …