CAFFE UNION -- 1830 Union Street, S.F., (415) 673-4119: Serving Herb Caen's favorite meal, meat loaf and potatoes for dinner, $7.38, from 6 p.m. CASTAGNOLA'S RESTAURANT -- 286 Jefferson. HARRY DENTON'S STARLIGHT ROOM -- 450 Powell Street, S.F., (415) 395-8595: Special Herb Caen martinis with Big Band music from 4:30 to 7 p.m. MARRIOTT HOTEL/FISHERMAN'S WHARF-LOBBY LOUNGE -- 1250 Columbus Street, S.F., (415) 775-7555: Half-price martinis from 4 p.m. PIER 39 -- Pier 39, S.F., (415) 705-5500: The Black Tie Jazz Orchestra plays Big Band tunes from 6.30 to 9.30 p.m. in the Pier 39 Entrance Plaza, and half-price martinis at these Pier 39 restaurants: Alcatraz Cafe & Grill, Bay View Cafe, Chic's Seafood Restaurant, Dante's, Eagle Cafe, Neptune's Palace, Old Swiss House, Pier Market, Swiss Louis, Yet Wah. 2. "Matthew," he says cheerfully, taking a last sip of coffee at the end of the two-hour meal, "My goal in life is to bury each of you. WASHINGTON SQUARE BAR & GRILL -- 1707 Powell Street, S.F., (415) 982-8123: Join us in a toast to Herb Caen . $19.00 [34] JUDY'S CAFE -- 2268 Chestnut at Scott, S.F., (415) 922-4588: Meat loaf and potatoes ($4.95). Chick-fil-A to open brand-new Bay Area outpost, Horoscope for Wednesday, 3/01/23 by Christopher Renstrom, BJs Restaurant to permanently close Bay Area mall location, Construction of Brightline bullet train from SoCal to Vegas set to begin, If travel planning gives you a headache, try these apps. . FACES IN PLACES: Julia Child at Tu Lan on sleazy Sixth, a place with great Vietnamese chow. Edsel, always a fellow with a flair, added the Ford and hinted broadly that he was related to the auto family; an amused Henry Ford II made a special trip to Sam Wo to check out the rumor By the way, there is no Sam Wo at Sam Wo. You couldn't bull--." She said that the Tu Lan meal wasnt Woods only time spent with Child. "'Does Barbie come with Ken?' When the presentation is complete, the two hug and Brown comes back inside. He was fun and he was good at what he did.). . Was Caen biased in favor of his pal, the mayor? Jim Wood died in 2002, at age 72, of complications from a stroke. DOIDGE'S -- 2217 Union Street, S.F., (415) 921-2149: Herb Caen omelette, $1.50; two Three-Dot Caenfetti pancakes, $1.50; mimosas, $1.50. VIVANDE RISTORANTE -- 670 Golden Gate Avenue, S.F., (415) 673-9245: Pasta carbonara for lunch and dinner ($11.50); Vitamin V martinis, $3. pizza favorite shuts down after 13 years, plus more Bay Area 2022 tax returns: IRS further extends filing deadline for most Californians. For an eternity, the victim twitched in spasm after spasm, and one by one the witnesses began fainting around me. $44.00. You use it to make dupes, he tells them. To be mentioned in his column, which now runs five days a week where it once ran seven, is to have arrived in this clubby city, which fancies itself a metropolis but is really a narcissistic small town, with The Chronicle as its old-fashioned, family-owned broadsheet. (415) 986-1886: Complimentary bottle of Fior d'Italia wine (Chardonnay or Cabernet) with meal for mentioning Herb Caen's name. WESTIN ST. FRANCIS HOTEL/COMPASS ROSE -- 335 Powell Street, S.F., (415) 774-0167: Order an ounce of caviar (beluga, osetra or sevruga) and receive a complimentary 3- ounce frozen Stoli martini served in a 10- ounce glass (the largest martini in San Francisco) in Herb's honor from 5 to 7 p.m. Is Californias drought finally over? And after all those years, Child remembered Tu Lan. Herbert Eugene Caen (/ken/; April 3, 1916 February 1, 1997) was a San Francisco humorist and journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, and offbeat puns and anecdotes"A continuous love letter to San Francisco"[1]appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty years (excepting a relatively brief defection to The San Francisco Examiner) and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Its a side you used to see at Christmas time when the local liquor store gave out sandwiches to all comers and the porn theaters put up holly and pine boughs (no mistletoe, they werent that crazy) and the cops, particularly an old timer named Ed Casazza, were there to help, not punish, unless a person was too out of line - that was the Sixth Street I thought Julia Child, the top cook in America, the successor to James Beard, would appreciate. PIER 23 CAFE -- Pier 23, Embarcadero, S.F., (415) 362-5125: 80-cent Stoli martinis with orange slice from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Melody Ann Quartet on sidewalk from 6 to 9 p.m.; $5 meatloaf plate to go starting at 5 p.m. Will provide candles for the march. From the counter, you can see the exhausting work that goes into making a new start in a new world. 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. Thank-yous for a mention in the column roll in during lunch at Moose's restaurant on Washington Square, where Mr. Caen's meal of designer pizza is interrupted so he can present a trip to Paris to the lucky lady who named the bronze moose that graces the dining room (she named it Ambrose, after Ambrose Bierce, the acerbic journalist and satirist who wrote a column in San Francisco in the 1890's). Youre taking Julia Child where for lunch? I repeated what Id already said, Tu Lan, a restaurant on Sixth Street in San Francisco. In public, Caen seemed to be filled with self-confidence and a sense of his own power. The chef remembered Wood. And even he misses the defunct nightclubs, where he used to collect his items in a little spiral notebook. ANTICA TRATTORIA -- 2400 Polk Street, S.F., (415) 928-5797: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes as a complimentary side dish to the main course. [a] Today, the cuisine (though much of it bears little resemblance to any dishes you'd find in China) has become a favorite throughout the country, with nearly 50,000 Chinese restaurants across the U.S. Email: phartlaub@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @PeterHartlaub. Impresario Bill Graham hated Caen, recalls the foursome, and de Wildt and Kelly recall being at a Napa Valley lunch where someone unhappy about his mention in the column came up behind Caen, pummeled him and wound up rolling on the ground with him. Despite the traditional male camaraderie of mutual insults, "If he were rude at the table," says de Wildt, "he would call before five o'clock that day and ask, 'Are you still thinking of it?' My Dad and I went there for dinner because we read about it in Caen's column and the place was great. See the article in its original context from. HAYES STREET GRILL -- 320 Hayes Street, S.F. Adding new drink called "Herb's Vitamin V" to permanent cocktail list. Website: www.rigatonys.com. Bars all over town rolled back prices in the writer's honor and, in the city's top-flight restaurants, experts in nouvelle cuisine cranked out meatloaf, Mr. Caen's favorite dish. You had respect for certain things because he made them so real. "Most of the time the seriousness was about some weekly screwup by me," says Brown. By his own accounting, and the tale gets musty with the years, he raised his fist defiantly toward the skyline. ". [6] His many recurring if irregular features included "Namephreaks"people with names (aptronyms) peculiarly appropriate or inappropriate to their vocations or avocations, such as To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. "The Best of Herb Caen 1960-1975" is also good stuff, and keep an eye out for Caen in used bookstores. Then he'd really regret it later. I can get you a good table in a restaurant -- that's about the height of my powers. Today is a Tuesday masquerading as Friday, the traditional. Heres why California has seen so much active weather, San Francisco is at its most unaffordable point in at least a decade, S.F. In 1993, he told an interviewer that he declined to retire because "my name wouldn't be in the paper and I wouldn't know if I was dead or alive," adding that his obituary would be his last column: "It will trail off at the end, where I fall face down on the old Royal with my nose on the 'I' key. ", When it's time to sit, the mayor occupies the spot nearest the window on the banquet side, which is marked by a plaque honoring Caen. The Bay Area native, a former Chronicle paperboy, has worked at The Chronicle since 2000. He coined the term beatnik in 1958[14] and popularized hippie during San Francisco's 1967 Summer of Love. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m. GAYLORD (INDIA) RESTAURANT -- Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point, S.F., (415) 771- 8822: Half-price Vitamin V martinis at dinner. [11] He died February 1, 1997. STARS RESTAURANTO -- 150 Redwood Alley, S.F., (415) 861-7827: Vitamin V Stoli on the rocks, free all day, limit one to a customer. The Bay Area will catch a break from winter storms for a couple days, but it wont last very long. ONE MARKET RESTAURANT -- One Market Street, S.F., (415) 777-5577: $3 Stoli martinis all day; meatloaf and garlic mashed potatoes for lunch ($12.50); live music with Gini Wilson and Paul Breslin from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. PALOMINO -- 345 Spear Street, S.F., (415) 512-7400: Reissue of the Herb Caen Way . In days of yore, "We used to end up in bars late night," said Brown. TARANTINO'S -- 206 Jefferson Street-Fisherman's Wharf, S.F., (415) 775-5600: Meatloaf and mashed potatoes, $7.95; half- price martinis; Big Band music. Photos by Momo Chang. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Brown waves them in and buys a $5 box from each. You couldn't enhance it. He bought his first hat before leaving Sacramento and rode the ferry toward San Francisco. [4] Herbert Eugene Caen was born April 3, 1916, in Sacramento, California, although he liked to point out that his parentspool hall operator Lucien Caen and Augusta (Gross) Caen[5]had spent the summer nine months previous at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. An article in the Sunday Examiner & Chronicle the papers used to publish a combined weekend edition written by former Examiner food and wine editor Jim Wood explained everything, in the loveliest prose to come out of the mid-1980s. Lunch begins, as it always began, with each of the gents throwing dice for his drink tab with Toni Staiano, the bartender at Le Central. (415) 863-5545: Vitamin V martinis for $1 after 7:30 p.m. and Big Band music on the sound system. "I wasn't one of the boys until they discovered I loved the city," he says. One more surprise awaited. [23]. BUENA VISTA CAFE -- 2765 Hyde Street, S.F., (415) 474-5044: 75-cent martinis on the rocks; BV Burger (Herb's favorite), $3 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. BUTTERFIELD'S SEAFOOD -- 202 Townsend Street, S.F., (415) 281-9001: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes, lunch $8.95; dinner $11.95; Vitamin V Elixir (vodka martini), $1 from 3 to 6 p.m. CADILLAC BAR & RESTAURANT -- One Holland Court, S.F., (415) 543-8226: 99 cent Cadillac martinis all day. RITZ-CARLTON, SAN FRANCISCO -- 600 Stockton Street, S.F., (415) 296-7465: $500 donation to the UCSF Foundation for the Cancer Research Fund in Herb's memory. THE FRANCISCAN -- Pier 43 1/2, S.F., (415) 362- 7733: Herb Caen Martini Special, Tanqueray Gin Martini, Ketel One Vodka Martini, Absolut Kurant Cosmopolitan, Maker's Mark Bourbon Manhattan in a choice of two sizes: $3, $5. Perhaps he and Brown should have traded jobs? His patrons are amused by it, Mr. Moose says, and it gives Mr. Caen no end of pleasure. One Mans San Francisco, Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, New York, 1976. Served all day. "Most of the people looked like they were wearing uniforms from hotel school," huffs de Wildt. 14000, "How will I know?" [6] Reprints of his columns remain a periodic feature of the Chronicle.[39]. "Of indebtedness," speculates Brown. . Excepting Caen's four years in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II and a 19501958 stint at The San Francisco Examiner, his column appeared every day except Saturday until 1990, when it dropped to five times per week[10][11]"more than 16,000 columns of 1,000 words each an astounding and unduplicated feat, by far the longest-running newspaper column in the country." ", "We are all a certain type of flotsam," says de Wildt, "and we all float up at the same time. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). 1 on his life's list of priorities. Jim Wood, it seemed, was a kindred spirit, writing similar prose several years before Soleil was born. You bet. "[8], In 1936, Caen began writing a radio programming column for the San Francisco Chronicle. ", Leah Garchik washed up on the shores of Fifth and Mission in 1972,began her duties as a part-time temporary steno clerk, and has done everything around The Chronicle including washing the dishes (her coffee cup). VIVANDE PORTA VIA -- 2125 Fillmore Street, S.F., (415) 346-4430: Caen's Carbonara lunch special -- fresh fettuccine tossed with pancetta, egg and parmigiano reggiano cheese ($11.50). THE SALOON -- 1232 Grant Avenue, S.F., (415) 989-7666: Stoli martinis 75 cents, from 12 to 7 p.m.; recordings of Herb Caen playing drums with the Barry Melton Band. Caen continued to write, though less frequently. Sometimes he just inwardly rebelled. 14000, more, You seem to have JavaScript disabled. locations, (415) 882-1849: With any sandwich purchase, customers will receive a complimentary half-pound round loaf of Herb's favorite San Francisco sourdough bread. "Then, as we went along," says Brown, "Matthew, Willie and Sandy (Walker) joined us." We can make each other laugh." ROSMARINO RESTAURANT -- 3665 Sacramento Street, S.F. FLEUR DE LYS -- 777 Sutter Street, S.F., (415) 673-7779: A five-course menu dedicated to Herb featuring a Vitamin V sorbet as intermezzo, $65. Herb Caen is considering his own obituary. He'd strike out at them. ENRICO'S -- 504 Broadway, S.F., (415) 982- 6223: Vitamin V Stoli martinis on the rocks in a wine glass ($3.75); live music by Big Money Jazz Band, starring Mal Sharpe. Julia Child approaches cooking in the swashbuckling fashion that has made her the darling of public television. "If you arrived in that mood, you were victimized, whatever your problem was," says Brown. My goal is to ultimately have lunch alone. Great Deal. Then it's back to the office to answer the mail, with every letter, Mr. Caen said, signed by him lest it not match an earlier correspondence that hangs, yellowed, on somebody's refrigerator door. Why you received these results. The Chronicle's Herb Caen once referred to Blum's, the much-loved California bakery, soda fountain and restaurant chain, which. The Vietnamese restaurant is a block and a half from the newsroom in San Francisco, and a time machine when it comes to both dcor and price. But his closest pals recall more human traits. Peter Hartlaub is The San Francisco Chronicle's culture critic and co-founder of Total SF. Caen, 2023 La FourchetteSAS - All rights reserved. "The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations. Proceeds from Skyy Martini sales donated to Herb's favorite charities. Chronicle columnist Herb Caen wrote, "The best restaurant in San Francisco is in Oakland." According to Bergeron, he sat down with his bartender one evening in 1944 to create the world-class drink . (Thrice divorced, with a son, he shares his home with a female companion.) Which is how I met Julia. Automatic grounds for getting bumped were "not being insulting enough," says Brown, "and having to go to therapy after lunch." [6], The Chronicle projected a one-fifth decline in subscriptionssurveys had shown that Caen was better-read than the front page. "Because my name wouldn't be in the paper and I wouldn't know if I was dead or alive," he says, his tongue sharp and his face crisscrossed with the red veins that come from too many shots of what he blithely calls vitamin V. Mr. Caen, a columnist here since 1938 and the last living Walter Winchell imitator, has no plans for retirement. Chalupa in paradise: Does Pacifica have the worlds best Taco Bell? Born a cheery quipster myself, when I arrived in San Francisco in 1971 I immediately fell in love with master tweeter Herb Caen's column in the San Francisco Chronicle.Decades ahead of his time, Herb delivered twenty or so tweets every weekday to his maybe-a-million Bay Area readers. PRIMO PATIO CAFE -- 214 Townsend Street, S.F., (415) 957-1129: Herb Caen corncakes, a specialty appetizer for a special man, $4.25. Then home to put on his best bib and tucker for yet another opera opening or yet another dinner for 200 with the likes of Ann and Gordon Getty. The restaurant was opened in 1973 by local Ed Moose, a former dispatcher and reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, [3] his wife Mary Etta, and partner Sam Dietsch. 228. "I used to watch Herb," says Bashford, "and all the people always on the make with Herb. But by 1967, The Mandarin was called the the "best Chinese restaurant in America." A. SABELLA'S RESTAURANT -- Fisherman's Wharf, S.F., (415) 771-6775: Half-price martinis. GRAND CAFE -- 501 Geary Street, S.F., (415) 292-0101: Duck terrine a la Caen with liver mouse and balsamic sauce for $5.95 all day. CONTINENTAL HOTEL -- 999 California Street at top of Nob Hill, S.F., (415) 392- 3434: 25 cents for the first martini, the original price Herb Caen paid during World War II. The words that followed are her only published review of the restaurant. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SIGNED Herb Caen's Guide to San Francisco 1957 Bay Area Earl Thollander Drawings at the best online prices at eBay! What are the best restaurants in Caen that provide takeout? '"[13], Caen had considerable influence on popular culture, particularly its language. 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. ", "Now we're trying to convince ourselves," he adds, "which is not that hard to do on a beautiful afternoon, with the fog coming in, a drink in your hand and a pretty girl by your side.". 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. "It will trail off at the end, where I fall face down on the old Royal with my nose on the 'I' key," Mr. Caen says, vodka in hand, at one of his regular North Beach haunts, where the owner takes his lunch order and other diners flock to his side to meet or greet him. Saint Andrew's. 9 Quai de Juillet, 14000, Caen 9.1 / 10 712 reviews. The four look down the table at the reporter scribbling in her notebook. If youre like 99 percent plus of the world and have never heard of, much less set foot on, Sixth Street let me say its the kind of street which sometimes evokes the word denizens, a bit of dirty sidewalk and traffic jams where the wise walk without jingling their change and to look a passerby in the eye may be regarded as an unconscionable affront. Lunch, $15; dinner, $19.38. [6] After high school (where he wrote a column titled "Corridor Gossip") he covered sports for The Sacramento Union;[7] in later years he occasionally referred to himself as "the Sacamenna Kid. (415) 673-0183: $2 martinis served all day/night; meat loaf and mashed potatoes $5.75 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Big Band music on tap. As if reminded of frailty by the turn of conversation, Bashford tells the others that a once-famous stalwart of Caen's column had died during the weekend. People are hungry for someone to say a nice word about San Francisco.". Anyone can read what you share. And would Brown give his close pal the same explanation for the "screwup" that he'd been giving the public? Our S.F. Old versions of these columns, sort of Herb Caen's greatest hits, run in the Sunday paper, in a slight concession to the weariness of age. Her husband Paul took seconds, then thirds on the salad and the fish, so I think he really liked what he had., On the way out, as Child headed to her limousine, a homeless man approached her, bowed deeply, and offered the chefs signature line: Bon Appetit!. The #17 pork shish kebab and imperial roll with rice noodles at Tulan restaurant in San Francisco, Calif., is seen on Friday, October 4th, 2013. in the elevator on the way up to the newsroom after finding out she was pregnant with their first child. KULETO'S -- 221 Powell Street, S.F., (415) 397-7720: Vitamin V Stoli martinis ($3); Big Band music recordings. Phone: +1 480-899-1111. BOULEVARD RESTAURANT -- One Mission Street, S.F., (415) 543-6084: Big Band music all day and a complimentary taster plate of meat loaf and mashed potatoes when ordering a Vitamin V martini. ". In addition to the iconic Artichoke slice, you should order the savory Crab and the Margherita. . LE CENTRAL RESTAURANT -- 453 Bush Street, S.F., (415) 391-2233: Herb's favorite dishes, including Stolichnaya Vitamin V martinis, roast chicken pomme frites, fresh Dungeness crabmeat salad and steak pomme frites. 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.' This 1967 file photo shows Julia Child explaining "with a little practice" you can do everything with the flare of a gourmet. 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. To use our mobile site, please enable JavaScript. "He would call Willie on it," says Bashford. CAFE PESCATORE -- 2455 Mason Street, S.F., (415) 561-1111: Herbed Crab Cakes a la Caen, $6.95; Sackamenna Sling (Stoli martini with three dots of vermouth), $5.50. PASTIS & FRINGALE RESTAURANTS -- 1015 Battery Street/570 Fourth Street, S.F., (415) 391-2555 and (415) 543-0573: Half-price martinis and "Make your own concoction in honor of Herb" martinis, $2.50. In Caen, the following restaurants have pizza on their menu: Some of the more popular burger restaurants in Caen according to TheFork users include, Some of the more popular restaurants that serve brunch in Caen include, Some of the more popular romantic restaurants in Caen according to TheFork users include, According to TheFork users, some of the best cheap eats restaurants in Caen include. Says, and the tale gets herb caen favorite restaurant with the flare of a gourmet for a couple,. At what he did. ) the victim twitched in spasm after spasm, and one by the. 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