How to Play in the Big Game San Francisco Culinary Trends in 2016
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12 Community 15 Arts & Entertainment 16 Calendar Supervisor: Mark Farrell Michael Snyder on Film: January events: Kick answers your questions 7 Last year’s best 15 off the new year in style with Restaurant Week, bal- Food & Wine Real Estate let opening night, visits Tablehopper: Inside Real Estate: by everyone from Itzhak New restaurants to Why are China’s buyers Perlman to William Shatner check out in 2016 12 so active? 22 to Joyce Carol Oates. 16 MARINATIMES.COM CELEBratinG OUR 32ND YEAR VOLUME 32 ISSUE 01 JANUary 2016 S.F. Culinary Trends 2016 Move over Sriracha; camera-shy chefs; farm-to-shop butchery, and more BY SUSAN DYER REYNOLDS t’s the most wonderful time of the year — for journalists in the trend-predicting business, any- way. As a food writer, a restaurant critic, and a Icook (I often write recipes for this publication), I look at trends in several ways. First, what are the chefs and restaurateurs likely to be doing this year? Second, A 49ers fan from North Beach meets his hero, Ronnie Lott; everyone else can meet him Jan. 26 in Santa Clara. what ingredients do I find myself gravitating toward? PHOTO: MULLETHAIR And what will be the forward focus of food on a cul- tural level? Here, in no particular order, are my predictions for How to play in the Big Game San Francisco culinary trends in 2016. SAUCE SWAP The Super Bowl is coming (almost) to town I’ve kept a bottle of Sriracha in my fridge for as long as I can remember. I use it in everything from my BY JOHN ZIPPERER the half-time show. But the festivities golden city in high-definition across “Best Deviled Eggs” to a key ingredient in a marinade of the week preceding the ultimate the country. for slow-braised, crispy skin pork belly. Named after uper Bowl 50 will take place football excess will take place here Locals, too, can take part. The Si Racha, a coastal city in eastern Thailand’s Chonburi down in Santa Clara, and the in San Francisco. Along with 5,000 local organizers have teamed up with Province, the bright red viscous sauce is made from 49ers are highly unlikely to be journalists, there will be tens of thou- national league officials to entertain chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt. Son the field for the game, unless sands of visitors to San Francisco football fans of all stripes — even While I still love Sriracha, over the past year, I’ve been they’re singing and dancing during and the local environs, putting this SUPER BOWL, continued on 17 REYNOLDS RAP, continued on 4 Bellingham by the Bay New rules There oughta be a law BY BRUCE BELLINGHAM horns should be abolished of ‘hopefully’ is this: The in San Francisco. So should aging man perused the ith the new year overly noisy motorcycles. young woman’s posterior comes a cascade I know. I’m risking the hopefully.”… While we’re of new laws out wrath of the Hell’s Angels at it, the expression “no Wof Sacramento. Many of and attendant benevolent worries” would be pro- them deal with the state’s societies on two wheels. hibited. When I hear it, I four-year-long drought. Bicycles should be kept really start to worry. … But lawmakers have yet off sidewalks. Oh, right. Lawrence Ferlinghetti to suggest that California There’s already a law for wants Coit Tower to wine replace glasses of that. No one seems to nei- lean slightly like Pisa. water on restaurant Lawrence should be Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet (installation view, Gallery 308, Fort Mason Center tables. Seems practi- the new Emperor of for Arts & Culture), 2015; co-presented by Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. PHOTO: JKA PHOTOGRAPHY cal to me. During the ‘No worries’ should San Francisco. Ernie cholera epidemic in Beyl should be chief Europe during the 19th be prohibited. When of staff. … Gov. Jerry century, no one dares Brown signed a law Janet Cardiff’s ‘The Forty Part touch a glass of water. I hear it, I really that enhances sexual (Except Tchaikovsky, health education in Motet’ to close this month who drank cholera- start to worry. the schools in 2016. contaminated water. Everyone knows BY SHARON ANDERSON sonal, differing moment-by-moment, It’s still being argued if ther heed it nor enforce that high school kids are person-to-person. he drank it on purpose.) it. Obnoxiousness is not already experts on sex he Fort Mason Center for Arts Created in 2001, The Forty Part “What is overlooked,” sur- illegal. Here’s another: education. They can teach & Culture and the San Francisco Motet reworks English composer mises Maurice Kanbar, No whistling anywhere the rest of us. … Museum of Modern Art Thomas Tallis’s Spem in Alium from the Pacific Heights reign- in the county. Only Sir Terrified of commit- T(SFMOMA) have presented the sound 1570. A choir in Salisbury Cathedral ing genius and philanthro- Paul McCartney and Bing ment, I rarely make New installation, The Forty Part Motet by sound performed the 40-part choral work. pist, “is that water short- Crosby are exempt. … No Year’s resolutions. I’ll artist Janet Cardiff through Jan. 18. An oval arrangement of 40 speakers ages will be catastrophic for using the term “hopefully” abandon them before A stark row of speakers surround- plays back the individually recorded the planet.” … incorrectly. William Safire late February. This year, ing benches sets a minimal stage for a parts so that participants can focus on I have my own sugges- told The Commonwealth I pledge not to be too sound experience, and yet the nature a single voice or immerse themselves in tions for new laws. Car Club: “The correct usage BELLINGHAM, continued on 4 of the work is extraordinarily per- SOUND ART, continued on 14 MARINATIMES.COM MARINA TIMES JANUARY 2016 1 Contents In This Issue 19 25 8 News Arts & Entertainment Around the Northside Big men and big films News briefs on the city’s plans for deal- Ernest Beyl talks with radical San ing with a stormy winter, proposed Francisco lawyer Tony Serra, who changes to the Care Not Cash program, describes how LSD and an oath of poverty reduced prices to get more trees planted helped create his legend; Michael Snyder on the Northside, and relief for victims revisits the best movies of 2015; plus the of stolen cars. 3 best sellers. 14 Community Calendar You’ve got questions, January events we’ve got answers Berlin & Beyond returns for its 20th anni- Supervisor Mark Farrell answers ques- versary, and the Noir film festival is back for tions from the Marina about Lombard, its 14th in January. But if films aren’t your Peskin’s return, 2016 challenges, and thing, there’s still the Shen Yun Performing Mario Woods; plus the Police Blotter Artsw, the Science of Cocktails, Jersey 16 reports on the plague of auto crimes. 6 Boys, and much more. Wellness and Family Street Beat Start the new year right New year, new happenings Julie Mitchell has trends and tips for a fit Lynette Majer reports on the expansion of 2016; and Liz Farrell finds family-friendly Le Marais Bakery & Bistro, the closing of Super Bowl events. 18 David Clay Jewelers after 30-plus years, and other Northside news; and Ernest At Home Beyl welcomes U.S. Restaurant. 8 Space, the final frontier Business & Finance Julia Strzesieski says look and ye shall find place to store all of your stuff. 20 Good business sense Jesus Guevara tells you how to save your- Real Estate self money; and John Zipperer finds busi- ness advice from his late father that can Price conscious help businesspeople here and now. 10 Carole Isaaces says now is the time to think about how your home or condo will Food & Wine handle the big rains expected this winter, not after a problem has occurred and you New things to eat can’t schedule a roofer for three weeks; The Tablehopper reports on The Gipsy Frederick Kuo explains real estate’s “China Darling, The Dorian, Craftsman and factor”; plus our market report. 21 Wolves, the Original U.S. Restaurant, Geppetto, and Rialto Mercato; and ONLINE SPECIALS Julie Mitchell finds deliciously intrigu- ing British food with a California Evalyn Baron, the Coastal Commuter, twist at the new American gastropub restaurant reviews, and more Scotland Yard. 12 marinatimes.com marinatimes.com | 3053 Fillmore Street #104, San Francisco, CA 94123 Editorial: (415) 931-0515 | Fax: (415) 931-0987 | L etters to the Editor: [email protected] Advertising: (415) 815-8081 [email protected] Calendar submissions due by the 15th of the month to [email protected] Publisher Managing Editor Social Media Earl Adkins John Zipperer Shelia Fox [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Editor in Chief Senior Editor Designer Steven Fromtling Susan Dyer Reynolds L ynette Majer Web Designer Joe Bachman [email protected] [email protected] MARINA TIMES IS A TRADE MARK OF JASMINE BLUE MEDIA LLC. 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