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Eatiquette
Quote of the Day
Feb. 12, 2013
Marc Vetri Says Don’t Shortchange School Lunches The chef believes that lunchrooms are just as important as classrooms.
By Collin Keefe
School Lunches
Nov. 5, 2012
Full-Service Cafeterias Cooking Again at Some Philly Public Schools Cafeterias at 10 public schools were recently re-staffed and are now cooking meals again.
By Collin Keefe
Quote of the Day
July 25, 2012
By Collin Keefe
Foodies With Benefits
May 2, 2012
Latvian Students Get a Taste of Vetri’s Eatiquette The program serves meals family style, and facilitates conversation amongst students.
By Collin Keefe
Is Your Server Drunk Right Now? And more to the point, does it even matter?
By Jay Barmann
JM Curley Bans Douchebags from Bar They also frown upon flatulence and shrieking.
By Kara Baskin
Department of Deportment
Dec. 14, 2011
Department of Deportment: Order Wine Any Damn Way You Want Despite what you may have been told, most sommeliers are fine with diners employing a try-before-they-buy method when ordering wine.
By Krista Simmons
Department of Deportment
Nov. 16, 2011
Department of Deportment: How to Split a Check, Once and for All It should be easy for adults to split a simple dinner bill, but it never is. Grub Street weighs in with the final word.
By Krista Simmons
How Many OpenTable Accounts Do You Have? Shadier folk sign up for multiple accounts under assumed names, but they’d better remember what they all are.
By Jay Barmann
Are S.F. Waitstaff Demanding a 25 Percent Tip Standard? Hardly. This “report” from the Contra Costa ‘Times’ is totally made up, if you ask us.
By Jay Barmann
Mikey Doesn’t Like It
Oct. 13, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Eatiquette
Sept. 23, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Mikey Doesn’t Like It
Sept. 21, 2011
Bauer Thinks San Franciscans Would Tip More If It Weren’t for Healthy S.F. Mr. Bauer once again takes an opportunity to complain about restaurants who still show the Healthy S.F. surcharge on checks.
By Jay Barmann
Mikey Doesn’t Like It
Sept. 8, 2011
By Jay Barmann
San Francisco Nudists Asked to Please Cover Themselves In Restaurants A proposed law would require nudists to throw a little something on before deciding to dine.
By Jay Barmann
Tweetiquette
Aug. 18, 2011
By Kara Baskin
Mikey Doesn’t Like It
Aug. 12, 2011
Bauer’s Follow-Up to Controversial Breastfeeding Post Sparks More Michael Bauer mused aloud earlier this week about the etiquette of breastfeeding in restaurants, and thus opening the floodgates. In his follow-up yesterday, he offered more thoughts on restaurant etiquette, prying the floodgates open even further.
By Leanne Maxwell
Behold the Tale of a Successful Twenty-Person Dine-and-Dash A birthday girl got stuck with the check and tried to make a run for it.
By Jay Barmann
Scruffy Chic: The New Rules for Dining Out Phoebe Damrosch on why today’s reformed restaurant landscape requires a whole new approach to going out.
By Phoebe Damrosch
Quote of the Day
May 10, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Blind Items
Apr. 20, 2011
By Jay Barmann
Baby Gourmands Eat Better Than You Do Nobu, Pastis, Fred’s at Barney’s, Peter Luger …
By Jenny Miller
Bostonians Take to Aussie Food … With A Little Help Australian food is best enjoyed when following some simple guidelines.
By Kara Baskin
How to Subtly Let Servers Know That You’re Kind of a Big Deal A seasoned server explains how to showcase a splurge with grace and dignity.
By Kara Baskin
Gay Men Offer the Paradigm of Post-Meal Magnanimity The cultural anthropology of check-splitting, both gay and straight.
By Jay Barmann
Booze You Can Use
Feb. 23, 2011
Memo to Cocktail Snobs: Bartenders Are Not Impressed With Your Shenanigans If you’re thinking about bringing your own homemade bitters to the bar, read on.
By Jay Barmann
At Soon-to-Shutter Sensing, Mat Schaffer Experienced the ‘Single Rudest Sensing’s closing, but not before providing a Herald reviewer with the worst service of his life.
By Kara Baskin
How Do You Feel About Texting at the Table? The S.F. Chronicle critic is once again griping about all the smart phones at dinner.
By Jay Barmann
Ruth Bourdain to Pen Etiquette Column For CHOW The Twitter celebrity gets some almost mainstream food-world love, in the form of a bi-weekly column.
By Jay Barmann
Eatiquette
Sept. 30, 2010
More Griping About Tipping “America is one of the last industrialized nations in the world still desperately holding on to it.”
By Daniel Maurer
Mikey Doesn’t Like It
Sept. 29, 2010
Bauer Hates It When Servers Say ‘Enjoy’ It is a little annoying, but what else are they gonna say?
By Jay Barmann
Are You a Fair-Weather Foodie? Grist gets a little too hardcore about being responsible eaters.
By Jay Barmann
Eatiquette
Sept. 14, 2010
When Eating in a Restaurant Is Evil The would-be Koran-burning pastor has a rule against them, and in Algeria, ten men were arrested for eating at one.
By Daniel Maurer
The Other Critics
Aug. 25, 2010
Ryan Sutton Is Latest Critic to Get Fed Up With everything from noise levels to hidden omakase fees.
By Daniel Maurer
Fun With Pig Heads “They will actually put the skin on their face.”
By Daniel Maurer
Le Cirque Has (Literally) Gone to the Dogs Marco Maccioni lets his mutt dine at the bar, but what about yours?
By Daniel Maurer
Have You Ever Experienced Restaurant Rage? A trio of McDonald’s and Olive Garden customers sure did.
By Daniel Maurer
Should Willie Brown Always Get the VIP Treatment? There will always be VIPs who get tables faster than you.
By Jay Barmann
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