The Fruity Cafe 129 reviews Closed today Healthy $ "Nice coffee, juice, etc!" The Caen column was real. The Bay Area native, a former Chronicle paperboy, has worked at The Chronicle since 2000. HOUSE OF PRIME RIB -- 1906 Van Ness, S.F., (415) 885-4605: The "Herb Caen Cut" -- everything a cut above -- and 25-cent martinis. It ran on Nov. 15, 1985. Someone would make some racial comment, and he would say, 'Lock your feet around the bar rail, so if they hit you, you won't go down.' SOCCA RESTAURANTO -- 5800 Geary Blvd., S.F., (415) 379-6720: Naming a room of our restaurant for Herb Caen. The names make people happy, a lesson he learned when he wrote the Corridor Gossip column at Sacramento High School under the byline Raisin Caen. " As if to cut the sweetness of that recollection, Brown chimes in to add that he'd tell Caen he didn't think Kelly had understood the insult its hurler had regretted. In the San Francisco tradition of mixing cultures, the chef of Cafe Bastille (22 Belden Place), a popular casual and elegant French eatery, is a native of Mexico. pizza favorite shuts down after 13 years, plus more closings, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). A Contre Sens 819 reviews Open Now French, European $$$$ Menu "Friendly, relaxed and a great meal" "Excellent" 2022 3. (415) 931-7710: For lunch, meatloaf with apples served with Rosmarino's garlicky potatoes ($1.38); dinner appetizer: Caenfetti Herbitizer, mushroom caps stuffed with fresh herbs for 38 cents. It will be on page 1 of The San Francisco Chronicle, if he has his way, smack in the middle of the page and bordered in black. VIVANDE RISTORANTE -- 670 Golden Gate Avenue, S.F., (415) 673-9245: Pasta carbonara for lunch and dinner ($11.50); Vitamin V martinis, $3. Caen, .css-183608p{color:hsl(354, 69%, 44%);}1 starMICHELIN French, 3, avenue Henry-Chron, ", "He had more integrity than any journalist I've even known," says Brown. If so, when, where, how and why did that pairing happen? Dated Nov. 11, 1971. CHALKERS BILLIARD CLUB -- Spear and Mission, One Rincon Center, S.F., (415) 512- 0450: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes, $5.95; Gordon's vodka martini special, $2.50 all day. $19.00 Pogash said there are no photos that shes aware of documenting either of Woods meals with Child; the private one or the Tu Lan lunch. Mr. Caen proudly recalls meeting Mr. Winchell in the Stork Club in 1948 and his hero's saying that he was "the kid who imitates me better than anybody in the business.". [6], The Chronicle projected a one-fifth decline in subscriptionssurveys had shown that Caen was better-read than the front page. "Shaken, Not Stirred" martini T-shirt, $15; customers will receive a bejeweled martini glass with purchase of a Baghdad Stoli martini, with three olives for three-dots. He gets up to take the call outside, beginning the conversation by asking Davis, "Hey, brother, how are you?". A particular favorite is Chinese gruel (known as "jook") as whipped up by Sam Wo in his spot on a Chinatown side street; Sam's is the only jook joint in town, and he . Today is a Tuesday masquerading as Friday, the traditional. Among the colorful personalities making periodic appearances in Caen's columns was Edsel Ford Fung, whose local reputation as "the world's rudest waiter" was due in no small part to Caen, who lamented his death in 1984: SOME WOE around Sam Wo, the skinny three-story restaurant on Washington near Grant. She drank Tsingtao beer and liked it. "Remember the Samoans?" GRACE PHOTO -- 456 Montgomery Street, S.F., (415) 788-5587: Bring in film from the Herb Caen candlelight march and receive free developing with prints. This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 03:21. Free shipping. "You did not let him be scooped," says Brown, "including stuff on you. THE MANDARIN -- Woollen Mill, Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point Street, S.F., (415) 673-8812: Half-price martinis. VANESSI'S -- 1177 California at Jones, across from Grace Cathedral, S.F., (415) 771-2422: $1 vodka martinis. But wouldn't the red carpet welcomes disappear, the invitations stop, if he were to retire? Caen, 15 quai Franois Mitterrand, Small unpretentious restaurant with a welcoming vibe, open kitchen layout and creative menu. Child, class of 1934, gathered with students in the college's alumna-in-residence program that gets students and alumnae together for socializing and conversation. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Then there is a leisurely lunch, usually at the sort of restaurant that thrives on a celebrity clientele and takes its booze at least as seriously as its food. Which is how I met Julia. 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Cecilia Chiang, whose San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, introduced American diners in the 1960s to the richness and variety of authentic Chinese cuisine, died on Wednesday at her home in. Mostly the columns are of the classic three-dot variety, a compendium of local gossip, silly puns, cute license plates, jibes at neighboring communities -- and as many names as Mr. Caen can squeeze in. Great Deal. "You're in Caen today," one San Franciscan will say to another first thing in the morning, and even the most sophisticated among them are pleased. After a motorcade and parade ending at the Ferry Building, Caen was honored by "a pantheon of the city's movers, shakers, celebrities and historical figures" including television news legend Walter Cronkite. ", In April 1996 Caen received a special Pulitzer Prize (which he called his Pullet Surprise) for "extraordinary and continuing contribution as a voice and conscience of his city. The owner, Thao Nguyen, had never heard of Child, but was pleased she liked the food , the item finished. The destination has another draw, and its completely free: The story of The Chronicle, Tu Lan and Julia Child. 14000, . for 58 years", Caen column, SF Chronicle/SFGate, 10 April 1996, "The inside story of how The City's Herb Caen won a Pulitzer Prize after just 58 years / Columnist didn't abandon his wise-cracking, story telling or humility in accepting award", "Herb Caen's Big Day / San Francisco Gets Down to Party", "Congressional Record: Extensions of Remarks: Celebrating Tuftonia' Week", "Herb Caen public memorial, party Friday", "San Francisco Raises a Day's Worth of Toasts to Honor Herb Caen", "Media Watch: San Francisco's Herb Caen was one of the best "bloggers" he called it three-dot journalism", Nuts, crooks and judges enliven SF Jewish who's who, "The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations. SEAL'S COVE -- Pier 33, S.F., (415) 788-4343: Herb Burger, $5; half-price martinis, $2. . Caen, 21 Boulevard des Allis, The name means something analogous to "Three Happiness," but there is only sadness there this week. They were photographedJune 15, 1981,in the elevator on the way up to the newsroom after finding out she was pregnant with their first child. "The secret of Caen's success", wrote the editor of a rival publication, was: his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings. PRIMO PATIO CAFE -- 214 Townsend Street, S.F., (415) 957-1129: Herb Caen corncakes, a specialty appetizer for a special man, $4.25. BAJA CANTINA -- -- 3154 Fillmore Street, S.F., (415) 882-2252: Vodka martinis all day at $1.50 with our complimentary Baja Taco Bar 4-7 p.m.; and drink specials 4-7 p.m. Two-for-one Baja Margaritas and two-for-one draft beer 4-7 p.m. BAKER STREET BISTRO -- 2953 Baker Street, S.F., (415) 931-1475: Chicken a la Mode de Caen (roasted chicken with apple) from 5:30-10:30 p.m., $10. The men get discussed before the ladies. Archive. GINO & CARLO -- 548 Green Street, S.F., (415) 421-0896: 99-cent Vitamin V martinis and free hors d'oeuvres from 2 to 6 p.m. GOLD CLUB -- -- 650 Howard Street, S.F., (415) 536-0300: Vitamin V martinis for 80 cents from 5 to 6 p.m. No cover charge between 11 a.m. 7 p.m. GOLD COAST RESTAURANT AND SALOON -- 230 California Street, S.F., (415) 989-6939: Blue Plate lunch special of meat loaf and mashed potatoes, $6.95 from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Caen martini special $2, from 5 to 7 p.m. Big Band and jazz music on tap. SCOMA'S RESTAURANT -- Pier 47, S.F., (415) 771-4383: Half-price martinis. What are the best restaurants in Caen for cheap eats? [31] Citation. "No other newspaper columnist ever has been so long synonymous with a specific place Part of his appeal seemed to lie in the endless bonhomie he projected," said his New York Times obituary, comparing him to Walter Winchell "but with the malice shorn off." Mr. Caen found that these columns helped an outsider win over the snooty, born-and-bred San Franciscans, the ones who went to prestigious Lowell High School and the University of California, married a Junior Leaguer and set up housekeeping in tony Pacific Heights. 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Julia Child pulled up in a black limousine, picked up Wood, and drove a block and a half to the restaurant. [6] Reprints of his columns remain a periodic feature of the Chronicle.[39]. A collection of essays, Baghdad-by-the-Bay (a term he'd coined to reflect San Francisco's exotic multiculturalism) was published in 1949, and Don't Call It Friscoafter a local judge's 1918 rebuke to an out-of-town petitioner ("No one refers to San Francisco by that title except people from Los Angeles")appeared in 1953. 14000, ". He covers Bay Area culture, co-hosts the Total SF podcast and writes the archive-based Our SF local history column. Im sure Julia appreciated that about him.. It was a very dirty place, but I enjoyed it and had no ill effects., Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicles pop culture critic. "It was one of his greatest qualities. FIOR D'ITALIA RESTAURANT -- 601 Union Street, S.F. Regulars in a temporarily fragile state of mind were doomed. 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