The upstairs-downstairs chef
SUPERCHEF CHARLES PHAN “doesn’t have to go far to raid his restaurant pantry for ingredients,” The New York Times reports, since the family lives in an apartment above his Out the Door restaurant on Bush Street.
Month: January 2013
Mostly British Film Fest returns
FILM | Ruthe Stein Jack Bair — a co-founder and director of the Mostly British Film Festival, which opens at the restored Vogue Theatre at 3290 Sacramento Street on January 17 — leads two lives, at least. His day job is as senior vice president and general counsel of the San Francisco Giants, a team…
Once a grocery, now a cafe
By Chris Barnett IF YOU NEED a new hideout with plenty of space to chill over a hot coffee, feast on fresh, fairly priced food and connect with fast, free WiFi — without your train of thought being derailed by a room full of chatterboxes — the recently opened Fillmore Fine Foods Cafe could be…
The music stops at Johnny Rockets
ITS CHEERFUL and hard-working employees got the word a week ago: Today is the final day for a burger and a chocolate shake at the counter at Johnny Rockets on Fillmore. The retro diner is out of time, with its fried food, juke box and neon signs — especially since Roam Burgers opened across the…
Jet Mail, 300 others getting a new address
By Donna Gillespie FILLMORE STREET will soon lose a landmark, a warm and friendly neighborhood destination that still offers meticulous, old-fashioned mailing services — a place that’s so much more than just somewhere to mail a box. After 22 years, Jet Mail is moving. The good news is that it’s not going very far. January…
Renaissance on Fillmore: 1955-65
ART | MICHAEL SCHWAGER The history of Bay Area art is filled with stories of unique individuals, influential institutions and the social and political climate where artists congregated to live and create. An exhibition now at the Di Rosa Foundation in Napa tells one of those stories: the story of an exceptional group of artists…
A masterpiece, created on Fillmore
ART | JEROME TARSHIS Youthful aspiration, ambivalence toward conventional art world success and a pitifully low budget came together for Bruce Conner and Jay DeFeo in the history of her masterpiece, The Rose. DeFeo worked on it for eight years in her Fillmore apartment, building up layer upon layer of paint to a thickness of…