The San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau (SFCVB) has launched a new micro-site dedicated to the pursuit of all things food-related: www.onlyinsanfrancisco.com/taste. San Francisco’s hottest restaurants, a calendar listing of food-related news and events, the history of San Francisco’s many food firsts, chef profiles, and Foodie 411, a weekly insider’s blog by Marcia “the tablehopper” Gagliardi are among the features of the new “Taste” micro site. Read the full press release.

So anyway, I took a quick peek at the Foodie 411 blog by aforementioned tablehopper, and its not bad - Choc-a-bloc with new restaurant openings, chefs and details about the cuisine served, nice photos and all…But its not exactly a foodie blog, per se. At least not what I consider to be a foodie blogger - Fat, obsessed with food, posts large pictures of greasy food and detailed descriptions of how it tastes, tells you when to go, where to go, what to eat and how much to pay for what, and able to offer expert opinions about the relative merits of the same dish from different restaurants. That’s a foodie blog.

And her posting frequency seems to be slightly on the lighter side, but its still early days yet. Besides, I suppose the official foodie blogger of the San Francisco Visitors Bureau has to maintain some sort of decorum or anti-obesity promotion standards or something like that. Maybe she’s more of a snobby tea party and cocktail circuit hopper.

Also, FYI,  from the SF Visitors Bureau, an update about ’Dine About Town San Francisco’ which runs from  June 1 – 15.  More than 100 of San Francisco’s most popular restaurants will offer three-course menus for lunch at $21.95 and/or dinner at $31.95.  Reservations may be made online at the SFCVB’s Dine About Town Web site through a partnership with OpenTable.com. 

And remember not to ask for the missing rice. If you do, you’ll likely end up in a back room with a couple of really ticked off chefs who will waterboard you until you sign an oath in blood promising never, ever to eat or ask for rice until the end of the century.

Posted on April 28th, 2008 by PLing
Filed under: Restaurants, San Francisco