Seen on the front page of the SF Chronicle site

[mme_hardy]

Peninsula a surprise find south of S.F.

CARL NOLTE: Dyed-in-the-wool San Franciscans are famous snobs. It’s New York without the attitude. So it was with some hesitation that we joined a gastronomic expedition to the Peninsula.

Apart from the incoherence of the writing -- snobs, but without the attitude? -- the idea that good food stops at Daly City cuts Nolte off from any chef or cook (or customer) who can't afford the rents in the City. I've had some magnificent Ethiopian in San Jose, for instance. If you insist on formality, Chez TJ in Mountain View has had a Michelin star for seven years now.

Comments

[ironed_orchid]

It's like New York, but with a holier than thou attitude.

[wordweaverlynn]

The headline is brilliant -- I thought at first it must be from The Onion.

[cofax7]

Indeed! WTF.

Although they're not too snobby to follow their chefs to Oakland -- because the crime rate makes Oakland "gritty" and thus still cooler than suburbia.

[mme_hardy]

Their restaurant reviewer spends a lot of time up in wine country and Marin, but almost never deigns to go south of SSF. I suppose some drives are more taxing than others. (And 280 is very beautiful, although not as good as 1 North.)

[mme_hardy]

I know. "Why, look! Our eagle-eyed scouts have found the exotic, never-travelled land that connects our city to the mainland of California!".

[vom_marlowe]

At first I thought it was Peninsula a la Surprise! You know, stuffed with onions. Or nerds. Or something.