Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. Le Royal Brasserie 254 reviews Closed today French, Bar $$ - $$$ "Great food, fairly diverse menu." "A good choice of meals, casual and great." 3. 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 Street, S.F., (415) 776-5015: Caen Colada, 80 cents. This is serious stuff." "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. Here's Another winter storm? 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 like a Lord of the Rings movie, or perhaps a good Tu Lan meal over too many beers, there are multiple false endings to this story. [2], Caen was born to a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. 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. Herb Caen, April 2, 1958. Hartlaub and columnist Heather Knight co-created the Total SF podcast and event series, engaging with locals to explore and find new ways to celebrate San Francisco and the Bay Area. "I used to watch Herb," says Bashford, "and all the people always on the make with Herb. 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. Sometimes suspected to be a Caen alter ego, de Jim (whose letters bore no return address, and who met Caen only onceby chance) was revealed after Caen's death to be a Castro District writer who, despite several coy interviews with the press, remains publicly anonymous. But in a serious way, "he would only write negatively," said Bashford, whom Caen stood by through landlord-tenant problems, "when something was diminishing San Francisco.". MEL'S DRIVE-IN -- 2165 Lombard Street/ 3355 Geary Street, S.F., (415) 921-3031 and (415) 387-2244: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes, 80 cents all day. Brown is told the governor is on the line. His patrons are amused by it, Mr. Moose says, and it gives Mr. Caen no end of pleasure. Drink with moderation. ", 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. 14000, "Just unbelievable," says an indignant Kelly. Mr. Caen says that "people come from miles around," field-trip style, to see the only remaining typewriter in the Chronicle building. THE MANDARIN -- Woollen Mill, Ghirardelli Square, 900 North Point Street, S.F., (415) 673-8812: Half-price martinis. It was more important to have a favorable mention from Herb than an editorial endorsement." This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 03:21. JUDY'S CAFE -- 2268 Chestnut at Scott, S.F., (415) 922-4588: Meat loaf and potatoes ($4.95). What are the best restaurants in Caen that provide takeout? The first vodka martini is on us! A martini, soup or salad, choice of: Herbed Chicken, Caen's pasta primavera or petrale sole; and dessert vanilla ice cream (no chocolate or strawberry ice!). 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. Reporter Carol Pogash and her husband, Jim Wood, both at work on the San Francisco Examiner. The four look down the table at the reporter scribbling in her notebook. 228. A Google search in 2019 reveals no backstory, just one guide book-y write up after another repeating Tu Lan, which was once recommended by Julia Child . Playwright and culture writer Michon Boston questioned the myth in a 2012 blog post, and checked Julia Childs papers at the Schlesinger Library in Massachusettes. FIOR D'ITALIA RESTAURANT -- 601 Union Street, S.F. Signed HC at the best online prices at eBay! VIVANDE RISTORANTE -- 670 Golden Gate Avenue, S.F., (415) 673-9245: Pasta carbonara for lunch and dinner ($11.50); Vitamin V martinis, $3. He looks around and says, "It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco. "The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations. An occasional column was given over to serious matters, such as a May1, 1960, piece on the upcoming execution of Caryl Chessman, which included Caen's recollection of witnessing a hanging as a young reporter: Suddenly the door behind the scaffold swung open and the nightmare scene was enacted in a flash. The parking attendant wants to fetch his car, shake his hand, suggest an item. Promotional offers are subject to conditions displayed on the restaurants page. Chalupa in paradise: Does Pacifica have the worlds best Taco Bell? Restaurants long gone like Baldelli's, Ernie's, and Jack's cropped up, as did Ed Moose's famous joint on Washington Square Park, Enrico's before it changed, and Herb's home on Pacific Ave. Works. The menu of Vietnamese restaurant Tu Lan, with an undated Herb Caen item about Julia Child's visit to the establishment on Sixth Street in San Francisco. HOULIHAN'S -- 2800 Leavenworth Street, S.F., (415) 775-7523: $2 Well martinis from 7 p.m. to midnight. But Sixth Street has another side, one I felt sure Julia Child and her former diplomat husband Paul Child would appreciate. 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[19] The murderer, his arms bound, was hustled roughly onto the trapdoor, the noose was slammed around his neck, a black mask dropped over his unbelieving face, the trapdoor clanged open, the body shot through and stopped with a sickening crack. 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 . [18], Now and then an item (usually a joke or pun) was credited to a mysterious "Strange de Jim," whose first contribution ("Since I didn't believe in reincarnation in any of my other lives, why should I have to believe in it in this one?") Julia Child pulled up in a black limousine, picked up Wood, and drove a block and a half to the restaurant. "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. "It's like I let them down. "Every week, he'd say we're never coming back here again," says Brown. PERRY'S DOWNTOWN & PERRY'S UNION STREET -- 185 Sutter Street/1944 Union Street, S.F., (415) 989-6895/(415) 922-9022: Herb Caen Caesar Salad, $2.50; Caen martini, $2; meatloaf and mashed potatoes, $10.50. actually, but the ones I do receive are entirely disgusted. 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. Alcohol abuse is dangerous for your health. But there is another sort of column that earned Mr. Caen welcome here when he arrived 55 years ago from Sacramento, a greenhorn in the big city, a Jew in a gentile town. Was Caen biased in favor of his pal, the mayor? In Caen, restaurants you can visit with your pet include: Good for a business lunch restaurant Caen. Archive. She contented herself with spring rolls, pork shish kebabs with rice noodles, lemon beef salad, fried fish and Tsingtao beer.. HOTEL GRIFFON/ROTI RESTAURANT -- 155 Steuart Street, S.F., (415) 495-6500: Herb Caen Memorial Cocktail Hour from 6 to 9 p.m. Stoli martini's Herb's Way $3. Great Deal. 14000, What are the most popular restaurants in Caen? Photo San Francisco Public Library Historical Photograph Collection "Herb Caen once noted that the Blue Fox served radicchio salad 35 years before it became trendy" When I was very young, my parents took the family to The Blue Fox restaurant in San Francisco. Paul Child really liked the food, but in Woods article, Childs thoughts about the meal remain vague throughout. PLUMP JACK BALBOA CAFE -- 3199 Fillmore Street, S.F., (415) 921-3944: Meatloaf with garlic mashed potatoes and porcini gravy ($12); martinis with Stoli vodka, over ice, in a wineglass with a twist ($4.50). he'd say. "He would call Willie on it," says Bashford. The chef remembered Wood. 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 . pizza favorite shuts down after 13 years, plus more closings, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). "I'm without talent," hoots Brown. There are no images in The Chronicle archive. HARRIS' -- 2100 Van Ness Avenue, S.F., (415) 673-1888: Meat loaf, mashed potatoes and one martini served Herb's way, $16.50; Caentini's for $1 all evening. One Mans San Francisco, Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, New York, 1976. Jim Wood, it seemed, was a kindred spirit, writing similar prose several years before Soleil was born. "Most of the people looked like they were wearing uniforms from hotel school," huffs de Wildt. 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. Yosemite breaks snow record; park closed indefinitely, The epic California snowpack is inching toward record levels. 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. "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. The corroboration is the menu itself; what looks like a photocopy-of-a-photocopy-of-a-photocopy-of-a-photocopy of a truncated Herb Caen column, with no date. Photos by Momo Chang. Sidney Poitier wore the best-tailored traditional outfit, opines Brown, but Samuel Jackson was best-dressed overall. "[27], If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. (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. MAXFIELD'S -- 2 New Montgomery, S.F., (415) 512-1111: Lunch special filet mignon meat loaf with garlic mashed potatoes, asparagus and crispy shallots, and winter fruit tart with creme anglaise, $13.50 from 11.30 to 2 p.m. MCCORMICK & KULETO'S -- 900 N. Point Street, S.F., (415) 929-1730: Well Vitamin V martinis all day for $2. Today is a Tuesday masquerading as Friday, the traditional day that Herb Caen, Willie Brown, Wilkes Bashford, Harry de Wildt and Matthew Kelly broke bread together in the window of the Bush Street restaurant. We can make each other laugh." The destination has another draw, and its completely free: The story of The Chronicle, Tu Lan and Julia Child. he says, then turns suddenly jaunty. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. WATERFRONT RESTAURANT -- Pier 7, S.F., (415) 391-2696: Herb lunch/dinner special. TRATTORIA CONTADINA -- 1800 Mason Street at Union Street, S.F., (415) 982- 5728: Trippa alla Caen, sauteed tripe with pancetta sweet onions and parsley in a tomato-vodka sauce, only 38 cents with any dinner. 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. "I always speak in the past, " he proclaims, "but Matthew is the future. Youre taking Julia Child where for lunch? I repeated what Id already said, Tu Lan, a restaurant on Sixth Street in San Francisco. Lunch, $15; dinner, $19.38. The legend has been repeated in the newsroom, and the rest of the city, for decades. CAFE RIGGIO -- 4112 Geary Blvd., S.F., (415) 221-2114: Trade a clipping of Herb Caen's Friday, Feb. 7, 1997, column for a Herb Caen martini. ANTICA TRATTORIA -- 2400 Polk Street, S.F., (415) 928-5797: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes as a complimentary side dish to the main course. What are dupes? He'd strike out at them. 14000, [23]. SABELLA & LA TORRE -- Fisherman's Wharf, S.F., (415) 673-2824: Half-price martinis all day; Big Band music. As he vowed, in full voice, "to lick this town," the hat blew off his head, lost forever. .css-dni6nt path:nth-child(1),.css-dni6nt path:nth-child(2){fill:hsl(104, 38%, 42%);}.css-dni6nt path:nth-child(3),.css-dni6nt path:nth-child(4){fill:hsl(0, 0%, 0%);}.css-l7ijkl{clip:rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px)!important;overflow:hidden!important;position:absolute!important;white-space:nowrap!important;height:1px!important;width:1px!important;padding:0!important;border:0!important;contain:paint!important;}TheFork, a Trip advisor company, .css-1ddcsh7{font-size:0.8125rem;font-weight:400;font-family:RalewayX,arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;line-height:1.3846153846153846;text-transform:uppercase;text-transform:uppercase;}French, 14 Rue Porte au Berger, ", Could Caen have been elected mayor? . "Herb offset the unfairness of the rest of the paper," he says. BARTs second Transbay Tube could get quashed as planners scale back Workers in S.F. 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. Offer good until Valentine's Day. The rest of Woods review was filled with lovely details, proving that the writers instincts about the Tu Lan/Julia Child kizmet were correct. Enough to shut down every resort. 14000, "When he'd go on holiday," says Kelly, "he was always afraid somebody would take his job." 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. ", "The 1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations. Which means I had a daily call from him. SAM'S GRILL -- 374 Bush Street, S.F., (415) 421-0594: Vitamin V martini ($1); meat- loaf and mashed potatoes ($7.50). ROSE PISTOLA -- 532 Columbus, S.F., (415) 399-0499: 75-cent Vitamin V martinis; complimentary bar snacks; a proper torn-leaf Caesar salad, $4.50. [31] "I don't want to find out," he says glumly. Served all day. "Doesn't hurt a bit," the warden had said. "Remember the Samoans?" And from that day on, having been made properly aware of the State's awful vengeance, no holdup man ever again killed a shopkeeper? Herb Caen in the Crown Room atop the Fairmont Hotel in 1996. "If you discussed an item with him, you couldn't mislead him. For the professional ice hockey player, see, View a 1997 film about Herb Caen's life made by. Sometimes he just inwardly rebelled. New hires at The San Francisco Chronicle often begin their careers dining at Tu Lan. SCOTT'S SEAFOOD GRILL & BAR -- 2400 Lombard Street, S.F., (415) 563-8988: Herb's Heavenly Pasta, tagliarini with clams ($5.50); Vitamin V martinis, $1. [6] His many recurring if irregular features included "Namephreaks"people with names (aptronyms) peculiarly appropriate or inappropriate to their vocations or avocations, such as MICHELIN French. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). But now his readers are "more defensive than superior. 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. ELITE CAFE -- 2049 Fillmore Street, S.F., (415) 346-8676: Meat loaf with "Herbed" Caen mashed potatoes and onion gravy, $11.50. GREENS -- Building A, Fort Mason, S.F., (415) 771-7955: Macaroni and cheese a la Herb Caen for $9.75. 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. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). [12]:16-17. VANESSI'S -- 1177 California at Jones, across from Grace Cathedral, S.F., (415) 771-2422: $1 vodka martinis. "You got your Christmas shopping done early," says Bashford. Best Restaurants in Tempe, AZ - The Porch, Ghost Ranch: Modern Southwest Cuisine, Social Hall, The Peppermill Steakhouse, Alter Ego, The Hudson Eatery & Bar, Word Of Mouth Grill, Society by Evo, Culinary Dropout, Zu Izakaya Why you received these results. 65. The story was already old and oddly free of detail when veteran journalists brought me to Tu Lan in 1999, after I arrived as a reporter at the Chronicle-adjacent San Francisco Examiner. 14000, RUSSELL YIP As part of the Our San Francisco project of 2015, this was excerpted from a Herb Caen column June 27, 1971: I KEEP. SOCCA RESTAURANTO -- 5800 Geary Blvd., S.F., (415) 379-6720: Naming a room of our restaurant for Herb Caen. ", There were occasions when the pressure of being Caen got to him. Those were the days, Mr. Caen says, when young men like himself lived in the heart of the city, rode the streetcar to work, ate in $2 Italian restaurants and went to nightclubs. Still, he composes a new one from time to time. FAIRMONT HOTEL -- 950 Mason Street, S.F., (415) 772-5000: Meat loaf and mashed potatoes in the Crown Room on the buffet; giant $5 Vitamin V martinis in the New Orleans Room and martini specials at the Masons Bar; three-course meal on the Table d'Hote menu, featuring meat loaf, mashed potatoes and a martini $19.97 in Masons Restaurant. 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. Joeshe fakes it with Ken.'" The city, in turn, anointed him Mr. San Francisco, which means he gets good tables at restaurants, invitations to the best parties, quick service on his aging Jaguar and 1,000 letters a week from . The point is not to be maudlin or Pollyanna cheerful. He gets up to take the call outside, beginning the conversation by asking Davis, "Hey, brother, how are you?". The Best Restaurants in Caen. ", Mr. Caen says he prefers the columns of "short, snappy items," which readers can skim "looking for their name, the name of someone they know or a one-liner to tell their buddies at lunch. $44.00. Is Californias drought finally over? 14000, This family-friendly spot is one of the best Italian restaurants in Tempe. Graffiti covers the site of the Tu Lan Vietnamese restaurant on Sixth Street in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, which was shut down by the health department last year. 14000, But Woods family still cherishes the stories. 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?' ", Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herb_Caen&oldid=1128811570, United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns, and offbeat anecdotes. KULETO'S -- 221 Powell Street, S.F., (415) 397-7720: Vitamin V Stoli martinis ($3); Big Band music recordings. "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." 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. . BEACH STREET BAR -- 2801 Leavenworth St., S.F., (415) 775-5110: Vitamin V martinis, $1, from 5 p.m. BIG FOUR RESTAURANT -- 1075 California Street, S.F., (415) 771-1140: Lunch special: Gemelli pasta with Vitamin V vodka sauce, peppered tomato cream, sweet onions and prosciutto di Parma, $12.95. That was the conclusion of several chefs and food magazine editors asked to describe Child's memorable contributions to American home cooking as a new movie about her life is about to open. I think it was the late 80s, maybe even mid-80s. In addition to the iconic Artichoke slice, you should order the savory Crab and the Margherita. The wondrously named and actually quite charming Edsel was the son of Fung Lok, a former owner of Sam Wo, who named his sons Edsel, Edmund and Edwinafter the first names of the Caucasian doctors who delivered them. But it won't last long. Child is moving back to her native California in November and is leaving her Cambridge, Mass. Several other names of people who dropped into the group and didn't last are mentioned. Caen, .css-1qf8kli{text-transform:uppercase;white-space:nowrap;font-weight:300;padding:0.25rem 0.5rem;font-size:0.8125rem;border-radius:0.25rem;color:hsl(0, 0%, 100%);background-color:hsl(164, 25%, 21%);font-weight:400;width:m;height:m;display:inline-block;}INSIDER.css-rim4wq{margin-left:0.25rem;} Mexican, 43 Rue Saint-Sauveur, 2. 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." "You don't think I'm washed up, do you?" 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. 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. (Menu items then included an order of . they ask. The game is boss dice, explains Brown -- unruffled and perfectly pressed despite spending part of his morning riding a camel in connection with a Silk Road Asian Art Museum event -- not liar's dice, because everyone knows "you can't play liar's dice with a politician. "You did not let him be scooped," says Brown, "including stuff on you. "All the other politicians were so envious of me. 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