Eat & Drink

What It’s Like To Be a Server Right Now
Ask a server what it’s like to wait tables in the age of Covid and, depending on the state they live in, the answers can be as varied as box of herbal teas. I live and work in New York City. A year ago, my borough of Queens was the

How To Be the Best Restaurant Customer You Can Possibly Be
Remember when you were in elementary school and your teacher gave you a gold star on your assignment? It meant you did a good job and you were being recognized for doing so. That kind of validation was so much easier to get when we were younger, but that doesn’t

Cowgirl Creamery is Closing the Ferry Building Location
I don’t know about you, but I love cheese more than I like most people. And I’m a people person, which goes to show now much I love cheese. So this is obviously a bummer considering how wonderful Cowgirl Creamery‘s cheese is. According to the Chronicle, after 18 years Cowgirl

These Oakland Eateries are Feeding People in Need During the Pandemic
“…There is no place too far or disaster too great for our chefs to be there with a hot plate of food when it’s needed most. Wherever there’s a fight so hungry people may eat, we will be there – we must be there…. We envisioned an organization that would

The Awful Ways Maskholes are Treating Servers
It’s been twelve long months that our country has been learning to live with Covid. On April 3, it will be exactly a year that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first suggested that Americans wear facial coverings to help curtail the spread of the virus. Still, there

SF to Open Indoor dining, Movies & Museums Next Week
In short, indoor dinning at 25% capacity, indoor gyms at 10% capacity, indoor museums, zoos & aquariums at 25% capacity. Even the GG park ferris wheel is will reopen! And they are lifting the 10pm curfew!

Do Servers Even Want To Wait Tables Anymore?
Now more than ever, it’s not easy to make a living waiting tables. Covid restrictions have made sure that most restaurants aren’t even close to capacity and plenty of the customers who do go out to eat in restaurants are using the “times are hard” excuse to leave less than

El Rio has Reopened for Food and To-Go Drinks
This is such great news! El Rio holds a special place in so many peoples’ hearts. It’s literally one of my favorite bars ever and I have so many wonderful memories from there. Not just for the epic election night parties, fabulous backyard discos, goofy karaoke, and grungy bands. It’s