Dining News

The Foster Refrigerator Chefs of Tomorrow competition at City College. Judges Ashley Sword, left, sales director at Foster Refrigerator, and TV River Cottage chef Tim Maddams with the winner, Chloe Friend from City College.

The newest chef to occupy the long-running kitchen is Jake Martin, who has found creative ways to invigorate Genoa's elaborate prix fixe menu.

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THE Headland Hotel is imposing with its red-bricked Victorian demeanour but on the inside it is easy to get lost in its unpretentious charm, as well as suspect that it is tastefully edging towards five-star status.

Don't get me wrong, I admire vegetarianism but meat-free bacon, soya mince, veggie sausages and the like have led me to assume that I will only ever be getting a second-rate version of the meat one.

Bread. A nice tomato. A couple of slices of your favorite lettuce. Smoky, crisp bacon.

A fractured ankle couldn't keep Douglas Paine from a successful opening. Though he's leaving the line to other cooks until the end of the month, the chef oversaw the debut of Hotel Vermont 's first restaurant, Juniper , last Thursday.

Evening Star Cafe on Mount Vernon Avenue is launching a new pop-up restaurant Wednesday evening called The Front Porch that is located on a new patio between Planet Wine and the Exotic Planterium and Card and Comic Collectorama .

Cristina Aldana recently opened Las Cazuelas after running two successful Mexican spots in gas stations.

The owners at Factors Row are polishing up the renovated building on Market Space downtown for a grand opening later this month.

A new study published online today in the Journal of Public Health has found that of young people who visited fast food or chain restaurants in the U.S. in 2010, girls and youth who were obese were more likely to use calorie information given in the restaurants to inform their food choices.

Some new projects to add to your radar: first, ~PESCE~ is going to be swimming downstream from its Russian Hill location to the former 2223 Market Street/Jake's on Market location in the Castro.

As previously mentioned on tablehopper , pop-up alumni Grant Gooding, Jess McCarter, and Jeron Thomson were opening ~EASY CREOLE~ in Berkeley, and now it's open.

The Montgomery City Council snuffed out the last of the controversy surrounding Club Blaze during Tuesday's meeting by revoking its business license.

Last season on FOX's cooking-competition show "MasterChef," legally blind Christine Ha won top honors among the home chefs trying to impress pro-chef judges Gordon Ramsay , Graham Elliot and Joe Bastianich .

It has been a challenge determining who has taken us on more of a roller coaster ride, Mother Nature or the Philadelphia Phillies.

First impressions are important. A bad one? I won't even go past the host before I leave to find somewhere I feel welcome.

Elizabeth Blau of Blau & Associates with business partner Jason Lapin, center, and husband Kim Canteenwalla at Honey Salt, a new restaurant at 1031 S. Rampart Blvd.

At a time when even school cafeterias serve adobo and sushi, it's surprising that so many restaurants still resort to chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese for their youngest clientele.

If you've ever forgotten your wallet, you've probably spent at least a few seconds wondering just what would happen if you ate at a restaurant but couldn't pay.