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SF Chefs Brings Foodies To San Francisco In August

Filed under: Dining, Events


Food and wine lovers will converge in San Francisco in August for SF Chefs 2010, a four-day festival of flavor running August 9-15 in Union Square. Northern California remains a trendsetter when in it comes to food and wine trend and has formed a community that is very supportive of the craft and sustainability movements in food, wine and spirits.

The main tasting tent will be in Union Square, where chefs, wine makers and distillers will showcase local products. The schedule also includes special classes and seminars that feature local farmers, ranchers, chefs, winemakers, distillers, media, luminaries, authors, vintners, mixologists and culinary experts discussing the subjects they know best. A Top Chef happy hour features the Top Chefs of SF reunion. Tyler Florence and Elizabeth Falkner will team up against Jamie Lauren and Chris Cosentino in a food face-off.

SFChefs 2010 will support the Golden Gate Restaurant Association Scholarship Foundation which grants financial scholarships to students from the Bay Area entering culinary and hospitality programs. The event also has a goal of being a zero waste event. All paper products will be recycled and all disposable silverware and glassware is made from corn resin and will be composted after use. Tickets for the Grand Tasting Tent are $125 and individual tickets for classes and demonstrations start at $20. More details on the SF Chefs website.

[via Inside Scoop SF]

Tyler Florence To Open His First Restaurant

Filed under: Dining, Celebrity Shopping

Celebrity chef Tyler Florence is opening his first restaurant. San Francisco boutique hotel company Personality Hotels has signed a deal with the Food Network chef to open a restaurant in Hotel Vertigo (currently the York Hotel). The 97-room York Hotel is currently undergoing a $5 million renovation and will be renamed Hotel Vertigo this summer, after Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic thriller staring James Stewart and Kim Novak (Novak's character lived in the York Hotel during the last half of the film). Florence's restaurant will also open this summer.

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